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African Elephants Evolved Tusklessness Fast(theatlantic.com)
2 points by dynamic_sausage 5y ago|0 comments
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Nokia is releasing a new version of its 6310 'brick phone'(dailymail.co.uk)
14 points by dynamic_sausage 5y ago|9 comments
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by dynamic_sausage 5y ago
I've had some luck with looking up name pronunciations on forvo.com. For common names, you can sometimes get several different recordings by native speakers, which may also help with regional variations.
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The Web Is Eating the Desktop (2017)(adamierymenko.com)
72 points by dynamic_sausage 5y ago|157 comments
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Proust’s Madeleine Was Originally a Slice of Toast(tabletmag.com)
3 points by dynamic_sausage 5y ago|0 comments
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20k-years old coronavirus epidemic in East Asia(cell.com)
2 points by dynamic_sausage 5y ago|0 comments
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Manually add a search engine to Firefox Quantum(blog.onee3.org)
1 points by dynamic_sausage 5y ago|0 comments
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Year of Stanisław Lem(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by dynamic_sausage 5y ago|0 comments
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The Native Scholar Who Wasn’t(nytimes.com)
1 points by dynamic_sausage 5y ago|0 comments
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The Bogdanoff Affair(math.ucr.edu)
1 points by dynamic_sausage 5y ago|1 comments
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Scientific Publishing Is a Joke(theatlantic.com)
2 points by dynamic_sausage 5y ago|1 comments
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by dynamic_sausage 5y ago
Non-English-based programming was common in the Soviet Union, but certainly not unique to it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English-based_programming_...
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An open source re-implementation of Caesar III(github.com)
1 points by dynamic_sausage 6y ago|0 comments
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by dynamic_sausage 6y ago
> I wish there was an option to make it more compact than the "compact" layout. You can make the url bar smaller by setting the layout.css.devPixelsPerPx in your about:config to a value between 0 and 1. This can also be done by
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JRR Tolkien 1964 Interview(youtube.com)
2 points by dynamic_sausage 6y ago|0 comments
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by dynamic_sausage 6y ago
These are standard for a (graduate) course of real analysis — see for instance section 2.3 and exercises after it in Folland, "Real analysis". The reason they are not usually covered in calculus is, to justify such differentiation
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Rowan Atkinson on free speech (2018)(youtube.com)
3 points by dynamic_sausage 6y ago|1 comments
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The forehead-slappingly stupid attempt to cancel Steven Pinker(nationalreview.com)
22 points by dynamic_sausage 6y ago|10 comments
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by dynamic_sausage 6y ago
My father (and me) would always recommend Zeldovich's "Higher mathematics for beginners" for learning analysis at the upper high-school level. This particular book does not seem to be available in translation, instead there i
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by dynamic_sausage 7y ago
If you are interested in foobar-like players for Linux, DeaDBeeF may be worth looking into.
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by dynamic_sausage 7y ago
> You're probably not going to get any actionable, meaningful information from news sources like those, especially day to day. Not day to day perhaps, but I did once learn from the news that a certain French airline company had just
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by dynamic_sausage 7y ago
Speaking of vim, vimwiki [1] is a really nice plugin similar to orgmode. It uses markdown-like syntax and has a diary mode. It also supports cross-file and in-file links, tables, formulas in latex, exporting vimwiki pages to html, etc. [1]:
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by dynamic_sausage 8y ago
Interesting — the screenshot of Ritchie's desktop towards the bottom of the article shows output of the "dict" command with a listing of available dictionaries. The only one visible is OED 2nd edition. I had no idea OED was e