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by biztos 4y ago
Do you come from a farming background? And do you live at the farm? I ask because I have a couple of tiny farms in my life, but can't live near the farms. Curious what other people are doing with "tech and farm" combinations
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by biztos 4y ago
Any advice for newbies? I don't even know if there is a rink where I live, but I'd love to give it a try, haven't skated since I was maybe 9 -- but I'm also terrified of falling, breaking my head, running into other peop
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by biztos 4y ago
Hello from Bangkok, Thailand! I have always been, and hope to always remain, passionate about art. Mostly visual art in the "fine art" and "Art World" sense, but also any and all creativity that channels the human spiri
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by biztos 4y ago
This is very common in Hungary, just FYI! Especially in the countryside. The main use-case is for creating fröccs aka spritzers.
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by biztos 4y ago
Per the docs[0], TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE is preferred because it will automatically convert to/from the stored UTC to whatever your time zone is set to, in the config (by default) or within a query. I think you also need it for conver
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by biztos 4y ago
Oh yeah, that’s a great one. There’s no denying Herzog’s love for the things he also despises, and this is the mark of a great artist. Aguirre was my first Herzog movie, in the theatre, way too young for it, and to this day the Kinski monk
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by biztos 4y ago
I think his comments about the nature of Nature in Grizzly Man are a good indicator of the deeper truth you’re looking for: “I believe the common denominator of the universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.” Herzog is one of
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by biztos 4y ago
I don’t know if this is useful, but Herzog has a distinctly Bavarian accent. And of course has spent most of his adult life far from there, so it’s not quite Bavarian either. Training a Herzogbot on recordings/transcriptions of, say
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by biztos 4y ago
I don't go back quite that far professionally -- I guess my first official software job was in 1996. My perspective was a little different because I was in biotech at the time, not in an actual software company. But we had in-house
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by biztos 4y ago
This story is very publicly pushing the narrative that Tesla’s software engineers are some elite Ninjas you can helicopter in to pass judgement on the spoiled SF “engineers.” That image, combined with the image of Musk himself as the no-non
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by biztos 4y ago
> The fire in a crowded theatre standard was overturned… According to Wikipedia that standard was explicitly upheld as the example of speech that would be prosecuted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_v._Ohio
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by biztos 4y ago
I realize the US-India tech relationship is very resilient, but don’t Indian companies run the same risk in principle by staffing the contract shops in Country X with Indians?
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by biztos 4y ago
I’m not a Kotlin user, but this struck me as ambitious: > having the entire Java ecosystem available and, in the same point: > Compilation for so many platforms, directly to native executables Does this mean you can compile pretty muc
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by biztos 4y ago
I guess he was pretty successful, but I think it's mostly his wife's inherited money and you have to count her offshore holdings to make him a billionaire.[0] [0]: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-61490481
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by biztos 4y ago
Probable “green jellybean” reference: https://xkcd.com/882/
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by biztos 4y ago
> public schools such as Eton I always have to remind myself that an English "public school" is what most people call a private school. Per Wikipedia[0]: > "public" in the sense of being open to pupils irrespective
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by biztos 4y ago
Great detail, thanks! > For example, in RGB black is an absence of light, whilst for the painter's RYB space it is an active element. As a painter, I find it all very interesting because there are no pure colors anyway. There is no
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by biztos 4y ago
Thanks, now I will never un-see that twerking flamingo... O___O
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by biztos 4y ago
I'd already read that Goethe was a bit touchy about his color theory and that it was basically wrong, but I somehow missed this about Itten. When I was in school, Itten and Albers were the color-theory heroes. Where can I learn about
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by biztos 4y ago
I think she was a very good painter, but the clickbait title is overdoing it. Af Klint has been celebrated[0] for quite a while now, and if we are supposed to start caring about the Venn diagram of “mysticism” and the visual arts, well… fi
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by biztos 4y ago
I picked one at random and the subject didn’t seem like someone I’d expect to have a bio on Wikipedia — some awards but no big achievements in her field were cited, much less linked to. Random Professor Earning Tenure, Watch This Space!
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by biztos 4y ago
I don't think you're refuting the parent post so much as lamenting the difficulty of doing anything "infrastructure" in today's America. There are lots of places all over the world where $1B would make a big differe
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by biztos 4y ago
Isn’t the reason for the Meta name taking (some) hold just the giant push for the “Metaverse” as the future of the company? It’s not like Alphabet is doing anything… alphabetical. And if they did they’d call it Google Spelling anyway.
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by biztos 4y ago
They are still a thing, though I don't know how common. My own experience on leaving a big company fairly recently was they were available if you wanted one, and you were expected to write your own and submit it for approval, in Germa
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by biztos 4y ago
Interesting factoid from Europe: at least in Germany, you are effectively unhirable if you are in a PiP. You actually have to warrant that you are not, before any company of any size will consider hiring you, and of course lying about that
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by biztos 4y ago
On the plus side, there are a lot of crypto bros here in Thailand and you could probably still find a blockchain to do research for if that's still your thing. They keep telling me to buy Bitcoin, I keep buying beers instead...
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by biztos 4y ago
Maybe this is a stupid question, but why is it unrentable? Could you AirBnB it?
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by biztos 4y ago
Yes but what size is torus-sized? Is a torus bigger than a pyramid?
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by biztos 4y ago
> Astronomers rejoiced as NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impactor slammed into its pyramid-sized, rugby ball-shaped target… Good thing it wasn’t torus-sized or they might have missed!
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by biztos 4y ago
I’ve been idly working on a similar list but with a much more basic prompt. The results vary wildly, even run by run, but I might put them in a few buckets: 1. Similar enough that someone who doesn’t know much about art could be fooled 2. A

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