1kGarand

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by 1kGarand 6y ago
I will just leave this here. http://kirkmcd.princeton.edu/JEMcDonald/mcdonald_aaas_69.pdf
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by 1kGarand 6y ago
I think the winning countries in this pandemic would be the ones who were able to collectively wait for a vaccine while maintaining low death rates. Sadly US will not be one of those.
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by 1kGarand 6y ago
Simple math below. NY has 1,300 deaths per million, and NJ has 1,800 deaths per million currently. Let's take the average and say that they reached herd immunity with 1,500 deaths per million. Great. For the entire US (320 million), th
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by 1kGarand 7y ago
As long as you and others _choose_ to define value of a person only for their economic value (work output), we will always have poverty, no matter how enormous our total economic output (humans+machines) will become.
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by 1kGarand 7y ago
My first Debian install was 2.0. I ordered the CD's (there were 2, as I remember) from an on-line shop that sold burned CDRs with linux images. I wish I could remember their name...
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by 1kGarand 7y ago
Over the last 10-15 years or so, I’ve tried so many of these new fonts but always just end up back to DejaVu Sans Mono Bold. Now that my eyes are getting older, it works even better. On a Mac, Menlo looks nearly identical.
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by 1kGarand 7y ago
I have been using a text file (actually an org mode file) since 2009. Before that I used a plain text file. It doesn't handle video/bookmark/pdf. If I have to save those, I put them in a separate directory and make a note of
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by 1kGarand 7y ago
> perhaps only the DNA-based life survived some early period in Earth's history. There is a theory that early life was RNA based. The mechanims are simpler, and it's easier to create "spontaneously appearing" RNA &quo
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by 1kGarand 7y ago
This article is strange enough that I suspect astroturfing. The reason 5G is being deployed in 24GHz is because we don’t have wide enough blocks elsewhere. The 800MHz and 1.9 GHz spectrums have existing services cellular services, and putti
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by 1kGarand 7y ago
This [0] is an excellent resource for ergonomic keyboards. The common myth is that programmers type a lot. We do not. We spend a lot of time in front of keyboards, but most of that time is spent thinking. People who write a lot of emails ty
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by 1kGarand 7y ago
This is such an awesome answer.
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by 1kGarand 7y ago
There is so much misinformation even in HN about audio. Rigorous double blind tests, scientific methods, and laboratory measurements do make a difference in producing high quality audio. Also, here is more research done about headphones:
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Almost everything you know about hifi audio is wrong(youtube.com)
2 points by 1kGarand 7y ago|1 comments
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by 1kGarand 7y ago
False. Rigorous double blind a/b/c/d tests using real listeners has been performed, and the research has been published in peer reviewed journals since the 80's. What has happened is that most of the audiophile community
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by 1kGarand 8y ago
It looks quite similar to golang font: https://blog.golang.org/go-fonts It has serifs and true italics. Might be an interesting free alternative.
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by 1kGarand 8y ago
Verdana used to be my go to proportional font when I was doing Java. Helped with long variable names and long horizontal lines. My buddies thought I was nuts, but I found it very legible. These days my eyes are dimming, so I dislike skinny
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by 1kGarand 8y ago
Sqlite.
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by 1kGarand 8y ago
Most encrypted backup solutions are really bad with protecting keys. Fixed ivs are ok for one file. Not ok for possibly millions of small files. Basically exposed your private key along with your backup.
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by 1kGarand 8y ago
I see some terrible backup strategies here. 1. Backups should not be on a single drive. 2. Backups without checksums will result in corruption. 3. Offsite is a must. 4. Unencrypted off site backup means someone already copied your data.