christkv

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by christkv 2y ago
There was even an Indian Greek kingdom https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Greek_Kingdom
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by christkv 2y ago
The main preservation of greek texts was the byzantine empire not the Arab world. If you take a second to think about it was the Greek Roman Empire. Until it fell it was the heart of the knowledge of Rome and Greece.
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by christkv 2y ago
The tests I'm finding seem to be mostly white-label brands with who knows what kind of oil. I'm talking about single source olive oil. It's a bit more expensive but you generally get oil from small operations and co-ops that
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by christkv 2y ago
Spanish olive oil is very strictly managed with clear definitions of what extra virgin oil is as well as the other grades of olive oil. We also have quite a selection of small batch local olive oils. Some people here are as fanatic about th
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by christkv 2y ago
Spain is the one the de densest countries if not the densest country in Europe. Most people live in flats in dense cities.
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by christkv 2y ago
The Famicom Disk System was an awesome concept to bad it never made its way outside of Japan.
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by christkv 2y ago
The golden rule was to only mock your own code. Make a facade around the framework class using an interface and mock that if needed to decouple your tests. Then write integration tests against your implementation of the interface. The momen
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by christkv 2y ago
Our solution has been feature flip phones and encouraging the kids to call their friends to talk instead.
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by christkv 2y ago
Hopefully the enshitification of the net kills the social net splintering the web into a pre facebook era.
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by christkv 2y ago
I had exactly this conversation with a friend of mine today looking at getting a one of the new windows arm laptops. I can’t see this features not ending up in tears down the road.
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by christkv 2y ago
Considering backward compatibility on ios my bet is on proton for sure.
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by christkv 2y ago
Send them Tiananmen Square photos or messages about the CCP, anything that can trigger the great firewall. Thats what my friend did. They stopped messaging immediately.
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by christkv 2y ago
The revolution really was the change from using streams and rivers to coal and steam engines. Suddenly you were not as limited in location for setting up factories allowing flat continental European countries to industrialize at scale.
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by christkv 2y ago
I think easy access to lots of smaller waterways with natural fall and little chance of massive flooding was an important factor for why Britain was able to industrialize before the invention of the steam engine. If you look at where indust
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by christkv 2y ago
Cool whats the energy density of this? The sodium batteries also look promising.
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by christkv 2y ago
I had something similar happen to me without realizing it. I was running a 20 people team away from the main office and was having dinner with my boss and we started talking about what was great about the team and the location. My arguments
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by christkv 2y ago
There is still the problem of recycling the blades. https://theconversation.com/wind-turbine-blades-inside-the-b... .
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by christkv 2y ago
Not yet in Europe it seems. I can’t wait /s. Might have to finally sign up for kagi.
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by christkv 2y ago
There is the whole theory about the Sumerians coming from a civilisation at the bottom of the Persian Gulf. As the ice age came to an end the rising sea wiped it out making them move to higher ground.
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by christkv 2y ago
I’m guessing it works for the standard Nintendo provided microcodes.
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by christkv 2y ago
Maybe im a cynic but queue winter 2024-25 and the bird flue pandemic. Luckily we have this new experimental vaccine. Crossing my fingers im just a cynic and that im wrong.
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by christkv 3y ago
Does it come with a portable nuclear reactor to power it?
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by christkv 3y ago
Silver has such an interesting history as a unit of exchange. I remember reading that China started demanding payment in silver around the 1500 for goods leading to the boom in Spanish silver mining in the Americas to pay for imports. The l
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by christkv 3y ago
There is another possibility. TikTok exits the us market.
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by christkv 3y ago
This rot is everywhere in both private companies and public institutions
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by christkv 3y ago
Its really just the effect of empire building. Too much money allowing non operative people to flourish and new administrative layers to be added that then have to justify themselves by making operative employees report thing they can quant
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by christkv 3y ago
Maybe but you can just buy an usb c ips portable display get most of the way there. Much cheaper.
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by christkv 3y ago
Problem i got is that i have to be able to support html documents from old tinymce as well as being suitable for use with collaborative editing with something like ys.js. I might just have to bite the bullet and write a html to some other r
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by christkv 3y ago
Quill or Slate is the question im asking myself these days.
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by christkv 3y ago
Local agents is cool. I remember seeing a store in Berlin a decade ago where you could rent some display space and sell your stuff there

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