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by didsomeonesay 10y ago
My wife is a historian, I'm a programmer. That does not make me the fifth but at least a sympathizer ;)
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by didsomeonesay 10y ago
The trends chart is a little biased in German-speaking countries because Haxe translates to "ham hock" ... a popular beer garden dish :D
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by didsomeonesay 10y ago
My anecdotal experience - not so much about the language itself but the ecosystem: I was making a short evaluation of platforms for light 2d game/graphic development/prototyping. This being in the context of a fun project with ver
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by didsomeonesay 10y ago
I used to find it reassuring, too, that mankind went through these crises without starting global nuclear war. But lately I began wondering how much of it is survivor bias and thinking that we cannot extrapolate this into the future.
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by didsomeonesay 10y ago
This is not part of the bundle - or did I miss something?
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by didsomeonesay 10y ago
Signed. There are some other feature requests in this thread so I chime in: - As someone else commented, the helicopter-like tremolo on some tracks can be quite irritating. When I find it, I skip. Unfortunately sometimes it starts later in
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by didsomeonesay 10y ago
Looking forward to the Firefox version! I have used LeechBlock before, but this looks better adapted to my needs (break the loop, as you described it). Another simple thing that helped me, is to clear those distraction pages out of browser
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by didsomeonesay 10y ago
> no soil, pesticides, fossil fuels or groundwater What about fertilisers? I would assume they still use conventional ones made from fossile fuels. Anybody got more information, did I miss sth in the article?
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by didsomeonesay 10y ago
My experience is that Google app and system updates have a tendency to force/trick/nag you into giving up privacy. As example, the old weather widget from Google's "News & Weather" was replaced by Google Now. T
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by didsomeonesay 10y ago
Agreed on all points. Self-hosted alternatives?
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by didsomeonesay 10y ago
Slightly OT question: Would the Pebble 2 be useful as a privacy-respecting health tracker? I am looking for a device for long-term heart-rate tracking (additional included gimmicks appreciated). But I am worried about things like: Does the
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by didsomeonesay 11y ago
Well, there's "Feynman lectures on Computation"...
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by didsomeonesay 11y ago
'The mast will be erected in the western part of the Richborough Power Station, a place referred to as “The Banana Land” (I suppose the name comes from the pseudo-tropical climate created by the station?).' And up until th
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by didsomeonesay 11y ago
I am bothered by this too and from two friends I got these tipps (not tried it yet): One is using full VPN solution (US-based I think) and the other is just using a Canada-based DNS server. BTW the problem extends beyond subtitles. Internat
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by didsomeonesay 11y ago
None-watermarked PDFs can be found here: http://onyxneon.com/books/modern_perl/index.html (no epub though)
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by didsomeonesay 11y ago
As for refurbished models, stay away from T410 with discrete (NVIDIA) graphics. I own one and experience nothing but troubles with the thermal design. I am doing everything to keep the GPU from frying my fingers on the keyboard and/or
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by didsomeonesay 11y ago
This way, I always heard about the newest scandals, *-gates, dramas, etc and I spent a lot of energy and time thinking about them, discussing them with people on Twitter. I let every little piece of drama get to me. I felt
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by didsomeonesay 11y ago
Reminds off the stories of unattended luggage getting shot by security personnel at airports [1]. Aparrently, shooting is the preferred way to disarm potential explosives in such scenarios. [1] http://lilyasussman.com/2009&#
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by didsomeonesay 11y ago
> What's not to like ? Program startup times and JVM stacktraces, for one. Nevertheless I am just getting started with Clojure and really like what I am seeing so far.
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by didsomeonesay 12y ago
> The key to faking a real smile is in wrinkling the eyes. The wrinkling is not a very reliable indicator of fake smiles [1]. A real smile does indeed involve muscles around the eyes, but wrinkling could be caused by the cheek muscles pu
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by didsomeonesay 12y ago
Has anyone tried to marry IF with voice recognition (+synthesis or recorded content)? I imagine it could be a wonderful experience, sitting with a headset, eyes closed, and exploring this kind of world. Not unlike "pen&paper"
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by didsomeonesay 13y ago
Check "The Elements of Style" by William Strunk Jr. It is a classic book on writing style. It's short, inexpensive and very instructive. Disclaimer: English is not my native language.
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by didsomeonesay 13y ago
Right...
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by didsomeonesay 13y ago
You cannot know if you are the first to go into the switch room. Prisoners are taken to the room at arbitrary times.
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by didsomeonesay 13y ago
It's a great tool if you go for a game that fits this framework - 2D, sprites, tilemaps, physics, ... e.g. a platformer. After experimenting a little with phaser, i realized i don't need a full game framework, and now feel better
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by didsomeonesay 13y ago
Based on pixi.js, should have good rendering performance. Great, just the thing i was looking for!
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by didsomeonesay 13y ago
medium.com - it's that webpage where you can stare for 5 seconds at a small picture embedded in a white page while the _font_ to the article is loading (or whatever it is they messed up in the webdesign). So much for focusing on writte
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by didsomeonesay 13y ago
low-tech solution: http://vanishingpoint.at/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/1... (edit: actual image url instead of article)
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by didsomeonesay 13y ago
Was my initial thought too, but it seems this is already implemented. From the page: To protect privacy, actual tweet locations have been aggregated to the county level and normalized by number of tweets. I don't understand how normali
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by didsomeonesay 13y ago
If you suspect a skimmer, be aware that the person operating the skimmer might be close-by and not too pleased to see you take it apart.

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