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by fernly 7y ago
Pretty much the Schwab One account. I have a checkbook and can write checks against what is basically a brokerage account. (They wouldn't support negative balances, though.) https://www.schwab.com/checking
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by fernly 7y ago
Thank you! I'd never heard of it. And, it's even one of the input formats to PanDoc. Huh.
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by fernly 7y ago
The implementation is clever, but. But. Does it do the one damn thing that no other MarkXXX dialect properly supports: poetry? by which I mean, can you have a text block ("stanza") in which each line is a block that has full forma
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by fernly 7y ago
Oh, puh-leeze! THE book on rebuilding civilization is How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time-Traveler[1] by Ryan North. [1] https://www.amazon.com/How-Invent-Everything-Survival-Strand...
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by fernly 7y ago
No idea if this is nextos's thing, but there's evidence for inflammation as a root cause of depression. cf Bullmore, the Inflamed Mind.
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by fernly 7y ago
For anyone looking for a simple writeup, the Wikipedia topic title is "Batchelor vortexes", and it has not been updated to reflect the papers mentioned here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batchelor_vortex
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by fernly 7y ago
From retrofitting an older building some years ago, I well recall that an ADA compliant ramp has at most a 1:12 pitch (one inch rise per foot) and must provide I forget how many square feet of flat landing outside the door (to allow opening
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by fernly 7y ago
Before anyone says that example (or any of the other fluent but _completely nonsensical_ continuations in the article) shows some sort of "understanding," please explain what you would define as understanding? I would (and I think
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I think he could have wrapped his paper up after showing this one example: > (input) I put two trophies on a table, and then add another, the total number is (GPT-2 continuation) five trophies and I'm like, 'Well, I can live wi
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by fernly 7y ago
Original paper (Abstract): https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8948343 I don't have access to the full paper, but I note this sentence of the abstract: "Simulations show that the device consumes very little
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by fernly 7y ago
Dubious about the "heart attack" diagnosis, at least as the phrase is usually understood. More likely "Sudden Cardiac Arrest"[1]: "In over half of the cases, however, sudden cardiac arrest occurs without prior sympt
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by fernly 7y ago
> Now write a BASIC! No doubt an educational project. However, all the versions of Microsoft 6502 BASIC were collected and annotated by a Michael Steil in 2008. Docs: https://www.pagetable.com/?p=46 Source: https:/
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by fernly 7y ago
Don Lancaster's TTL Cookbook and CMOS Cookbook would be good companions for the Ben Eater series. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0672210355/ref=dbs_a_def_r... https://www.amazon.com/gp
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by fernly 7y ago
That would be https://www.landmarkworldwide.com/ ? I'd never heard of it/them. It asserts "designed to bring about positive, permanent shifts in the quality of your life—in just three days", but you ment
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by fernly 7y ago
System run by a "power Macintosh G4". Not clear when that web page was composed, but G4 was introduced in 1999 and phased out in 2003.
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by fernly 7y ago
Yeah. Near as I can tell, it says "to safely publish something that can be considered illicit, don't put it on the internet." But to the obvious response, "ok, where then?" it doesn't answer, as far as I can te
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by fernly 7y ago
https://www.amazon.com/Ingenious-Language-Nine-Reasons-Greek...
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No more than 1000LY, per this article: http://www.setileague.org/askdr/howfar.htm i.e. 1% the diameter of the Milky Way: https://www.universetoday.com/21998/the-diameter-of-the-milk...
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by fernly 7y ago
Or 7 (is it now?), based on a thread above, organic civilizations become machine civilizations, which can colonize much more efficiently because long journey times don't bother them, and more stealthily because they can make do with co
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by fernly 7y ago
A lot of the regulations that "hamper" U.S.-based fiscal markets provide basic protection against financial mismanagement and corruption. The writer's supposition that relatively unhampered Asian crypto-currency markets would
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by fernly 7y ago
Somewhat relevant, "The Tesla Effect: How Tesla Is Changing the Used Car Game"[1]. People who buy Teslas typically trade in high-end imports, causing a drop in the used-car prices for Audis, Beemers, etc. [1] https://ww
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by fernly 7y ago
Related, recently featured on HN, 7GUIs, seven tasks for a GUI platform, with comparable implementations from many platforms. https://eugenkiss.github.io/7guis/implementations
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by fernly 7y ago
For historical background, read up on Konrad Zuse[1], who built possibly the first programmable digital computer, using relays, the Z3[2], in 1941. (Neither ENIAC nor Colossus were operational for another couple of years.) There is a much l
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by fernly 7y ago
Affinity Photo. https://affinity.serif.com/photo/ OK, not open source! but single-purchase at a reasonable price. Which reduces motivation for an OS replacement.
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What would be useful, and which I don't see in the available abstract, is their measures for determining "frailty". One would like to be able to self-assess frailty, or assess the frailty of an older relative. Or at least, un
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by fernly 7y ago
Wait wait wait. Windscribe, which looks like a heckuva VPN, where does it run? Because we are talking about filtering or blocking the data flow between the TV and the local router, i.e. the connection between the TV and my Comcast router. H
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Yeah, I thought so too. I've been teaching myself Lisp as a side project, working through online tutorials and, more productively, Paul Graham's "ANSI Common Lisp", using SBCL and CLISP in a terminal window. OK, cool, tr
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by fernly 7y ago
Unfortunately that archived link doesn't extend to "page 2". Some more info easily found at cerebras's site, https://www.cerebras.net/cerebras-wafer-scale-engine-why-we-... > a very big chip, with mem
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by fernly 7y ago
That's good. Plug in the battery at the station, "here, jack this." Plug your phone into the output jack of the battery.
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Somewhat more specific info on Wikipedia[1]. Easy prevention is a "USB Condom", a USB cable with the data lines blocked[2][3]. Edit: those devices seem to be only for USB 2 type A connections. Anyone know of other format "con

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