carl_dr

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by carl_dr 4y ago
I know you’re not trying to be, but this is very childish. The top two or three answers on this post are the way to go - talk, explain the issues, sure, see if there is something that could be done to help, but ultimately just look after OP
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by carl_dr 4y ago
Literally none of them are using Instagram for their social network - they are just spamming likes, sure with people they know, but as much following influencers, celebs, bands, whatever. Snapchat is where the teens spend their time keeping
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by carl_dr 4y ago
It’s much bigger than content and TikTok - it’s teens and early twenties not using Facebook, they are all using Snapchat for their social network. So the audience is getting older, and there is no way of now getting new eyeballs. So they h
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by carl_dr 4y ago
> Something might be placed inside the organism https://www.chessdom.com/hans-niemann-was-thoroughly-checked... Seems unlikely ...
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by carl_dr 4y ago
This is a video of Hans being checked before round 4 of the Sinquefield cup. https://www.chessdom.com/hans-niemann-was-thoroughly-checked... I don't know what else they could have done other than full body x-ray him.
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by carl_dr 4y ago
I don’t disagree with the on-land severing being sabotage - repair to the fibres in France was delayed while police gathered evidence, implying sabotage. The subsea cuts - I’m less sure about those. It’s fairly clear from the cable maps on
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by carl_dr 4y ago
The article leads with severed fibres in Marseille, France which are causing widespread issues, but they were severed on land, not subsea. The article title has been updated since it was posted here. The two severed subsea fibres mentioned
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by carl_dr 4y ago
I played a ZX Spectrum game called Alien Research Centre which fits this description : https://worldofspectrum.org/archive/software/text-adventures... I can’t find any evidence it was a port of an earlier DOS game
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by carl_dr 4y ago
Vs “from $2795 per month” for Viasat. https://go.viasat.com/BAV-Viasat-Select-Business-Jet-WiFi.ht...
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by carl_dr 4y ago
> Standing in a mob waiting for a train in Cinque Terre Same here! I just did a road trip from UK to Italy, and standing on the platform at Vernazza was by far the worst part of the whole trip.
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by carl_dr 4y ago
> I'm interested to see how the series progresses for the next 30 years. Donald is 84. And each time I’m reminded of that I get sad, it’s very unlikely we’ll get another 30 years of his work.
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by carl_dr 4y ago
In this case, the assets are licensed under a non-permissive license, so even if the code was a non-issue, that's the problem.
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by carl_dr 4y ago
Very interesting, although I’m starting to get a bit overwhelmed by the maths on episode 7 or 8. Thanks for posting.
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by carl_dr 4y ago
In Israel, the threshold is low : 100000 NIS, about $29k, and that's revenue, not profit. As a reference point, the minimum wage in Israel is 60,000 NIS, so adding expenses and buying parts/consumables/fittings etc on behalf
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by carl_dr 4y ago
STOS (and AMOS in Amiga), GL Basic and assembler on Atari ST - used them all myself. Thanks for a small trip down memory lane over the last hour reminding myself about them! I had been thinking about writing a web version of STOS or AMOS, a
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by carl_dr 4y ago
Which languages? Maybe you could create a PR for them?
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by carl_dr 4y ago
Try https://www.rectangleapp.com - the pro version probably has the functionality you’re looking for, and is actively maintained.
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by carl_dr 4y ago
Drag while holding option?
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by carl_dr 4y ago
https://www.rectangleapp.com and https://www.raycast.com/ are game changers. They are the only two apps I use which change/improve macOS’ behaviour, I can’t live without them. And Raycast actually has the
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by carl_dr 4y ago
macOS literally nags for days on end - easily an entire week - when the battery is running low before it actually runs out. It starts notifying when the battery level is 10%. I have no idea how this is a problem for anyone.
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by carl_dr 4y ago
Mirror (since I can’t read the original without subscribing) : https://www.bloombergquint.com/onweb/russia-will-quit-intern...
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by carl_dr 4y ago
What if you wanted to append a string with braces, could you? (I don’t know Python!) Plus it would lead to subtle security vulns and other bugs. A contrived example : f”{bot} spammed my repo saying” + “touch(‘{path}’) was wrong lol.” Now
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by carl_dr 4y ago
If you’ve not seen this site, it will tell you : https://rpilocator.com/ Spoiler alert, availability is very poor! They are making 500k units a month and can’t keep up with demand. https://www.raspberrypi.com&#x
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by carl_dr 5y ago
> I am an amateur photographer, and I can't understand why the major camera brands (Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fuji, etc.) aren't open at least to the concept of SDK's to control their cameras (let alone opening the lens mount sp
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by carl_dr 5y ago
It’s actually quite common. I have a photo of a transit of the Moon taken from my backyard, and another from a couple of miles down the road. I also took one ISS transit of the Sun in my parent’s backyard the day before Atlantis undocked
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by carl_dr 5y ago
Read the article and take another 15s. That was one of the naive examples he gives near the start.
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by carl_dr 5y ago
Spending €2.6M on something worth €26,000? Sounds like a crappy return to me.
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by carl_dr 5y ago
JWST isn’t in Earth’s shadow - it orbits around L2 (approximately perpendicular to the Sun-Earth axis) at a radius comparable to the Earth-Moon distance. JWST has a huge solar array used to power the electronics on-board. Even if it was st
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by carl_dr 5y ago
> there is no better way to get good information on the internet than to post something factually wrong! Good old Murphy’s law!
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by carl_dr 5y ago
Extreme ultraviolet, as used in lithography : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_ultraviolet_lithogra...

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