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VK (formerly Mail.ru) intends to bring the ICQ messenger back to life in Russia(cnews.ru)
5 points by almog 5y ago|0 comments
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by almog 5y ago
1. Old fashion wide-mouth Nalgene bottle (easy to clean and therefore less likely to become trash, also great as a hot-bottle in winter). 2. I've been carrying a tiny Victorinox classic SD on my keychain ever since I've started hi
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by almog 5y ago
Perhaps I'm just used to mechanical switches noise (I'm typing this on a Kinesis Advantage v1 and have used the older contoured model before that), but would like to ask - once you silenced the casing noise, what was it about the
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by almog 5y ago
While I hope it is a small quake compared to the 2011 earthquake, the main 2011 earthquake came 2 days after a 7.1 foreshock quake: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_Japan https://en.wikip
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7.3 Magnitude Quake Hits North Japan, Tsunami Alert Issued(bloomberg.com)
15 points by almog 5y ago|0 comments
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by almog 5y ago
I've heard that in Tang dynasty Pu-Erh was important in order to keep the peace in remote areas partially because it was consumed as a substitute for fresh vegetables in areas where one could not grow them. Consuming tea as thick soup
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by almog 5y ago
Interesting, I wasn't aware of white2tea, could you share a recommendations for something you've liked from white2tea?
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by almog 5y ago
I'm on the same boat now, it was a hard start because I tried young shengs first and didn't know what notes to look in them. After trying some affordable aged CNNPs (from YS), I found my liking to younger shengs too. Nice to see t
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by almog 5y ago
Yep, I can only hope it will bite back and prove itself to be another blow to Meta's stock.
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Zuckerberg confirms NFTs are coming to Instagram(engadget.com)
9 points by almog 5y ago|3 comments
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by almog 5y ago
"Ah, finally a VR platform where decent people (and otherwise) can immerse themselves in vim..." I thought to myself while deep inside me I knew it was destined to be a short road to disappointment and heartbreak.
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by almog 5y ago
It's worth mentioning a satirical essay Benjamin Franklin wrote when he stayed in Paris as part of a diplomatic mission in which he basically chastises the citizens of Paris for not waking up with the sun. http://www.webexhi
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by almog 5y ago
Agreed. AFAIK it was created as a method to transport tea efficiently all across the Tang empire (and as a mean to keep the peace within it) while not crushing the leaves. I have no idea about what kind of tea made it to the west back then.
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by almog 5y ago
That's a very good description of the enzymatic process in tea. Regarding "oldest process" though, I'm not sure which is the earliest processing method for tea but compressed tea / tea bricks as Pu-erh (although com
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by almog 5y ago
I'm by no mean (sorry) a data scientist and this reads really well. This season of the Data Skeptic podcast is all about k-means and it's excellent as always: https://dataskeptic.com/episodes/k-means
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Crypto miners leaving Kazakhstan as government announce power supply throttling(restofworld.org)
12 points by almog 5y ago|0 comments
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by almog 5y ago
I love it. Some more dimensions that would be nice to have: precipitation and unfortunately, air pollution index, especially in the west during summer.
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CoverDrop: Securing Initial Contact for Whistleblowers(lightbluetouchpaper.org)
6 points by almog 5y ago|0 comments
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by almog 5y ago
To add to that, if going out to the gym is by itself challenging, I'd consider getting just the basic hardware that you need to lift at home. I've been doing that for over 10 years, and while I recognize that being around other pe
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by almog 5y ago
Seems to me that it's about Cooklang, not about git. Nevertheless it looks neat! For bread and baking in general, it might be useful to have it support Baker Percentage[1], either explicitly or by using specific tags for scaling dry an
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by almog 5y ago
Every word here. Pairing was highly encouraged in my previous job. We did it for 5 or so years, even when working remotely using tmux. In my last 2 years there, in an attempt to increase throughput / save time, pairing became something
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by almog 5y ago
Reminds me of "These two books contain the sum total of all human knowledge": https://imgur.com/wf53LHK
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by almog 5y ago
I agree, that it's more of a taxonomy and reasoning guide for distributed systems, but the situation in question, regarding long replication lag for offline devices is introduced as an example (through a calendar app) when discussing m
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by almog 5y ago
Exact quote (via transcript): "And finally, if you're interested in supporting this kind of thing financially, I did set up a Patreon account with the goal of trying to turn this into a potential career of an independent researche
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by almog 5y ago
Thank you! I haven't used Lightsail yet, so in addition to doing something meaningful with the credit, it could also be a good learning experience.
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by almog 5y ago
What would be an easy and economic way to run a Tor Bridge/s on AWS? I have few hundred bucks left in credit that will expire in a few months and no plans to use it
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by almog 5y ago
Not really, in his Patreon page he mentions that one of his plans is to "Write another book to complement Designing Data-Intensive Applications"
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by almog 5y ago
Martin mentioned it during the last few minutes of Coding Over Cocktails as one reason why you might want to support his Patreon page: https://www.torocloud.com/podcast/designing-data-intensive-a... https://
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by almog 5y ago
I recently finished a 2nd reading of DDIA and while listening to a podcast featuring an interview with Martin Kleppmann, I got so thrilled when he mentioned that he plans to release another book in the coming years. DDIA is so good that I f
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by almog 5y ago
What's more, we can run that cable along a gravity train from CA to NL, saving the costs of digging another tunnel. :)

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