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by dcassett 6y ago
I used the links2 browser (doesn't support JS) and was prompted to download the PDF, which is perfectly readable. Perhaps there is an issue of conversion of the PDF to google docs.
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by dcassett 6y ago
To add to this, I found something that seems to help when getting to bed - focusing on the visual artifacts that are there with the eyes closed and wondering what's there. Often I will soon not remember anything else, and other times
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Intel to Outsource 'Atom and Xeon Based SoCs' to TSMC(tomshardware.com)
15 points by dcassett 6y ago|3 comments
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Xilinx acquires Falcon Computing Solutions to expand developer community(seekingalpha.com)
1 points by dcassett 6y ago|0 comments
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by dcassett 6y ago
It's interesting, though, that when a website hits the front page of HN it often gets the attention of the owners.
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by dcassett 6y ago
ASCII art for a picture frame (1898) https://oztypewriter.blogspot.com/2020/02/flora-fanny-stacey...
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by dcassett 6y ago
Using an old iPad with Safari, it endlessly spins on "testing your browser"
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Vision and Breathing May Be the Secrets to Surviving 2020(scientificamerican.com)
4 points by dcassett 6y ago|1 comments
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by dcassett 6y ago
foo/bar/ and foo/bar are not the same if bar is a symbolic link. You can see the difference using 'ls -l'
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by dcassett 6y ago
Very well-written and illustrated article. I wish the Surface Go 2 had a shorter space bar so that the right alt key was under the comma key, and an extra control key under the period key.
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by dcassett 6y ago
Ask your doc about Osmoprep, which are pills you take with 8 oz water periodically. No weird concoctions to drink.
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by dcassett 6y ago
A pull request?
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by dcassett 6y ago
My doc. said he always uses the pills with water to prep for his own colonoscopies. I did the same (I believe the pills were named OsmoPrep) - 4 pills every 15 min with 8 oz of lukewarm water. Not pleasant but quite tolerable for me, and
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by dcassett 6y ago
I just tried opening a large (11 MB) log file on a 2008 netbook and, except for the unexpected "File is large, really open?" question, the load time seemed instantaneous (Emacs 26.3, Lubuntu 16.04).
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Seagate Announces New Object Storage Software: Cortx(hpcwire.com)
2 points by dcassett 6y ago|0 comments
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by dcassett 6y ago
I was surprised to see a git repo consisting of one zip file. And that zip file itself contains a zip file.
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Cloudflare, Google, Bing Destroying the Infrastructure of the Free Web(gigablast.com)
102 points by dcassett 6y ago|43 comments
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by dcassett 6y ago
The talk begins at 4:45
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The Model Checking Paradigm [video](youtube.com)
1 points by dcassett 6y ago|1 comments
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by dcassett 6y ago
I find eww to be slow on my netbook (20 or 30 sec to return ddg.gg search results vs. 1 second for links).
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by dcassett 6y ago
The effect of the 8-bit bus and prefetch queue are described in detail here: http://www.jagregory.com/abrash-black-book/#the-8-bit-bus-cy...
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by dcassett 6y ago
I enjoyed reading your translation of the excerpt from Nachtzug nach Lissabon. It got me interested in the book.
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by dcassett 6y ago
When I read the perldocs much of it looks write-only. But in keeping with Perl's spirit of "there's more than one way to do it", one can actually write straightforward Perl code that is as understandable as Python.
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A Startlingly Simple Theory About the Missing Malaysia Airlines Jet (2014)(wired.com)
2 points by dcassett 6y ago|0 comments
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by dcassett 6y ago
That is one of Heinrich Dorrie's 100 Great Problems of Elementary Mathematics: https://www2.washjeff.edu/users/mwoltermann/Dorrie/MaxMinPro...
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by dcassett 7y ago
In the US the only milk my grandparents would drink was buttermilk (they called it "milk") that they made by culturing overnight on the kitchen counter. They called ordinary milk "sweet milk".
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by dcassett 7y ago
s/the abomination/what/
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by dcassett 7y ago
IMHO a very well-written article with great attention to detail. I especially liked the section on paredit with its step-by-step explanation.
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by dcassett 7y ago
IMO Lisp is interesting, and worth learning even if you never use it for any serious project. It falls squarely in the HN guidelines as to what is suitable to post.
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by dcassett 7y ago
On Linux you can use the evim command to start up in insert mode, or to stay in insert mode in gvim, :set im

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