Erwin

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by Erwin 8y ago
In Denmark, this is called a "French hot dog". There isn't agreement whether it's actually inspired by something similar from France, as it appeared first 30+ years ago. Interestingly both Germany and Poland have somethi
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by Erwin 8y ago
Sao Paulo made that into law, banning outdoor advertising: https://99percentinvisible.org/article/clean-city-law-secret...
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by Erwin 8y ago
You might "enjoy" this book about conflict in the age of global warming: "Ultimatum" by Matthew Glass -- it's like "West Wing" with a little more action in it: https://www.amazon.com/Ultima
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by Erwin 8y ago
Wikipedia's summary shows long-running awareness and criticism of the practice which had gone on since 1957. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Re-education_through_labor So that story and another article about womens&
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by Erwin 8y ago
The Huawei P20 shipped out in April with this feature -- I look forward to dxomark's analysis of the Pixel 3 phone compared to the P20, which currently remains on top: https://www.dxomark.com/category/mobile-review
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by Erwin 8y ago
Unions here have a "strike budget" where if the union supports the strike, they pay a portion of your salary. Some can also give you loans.
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That's pretty much the venerable Etymotic which also have the best isolation as per that site: https://www.rtings.com/headphones/tests/isolation/noise-isol... For me, they're not comfortable for mor
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by Erwin 8y ago
Thanks, nginx looks promising, either through this lighter weight integration, or by writing something similar with LUA and OpenResty/Kong.
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Just how pluggable is HAProxy, or is there anything else out there which allows higher async control over the routing? My need is some rather customized request routing, currently done by Python (fast enough to do thousands of RPS in just P
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Google Art Project has quite a lot images, but they use some tiling tool to let you zoom on a super-large image. Some people have "pirated" them and uploaded them here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categ
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by Erwin 8y ago
The English version of the RoboRock marketing is quite amusing: https://www.gearbest.com/robot-vacuum/pp_954639.html > Super cleaning like a tornado. Nothing is left after a tornado, you can walk on the floor with b
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by Erwin 8y ago
So in the words of Vonnegut, "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."
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In London, there are "dark kitchens" -- the take away provider pays for the equipment and the site, and the desirable restaurants provide the staff and skills. This lets the delivery provider optimize for location and services sha
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The "do no evil" bit might have been endearing to some geeks, but Google won on search quality. I only see sporadic support for something like Duck Duck Go which markets itself as the privacy conscious alternative In USA, they obe
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by Erwin 8y ago
Biovea has all sorts of health supplements, including a wide variety of Melatonin (down to 1mg capsules or liquid form too). They even have the more questionable supplements such as Phenibut. They ship this to Denmark at least, though it&#x
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by Erwin 8y ago
"Orville", a semi-serious version of Star Trek by Seth MacFarlane has one amusing "Black Mirror"-ultra-lite episode about this: "Majority Rule". In this world, law has been replaced by a simple upvote/down
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by Erwin 8y ago
In addition to the CMV reddit, this is also a good one: https://www.reddit.com/r/NeutralPolitics/ Heavy moderation is the key here.
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SQL data types have some verbose names, like "NATIONAL CHARACTER VARYING (20)". PG adds a "TIMESTAMPTZ" as alias for "TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE" (which I'm not sure whether is a sql ansi standard type or ju
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by Erwin 8y ago
Not sure if that was article, but catching up with my fire hazard of paper subscriptions I recently read this article on emotion intelligence and that theory of what emotion is: http://nautil.us/issue/51/limits&#x2
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by Erwin 8y ago
You might like these shots of the classic 6502: http://visual6502.org/images/6502/index.html
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The Python "cffi" module (one of the many possible ways to do FFI in Python) works in a similar way: https://cffi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/overview.html#simple-e...
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It seems to me this counts only as pseudonymisation and not anonymization. While the hash is not directly readable, it's still reversible with additional information (such as a large list of email addresses and knowledge of the hashing
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You mean like the now-dead mugshots.com site that would post information about people accused, but not convicted of crimes, then make their money through extortion -- charging $500 to take down the photo? Edit: the site is still alive, but
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In Python 2, the bytecode optimization that lets you access variables by index is turned off if your function has exec code in it that may modify locals. So if your function is: def foo(): exec "a=1"; return a Then running
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You can ride an underground tiny train in London -- what used to be used for postal mail delivery (Mail Rail) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCsKUNIspW8
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That's how I imagine the Machine Intelligence dystopia. Not some kind of General Intelligence ruling like a evil human despot, but a inscrutable algorithm making decisions based on millions of data points, all affecting your life. Just
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A similar but much more active 100+ year old tunnel in Hamburg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbe_Tunnel_(1911) That one allows both cars and pedestrians. Worth seeing while in Hamburg (along with the miniature model
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Not if you live in Europe thanks to GDPR. If you consent to that traffic data being uploaded, the company would have to explicitly say what it's for and can't just sell it in its raw form, with your personal information attached,
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2 out of the 5 ferries running between Helsinborg and Elsinore are now battery powered. The ferries leave every 15 minutes nearly 24/7, and arrive after 20 minutes: it's the largest amount of ferry departures on a single rout in E
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Note that this is just one out of 10 chapters (translated from the author's Japanese book). Lots of other interesting technical details on other internals if you look at the table of contents.

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