Alexqw85

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by Alexqw85 3y ago
> Same reason why they stared iodine to salt… because people were having mental development issues. This is not directly related to the topic of Fluoride, but Iodine was actually initially introduced to reduce goiters. The mental benefit
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by Alexqw85 4y ago
The status of Dendrite and its position vs Synapse is covered a bit in the Holiday Update: https://matrix.org/blog/2022/12/25/the-matrix-holiday-update... The relevant section: > The interesting plot
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by Alexqw85 4y ago
This reminds me of the general idea behind Tripwire[1] for macOS. I last looked into it back in 2005 (we went with other approaches), so it may have changed since then, but it monitors for changes, and allow you to revert them or deploy the
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by Alexqw85 5y ago
HP used to make amazing monochrome laser printers. I can't really speak to other brands, but I maintained dozens of LaserJet 4000, 4050, and 4100 printers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_LaserJet_4000_series Tho
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by Alexqw85 5y ago
Sadly, my experience with FLEXlm has been far from fascinating. Matlab uses it, and Matlab has some weird license types (that we use) that don't map well to FLEXlm, so they approximate it in odd ways. I build (internal only) Debian pac
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by Alexqw85 5y ago
I use zfsnap.[1] It's been forever since I've worked on it (hence why it's now "archived" on GitHub), but it's stable for my use and I use it on all ZFS systems I manage. [1] https://github.com/
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by Alexqw85 8y ago
Though from an entirely different era than the songs covered in the article, I feel I must share some of my favorites here: * I'm Gonna be an Engineer - Pete Seeger https://youtu.be/cgzl1Sai4Y0?t=25 * What did you
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by Alexqw85 9y ago
I would like to second this recommendation. I have found "Beginning Portable Shell Scripting" to be invaluable --- and far more comprehensive than I expected given the "Beginning" in the title. I highly recommend it (and
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by Alexqw85 9y ago
The lab I work in publishes, and has continues to extend, the studyforrest dataset for quite a few years now. http://studyforrest.org Most of the consumers so far have been neuroscience researchers and statisticians, but we do h
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by Alexqw85 9y ago
Please note that number is in USD. I personally have no problem staying under $100k; I live in Germany and work at a university. But imagine if you lived in Switzerland or Norway. Somewhere with a high cost of living and with a currency tha
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by Alexqw85 10y ago
I agree with you. One culture's horrifying misuse of a symbol should not censor it for all and forever. My roommate for the first two years of college was raised as a Jain[1], and a swastika with four dots is an important symbol for th
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by Alexqw85 10y ago
I assume he means Party Lines as in the phone system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_line_(telephony) ---Alex
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by Alexqw85 10y ago
I agree, Game Pass is a /great/ service. And, their streaming technology is pretty standard (granted, woven through an odd maze of servers) and stable. Because of that, I and a few others were able to write an addon that lets subs
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by Alexqw85 10y ago
Neither are new books, but this year I both read and subsequently gifted * 1491 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1491:_New_Revelations_of_the_A... * Stranger in a Strange Land (the "Original, Uncut version") ht
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by Alexqw85 10y ago
> and, uh, that i3-like compositor, I forgot its name. The i3-like compositor is called sway: https://github.com/SirCmpwn/sway/ As an i3 user, I'm pretty happy to see it so far along in its development. --
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by Alexqw85 10y ago
The quote/joke comes from the intro of Garrison Keillor's radio show "Lake Wobegon", about life in a fictional city in Minnesota. So, hopefully that makes it a little less depressing. :-) ---Alex
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by Alexqw85 10y ago
Tree Style Tabs is the primary reason why I stick with Firefox. Without it, I wouldn't even know where to begin managing the relevant sites/info I encounter when reading up on diverging lines-of-thought. For me, it is /the&#x
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by Alexqw85 10y ago
No sources on this nor am I a developer on any of this, so take with the appropriate truck-load of salt. But, from what I remember from when the OOXML debacle was news, is that the OOXML that Microsoft published in the spec is not the OOXML
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by Alexqw85 10y ago
Champagne? Or did you go to UIUC as well? ;-) ---Alex
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by Alexqw85 11y ago
Make works well for me... TMPDIR=$(BASEDIR)/tmp THEME=$(BASEDIR)/theme THEME_CSS=$(THEME)/css THEME_FONT=$(THEME)/fonts THEME_JS=$(THEME)/js VER_BOOTSTRAP=3.3.6 VER_FONTAWESOME=4.5.0 VER_JQUERY=2
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by Alexqw85 11y ago
Thanks for the link. After a brief skim, the articles feel more like generic science and technology news rather than a curation of the ideas and news we all have to keep up with in this industry. ---Alex
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by Alexqw85 11y ago
Excellent! And it's even for HN. :-D
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Ask HN: Tech News Weekly Roundup?
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by Alexqw85 11y ago
I'm going to re-quote the parent for you. > Routing traffic just isn't as trivial as you think it is ---Alex
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by Alexqw85 11y ago
Ahh, thanks for pointing that out; I didn't notice it was an old post. Usually those have the date (2008) at the end of the title.
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by Alexqw85 11y ago
I thought the FCC /does/ regulate the loudness of TV commercials, for a few years now. https://www.fcc.gov/guides/program-background-noise-and-loud...