Tharkun

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by Tharkun 7y ago
Do you usually sit in seiza posture, or do you prefer agura for such lengthy sessions? I can put up with an hour in seiza, but four hours must require a fortitude of mind that I can't even begin to fathom.
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Page won't load, so I can only speculate based on the title. Barring miracles, the answer is "very far off". Sure, the macroscopic structure is relatively simple. And sure, it's just a pump. But it's a pump with its
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by Tharkun 7y ago
> Did your parents not give you multiple names? Multiple names are pretty uncommon here, except for multi-word names like Jean-Luc etc. There's an old custom of naming your child $first $godfather->first $godmother->first $las
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Naming things is hard. Naming people is harder. Many (most?) expecting parents spend hours researching names online or in "1000 baby name ideas"-books. My parents love my name. I hate it. There are too many of us for names to be a
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by Tharkun 7y ago
It would be nice of my OS had an option to disallow any and all USB devices. Plug something in? Ask whether I want to allow it. I guess this would get annoying after a bit. But still, I only use a couple of USB devices on a daily basis, but
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Sigh. Hopefully we won't get a repeat of the Tiananmen square massacre. I've not seen any nations speak out about the HK protests. Unlike, say, when many expressed support for the Arab Spring.
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by Tharkun 7y ago
> You can twist virtually with good precision. But, what is much harder is the feel.. This is especially true in environments where gloves are worn.
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Indeed. And while it may have been sort of decriminalized, it is very much actively prohibited in many border towns to reduce drug tourism.
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by Tharkun 7y ago
I can recommend the book "Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages" to anyone interested in this sort of stuff.
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by Tharkun 7y ago
That's a bit of a silly statement. And misogynist to boot. Hardware is cheap. Programmers are not. It makes much more economic sense to have programmers "use layers upon layers" and buy extra CPU, than to have a couple of x86
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by Tharkun 7y ago
I think the OP is missing the point of scrum. The scrum master isn't supposed to tell you what the rules are. The rules are whatever the team decides they are. The scrum master is not the boss, they're supposed to be a facilitator
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by Tharkun 7y ago
> My biggest criticism of Agile and Scrum is that it assumes that you can just plan out how a feature will work by sitting in a meeting and talking about it. No, it doesn't. It wants the team to discuss features to help find prevent
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Got a link for that?
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Yup. Apparently it's fine to spy on everyone else, everywhere else. Just not on US soil. Wiretapping everyone's communications, forcing SWIFT to forward details of everyone's bank transactions to the NSA. Because apparently t
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Got a link for those? I'm liking this!
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by Tharkun 7y ago
There was a camera-spotting movement in Belgium some years ago. Basically people started marking all known cameras on a map. I think people gave up once they realized the sheer impossible scope of it. Most cameras are too high up to reach a
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by Tharkun 7y ago
That might be a consequence of civil disobedience, but it's certainly not the point of it. The point is to expose, condem & ultimately change a wayward government's shitty behaviour.
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by Tharkun 7y ago
I've heard something similar said about the US, as a sort of justification for their right to bear arms...the government should apparently fear its people, and its people should be armed and able to overthrow said government. I wish yo
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by Tharkun 7y ago
To quote Simone Weil out of context (she was talking about political parties): > If one were to entrust the organisation of public life to the devil, he could not invent a more clever device.
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by Tharkun 7y ago
We've had similar laws in Belgium for many years. Cash transactions over 3000EUR aren't allowed.
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Pretty bad advertising? It's a BGP daemon. It's not like there are all that many BGP implementations. And it's not a commercial product, so they certainly don't care about being advertised. OpenBGPD is pretty solid. The
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Skipping meals is a migraine trigger for me. This makes IF a lot less viable...
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by Tharkun 7y ago
I keep reading mixed reviews about intermittent fasting. One study says it lowers the risk for type 2 diabetes mellitus, because your blood sugar level is pretty low during the fast. The next study says this actually increases the risk, bec
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Indeed. Certainly any hobby that requires hand/eye coordination or any use of muscles at all, cannot be rushed. Doing too much in too little time leads to injury, whether it's lifting, martial arts, heck even rushing playing the g
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by Tharkun 7y ago
> This is also probably the reason why you lost your DARPA funding I remember this causing a huge stink at the time, with various petty reasons as the alleged cause (like Theo's less-than-friendly communication style).
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by Tharkun 7y ago
The article makes claims to the contrary: > The discs are not affected by cold temperatures, or cosmic radiation.
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by Tharkun 7y ago
I only use keyboards with QMK firmware these days. It's much easier to flash a new layout to my keyboard than it is to keep messing around with OS settings for keyboards.
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Hmm, that's probably a good point. NYC residents likely have little use for compost. And having to wheel bales (?) of dried poop out of your flat could get a bit annoying. Then again, presumably they already take out their trash, so ma
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Aside from learning by doing, I spend a fair amount of time building intuition. Reading a lot is the bulk of my strategy. Blogs, books, HN comments, reddit and the occasional YT video. This is all passive, so it's not as good as actual
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by Tharkun 7y ago
14" is the sweet spot for me. That's roughly the size of a full sized laptop keyboard (tenkeyless). They keyboard and the screen align nicely without too much wasted space. It's small enough to fit in just about any bag, and

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