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   by gerikson 4y ago

   In about 13 hours at time of writing, so today in most US timezones.
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   by gerikson 4y ago

   Thereby potentially irradiating the water supply to Crimea? Sure, why not.
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   by gerikson 4y ago

   I too can recommend A Place of Greater Safety. Really brings the French Revolution to life.
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   by gerikson 4y ago

   Fussell references the belief among GIs that the Germans had better kit. It's one thing to objectively assess this after the fact, it's quite another to get hit by an 88mm in Normandy and not see the Hurricane obliterate it. The
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   by gerikson 4y ago

   I think Fussel had a point in 1989, but after that there's been plenty of depictions of war that have been less sanitized. "The Pacific" comes to mind in TV, and "Fury" in movies, even if it's very formulaic. M
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   by gerikson 4y ago

   This is less a complaint about LaTeX and more a complaint about tooling.
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   by gerikson 4y ago

   https://lobste.rs/about covers what's on topic The moderation log is public: https://lobste.rs/moderations?moderator=%28All%29&what%5Bsto...
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   by gerikson 4y ago

   Original post is discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33138744
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   by gerikson 4y ago

   To be fair, while it's a bonkers idea, the plan would be to divert water from the Old River Control Structure to lessen the flow of water down the Achafalaya. This issue is further upstream.
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    by gerikson 4y ago

    Putin using nukes is a sign of weakness and he knows it.
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    by gerikson 4y ago

    Russian forces are a paper tiger (now). Also we're soon going to be a part of NATO along with Finland. The Baltic will be a NATO lake.
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    by gerikson 4y ago

    Absolute tautology corrupts absolutely.
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    by gerikson 4y ago

    I'm in Sweden and used to worry (and train to resist) a Soviet/Russian air and sea assault on Gotland. I'm a lot less worried now.
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    by gerikson 4y ago

    They're 7 months, +6,000 deaths, 2 NATO membership applications and 2,000 tanks outdated.
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    by gerikson 4y ago

    Do you think the Russian armed forces can redeploy from Ukraine (while holding onto their invasion gains there) and launch a successful attack against NATO members?
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    by gerikson 4y ago

    How does that work in for example the US? The Texas grid is separate from the rest of the continent, no?
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    by gerikson 4y ago

    Sweden is not on the same power network as most of the rest of Europe. It's a factor in the recent price spike - Swedish companies are selling surplus power to Europe at the prices these are prepared to pay.
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    by gerikson 4y ago

    The government announced a combination of tax cuts and deficit spending, and the global bond market decided there's a large risk the UK won't be able to service the debt it will be incurring.
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    by gerikson 4y ago

    The Swatch home page still shows beats (upper left) https://www.swatch.com/en-us/homepage I implemented it in Javascript for this page https://gerikson.com/cgi-bin/eternal.cgi [1], but it's o
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    by gerikson 4y ago

    Just like the folk memory of Thatcher is Falklands, miner's strike and neoliberalism, Truss seems to believe that's the substance, not a caricature.
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    by gerikson 4y ago

    Poundland Thatcher.
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    by gerikson 4y ago

    > When I think of a planet, I think of a world that has active geology Wouldn't that definition rule out gas giants?
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    by gerikson 4y ago

    Frankly I'm surprised a company like this hasn't been created yet.
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    by gerikson 4y ago

    Thank you!
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    Japan Won Its ‘Traffic War’(bloomberg.com)

    6 points by gerikson 4y ago|1 comments
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    by gerikson 4y ago

    Previous discussion (341 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20513987
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    by gerikson 4y ago

    Does anyone have a link to the suit itself ?
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    by gerikson 4y ago

    Here is Microsoft's interim guidance for the change < https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/daylight-saving-time-... > In my experience MSFT does a stellar job within the limits of what's possible to acc
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    by gerikson 4y ago

    Thanks, maybe I'll try to put one together!
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    by gerikson 4y ago

    In my previous job we had to deal with sudden DST changes in Jordan, Russia, Turkey... it's amazing politicians don't realize what a big deal sudden changes can be. Edit it appears the switch was delayed due to the constitutiona