[TOMT][website] - something like Google Earth, but with 2 overlaid globes with a 50% blend, allowing you to compare size and shape of any two places on Earth.

gfixler · 2012-05-26T09:16:06.370740+00:00

This is similar enough to my memory that it may actually be it. I don't remember having to draw an outline, and I'd like to just see (or see as an alternative) a 50% overlay, but this will sate my curiosity. Thanks! Oh, and SOLVED.

tokerjoker11 · 2012-05-25T22:31:33.216134+00:00

I felt this way through the Body Worlds exhibit. It's nowhere near as sad as the girl's shoes, of course, but I would find myself thinking about the person behind the body I was looking at, then suddenly remember that this body was their actual body. The bodies had flaws, scars, tattoos. I'd see things like evidence of hangnail/finger chewing (a habit of mine), or smile lines, and suddenly remember that these weren't photos. They weren't even statues. These were real people who once walked around biting their hangnails and smiling at things. That happened probably a few dozen times during the few hours I spent touring the exhibit. I would wonder what they'd think if they were walking around the exhibit with me, seeing themselves, and then again, I'd remember "Oh, that is them." They just weren't in there anymore. I couldn't seem to fully get my mind around it. It's one of the most pensive times I've ever experienced.

heyitstoniann · 2012-05-25T19:31:19.173024+00:00

"Help! We're being robbed by a beluga whale!"

sweetlemon1025 · 2012-05-25T16:47:36.945706+00:00

My friend works that way.

gfixler · 1 day

You've described my entire career's worth of Python forums conversations.

HonestyTimeThrowaway · 1 day

It comes from the Latin, "docere" meaning "to teach." Of course, no one ever tells you where the Latin (or Greek, or Slavic, etc) comes from. I'm going to believe the Doctor inspired the Latin word, perhaps indirectly.

dredding · 1 day

Don't forget this, and this LumberJocks post.

RubberDogTurds · 1 day

Don't you call her easy!

S_Eltron · 2 days

I understand now. Punching out the fire was your only option.

S_Eltron · 2 days

Relatedly, sometimes I will make tea in the tub.

S_Eltron · 2 days

What kind of monster would carry dogs to a wildfire?

HigherCalibur · 2 days

This loops really well.

dredding · 2 days

Indeed. Have you ever tried Sketchup? For all-rectangular things I find it to be really fast and enjoyable.

dredding · 2 days

Your friendly /r/woodworking admin is an animation technical director by day. I work all week writing Python code for rigging and animation tools, and pipeline stuff. Woodworking is a great way to be inventive with other parts of my brain. I also love the feel and various smells of woodworking. I enjoy marrying the two. I came up with a shelf that would be able to sort objects placed on it, for example. I will build it out in my woodshop at some point in beautiful hardwoods, but for now, I built and animated it in Maya, and threw various sorting algorithms at it, and watched it do its thing :)

gfixler · 2 days

That would probably work. Thanks.

adapotata · 2 days

I spent three years in the 70s, so I understand.

adapotata · 2 days

You can forensically analyze the picture to determine location via pollen encased in the crystallized development chemistry.

gfixler · 2 days

This is a great site. It's a lot less frustrating learning emacs having someone with a sexy voice explaining it to me.

gfixler · 2 days

This is nice, juicy info for me to dig through. Thanks!

gfixler · 2 days

It's a very little thing, but I just like to devote a monitor (or all 3) to a terminal-like code area. I can hit F11 with bash and fill the screen with black, no border. I really enjoy that, and I don't actually like all the whiz-bang stuff, like italics, variable font sizes and faces, etc. While I'm not as pure as Light Table's look, my vim sessions are pretty much just text on a black background. I don't want to see buttons, frames, tabs, or even a 1-pixel border outline. I want to be in a dark void of code. Emacs in the terminal looked okay, and I was just wondering if that was something the entire community would scoff at.

So, in the end, it's mostly a look thing. I've fallen in love with coding outside of (what I perceptually perceive as) a window (my terminals are still windows, just fullscreened, no decoration).

gfixler · 3 days

I didn't mean to say anything about text entry speed. That's the same anywhere - notepad, gedit, nano, emacs, vim. I'm talking about editing.

I did get the joke and I even wanted to laugh along at my own expense, but the part where it poked fun of vim was extremely brief, and made no sense. It mentioned not being able to exit, but twice in my first newbie week I couldn't exit emacs to save my life. They both make that difficult.

It made some fairly nonsensical points about moving one character left and right, but I stand by this claim: despite all of its powers, emacs will would lose hands-down in a battle with vim over who has the more insane mappings :)

Imphillamarr · 3 days

I saw Pee Wee on Broadway - it was great! I can't believe it took me this many comments to realize you aren't Maurice LaMarche, voice of "The Brain" from The Animaniacs. I don't know how I had that all mixed up for the last 10 minutes. Of course I know who Phil Lamarr is. I love Phil Lamarr. What is going on with my brain today?

gfixler · 3 days

I agree that emacs is crazy powerful and amazing. I do not agree that it's better strictly for editing text, though. Everyone at my company uses emacs, and none of them can believe how fluidly and rapidly I edit text. This guy messes up a lot, but he also moves at crazy speed. I move almost that fast when I'm in the zone, with very few mistakes. There's a kind of hypnotic quality to hearing the keys lightly tapping out, as most things in vim are single keys hit in series, which is also really comfortable on the hands, just like typing. This means that I can often edit things on the fly while talking to someone like a producer who usually wouldn't have patience for it. It's kind of fascinating to watch blocks of code flying all around, and then I tab back to the app and run the changes, and they get hooked in for a few minutes of edits.

We're comparing apples to oranges, though. Emacs is designed for crazy power, with email, newsgroups, the elisp engine, countless modes, and probably 1000 things I haven't heard of yet. Vim is designed for piano-like twiddling of very intelligently chosen keys that map to an expressive, very light finger-based language based around rapidly editing text through chainable verbs, nouns, and modifiers, and virtually nothing else. That's mostly the only thing it does, but it does it incredibly well.

TakingADumpRightNow · 4 days

I was kind of hoping it would say:

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