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by gerikson 9mo ago
Disregard sibling comment From the about page > The quickest way to receive an invitation is to talk to someone you recognize from the site. If you wrote a link that was posted, please reach out in chat, we'd love to have you join t
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by gerikson 9mo ago
I had a burst of interest in Gemini when it was "cool", but ultimately HTML scratches my publishing itch. The Lagrange browser is an impressive piece of software. Recommended.
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by gerikson 9mo ago
The HN de-sensationalize algo for submission titles needs tweaking. Original title is simply "Huge Binaries".
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by gerikson 10mo ago
Since the start, each problem has 2 parts (2 "stars"). Part one sets up the problem, ensures you have parsed the input correctly, etc. After submitting the correct answer to that part, part 2 is revealed, which sometimes expands t
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by gerikson 10mo ago
I'm a member of the site since 2017, read almost every comment (it's not that much), and have a habit of saving "spicy" threads before mods arrive. So there's a pretty good chance I can recover more background than
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by gerikson 10mo ago
If enough inputs are available online, someone can presumably collect them and clone the entire project without having access to the puzzle input generation code, which is the "secret sauce" of the project.
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by gerikson 10mo ago
It's easy to state this, almost as easy as to find a specific entry in the modlog proving it. If you want, I can do the grunt work if you cite a specific username.
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Perl's Decline Was Cultural(beatworm.co.uk)
11 points by gerikson 11mo ago|6 comments
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by gerikson 11mo ago
It's the first time I've heard of it, and I consider myself pretty plugged in when it comes to watch news.
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by gerikson 1y ago
In the last Herbert Dune book, Chapterhouse , Arrakis is destroyed to eliminate the source of spice, but at least one worm is transported to another planet to begin to turn that into desert, thus ensuring a continued supply.
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by gerikson 1y ago
When you have a yearly prize, you're bound to get off-years. Maybe the Nobels should be structured to only be given out every 4 years, like the Olympics. But that would be a huge blow to the Stockholm hospitality business.
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by gerikson 1y ago
Surely it's not the subscribers facing the wave, but Disney as a company?
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by gerikson 1y ago
In my experience, Brits refer to their time as "GMT" whether or not DST is in effect.
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by gerikson 1y ago
This is impressive work!
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by gerikson 1y ago
So does a large part of Western Africa.
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by gerikson 1y ago
And indeed, the KSA rep has opposed it: https://slate.com/technology/2012/08/icann-top-level-domain-...
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by gerikson 1y ago
.islam is proposed but contested: https://icannwiki.org/.islam
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by gerikson 1y ago
> The Ismaili Imamat is a supra-national entity, representing the succession of Imams since the time of the Prophet Muhammad. ( https://ismaili.imamat/#introduction ) The Aga Khan is the leader of the Ismaili Imamat. They
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by gerikson 1y ago
I see a few of these here in the greater Stockholm area. I believe most are bought by tradespeople - they need the power to haul stuff and can expense the fuel costs to a degree. Most trades drive panel vans though, which seem to be much mo
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by gerikson 1y ago
Thanks a lot for this link. The followup article < https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/japans-surren... > mentions that while the Soviet Union didn't pose much threat to the home islands, it wo
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by gerikson 1y ago
The US had already firebombed many Japanese cities with conventional weapons, causing death and destruction on the scale of Hiroshima https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo_(10_March_194... Using the atom bomb
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by gerikson 1y ago
Can't wait, but the acturial tables tell me I will dead by then.
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by gerikson 1y ago
When we were looking at used BEVs here in Sweden the salespeople joked(?) that customers were questioning why they even stocked used Teslas.
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by gerikson 1y ago
> Okay, apparently the stddata addition is causing havoc (who knew how many scripts just haphazardly hand programs random file descriptors, that's surely not a problem.) I knew, and I've known since reading the "C shell co
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by gerikson 1y ago
It's got what plants crave.
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by gerikson 1y ago
Heh! I recognized the robots as being originally made by Kuka, because those were the ones used at my last job.
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by gerikson 1y ago
Sterling's Heavy Weather haunts me to this day.
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by gerikson 1y ago
I think this is a fair analysis, but for me the pleasure of reading Gibson has basically always been the use of language and jargon. Yes, Virtual Light is a stupid caper story but both Chevette and Berry are great characters, hard-luck pr
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by gerikson 1y ago
"Brunnsmiljö" refers to "area with baths" (i.e. the old fashioned spa kind). The symbols under refer to restaurant, hotel, and camping cottages.
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by gerikson 1y ago
When travelling by air it's nice to have a bunch of feeds to read.

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