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by _dain_ 9mo ago
There are many features of Excel that LibreOffice Calc doesn't support. Most importantly: structured references, VBA, PowerQuery. Not to mention its UI is very laggy even on powerful machines. For real financial/business work, Cal
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by _dain_ 9mo ago
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by _dain_ 9mo ago
Weren't people much smaller in those days? Maybe adult men could have fit just fine.
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by _dain_ 10mo ago
There is no such thing as international law.
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by _dain_ 10mo ago
>if you're in London, hit me up hi :) (email in my HN profile)
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Coarse is better(borretti.me)
216 points by _dain_ 10mo ago|115 comments
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by _dain_ 10mo ago
What about LaTeX or Typst?
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British Army could have avoided Ajax vehicle injuries, says whistleblower(thetimes.com)
2 points by _dain_ 10mo ago|0 comments
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by _dain_ 10mo ago
>Auditors obsess over encryption at rest—from laptop FDE to databases’ security theaterish at-rest encryption—and over encryption in transit, usually meaning TLS. Very hard to parse sentence. The monospace font means the em-dash isnt e
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by _dain_ 10mo ago
We shouldn't have to.
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by _dain_ 10mo ago
Come and take it then.
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by _dain_ 10mo ago
>Better to stay out of that game The Russians are making incursions into Irish waters and airspace, it's just a brute fact. So either they play the game, or Britain plays it for them. They don't get to sit aloof above it all,
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by _dain_ 10mo ago
Drones, and hostile ships fucking around with transatlantic cables and pipelines. >IIRC, doesn't Ireland pay the UK for some type of defense ? No, we do it for free.
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by _dain_ 10mo ago
Wasn't the World Wide Web invented at CERN specifically for sharing scientific papers? Why are we still using PDFs at all?
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by _dain_ 11mo ago
wtfff are there more vaccines they're hiding from us?
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by _dain_ 11mo ago
britain is a developing country
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by _dain_ 11mo ago
>NHS has been refusing to vaccinate against chickenpox for many years. what the fuck. why? god damn I hate rNHS national cult. better get myself vaxxed to undo this idiocy.
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by _dain_ 11mo ago
is this a regional/country thing? I'm 30 and I never got chickenpox vaxx, and I never heard of anyone getting such a thing growing up. but I also never heard of anyone getting chickenpox either when I was a kid. it just wasn'
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by _dain_ 11mo ago
fly to a 2nd or 0th world country and pay a doctor to do it
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by _dain_ 11mo ago
"Human error" is not the end of an explanation, it's the start of an explanation. As an industry we should know this by now. Defaults matter. https://www.humanfactors.lth.se/fileadmin/lusa/Sidney_Dek
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by _dain_ 11mo ago
>People rarely read code in its entirety, like a novel. There is almost always a specific question they want to answer. It might be "how will it behave in this use case?", "how will this change affect its behaviour?"
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Safe_sleep.sh Rarely Hangs Indefinitely(github.com)
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by _dain_ 11mo ago
>So after the tenth month there was a strange unmapped period. this is when time-travelling fugitives hide out
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by _dain_ 11mo ago
Stationkeeping would be a problem. And difficult to stop it precessing away from the rotation axis you want.
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by _dain_ 11mo ago
the stated justification is that it will let the government finally get immigration under control. but ID has never been the bottleneck for immigration enforcement. there have been countless cases where we have someone dead to rights, we kn
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by _dain_ 11mo ago
this is quite unhinged. and unfair -- the wife must endure a loveless marriage, because the husband cheated?
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by _dain_ 11mo ago
>The Senate on Thursday approved a nuclear cooperation agreement between the United States and China, allowing U.S. firms to provide China with materials and technology for its civilian nuclear power program. The Senate approved the agr
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by _dain_ 11mo ago
I think the "hoax" is itself partly a hoax. It's one of those exaggerated tales, like the Orson Welles War of the Worlds radio play. Supposedly there were thousands of credulous people writing in to inquire more about the spa
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by _dain_ 11mo ago
the shortage of driving test slots is entirely the fault of inefficient government bureaucracy. people are rationally responding to the scarcity by using bots. if the supply of tests were allowed to rise naturally to meet the existing deman
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by _dain_ 11mo ago
why must we believe that the resellers "inflating" the price, instead of the initial price being "deflated"? there is no Platonic "true" price here. the ground truth is what individual people are willing to pay

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