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by dyukqu 8y ago
Anyone has anything to say about The Lady Tasting Tea[0]? I'd like to hear/read your thoughts about this book. (I came across it on the comment section of John D Cook's blog post[1] years ago but haven't had a chance to
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by dyukqu 8y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11719441 - Here is a good HN read/thread from two years back about Qanats. Yakhchals was mentioned there.
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by dyukqu 8y ago
Hey, thank you for your time and effort for putting all the links and information on your comments. Firstly, I'm not against experimentalists and/or experiments and the money spent for them - it's not even "peanut"
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by dyukqu 8y ago
Some tangential thoughts: even though I like these popular science (physics, to be precise) books, I have hard times to imagine their writers as a real scientists . Tyson, Greene, Carroll, Kaku, Rovelli... So many writers author so many bo
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by dyukqu 8y ago
There is a blind (since birth) painter who is considerably famous - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTDQcSS809c
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MIT OpenCourseWare videos on YouTube have been restored(mitopencourseware.wordpress.com)
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by dyukqu 8y ago
Honest question: do you guys and gals think YouTube is really able (does it even try ?) to identify the songs that Shazam or Siri can not identify - at all? I presume that if a song is unidentifiable for Shazam (or another service like it)
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Computers That Think Like People?(nist.gov)
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‘Day Zero’ Denied: Solving the Looming Water Crisis(nist.gov)
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by dyukqu 8y ago
Just the same price with a few-megabytes mobile messaging app. I wonder, how much does the app weigh...
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by dyukqu 8y ago
>I wonder how much of brain elasticity in as adults is just due to attitude It reminded me a quote (that I'll try to interpret/translate as best as I can): That's not you stop playing games as you get older, it is you get
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by dyukqu 8y ago
Here is a HN thread from 2015 with 131 comments for those who are interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10802088
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by dyukqu 8y ago
It reminded me of a Wired article from 2015 about a guy with the last name "Null" - https://www.wired.com/2015/11/null/
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by dyukqu 9y ago
They say " Good artists copy, great artists steal ". :-) I'm not sure whether it's true or not. Just saying...
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by dyukqu 9y ago
Cmder - http://cmder.net/
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by dyukqu 9y ago
I haven't read the book but looked through it (hastily though). It was pretty the same - like a slide version of the course. You shouldn't expect some direct instructions about "how to do/achieve X" in this course&#
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by dyukqu 9y ago
It's probably an access point/ip based thing. If you make a new friend(s) and visit them (before adding them on FB) and use their home wi-fi to access to FB, they will almost instantly appear on the "friend suggestions"
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The Podcasting Juggernaut Has (Finally) Arrived(wired.com)
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by dyukqu 9y ago
You have to disable both "fast startup" and "secure boot" in order to install linux. (I installed Ubuntu 17.10 alongside Win10 few weeks ago on my UEFI laptop.)
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Status.im Invests $5M in Riot.im(blog.status.im)
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by dyukqu 9y ago
Don't know anything about open-sourcing Pocket. As an (open-source) alternative you can self-host Wallabag[1] [1] https://wallabag.org/en
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by dyukqu 9y ago
Should they "Google" it? How about "DuckDuckGo"ing it? Edit: Not trolling, pretty serious. Would Google allow the webpages favouring Firefox over Chrome to show up on the top search results (or even the first page)? I&#x
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by dyukqu 9y ago
For those who look for NoScript replacement, uMatrix[0] (from the maker of uBlock Origin) has got you covered (with "A Desperately Needed User’s Guide"[1]). [0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/add
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Zachtronics – Opus Magnum(zachtronics.com)
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by dyukqu 9y ago
..or to Alexandra Elbakyan; for a lifetime† achievement (in supporting hundreds of thousands of scientists/researchers around the globe). †since she has helped so many researchers, affected their lives, it shall count as well-beyond-l
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by dyukqu 9y ago
Right. But "camera" does the thing. I didn't expect an article or an image; video is what I expected to be at the end of the link.
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by dyukqu 9y ago
Majority of regular users (who do not care or even know about any kind of online privacy, open web, net neutrality etc.) I interact with go to google.com, write down e.g. "facebook" and then log in! They don't even know the
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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: a compendium of invented words(dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com)
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by dyukqu 9y ago
Music and film (a.k.a. Spotify & Netflix) are entertainment means. Books are not - especially the technical ones. You can buy a Netflix and Spotify subscription and stream them 24/7 without the need for paying attention. How could
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by dyukqu 9y ago
Oh my God! What a list. It is often called "Fıstıklı Sarma" (rather than dolama ). Güllaç..oh my. What a delight. You probably know, it is usually available in Ramadan - it is about the time now. There are very few places that ma

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