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by gerikson 3y ago
Nah, it's 10K items spread over 45 files, 7.5M in total, and the blog engine generates monthly pages etc. Note that I've not bothered with any optimization, I re-render all content after adding one new item. But I agree MD isn&#x2
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by gerikson 3y ago
This is the first time I've heard of Creole (I've been authoring in Markdown since 2004).
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by gerikson 3y ago
I have a blog focussed on small entries (tweet length) consisting of Markdown in a fortune file format, that renders +10k items in about 5 seconds. Using Perl. Parsing Markdown is fast enough.
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by gerikson 3y ago
Some say trying to compete with it bankrupted the Soviet Union.
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by gerikson 3y ago
Bring back Star Wars, all is forgiven.
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by gerikson 3y ago
Note that the person you're replying to is the PyPi maintainer responsible for removing GPG from PyPi. The rationale is expanded here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36050190
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by gerikson 3y ago
It's also a convention in GNU Info.
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by gerikson 3y ago
He also used as 12mm lens to compensate a little for the 5.5x crop factor, and the one he used costs around $400 used. It's also really slow at f/5.6.
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by gerikson 3y ago
I have read that some people wanted to keep an eye on the shoulder of the road.
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by gerikson 3y ago
First link: > This article was sponsored by Converso.
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by gerikson 3y ago
Are university results covered by copyright in the US?
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by gerikson 3y ago
I got the feeling that spelling bees are huge in France, at least in the late 80s when I was an exchange student.
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by gerikson 3y ago
“We will bomb the enemy into submission” has been tried in the UK, Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and Vietnam and has never really worked. The civilian population does not blame its leaders, it blames the enemy. And nightly reports of destro
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by gerikson 3y ago
This outlet seems pretty Putin-friendly: https://covertactionmagazine.com/category/ukraine/
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by gerikson 3y ago
Ukraine liberating Crimea, while a stretch goal, is more likely than Russia defeating Ukraine.
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by gerikson 3y ago
Multiple things: * disabling Nord Stream I gets Gazprom off the hook for failing to deliver gas to customers in Europe through force majeure * Leaving one pipeline of Nord Stream II intact left a door open for Germany to get gas in exchange
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by gerikson 3y ago
This has been my position for a long time.
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by gerikson 4y ago
My reading of British popular culture is that having an elite disdain for maths and engineering is not disqualifying. The engineer, while appreciated, is not admired in Britain.
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by gerikson 4y ago
Deep geological time is hard to get your head around. 34M years ago is basically an eyeblink in deep time.
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by gerikson 4y ago
He's an author. This is his way of making money.
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by gerikson 4y ago
I've read it, can recommend. Also "Dark Star Express" about his rail/road travels in Africa, 30 yrs after his experience as a Peace Corps volunteer.
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by gerikson 4y ago
Can recommend author Dalrymple's books about the East India Company and the first Anglo-Afghan war.
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by gerikson 4y ago
It should be possible to derive the algorithm using an LLM given that timestamps, number of comments etc are available using the API.
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by gerikson 4y ago
This isn't the first time a company tries to import US norms about employment into Swedish labor relations.
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by gerikson 4y ago
Well it won't be derived from a medieval measure like "square mile".
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by gerikson 4y ago
It's the old "Mark of the beast" trope.
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by gerikson 4y ago
> A religion is arguably when you refuse to engage with other people's arguments I've never heard of that definition.
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by gerikson 4y ago
I'm convinced religious beliefs/feelings are an unavoidable emergent property of human minds.
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by gerikson 4y ago
Same in Sweden :D
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by gerikson 4y ago
Please don't show vore on HN.

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