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by almog 4y ago
You keep spreading false facts and when disproved, just jump on to false logic: You're claiming I'm insulting you, but how? By pointing out the fact that much like people who'd argue it's fine to display the confederate
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by almog 4y ago
At first I thought he was just misinformed and tried to politely correct them, but now I see that they really just try to provoke people and using arguments of similar structures to the ones caring so much about displaying the Confederate F
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by almog 4y ago
You seem to copy and paste this fake fact about 'King Henry's Little Black Book"' all over the thread. > Blacklist comes from King Henry's "Little Black Book" which was a list of his political enemies.
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by almog 4y ago
> I think you might be the one lacking the historical background. Blacklist comes from King Henry and his list of political enemies. 1. You seem to assume that historical background is synonymous with "words first origin". By h
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by almog 4y ago
Wow, while I can perhaps understand perhaps why the repository owner, given that he's not from the US (according to his Github) and lacking the historical background, could think that the fact that closing the issue with the comment &q
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Meta names new head of engineering as current leader steps aside(theverge.com)
6 points by almog 4y ago|1 comments
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by almog 4y ago
Believed by NPR is the podcast you should listen to if you want to hear the story of the Larry Nasser's victims: https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510326/believed
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by almog 4y ago
> I believe the academic category for these is "lexical gap" Lexical gap refers to potential words that, with regards to the language morphology or semantic rules, could have been part of the language. I think it's syste
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FTC’s Antitrust Probe of Amazon Picks Up Speed Under New Boss(bloomberg.com)
4 points by almog 4y ago|0 comments
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by almog 4y ago
And another one - google search any time series graphs such as stock price, currency convertion etc. Works so far on FF. Click any of the non-default resolution (5D, 1M, 6M) and you'll get a "No chart available" on FF.
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PyTricks: Unpopular Python built-in features to save a lot of unnecessary code(github.com)
4 points by almog 4y ago|0 comments
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by almog 4y ago
And a pay wall trespassers link: http://web.archive.org/web/20220530005153/https://www.nytime...
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They Did Their Own ‘Research.’ Now What?(nytimes.com)
5 points by almog 4y ago|3 comments
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The Slash: a 20-foot-wide deforested corridor that forms the US-Canada border(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by almog 4y ago|0 comments
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by almog 4y ago
I think in both cases, whether the working end should be fed from the bottom of the loop or from the top depends on whether we're crossing the working end under or above the bight the first time: working end that crosses above the bigh
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by almog 4y ago
Specifically the one he calls McCarthy's Hitch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slOhlEmBwwY
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by almog 4y ago
I just tried it and at first I thought it really was just a figure eight with extra wrap (a bit like the figure of nine bend), I noticed the difference was not just the extra wrap but also that the working end is finally fed back into the l
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by almog 4y ago
Gmail, other than being sluggish on FF, its browser history (back button) is broken on Firefox (though gmail's keyboard shortcuts still work).
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by almog 4y ago
I'll try to add Painter's Hitch to my repertoire, I can see how it can come handy. And yes, the selection really depends on one's use case. I think that Trucker Hitch was the most life changing for me. Both for securing items
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by almog 4y ago
I like Knots3D, but there are some alternatives that made it easier for me: 1. The Klutz Book of Knots (it's a book with holes around the pages so you can practice the knots next to their instructions). I think it's supposed to be
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by almog 4y ago
I don't think this is what he's referring to — there are vast areas in NM, AZ, NV that do not have cell coverage. Even when you apply all service levels (even 3G) across all cell providers, using carrier provided data (which tend
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by almog 4y ago
I'm surprised Youtube doesn't rate limit uploads per user. Of course that won't remedy the larger problem of search results ranking, but it strike me as odd that they don't have such limit set up. If no rate limit exists
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by almog 4y ago
I'd guess it might be an upgraded Nori?
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Do Kwon (Terra creator) faces prosecution in South Korea(techcrunch.com)
2 points by almog 4y ago|0 comments
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by almog 4y ago
One hackish idea that I had for quick deployment of my mirrorless as webcam, but that I never implemented was to use a dummy battery ⃰ and have a micro controller act as the dummy battery switch. The switch is then controlled by a process t
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by almog 4y ago
Nice, hope you'll like it!
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by almog 4y ago
In case you're in the market for one, I just checked ebay again and there are quite a few of it for ~$75.
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by almog 4y ago
I found it just after many of the covid restriction were lifted, which resulted in businesses, schools and even churches getting rid of streaming gear on ebay. I'm not sure if it's still the case, but I found quite a few at that w
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by almog 4y ago
If you are going that route (I have), keep in mind that streaming from your mirrorless/DSLR HDMI port usually means h.264 live encoding, which might not work smoothly with older machine, there are very few HDMI to USB capture cards tha
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Musk says Twitter deal at lower price is ‘Not out of the question’(bloomberg.com)
10 points by almog 4y ago|0 comments

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