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by btrettel 7y ago
> This would be one place where free software could really shine - you could convert a lot of people with "every application works the same, and we promise we won't change the UI more than once every two years unless we really
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by btrettel 7y ago
> Have the computer read highlighted sections back to you On Linux I was able to do this with the following shell command: espeak "$(xclip -o)"
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by btrettel 7y ago
Unrelated comment: I like this sort of web design. Might just be nostalgia. It reminds me of web design circa 2001 or so. You can see many similar examples on OSWD, e.g.: http://www.oswd.org/design/preview/id/
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by btrettel 7y ago
I've published several scientific translations and my goal is basically one page of the original a day. Or if it has small text and multiple columns, one column might be a better choice. One page a day is manageable. Just doing a bit e
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by btrettel 7y ago
Having used McMaster-Carr for over a decade, I strongly agree about the filtering being non-ideal and also the prices being high. There's an interaction between the two as well: You can't sort by price. Often there are many items
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by btrettel 7y ago
Once, circa 2006, I ordered some rubber tubing from McMaster-Carr in the morning. It was shipped it from New Jersey to western Maryland, where I lived, by that afternoon.
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by btrettel 7y ago
Google has estimates of this which you can see in Google Maps.
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by btrettel 7y ago
Is it okay if I use masks that I bought years ago? (N95 in my case.) As far as I'm aware there's no way a healthcare worker could get access to the masks I already have.
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by btrettel 7y ago
Interesting. I had assumed that security was reduced.
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by btrettel 7y ago
COVID-19 is providing many opportunities for criminals. It's only a matter of time before articles come out with titles like "How identity thieves took my federal tax return AND coronabucks" given the delay in filing US tax r
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by btrettel 7y ago
Can you change the page titles to be more descriptive? I've bookmarked a few of these pages but had to manually change the titles to have the book title in them.
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by btrettel 7y ago
> I am very curious who are the "higher-ups" in an institution dedicated to the production and enrichment of intelligence within humanity? I was thinking about both university and department administration, though for the latte
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by btrettel 7y ago
How does one get better at noticing that something is "off" like this sword not matching its claimed origin? To me, it took more than student being an expert here. Experts often miss things like this in my experience if they'
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by btrettel 7y ago
> Is his opinion "allowed" to sour (publicly) until he is a Tenured professor? I don't think getting a negative opinion of the status quo would help. If an assistant professor is not vocal about their opinions then the ten
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by btrettel 7y ago
> You seem to be framing all possible STEM-based progress from the perspective of progress within the physics community. While I'm not knzhou, knzhou recognizes this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22659861 &g
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by btrettel 7y ago
What are some good sans-serif math fonts? I'm aware of sansmathfonts [1] and FiraMath [2]. I'm particularly looking for a font like Open Sans or Roboto. FiraMath is close. [1] https://tug.org/FontCatalogue/san
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by btrettel 7y ago
Here's a recent preprint of mine: https://engrxiv.org/nqhs5 This paper is on the different varieties of liquid jet breakup, e.g., for applications like fire hose streams and fuel sprays. At low speeds you have more reg
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by btrettel 7y ago
I see that you work in particle physics. I don't think particle physics is representative of science in general. My impression is that particle physics is seen as sexy and attracts a larger proportion of better researchers than many ot
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by btrettel 7y ago
There are many resources available today on how to create a nice looking HTML/CSS page. Looks like Mozilla has a complete guide: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn This goes into JavaScript later
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by btrettel 7y ago
I've asked someone who likes using tons of JavaScript before and the response I received was along the lines of "It saves developer time." I don't get that one because in my experience, writing straight HTML is simpler t
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by btrettel 7y ago
> I wonder if the delay in implementation has anything to do with the abundance of use of MathJax, making working on it low-priority. I've thought the exact same thing before. In the future I'm planning some articles with math
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by btrettel 7y ago
I'd be interested in seeing a rendering time comparison with native MathML rendering in Firefox or Safari.
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by btrettel 7y ago
I didn't know about this requirement either. I'm reminded of what Jakob Nielsen has written on the subject: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/photos-as-web-content/ > Summary: Users pay close attention
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by btrettel 7y ago
I took a graduate level measure-theoretic probability theory class. The professor had this rant about how "buy low, sell high" was a bad idea, it's all about how long you stay in the market. He had a mathematical proof that,
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by btrettel 7y ago
> It really is an incredible public utility provided you liberally mute/bloctk/unfollow all the petty fighting and find good people. How do you find good people on Twitter? My interests are esoteric and as far as I can tell not
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by btrettel 7y ago
Interesting idea. For a bit I thought your comment was in response to another post I made recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22495175 My earlier comment was about webpages, not projects, though I think having a
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by btrettel 7y ago
I never particularly liked the (recent?) tendency of software projects to pick names that conflict with established things. This is just one good example of that. I prefer new words like grep or bash, or descriptive names like nushell. I do
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by btrettel 7y ago
Thanks for all this information! I think I might do the _dnslink TXT record approach you mention for my own website (just a static site), though I'll first need to learn more about DNS and IPFS.
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by btrettel 7y ago
Interesting. How would IPFS handle updates to a page? I assume that the updated page would have to be hosted separately.
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by btrettel 7y ago
Unfortunately common practices in many hobbies are rather dangerous. I cringe when I see dangerous practices in hobbies I'm familiar with, and I freely admit that I've done the wrong thing before out of ignorance. Another aspect o

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