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by almog 4y ago
As someone living in a country that uses proportional representation for its electoral system, my first introduction to gerrymandering was this episode on the Data Skeptic podcast which I highly recommend: https://dataskeptic.com
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Google is raising pay, revamping employee reviews, documents show(cnbc.com)
3 points by almog 4y ago|0 comments
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by almog 4y ago
At least for myself, using some of the fancier 80/90 gsm sheets in that list (Clairfontaine for one) only makes sense if I'll be taking my notes with a fountain pen (which can be a lot of fun!), but with rollerball/ballpoint
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by almog 4y ago
Assuming we're talking about the timeline "latest" mode (rather than "top"), IIRC in the past the used to do the home timeline processing on the read paths, but have long since opted to optimize for read latency, th
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by almog 4y ago
Cool, thank you!
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by almog 4y ago
1. Generally speaking, dates are useful, but this is a link to article from 2008, so I'm not sure if previous submissions dates would be all that useful. 2. All links are to previous _discussions_, none are to discussion-less submissio
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by almog 4y ago
Links to previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13571055 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8094186 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26803109 https://ne
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by almog 5y ago
Probably the tape I use the most, at least when hiking for fixing gear as well but mostly user related problems — Leukotape. It adheres to skin much better than moleskin and stays for weeks. I apply it as soon as I feel a hot-spot forming o
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by almog 5y ago
That comment is like sweet music from a distant room, thank you for that! I just migrated my Newsboat's urls file and all seem to work, for now. Seems like in the past I used the https://www.ebay.com/dsc/i.html se
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by almog 5y ago
At first I thought it might have been a bug, but now that I tested other parameters I see that "_rss=1" isn't just ignored but rather the http response is a redirect to an rss-less path. This doesn't occur with other arb
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Martin Kleppmann wrote an illustrated children's book on cryptography(twitter.com)
8 points by almog 5y ago|0 comments
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by almog 5y ago
The posture you'd want when writing on a paper is that of a flat desk that allow your elbow to lean still so that your palm and fingers have full control of the pen. This is (I only guess) not the case for artist _painting_on real canv
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by almog 5y ago
Yes, I get the disconnect feeling argument, but I'm not sure if it is a learning curve thing or a something more fundamental for professionals in specific fields. As for the ratio, that's configurable in both Wacom and the tablet
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by almog 5y ago
It seems that the news from Wacom applies to both pen displays and tablets, but since they only show photos of pen displays, I was wondering — under what circumstances you would choose a pen display over a tablet? The tablet I'm using
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Google employees bombard execs with questions about pay at recent all-hands(cnbc.com)
8 points by almog 5y ago|2 comments
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Microsoft confirms Lapsus$ hackers stole source code via ‘limited’ access(theverge.com)
9 points by almog 5y ago|1 comments
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by almog 5y ago
What you're describing is Consistent Hashing. It is a mean to _assign partitions to nodes_ and it is independent of how you partition your _data_ (though it's typically used with hash based partitioning of th edata). At any rate,
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by almog 5y ago
apkpure.com has a track record of serving malicious APKs. If you run it in a sandbox environment it's probably okay-ish, but if you already have the app installed from a trusted source on your phone, you can grab the APK file with `adb
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by almog 5y ago
Neat! Both Magisk (which I might use on an older phone which I don't mind rooting) and Objection are new to me, thank you!
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by almog 5y ago
You are right, I didn't phrase it correctly, what I is meant that since Nougat I'm not aware of way to force system-wide use of a user certificate without gaining root access. Thanks for the Firefox tip as well, it's been a w
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by almog 5y ago
Since Android Nougat I think you cannot install user certificates unless you: 1. Root your device. 2. Add the certificate to the APK manifest. I'm not well versed in Android changes, this is just the conclusion I came to when Nougat ca
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by almog 5y ago
Cool, I thought there might be some other flow I was not aware of, thanks for clarifying that! The demo recording is good and I think it would be even better to state the motivation/use case explicitly in the README.
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by almog 5y ago
This article describes modulo as a possible strategy for sharding/partitioning a DBMS. While modulo (along with random allocation) has an instructional value as an introduction to partitioning, it's best followed by a warning when
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by almog 5y ago
I don't do this often, but when I watched the demo that was the only use case that came to mind. Perhaps the author had different motivation to start it, which is why I posted this question — the demo explain what the program does but
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The Sad Story of Stephen “Otter” Olshansky on the Continental Divide Trail, NM(outsideonline.com)
1 points by almog 5y ago|0 comments
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by almog 5y ago
Is the main use case being splitting large uncommitted change set into logical units in _one pass_ rather than few iterations of `git add -p && git commit`?
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by almog 5y ago
It is more than just a click bait, to me it reads as a deliberate attempt to draw a conclusion that a decreased population size in certain countries is linked to biological fertility. Really it is but a step away from reading like some Alex
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by almog 5y ago
Exactly. And I'd have loved to know how such product decision ever came to be.
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by almog 5y ago
I wonder if this was what inspired Patrick Rothfuss to introduce "Yillish Knots" to Kingkiller Chronicles.
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by almog 5y ago
When I saw the title, I was hoping if fact, there is some useful application of Web3 as a way to build a better search engine for the web. Of course not, this is just an app that searches within a showcase of other bait-and-switch scams and

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