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I've been using rclone+restic to back up files to my university-provided Google Drive, which has unlimited storage. Apart from occasional "rate limit exceeded API warnings", I haven't faced any issues so far. Wonder if
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> Otherwise my default is Gandi. Gandi also gives 3 emails with 3 GB each with a domain.
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OK, suppose it gets flagged on HN and is removed. The article would still exist on the parent site and would (supposedly) keep harming women in tech. What then? Remove it from search results? Or even better, make it a crime to write wro
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I really don't understand the psychology of the woke who seem to like punishment more than dialogue and I don't see anything particularly troubling in the letter published in the Listener [1]. What's even more shocking is
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I'm surprised that no one has mentioned bibtool [1], which is part of a standard TeXLive install. bibtool can also reformat BiBTeX entries and automatically generate keys. I also use it to turn URLs containing DOI to pure DOI using th
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And OP wasn't complaining about the things the parent said.
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> All of this technology contains properties that identify your vehicle from similar vehicles WHILE making the roads safer. This is simply not true. Things like touchscreens are cheap gimmicks and the roads do not get any safer by using
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Anyone who does serious research in STEM knows that articles from Scientific Reports [1] are to be taken with a pinch (or even a lump) of salt. And yet, here we have a so-called environmental-science reporter using such an article to make
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Then you'll enjoy https://1mb.club and https://512kb.club and https://250kb.club
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How does this compare to gitk?
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Does it support HiDPI displays? Lack of good HiDPI support was the reason why I switched from Xfce to i3 + custom Qt/GTK+ configs.
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Do you have an argument to make other than whatabouting Snowden? Don't you think that being forced to seek exile in Russia makes it difficult for him to say anything about the media there?
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I used to use 1.1.1.1 till the day I realized that it doesn't resolve archive.is [1]. I don't particularly care what the details are, whose fault it is, etc., but as an end user, I see this a major problem because with 1.1.1.1 if
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> Because I've been using it for weeks and it makes me read these types of comments as "I don't understand the value of the internet" or "what's the purpose of owning a phone". And yet apart from making
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> Consensus doesn't mean you're right, but it does mean that no one can find a serious flaw. This assumes a very naive view that the average university researcher is trying to challenge prevailing theories on a daily basis. Th
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> RMS used to read the web by mail — perhaps he still does. He still does [1] > "I generally do not connect to web sites from my own machine, aside from a few sites I have some special relationship with. I usually fetch web page
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Ironic that this is from the EFF, who were happy to dogpile on RMS when he said some things that some people took offense to [1]. Just like private censorship, trying to cancel someone is not the best to fight hate. [1]: https:/&#x2F
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If people hadn't invented a method to do Gaussian integrals, entire subjects like statistical mechanics and quantum field theory would have been nonexistent.
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Thanks, this sounds like an interesting project. Will look into it.
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Now someone make a Linux Subsystem for Windows GUI.
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Some posts on /r/unixporn don't even look like desktops: https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/ovb5bh/openbox_fr...
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When I first started using i3 (which is also the first tiling WM that I used for more than an hour), I found the experience to be a bit annoying. By default, i3 uses a tiled layout which becomes cumbersome to use on a laptop monitor when m
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Sci-Hub and LibGen have contributed more to my PhD than my so-called advisers. So thank you Alexandra for your unselfish efforts to make science accessible to all!
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This might be confused with the publishing system of the same name written in Racket: https://docs.racket-lang.org/pollen/
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This is just advertising, plain and simple. I doubt this group's website generates a lot of traffic and I doubt the revenue it brings GoDaddy is more than a few hundred dollars each year. But thanks to this move, GoDaddy is now trend
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> 95% of the world population uses Celsius Not for body temperature. The author is Indian and most Indians still use Fahrenheit for body temperature.
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> socialism is as economically illiterate as anti-vaccine opinions are medically illiterate to you Edgy comment, but unfortunately, even with all the sophisticated jargon and advanced mathematics, economics isn't a real science with
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So this what they're doing after firing the MDN team. Good to know.
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> obviously they will not mind Apple scanning their photos to prevent horrific crimes But Apple scanning all phones for CSAM makes it look like you're guilty unless proven otherwise. It's not even about preventing crimes --
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Yet another great mind (also an infamous introvert) who used to take long walks to refresh his mind was Paul Dirac. From his 1963 interview [1] with Thomas Kuhn, he describes how a decisive Sunday walk made him see the analogy between comm

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