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by alberto-m 3y ago
This is horrible. As someone who started using a PC in the early nineties, GMail's Basic HTML view was the only way to get a decent information density without wasting 75% of the screen real estate with whitespace. But I was expecting
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Crisis at Evergrande deepens as it misses another bond payment(cnn.com)
3 points by alberto-m 3y ago|0 comments
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by alberto-m 3y ago
Could "t", "up", "up" be a workaround? Syria (the name in between) is not the stablest state in the world but its name is more than 2000 years old so it shouldn't change anytime soon.
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The Short yet Fabulous Life of Earring Magic Ken(old.reddit.com)
1 points by alberto-m 4y ago|0 comments
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by alberto-m 4y ago
(note: spoiler) The quote seems the dark version of the ending of the novel “The Difference Engine” by Gibson and Sterling, where the Engine, after gaining sentience, goes on repeating variations of “I am!”.
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by alberto-m 5y ago
In Germany any website is required to have a contact e-mail with a human at the other side. I used to see this as an example of German overregulation, but I changed my mind when I could use it to recover my account at a big social network.
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Why the Christmas Shopping Season Is Worse Every Year (2014)(shamusyoung.com)
2 points by alberto-m 5y ago|0 comments
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by alberto-m 5y ago
Probably a fake. I visit MarketWatch a couple of times a week and they always feature on the front page a letter of someone in a unusual financial situation who has taken, or is planning, questionable decisions about their money. The ghost
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by alberto-m 5y ago
The list cannot obviously contain everything, yet I think the switch from CRTs to LCD monitors should have been mentioned. My eyes used to itch when I watched a CRT for more than a couple of hours, if better technologies didn't become
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by alberto-m 5y ago
Related: 93 % of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19576425 )
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The history of Simulmondo – Italy’s first software house(genesistemple.com)
1 points by alberto-m 5y ago|0 comments
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by alberto-m 5y ago
Magnus Carlsen, the most dominating chess player since Kasparov, has many times sabotaged the post-game interviews. The latest incident occurred just this week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtrZkDUa8xU&t=11511s It sho
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by alberto-m 6y ago
Bach's music greatly appeals to me as a mathematician because of the sense of universal harmony it irradiates. Many of JSB's compositions are based on precise constraints (symmetries, translations). I think many technical people c
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by alberto-m 6y ago
I found the basic idea good (and I agree the translations are awful). Next time maybe you can get more traction for your post by prepending "Show HN:" to your submission and linking the site directly from the title.
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Writing a chess program in 99 steps (2011)(web.archive.org)
1 points by alberto-m 6y ago|0 comments
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by alberto-m 6y ago
Actually, "paese" is the normal translation for country (optionally with capital "P" if one wants to avoid ambiguities with the "town" meaning) > nobody will ever say that Germany or France are a "paese
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Bulgaria writes new chapter in long story of demographic decline(balkaninsight.com)
139 points by alberto-m 6y ago|142 comments
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Let's Play StarCraft (a joke playthrough of the original campaign)(letsplaystarcraft.wordpress.com)
1 points by alberto-m 7y ago|0 comments
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by alberto-m 7y ago
(small typo in the post title: "90% more than" should be "90% more expensive than")
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The Luxury of Ignorance: An Open-Source Horror Story (2006)(catb.org)
1 points by alberto-m 7y ago|0 comments
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Beyond Open Source (2015)(sealedabstract.com)
1 points by alberto-m 7y ago|0 comments
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Peeking into Linux kernel-land using /proc filesystem (2013)(blog.tanelpoder.com)
2 points by alberto-m 7y ago|0 comments
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RIP, Windows 7. Upgrade to Windows 10 Free(cnet.com)
2 points by alberto-m 7y ago|0 comments
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Top Reasons Every Nerdy Person Should Learn to Dance(rebeccabrightly.com)
3 points by alberto-m 7y ago|0 comments