manithree (u/manithree)

manithree commented on Occult books digitized and put online by Amsterdam’s Ritman Library openculture.com/2025/08/2... · Posted by u/Anon84

manithree · 13 days ago

Anybody find a license for their online catalogue? Searching for license found one "resultaten" that was a link that 404's, and no hits for "licentie."

Along those lines, though, this: https://www.veradekok.nl/en/2015/08/introducing-the-dememori...

will let you download full page images. and I think this: https://github.com/lovasoa/dezoomify/issues/209

Should work, also. I don't know Dutch law, but I would think books this old would have to be public domain.

manithree commented on Occasionally USPS sends me pictures of other people's mail the418.substack.com/p/a-b... · Posted by u/shayneo

7e · a month ago

You have it easy! Occasionally USPS delivers me other people's mail!

manithree · a month ago

USPS, FedEx, UPS, and Amazon all do this, but USPS is by far the worst here.

There's a new (well, it was several years ago) townhome in the town to the west that has exactly the same street address as mine, just a different city and ZIP code (just one digit different). We got their mail, packages, etc. a LOT for years. The best was when we got home and FedEx had dropped of a set of 4 overnighted tires on our porch.

The townhome is a rental, and sometimes, even when Amazon sends me a photo of their front porch, the townhome tenants claim they didn't get anything of ours. Either they're theives or they have a lot of porch pirates.

manithree commented on The fish kick may be the fastest subsurface swim stroke yet (2015) nautil.us/is-this-new-swi... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

manithree · 2 months ago

I must be way above the median age here if I'm the first to mention how much this looks like what when I was a teenager we called the "Man from Atlantis" stroke. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_from_Atlantis

manithree commented on Hurl: Run and test HTTP requests with plain text github.com/Orange-OpenSou... · Posted by u/flykespice

manithree · 2 months ago

With nice editor integration (especially emacs), hurl is a good postman replacement.

Kinda niche, but I wrapped libhurl to make it really easy to make an AWS Lambda availability monitor out of a hurl file https://gitlab.com/manithree/hurl_lambda

manithree commented on Cardiac: A CARDboard Illustrative Aid to Computation [pdf] cs.drexel.edu/~bls96/muse... · Posted by u/jackdoe

manithree · 4 months ago

This one is higher quality (https://content.instructables.com/F84/WG7G/K2XU5LKV/F84WG7GK...) and it's all kinda pointless without the "machine" https://www.instructables.com/CARDIAC-CARDboard-Illustrative...

I didn't get mine until about 1979 or 1980. Still have it, though.

manithree commented on Computer Architecture – Michael Flynn (2007) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/d... · Posted by u/rramadass

recursivedoubts · 8 months ago

One thing that I think a lot of introductions are missing is an extremely simple first model of a Von Neumann style computer. I teach the undergrad computer systems class and two models I have found extremely useful are:

- But How Do It Know/Scott CPU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeYAtkbHvuQ&list=PLYE0XunAbw...)

- The Little Man Computer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AWN_ntHfPk)

Especially these days, where the computer is more and more abstract from students experience, i think these tangible, visual tools are important for them to get a feel for what's going on at the lowest level of computation (at least in some sense)

manithree · 8 months ago

I thought CARDIAC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CARDboard_Illustrative_Aid_to_...) was pretty cool when I was in high school. I still have a couple of them in a box somewhere.

manithree commented on How I got my laser eye injury funraniumlabs.com/2024/07... · Posted by u/omnibrain

manithree · a year ago

Not to be insensitive about your injury, but I'm more curious how you got your laser eye.

manithree commented on Pijul is a free and open source (GPL2) distributed version control system pijul.org/... · Posted by u/thunderbong

zck · 2 years ago

> However, channels are different from Git branches, and do not serve the same purpose. In Pijul, independent changes commute, which means that in many cases where branches are used in Git, there is no need to create a channel in Pijul.

I've never understood this. AFAIK, the only use case I've ever seen for git branches is "I have some code, but don't want it going live yet". Maybe it's a WIP demo, maybe you want someone else's eyes on it, maybe you just want to back your current state up on a remote server because your laptop is going to explode.

Am I misunderstanding, and Pijul manages that without channels? Or is there a common case git branches are used that I missed?

manithree · 2 years ago

I had the same question. Turns out, it's mostly a future possibility, and for most current use cases of branches in git, you would use a channel in pijul. At least that's how I understand these discussions in the pijul discourse.

https://discourse.pijul.org/t/phenomenological-pijul-or-piju...

https://discourse.pijul.org/t/working-without-channels/1047/...

manithree commented on Lapce lapce.dev/... · Posted by u/tosh

jasonjmcghee · 2 years ago

I try this editor every few months to see how it's progressing and is still way too early to use as a daily driver.

People suggest this over Zed very frequently. In my experience Zed is way more mature and stable. That being said, it's no one near as usable as neovim with a good plugin setup, let alone a mature ide like Jetbrains products.

Jetbrains IDEs might be slow, but I'll get a hell of a lot more done in 8 hours with it. Once you learn to use the features well, it's incredibly powerful. I love vim, but generally use jetbrains.

If Jetbrains took 500ms to load a file vs 1ms to load, my productivity isn't going to change dramatically. It's fast enough. Yes initial indexing is slow, but it's easily worth it.

All this being said, I think Lapce is very informative as a resource to anyone trying to build an editor in rust.

manithree · 2 years ago

I've tried Lapce several times over the past year or 2, and have never gotten more than 5 minutes in without it hanging or crashing. I wish I was a rust programmer, but Lapce is not a good poster-child for the language, IMO.

It's not the speed, or even the phoning home that make me rage-quit VSCode on the regular. It's the RAM. EVERYTHING slows down if you only have 24GB and try to use VSCode.

manithree commented on Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth hive.co.uk/Product/Ingrid... · Posted by u/MaysonL

kuratkull · 2 years ago

I'm wondering if people understand that almost all the pleasures/comforts in modern life were created by people who wouldn't exist in this system.

manithree · 2 years ago

Of course they don't know it. They actually believe that the state is better at managing money than the people creating products and jobs.