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by gerikson 7y ago
That was the one! Glad to hear it's still chugging along.
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by gerikson 7y ago
> I feel that the author saying LaTeX is bad because it is (in particular) not based on a GUI/point-and-click system, and preferring Microsoft Equation Editor/Outline to it, reveals a big misunderstanding. He does not prefer ME
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by gerikson 7y ago
Addendum to my previous comment, you can change this behavior with the -s option to `cal`: -s country_code Assume the switch from Julian to Gregorian Calendar at the date associated with the country_code. If not specified, ncal tries to
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by gerikson 7y ago
I’m pretty sure the TZ database takes this from the transition for English-speaking countries: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoption_of_the_Gregorian_ca...
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by gerikson 7y ago
This I did not know, interesting!
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by gerikson 7y ago
In addition, Rolls-Royce cars are made by BMW now, who also make quite good engines.
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Cryptanalysis of the Sarah2 Pen-and-Paper Cipher(robertxiao.ca)
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by gerikson 7y ago
Are you asking HN or Napoleon? Edit for me, the fascination with Rome is almost more what came after it lost its central place in the Empire - the slow decline; the almost complete depopulation in the 500s; the rise of the Church; the pow
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by gerikson 7y ago
The DDR spent considerable resources on internal security. The Stasi museum in Berlin is well worth a visit. After the Helsinki agreement to limit physical abuse, prisoners were subjected to psychological isolation instead. Some Stasi jaile
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by gerikson 7y ago
Thanks for the expansion. I read The Caves of Steel a loooong time ago, and in translation. Elijah and Jezebel - a match made in heaven...
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by gerikson 7y ago
If you choose to name your character Jezebel[1] you might have an ulterior motive... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jezebel#Cultural_symbol EDIT on the other hand, from the same page - > In his two-volume Guide
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by gerikson 7y ago
I enjoy reading older SF too. A lot of SF is responding to older works, expanding or critiquing on their ideas. Without the Foundation series, I doubt there'd be the Culture novels - or at least not in that form.
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by gerikson 7y ago
> SF is rarely character-led and it may be optimistic to expect depth or nuance from it I don't agree with this assessment at all. The best SF I've read has believable characters with real motivations. Off the top of my head: *
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A Cryptoeconomic Traffic Analysis of Bitcoin’s Lightning Network(arxiv.org)
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by gerikson 7y ago
Which version of C?
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by gerikson 7y ago
This article (1st Google hit) suggests they are: https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/car-news/98986/the-global-car-...
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by gerikson 7y ago
That assumes that an EU factory will find economies of scale and efficiencies to counter the higher real wages in EU compared to the US and China. And that Tesla won't simply add those efficiencies to their bottom line.
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by gerikson 7y ago
A Chinese-made Model 3 now costs equv $43K after incentives: https://ww.electrek.co/2020/01/03/teslasmade-in-china-model-...
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by gerikson 7y ago
Sweden had a "letter monopoly" up until 1993 - https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postlagen
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by gerikson 7y ago
Feel free to provide me an email at @gerikson on Twitter (DM) and I will send you an invite!
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by gerikson 7y ago
The same could be said about Vietnam, which makes the situation in Afghanistan all the more depressing.
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by gerikson 7y ago
My only agenda as Ruler of the World is to move the prime meridian to the longitude closest to the population center of the globe, and define one global time off that.
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by gerikson 7y ago
Yes, I use Feedly.
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by gerikson 7y ago
That's a bit impractical for laptop use ;) I no longer live in Emacs like I did for the first half of my previous job, but so far (touch wood!) I have avoided RSI by just remapping Caps Lock to Ctrl.
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by gerikson 7y ago
That’s unfortunate! I’m in the market for a new iPad to replace the one from 2013 I’m using now, and it would be nice to have a full-featured keyboard to use with it.
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by gerikson 7y ago
I always remap Caps Lock to Control on every system I use.
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by gerikson 7y ago
> These peaceful exits were only possible because of the collapse of the USSR! The formal end of the DDR preceded the end of the USSR.
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by gerikson 7y ago
> give an example of a country that hasn't had to use violence to exit a communistic regime DDR, People's Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia... Basically the only country in Europe that didn't exit Communism peacefully was Yu
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by gerikson 7y ago
> Is there any reason you couldn't get someone else to lend you their name so that they act under their real name for you? Surely that'd be an option for risk-averse people. This just pushes the problem up a level. The front-pe
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by gerikson 7y ago
I’m aware of this calendar, but it’s still inspired by old popes: > Since Cotsworth's goal was a simplified, more "rational" calendar for business and industry, he would carry over all the features of the Gregorian calenda

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