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by emj 2y ago
Last time I tried to parse .docx it was full of opaque binary blobs, it might be a zip but parsing the data is like summoning arcane magic. It might have changed in the last decade, but considering the Microsoft has no incitement to make th
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by emj 2y ago
I wanted concrete examples, I see I could have been clearer on that point but I did not intend malice or to brag. I memorize because of diabetes. You need to know how much sugar you eat so you do volume -> weight * carbs/weight * po
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by emj 2y ago
I do not understand how a voice assistant help with this, it has never worked for me. Seems like pretty hard things to do on the fly with recipes. Weight to volume conversions are rare here but sure I do those on the fly so I guess it makes
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by emj 2y ago
That is probably it, never would have occurred to me. When doing international recipes doing a translation/conversion is not always straight forward. I cook a lot and often it becomes a investigation into the ingredients and what to r
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by emj 2y ago
Because of how infrastructure is built you experience bicycles a lot closer and therefore they might feel more dangerous than cars. When you stop to think of it it is not strange, but when it comes to bicycles there is always someone who fo
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by emj 2y ago
How does one need unit conversion while cooking? Sometimes I need how many grams is 1 dl of flour/oats (60g/35g) but I memorized that the second time, maybe if you are doing larger portions.
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by emj 2y ago
Interestingly pedestrians accidents go down when bike paths were installed on streets in NYC. Bike paths are closer and have less protection for pedestrians than car lanes so it is interesting that bicycles make it so much safer to be a ped
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by emj 2y ago
To be compatible and be able to use all the Pi Hats would be nice but my point is that I am not sure a RP2040 can replace the Pi and be called "compatible". You can do a lot with an MC on the board that is true.
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by emj 2y ago
I am pretty sure RP2040 is not compatible with the Raspberry pi boards, so it will not be enough to replace Raspberry PI.
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by emj 2y ago
In the schematic on Radxas site[1] there is no connection between the RP2040 and the power circuit, I would love to be able to shutdown the Intel chip from the Raspberry Pi microchip. Seems far fetched that it would be hackable if this is n
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by emj 2y ago
I am not a PHP developer, and our php code is all third party apps. Do you have any write ups on PHP tooling? My feeling is that php tooling has a hard time handling stateless images, you often need to install plugins to php applications w
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by emj 2y ago
It is physical and satisfying to work with fabric, I have met a lot of nice people while learning hand weaving. I have not tried stitching but my experience mirrors that of the article, just "the simple things" with twill or sati
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by emj 2y ago
There are now many alternatives, looking at office culture today there is really no need for Windows anymore. Many even do their job a lot better with a tablet and a keyboard. The big problem is IT. Zealots that has to use Microsoft/Li
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by emj 2y ago
That argument can be made everywhere even with perfect public transport. It is usually about choices you have made. Of course in the US it is far too easy to become car dependent. If you wish it, it is most certainly possible but you have p
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by emj 2y ago
If you use your railways for passenger trains it is quite common to reroute the railways around towns to get higher speeds. Which has drawbacks and advantages. As a tourist I do not like it.
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by emj 2y ago
Not all but many of small houses are wood and 50% of the Swedish population lives in these houses[1], some of the bigger houses are wood as well. Construction relies heavily on wood. This was not my experience in many other countries, even
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by emj 2y ago
I've used plenty of java cli tools for batch processes that takes ages to run, having something launch fast or run interactively is a different story. No hate on java the jvm is just not that fast launching.
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by emj 2y ago
Using a linter is a good idea. It's not command substitution but the contentes in $variables will be expanded and splitted so you need to quote them or the newlines will get lost. $ touch asdd $ foo=$(echo -e '\n\nboop\n*dd\
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by emj 2y ago
I think it is great that we have yet another encylopedia, but the bar have to be set higher than Wikipedia to be a serious competition. Bluntly and from experience starting a new encylopedia is hard so lets be honest that is mostly used by
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Cyclists Now Outnumber Motorists in Paris(forbes.com)
9 points by emj 3y ago|1 comments
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by emj 3y ago
That makes the delimiter "," which is ugly so someone is just going to use , instead and you are back to square one.
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by emj 3y ago
Management might have been too interested in features to fix deep technical issues. > I had conversations with that manager where I was told in literally so many words, ‘You’re too idealistic. You don’t care enough about the bottom line.
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by emj 3y ago
I think we all understand why Google might have a need to sign the binaries themselves. The point is that if they are creating binaries it should be signed by Google using a key uploaded by me it is just unnecessary.
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by emj 3y ago
It is often used in swedish technical writing to separate and foreign word or an acronym from the plural so "VPS:es" in english is VPS:erna in swedish. I do not know if this is a swedish tradition, it most probably exists in Germa
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by emj 3y ago
> With Play App Signing, Google manages and protects your app's signing key for you and uses it to sign optimized, distribution APKs that are generated from your app bundles There is no meaning of having a private signing key if i
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by emj 3y ago
We used them for further research or quick look up of facts you should know. That seems to be how people use Wikipedia.
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by emj 3y ago
You are mistaking global for local, and 50 years is too late. I am positive I think some of us will survive.
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Does -1/12 Protect Us From Infinity? [video](youtube.com)
2 points by emj 3y ago|1 comments
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by emj 3y ago
I have a curated list of books from Gutenberg on my phone and read them when I have 20 min to spare. Works really well. Sure I also spend hours just reading every now and then, sure I do not read many books but a lot more than two per vacat
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by emj 3y ago
> Is x,y,z worse than reading books? [..] People fetishise them. If you chose not to read books yes it is worse. There are many books you can read that will give you a massive amount of information about a subject, not only hard facts b

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