gerikson

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   by gerikson 6y ago

   Why not derive UTC from TAI (via a table of leap seconds)? Then apply the TZ rules to DST to arrive at local time.
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   by gerikson 6y ago

   Russia decided to just stay on DST with 6 weeks notice a few years ago, thereby instantly creating half a dozen new timezones. And now they're discussing going back to normal time/DST...
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   by gerikson 6y ago

   I would be surprised if Orwell had read much Wodehouse, but I must admit I have no idea of his wider reading habits.
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   The Art of Empire: Great Britain’s Victorian War Artist(thestrategybridge.org)

   1 points by gerikson 6y ago|0 comments
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   by gerikson 6y ago

   When was this press conference?
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   by gerikson 6y ago

   > Pope Clement VII was so influential that King Henry VIII had to leave the church and invent in Anglicanism just to escape. This is so amazingly reductive I can't take anything else in the post seriously.
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   by gerikson 6y ago

   "I'm looking at my sympathy-o-meter and the needle's barely moving".
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   by gerikson 6y ago

   Applying palliative care on the recommendation of Socialstyrelsen is not euthanasia.
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   by gerikson 6y ago

   The intent was to give palliative care, not literally murder people . Although this source does sound the alarm that the line is thin. In essence, palliative care for cancer does not translate into the same effect with COVID-19. https:&#x2
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    by gerikson 6y ago

    > This was partly due to some very controversial and in my opinion unethical guidelines which mandated morphing instead of oxygen for certain groups of elderly (i.e. involuntary euthanasia) This is an extremely serious accusation. I live
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    by gerikson 6y ago

    What kind of service is Sandstorm? I'd like to know more but the term is too broad to search for, I need more keywords.
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    by gerikson 6y ago

    "A Deepness..." also used SI multiples of seconds to denote something approximating 24 hours, a week, a month etc.
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    by gerikson 6y ago

    Gene Wolfe (the SF author) helped develop the machine to make them. > I was in the engineering development division, and asked to develop mass production equipment to make these chips. And we divided the task into the dough making/d
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    by gerikson 6y ago

    My favorite Knuth quote is from his FAQ on being retired[1] > Being a retired professor is a lot like being an ordinary professor, except that you don't have to write research proposals, administer grants, or sit in committee meetin
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    by gerikson 6y ago

    I really liked Palatino as an alternative to CM in uni for LaTeX templates.
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    by gerikson 6y ago

    Thanks for sharing these! This is my page with my lenses, it includes links to the relevant Flickr pages for most of the lenses: http://gerikson.com/blog/photo/Lens-list.html
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    by gerikson 6y ago

    I tend to shoot at f/5.6 unless the light is low.
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    by gerikson 6y ago

    On this new Omega Constellation, just as a random example https://www.omegawatches.com/watch-omega-constellation-omega...
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    by gerikson 6y ago

    I'm confused. Bokeh refers to the quality of the blur. Applying a filter to an originally sharp background (because of a deep depth of field) can absolutely simulate bokeh. It may be bad bokeh, but then plenty of lenses have bad out of
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    by gerikson 6y ago

    The US dollar was designed to be subdivided into cents (hundreds) and mills (thousands). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mill_(currency)#Usage
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    by gerikson 6y ago

    Metric inches or survey inches? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_(unit)#International_foot )
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    by gerikson 6y ago

    Thanks for this information! I don't live in the US myself.
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    by gerikson 6y ago

    Assuming there are any domestic manufacturers of plywood left. According to this first-hit google result, in 2017 82% of world plywood production was in Asia https://www.wbpionline.com/features/global-plywood-industry-.
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    by gerikson 6y ago

    For English readers, the Wikipedia page for the Vipeholm experiments is a good summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vipeholm_experiments
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    by gerikson 6y ago

    > Training -- Schools should be covering the training problem in this PDF, and i think that would help a lot. This just raises a chicken-and-egg problem: why should schools (primary, secondary or tertiary) teach a language that is not &q
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    by gerikson 6y ago

    True. People I correspond with in the UK have the tendency to just say "1PM GMT" all year round, and I have to infer they're actually referring to "whatever the local time is in the UK at the moment", not specifical
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    by gerikson 6y ago

    Iceland is on GMT/Western European Time, which is a civil timezone that would allow the implementation of a future DST. It just happens to be +00:00 to UTC all year right now. Iceland had DST in the 1960s.
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    by gerikson 6y ago

    Who lives in UTC?
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    by gerikson 6y ago

    Also the security of the Doors of Durin was basically plaintext.
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    by gerikson 6y ago

    No, it’s all automated. The open source world knows of TeX but there’s a plethora of proprietary justification algorithms used in commercial typesetting.