Erwin

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by Erwin 4y ago
Speaking for the food producers of Earth and the Solar System, I object to calling whatever material this extra-solar planet is made of "chorizo". If some expedition were to be made to this planet and return a thousand years later
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by Erwin 4y ago
If you want more, here's another site with similar focus: http://www.interdb.jp/pg/index.html
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by Erwin 4y ago
Interesting to compare that to what happens across the border in Denmark, where crypto is treated as speculation: EVERY individual sale you make has the profit taxed as personal income (calculated as FIFO and so up to ~52%) but the losses h
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by Erwin 4y ago
There are roleplaying systems that do embrace the complexity (and well beyond CPRG). Here's an "attack table" for one specific weapon in Rolemaster: you roll a 1-100, add and subtract a whole lot of offensive and defensive bo
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by Erwin 4y ago
I like that idea of converting metadata to text, so you can do text operations on it that you are already familiar with, and then apply the changes back. If your problem can be solved by just regexps, there's a "rename" tool
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by Erwin 5y ago
One of the earliest UNIX legend stories I remember being told was this one about a Korn-like shell being announced in Windows, with Korn himself asking some pointed questions about compatibility: https://wiki.c2.com/?KornShe
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by Erwin 5y ago
Spotify is public and you can see most of their numbers -- the Cost of Revenue for 2021 was 7 billion EUR on 9.6 in revenue. The cost is said to be mostly the royalties though it would include paying the many millions to some podcasters. Th
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by Erwin 5y ago
A good candidate for https://improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig2021 ? The 2021 Biology winner was: > Susanne Schötz, Robert Eklund, and Joost van de Weijer, for analyzing variations in purring, chirping, chattering,
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by Erwin 5y ago
You can now get the first item by abusing the walrus operator, e.g. `any((z := x) for x in [3,5,7] if x % 3)` -- afterwards, z have retained the first assignment for which `x % 3` was true.
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by Erwin 5y ago
The file objects in the library can operate as unbuffered, line-buffered or fully (i.e. block) buffered. When your stdout is connected to a terminal, it is line-buffered and flushes on newline. But when you redirect to a file, it becomes bl
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by Erwin 5y ago
Another cool thing about sqlite is that the virtual tables seen here can be extended through your own custom code. You can then run SQL queries that in the end call your own data functions to generate data. I had a project where I had sever
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by Erwin 5y ago
"1 bike stolen every 4 minutes" is an understatement; for Denmark alone 2020 had 40,000 reported thefts which is one every 13 minutes, down from a staggering 115,000 in 1995 (one every 4.5 minutes).
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by Erwin 5y ago
I love how this widely quoted term originated on reddit. You can get something named after you after as a layman, like Fermat's Last Theorem, just best avoid coming up with it on a reddit account with an obscene name!
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by Erwin 5y ago
I just started playing the Shadow of the Beast soundtrack on Spotify -- Allister Brimble was quite prolific with several hundred games scored. It's interesting to compare the Amiga 500 with its 640x256 resolution and 4096 colors driven
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by Erwin 5y ago
It's done widely enough that Maille themselves sell a "Dijonnaise" : Dijon mustard + mayonnaise.
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by Erwin 5y ago
Is it a HSTORE column with GIN index? The default "FASTUPDATE=ON" option will delay updates to the index until vacuum time, but if you don't vacuum soon enough suddenly it can decide it should sequentially scan instead of rea
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by Erwin 5y ago
This announcement is going to cause a lot of headaches for recruiters -- "no, not THAT kind of android!"
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by Erwin 5y ago
The test as I created it (that site uses a copy of the questions, those were written by Brandon Downey) asked 30 question evenly spread pitting e.g. Explorer against Socializer, so you ended up with a score that said e.g. you prefer Explore
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by Erwin 5y ago
Here in Denmark a 15-year old girl and boy was filmed while having sex, and the video spread around among teenagers, apparently mostly through Facebook Messenger. In 2018, the police indicted 1000 of them (tracking them down with Facebook&#
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by Erwin 5y ago
For many years, anti-virus vendors were able to do that. Why haven't those vendors been already co-opted by governments (Kaspersky on the Russian side, Microsoft in the USA side) into scanning for illegal, copyrighted or secret materia
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by Erwin 5y ago
Several of the well-known Danish brand companies have a significant part of them owned by a foundation. Novo (infamous for high insulin prices in US!) has 28% of it owned by a foundation, with assets of $65B. Similar with Mærsk, Lundbeck, C
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by Erwin 5y ago
Not WWII, but how about tanks, helicopters versus Samurais? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An3t39SGSUE
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by Erwin 5y ago
Well, the standard temperature unit is Celsius, so Fahrenheit is rare and used just by a few obscure countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit#Usage -- and USA. You are more likely to be in a country that has
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by Erwin 5y ago
In addition to Twenty and Food Lab already recommended, I'll mention Niki Segnit's books: Lateral Cooking and the Flavor Thesaurus. Lateral connects "adjacent" dishes -- you know of dish X, but Y is almost the same but f
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by Erwin 5y ago
He seems to live in Germany, near Heidelberg (as the German federal police, BKA, of Heidelberg are investigating). The town has a large university, and used to have one of the largest US Military presences in Germany though I think they&#x2
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by Erwin 5y ago
curl has a handy --resolve option for telling it how to resolve certain names. Useful when you want to connect to something that thinks it's foo.bar.com and send the right tls/host, but DNS doesn't have it correct yet
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by Erwin 5y ago
Current UK situation seems to be that being "Gender Critical" is a protected belief, based on the ruling case of a case where a tax expert lost her job for tweeting about how men cannot just change into women: https://e
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by Erwin 5y ago
What's special about these frequencies to exclude them? 2398.5-2400 MHz and 2483.5-2485 MHz Unless that was meant to be 2483.5-2495 which is something called "Globalstar".
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by Erwin 5y ago
I've used my Quest 2 more in the last month, than the Rift S in the 2 years I've had it. With the Q2 there are no cables to get in the way, and I can put it on and play Beat Saber instantly - no steamvr to fiddle with. It's a
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by Erwin 5y ago
I'm amazed at that sending mouse movement and buttons over telnet works. I guess there's some xterm extensions that allow that now?

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