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by ateng 5y ago
My mother just unplug the keyboard and take it away. She underestimated my ability to navigate Windows 98 and play AoE I using only mouse...
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How the forgotten tricks of 'letterlocking' shaped history(bbc.com)
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by ateng 5y ago
Legendary. Please scroll to the comments of the top answer if you haven’t. There’s another “MS Paint IDE” there
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by ateng 5y ago
tangetially related: Hong Kong's top court made a similar ruling on a similar case back in 2019 https://hongkongfp.com/2019/04/04/catch-computer-offence-not...
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by ateng 5y ago
Life hack: link your manual grinder to a drill. Now you have a automatic grinder that’s reasonably priced and have a superb burr. Have not tried this myself but I was told by a professional this is way cheaper and better than any automatic
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by ateng 5y ago
I’m not sure about that either —- there were no tax havens back then. It’s so much easier since 80s to work around the tax system with off shore companies (granted it is getting harder for the past decade) Or was I unaware the widespread lo
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by ateng 5y ago
Not necessarily. 50s / 60s US income tax is much, much higher than current rate. I just think the cycle of going up and down is extremely long. https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Historical_Margina...
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by ateng 6y ago
Interesting enough, my family uses the (less common) format of <FamilyName><RealName><WordFromList>.
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by ateng 6y ago
Fixed term parliament act forces a general election every 5 years, unless a 2/3 majority agree a snap election (e.g. 2019’s)
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by ateng 6y ago
Also note that even if the vaccine couldn’t prevent one from getting infected, it could still reduce the severity of the infection (thus saves lives). I’m _guessing_ a less severe infection could potentially reduce the rate of infection as
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by ateng 6y ago
Wine drinkers would be horrified with the sigh of any wine touching any plastic
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by ateng 6y ago
Microsoft’s attempt to “embrace, extend, extinguish” Java? Of course, though that ultimately turns into C#
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by ateng 6y ago
The fantastic educational YouTuber CGP Grey did a video detailing why working from bed is a terrible idea https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=snAhsXyO3Ck
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by ateng 6y ago
It has a cute nickname, “Suicide Burn”. Why is it efficient? [ https://www.reddit.com/r/KerbalSpaceProgram/comments/2z534g/... ]
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by ateng 6y ago
I’m not a doctor , but yes I’ve done paracetamol/ ibuprofen interleaved with 2 hours gaps between each other when I had very bad flu. I’m curious why no one here mentioned aspirin though
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by ateng 6y ago
Being a professional technologist (which is probably as far away as one could get from being a historian), it baffles me that the academic military history discipline is treated as said in the article —- war is still being waged daily in th
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by ateng 6y ago
Great stuff! It might look even better if you use a serif typeface such as Plantin https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantin_(typeface)
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by ateng 6y ago
I would say the early and mid 90s. The iron curtain is gone, economy is going up (without the gaping inequality we have now), and the world was having great hopes on pulling Russian and China into the international community.
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by ateng 6y ago
I think you’re talking about the Naval Defence Act 1889, which stipulates the Royal Navy to maintain the number of battleships to be at least equal to the sum of next largest TWO navies.[0] Anyway, back to the point of spending just less th
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by ateng 6y ago
The key issue (pun intended) with normal keyboard is that you use your weakest fingers for ALL of your modifier keys. By shifting that responsibility to your thumbs you greatly reduce your little fingers’ workload (and hence chance of CTS)
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by ateng 6y ago
As a developer who also has cubital tunnel syndrome, having keyboards that places commonly use modifier keys [0] on your thumbs, such as Kinesis advantage or Ergodox, helps reducing the fatigue and symptoms immensely. [0] it is called Emacs
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by ateng 6y ago
Note to self: bring a pistol (or blaster?) with me when I head into a supermassive black hole.
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by ateng 6y ago
The said windows desktop ghost screen didn’t have date time on start menu, did it?
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by ateng 6y ago
Allow me to chip in my guitar riff playlist as well https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5q2zcb4xCWviTlAPfk0M8z?si=...
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by ateng 6y ago
Didn’t know they closed this! When I was a potential graduate scheme entree for BoE, one of the perks they emphasise is the ability to pay others with a Bank of England cheque, which, according to the guide, is a fantastic way to start a co
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by ateng 6y ago
> ...internet-printers (Internetausdrucker, a German word for tech illiterates) Let me guess, this word describes people who print out their emails?
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by ateng 6y ago
Disclaimer: the following method may not work if your library is public facing, as breaking changes to public API is usually a terrible idea. Ask yourself the following questions: * Are you an experienced developer on this particular proble
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by ateng 7y ago
> Modern text editors have higher latency than 42-year-old Emacs. Text editors! What can be simpler? On each keystroke, all you have to do is update a tiny rectangular region and modern text editors can’t do that in 16ms. Modern text edi
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by ateng 7y ago
This. And if one still struggles to understand the importance of institutional culture + individual memory, I would like into invite you to the following thought experiment. “Imagine waking up the next morning and the world totally forgot a
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by ateng 8y ago
Dry thunderstorm. I thought it was a building collapsing. On a separate incident, I was about 10. TV signal dropped during a thunderstorm, and shortly after a thunder strike right outside the window. Truly terrifying experience. Luckily I k

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