Jedd

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by Jedd 4y ago
Hmm, a friend of mine worked in Saudi in the mid 1990's, and the (similarly metaphorical) story he told me was slightly different. When picked up at the airport you are presented the two buckets. When either one is full, it is time
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by Jedd 4y ago
Aha, fair enough. Your original complaint was around how things 'felt wrong', and mentioned layout of apps, menus, icon sizes, buttons, fonts etc -- all things that are pretty easy to tweak using the System Settings. It sounds li
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by Jedd 4y ago
How long is 'a very long time'? I've been using Debian / KDE as my primary desktop & laptop environment since late last century, and it's been mostly a dream. The 4->5 transition involved some frustration, c
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Certainly they are more extensive than your sample set of 1.
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If you're forced to use Jira, and setting up a local replica database is surplus to your interest / requirements, I can recommend the Jira Assistant chrome extension. The licence is a bit wonky (source-available, basically) but th
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by Jedd 4y ago
Sure, but we're on HN, not at a 1980's breakfast club.
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Needs a [2020], but that suggests the author may well have an answer by now to their hypothetical question 'how do you propose to upgrade the cluster?'. Like a lot of highly complex Cool Tools they're marvellous right up unti
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by Jedd 4y ago
Good question. I've long since tossed my various modems from the epoch. I started using dial-up systems around 1987 or 1988, working through 300, 1200/75, and 2400bps, etc. Referring to wikipedia [0] I note v22.bis was released
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by Jedd 4y ago
Why not Debian testing branch, as per TFA?
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> Yeah, it's between 1200 baud and 2400 baud - which would be right around where dialup was in the 80s. Eh? 219 Bps ~= 2100 bps (effective) Assuming QAM that'd be something under 600 baud. Baud and bps are not the same thing.
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by Jedd 4y ago
Responding to the responses: a summary, for the historical record. Some people noted the key thing here - Sunny's decisions earned him more wealth (if ephemerally) and fame (ditto) than most of us will ever obtain. The balance of good
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by Jedd 4y ago
> Fails > - Have no kids Adjusting that attitude, or at least never saying that bit out loud, may win you more friends. Other than that, with hindsight, yes, it can all be painted as a series of bad decisions - however I'm sure
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by Jedd 4y ago
It's not clear to me why the same isn't true for the 7th of June - ie, 17 days the other side of the solstice (for fuzzy values of solstice, depending where you're standing, etc).
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by Jedd 4y ago
I think for most people, in most places, ovens are more common than pizza ovens, but the observation that 'In America ...' kind of emphasises my point that not everyone's in America (or more specifically, the subset of North
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Well that's simply not true.
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I occasionally try to come back to DarkTable, RawTherapee etc, but similarly for my requirements they feel like overkill, and require much more time than I have to properly understand the underlying theories. For a simpler interface that ge
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by Jedd 4y ago
Today I've learned about puck cheese, thanks. It sounds .. interesting. I've rented in places with residential-grade ovens that have reached 250C, which have been excellent for pizzas, but typically I've had them max out aro
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by Jedd 4y ago
> ... on a pizza steel at 420 degrees ... 95% of the world uses Celsius, and when I fire my pizza oven up it's in the 400-450 Celsius range, where I can approach proper Napoli style pizzas, using a 24-30 hour prep poolish dough base
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by Jedd 4y ago
On reflection nothing as sophisticated or delicious as two of my favourites -- twatwaffle or cockwomble (only the former got a mention in TFA). Typically it'd be Jesus followed by one of the stronger profanities - especially that
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by Jedd 4y ago
Weirdly, neither 'jesus' nor 'christ' appears in this list. While reddit's obviously hugely popular internationally, I'm assuming there's some North-American cultural impositions, de facto or de jure, in
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by Jedd 4y ago
Agreed that the parochial measurement system is frustrating - those filters could certainly benefit from an 'are you in the 95 percent?' toggle to flip to sane units. FWIW the entries for each timber do have the metric (Pa, metre,
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by Jedd 4y ago
Right, so in an experiment to see who acquires AD through the decade the trial runs, they initially excluded people who may already have it. This seems a reasonable part of the method, given what they were looking for. If your position c
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by Jedd 4y ago
This is an excellent resource. I recently stumbled on an 'egg collection' for wood. This is almost literally what it sounds like - a huge collection of images of egg-shaped pieces of timber, that really shows off the colour and g
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by Jedd 4y ago
Would you buy one if the picture was at the top of the page? If not, then they don't need to.
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by Jedd 4y ago
Refer my response to parent. Specifically to your most recent point, however, I'd observe that if treatment diagnosis is delayed as long as possible to avoid the stigma, that would put back treatment diagnosis for both groups, so it&
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by Jedd 4y ago
It's certainly impressive that you thought up this profound and fundamental flaw in their study in just a few minutes pondering this on the couch and after briefly skimming a summary article published in a pop-media publication ... yet
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> I think it just proves people with dementia are less likely to remember to get a flu vaccine. I think you may have misread the fine article. Symptoms were observed to develop (or not develop) after a flu vaccination shot.
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by Jedd 4y ago
Well it was a bit more complicated than that. (I met Tridge shortly after the fracas, actually.) There were perhaps 5k kernel contributors in 2005, would that be fair? There's perhaps 20k now, I guess. github alone has 80+ million us
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by Jedd 4y ago
Another related hint to the vagaries of time in point 4 above -- years changed their start-date at various times, over the space of about 200 years, within Europe. For example, if you were in England in February 1750, two months later it wo
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by Jedd 4y ago
In 1957 Fleming wrote his sixth James Bond book, Doctor No -- in which the eponymous villain runs a guano mine in the Caribbean. Even some decades after the Haber–Bosch process was invented, stripping massive islands of these resources was

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