Evidlo

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   by Evidlo 6y ago

   Or possibly standards in journalism have fallen and this is the next step.
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   by Evidlo 6y ago

   I have tools which are almost all customary units. Sockets, Allen wrenches, calipers, wrenches, drill bits, taps/dies. All customary. Its just what's available used here.
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   by Evidlo 6y ago

   I'm a little disappointed the article didn't go into more detail. For example, what signs could archaeologists in the far future find of our current civilization, and how far into the future?
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   by Evidlo 6y ago

   Here's an article about communicating with neutrino beams: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/message-en... . In short, they were able to achieve about 0.1 bps with hardware that costs hundreds of mi
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   by Evidlo 6y ago

   Cool, but they chose pretty obscure (to me) titles to demo with.
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   by Evidlo 6y ago

   Or an open standard like Matrix
7. 487.▲
   by Evidlo 6y ago

   And don't forget centralization.
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   by Evidlo 6y ago

   What about just using Facebook for its chat features and ignoring the timeline altogether? I use this even on desktop: http://m.facebook.com/messages Alternatively you could bridge to Facebook from some more open system lik
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   by Evidlo 6y ago

   For some courses, yes. In Senior Design at UIUC the TAs basically run the whole course and the professors are there to evaluate the teams' final presentation and the end of the semester.
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    by Evidlo 6y ago

    They're defined in ~/.XCompose (plus some system defaults), so they never change.
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    by Evidlo 6y ago

    Curious about what other people think on this sort of thing becoming normalized in free software. Other related issues: https://github.com/rtyley/bfg-repo-cleaner/issues?q=is%3Aiss...
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    Political messaging in stdout of popular Git tool (BFG repo cleaner)(github.com)

    1 points by Evidlo 6y ago|1 comments
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    by Evidlo 6y ago

    There's the classic chainmail that claims you can scramble the inner letters of all words in a paragraph and it still remain legible. Turns out some of the words are cherry picked, but it still works somewhat. Aoccdrnig to a rsc
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    by Evidlo 6y ago

    > He keeps pointing out that if we all sold our houses in California we could buy a mega-compound in Oklahoma. I hear one opened up in Plano that might be just right for you!
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    by Evidlo 6y ago

    > Jeff Braun was the only manager for a staff of 32 people – even for the financial staff, a problem that was swiftly corrected after Maxis got audited by the IRS. Why does the IRS care how one organizes their company?
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    by Evidlo 6y ago

    I was considering joining SDF, but I'm confused about the membership levels. What's the minimum level needed for static html hosting with a domain I already own?
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    by Evidlo 6y ago

    > i imagine with knockd it would go negative. So it's the people running knockd that are actually the ones generating all these ssh login attempts...
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    by Evidlo 7y ago

    May want to try GradCafe for nuanced responses. Not sure if you're talking about MS or MEng, but if it's MS then finding a good match with your advisor and research group is more important than anything else.
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    by Evidlo 7y ago

    Is it just me or the font on WikiWho really small? Also it doesn't seem to scale correctly with page zoom for some reason.
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    by Evidlo 7y ago

    The Getting Started page needs to have more pictures and a guide on building some useful designs.
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    by Evidlo 7y ago

    Cool idea. Here's how to do it in Linux with files: # create the "counters" touch {01..16} # use multitail to show all counters in a grid, 4 columns multitail -s 4 * Now you can write to any of these fil
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    by Evidlo 7y ago

    KeePass has many alternative clients for each platform.
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    by Evidlo 7y ago

    See Soylent.
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    by Evidlo 7y ago

    There are magit clones for other editors, though less featureful: https://github.com/jreybert/vimagit https://github.com/diiq/atomatigit
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    by Evidlo 7y ago

    Semi related, but has anyone used the T420's ExpressCard port for USB3 expansion? I bought a USB3 card [0], but the write speed is only barely faster than USB2 for flash media. (interestingly, the write speed is much faster when uplo
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    by Evidlo 7y ago

    I wrote a plugin for ipython that some people might find useful: https://github.com/uiuc-sine/ipython-cells It lets you do linear execution of blocks like in Jupyter, but in a normal .py file. Obviously more lightweig
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    by Evidlo 7y ago

    Here's a map that shows all public lands in the US. https://maps.usgs.gov/padus/
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    by Evidlo 7y ago

    I help maintain a library called pykeepass which you might be interested in.
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    by Evidlo 7y ago

    I would recommend Keepass. There are a variety of clients available for lots of platforms.
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    by Evidlo 7y ago

    Same in the US.