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by danohuiginn 7y ago
Similarly, here in Berlin there are plenty of Turkish and Arab places which are (either rigorously or primarily) alcohol-free. Also open late, also can have a nice atmosphere. Then there are the clubs where most people are using some drug o
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by danohuiginn 7y ago
Just audio cassettes, though they weren't too pure to also sell blank minidiscs and the like.
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by danohuiginn 8y ago
Supposedly†, smokers recover faster in hospital -- because they're very motivated to stand up and go outside several times a day, as soon as they possibly can. † i.e. I've repeatedly heard it as folk wisdom, but never looked for s
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by danohuiginn 8y ago
or guano https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guano_Islands_Act
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by danohuiginn 8y ago
I want to figure out if their team is strong in areas I won't be involved in. If they have crappy code at least I can fix it. But if their sales strategy sucks, I'm be stuck with the consequences without having much opportunity to
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by danohuiginn 8y ago
The underlying model only exists because a couple of artists snuck into the German museum where Nefertiti is displayed, and clandestinely made a 3d scan. Nice to see it getting used for this. https://web.archive.org/web&#x2F
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by danohuiginn 8y ago
Possible, but decreasingly likely. The US is now one of the countries where your success in life is most fully determined by your family background. e.g. it's in the bottom third of the OECD for income mobility, and the absolute worst
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by danohuiginn 8y ago
Nuclear Winter is technically a solution to global warming, I guess
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by danohuiginn 8y ago
Readlang is the extension you're looking for: https://readlang.com/ I've given it a quick try, and it seems to work fine with this site
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by danohuiginn 8y ago
If importing from OSM (or Wikipedia) it would seem sensible to only accept content that has remained unedited for the last X hours. If something has been staple for a couple of days, it's probably not outrageous vandalism. You'll
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by danohuiginn 8y ago
IMO the enhancements of Java over the last few versions have been very well chosen. I can't think of another language which has improved so much, and with so little hassle to developers. streams, type inference, lambda expressions, an
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by danohuiginn 8y ago
Then one or both of them can quit their job, or get moved somewhere where neither reports to the other.
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by danohuiginn 8y ago
"What determines if somebody 'counts' as an analyst? How are estimates recorded so that they show up in yahoo finance?" I'm no insider, but I feel like a lot of this comes down to Bloomberg terminal. That seems to b
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by danohuiginn 9y ago
And I guess you can just shut it off in summer? Nuclear normally sucks for fluctuating demand, but presumably a 6 month on/off cycle is slow enough to work.
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by danohuiginn 9y ago
The 'unnatural' breaks you get from Pomodoro do have some advantages, though. If you use 'natural' breaks -- when you have finished a task, or got stuck -- you are breaking at precisely the point where it will be hardest
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by danohuiginn 10y ago
> Rather than giving a binary answer, as a password does, the API can hand over a score to indicate how confident it is that you really are you Helpful of them to give everybody trying to break this a measure of how well they are doing.
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Chatbot Fail: Why chatbots might be a waste of time, and why that doesn’t matter(thewalrus.ca)
2 points by danohuiginn 10y ago|0 comments
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Automated generation of synthetic routes in organic chemistry(blogs.sciencemag.org)
4 points by danohuiginn 11y ago|0 comments
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by danohuiginn 11y ago
How many of these would you need to sell (or operate) to recover the development costs?
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by danohuiginn 11y ago
Hetzner will give you a server with 24TB for €82/month, or 5TB FTP space at €26/month
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by danohuiginn 11y ago
Network effects. Even if these people don't have cash, their presence on facebook may encourage wealthier friends/relatives to participate more. [and even poor people may be advertising targets, for the right customer. Loan sharks
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What software is made of(siderea.livejournal.com)
68 points by danohuiginn 11y ago|23 comments
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What software is made of(siderea.livejournal.com)
1 points by danohuiginn 11y ago|0 comments
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by danohuiginn 11y ago
Here is the full Kroll report, which is the main basis for the article: http://candu.md/files/doc/Kroll_Project%20Tenor_Candu_02.04....
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by danohuiginn 11y ago
sadly, kuro5hin is dead; this post is from 2009
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Elop Fired from Job at Head of Microsoft Handsets(communities-dominate.blogs.com)
2 points by danohuiginn 11y ago|0 comments
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by danohuiginn 11y ago
Anybody who hasn't followed Elop's career might like to catch up with the vitriolic commentary from Tomi Ahonen, who blames him for single-handedly destroying Nokia: http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands&#x2
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by danohuiginn 11y ago
There's a problem having a five-point scale with light-hearted descriptions attached to each point. If I rate what I learned this week at 0/5, it's labelled "I've not learned a thing since the early 90s". Cute,
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by danohuiginn 12y ago
+1 What I want, and will probably never get round to implementing, is Markov chain playlist generation. Collect play order from (high-quality, human-generated) playlists, then use them to build Markov chains of tracks that tend to be played
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by danohuiginn 12y ago
people on the internet misunderstanding a paper? Might that be because 99% of them don't have access to read the thing, since it's suck behind a paywall? and to end a post about a paper people can't read with "Maybe I’m

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