easywood

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by easywood 3y ago
This reminds me of the time I used Drupal for a hobby project of mine (10+ years ago). I wanted to upgrade it to a new Drupal version, and one of the first steps was "Backup your database". It'll be fine I thought. After the
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by easywood 3y ago
>> the EU wasn't really cooperating in making a deal with the UK. Could you clarify this? What kind of deal should the UK have gotten? Should the UK get a better deal than other countries which are not in the union?
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by easywood 3y ago
Bonus points for including sheep.exe. That was a welcome trip down memory lane.
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by easywood 3y ago
Just from the title, I can deduce the article is based on a logical error. There will ALWAYS be incompetent people involved in any solution. So if solution X fails because of incompetent people, but solution Y succeeds, then solution Y must
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by easywood 3y ago
Building glue is not magical and it's widely used, at least in western Europe. Glue is rapidly replacing mortar (just not for foundation and facade stone). Also, it dries a lot quicker than 45 minutes. A builder doesn't have to wa
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by easywood 3y ago
lively household -> public libary?
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by easywood 3y ago
You're completely right. The site doesn't even bother to explain what "eggs" are. And while it lists the benefits of wheels, there is no word about the apparent downsides of eggs, or maybe a little comparison table.
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by easywood 3y ago
Unfortunately the level of knowledge on the subject is quite apparent when somebody speaks about "the" European healthcare. I'm sure the doctors spoke European too.
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by easywood 3y ago
That's the best thing about standards, you have so many to choose from.
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by easywood 3y ago
In several European countries, that's really not hard to find online: https://www.reuters.com/article/booking-hldg-hungary-idINL5N... https://www.politico.eu/article/dutch-privacy-watchdog-fi
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by easywood 3y ago
Second opinion from someone in a 25 year marriage: do not move to a different partner over a disagreement on onions. You'll be moving a lot.
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by easywood 4y ago
Awesome, a real world example of the phonograph-destroying record from the book "Gödel, Escher, Bach" ! What a time to be alive! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach
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by easywood 4y ago
After clickbait headlines, now readbait articles.
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by easywood 4y ago
Keep it simple. My inbox only contains mails that require an action at some time. If I have done this action, I immediately archive the mail. I often mail todo's to myself so I have only one place for todo's. If I have to do somet
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by easywood 4y ago
It smells terrible!
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by easywood 4y ago
You mean printers, right? Everything about them?
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by easywood 4y ago
It's a euphemism for suicide.
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Could We Run Modern Society on Human Power Alone? (2017)(lowtechmagazine.com)
2 points by easywood 4y ago|2 comments
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by easywood 4y ago
I also wondered what databases this tools supported. Java or JDBC is not mentioned in a place I could find. A shame, really. I understand developers prefer development over documentation, but this is underselling it a bit.
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by easywood 5y ago
”Putin is not afraid to use nukes so just attack him already, what are you waiting for?” To me this proves that a grandmaster in chess is not by default a grandmaster in strategy.
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by easywood 5y ago
>> Software used to not hide all the options to "protect me from myself". I agree this is not for for us power users. However - ten years ago I was the free pc support for extended family and distant friends. Constantly remo
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by easywood 5y ago
>> You can have 5 rocks destroyed in the future You have 5 rocks now, and zero rocks in the future. At no point are there negative rock-shaped holes in the fabric of space. The parent's comment still stands, he is talking about r
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by easywood 5y ago
* :-)
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Art MACHINE: Put in text, get AI art(colab.research.google.com)
6 points by easywood 5y ago|0 comments
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by easywood 5y ago
I remember a scientific book that said: "we will never know if exoplanets exist because they are simply too far away to see them". So be careful what you write.
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by easywood 5y ago
Would someone care to write an ELI5 about this? It sounds revolutionary but I just can't get my head around what he's actually saying.
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by easywood 6y ago
Seriously, who is writing these articles? I've seen this kind of thing come and go since the last 20 years. But this time it's different! No it is'nt. Users are now eMp0wErEd! You give 'em this drag and drop interface a
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by easywood 6y ago
DAMMIT IT WORKS!!! Just found David's song from the Kelly family. In my memory I always though it was an Asian song or something :-) Now this is the kind of progress I like to see in technology. It's about time I'm getting so