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by gniv 3y ago
That page has been there forever. Here's the version from Dec 2000: https://web.archive.org/web/20001202041000/https://www.googl...
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by gniv 3y ago
The example works on my MacBook if I replace gunzip with funzip. Also, I like to see the value. So: curl -s https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/eurofxref/eurofxref-hist.zip | funzip | sqlite3 -csv ':memory:&#
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by gniv 3y ago
I don't know anything about them as a corporate citizen, but out of the (many) supermarket chains here in France I like them the best. They are not the cheapest, but the quality/price ratio is usually correct and the store branded
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by gniv 3y ago
How's the health of the battery? Mine is at 96%. I blame my car, since to get CarPlay I have to plug it in and it charges perforce.
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by gniv 3y ago
While "do not buy" is too strong, I would agree that the Pro seems like a better deal than in other years. This is probably on purpose, a way to nudge people to buy the Pro, which I'm sure has bigger margins. (I still wouldn&
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by gniv 3y ago
Thanks for clarifying. That is indeed surprising and you are probably right.
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I suspect it's the other way around. Google just has a very good IP geolocation db, so it uses that when you browse, absent any other info.
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This is quite interesting: "Your ability to manipulate a phone is based primarily on its mass, but also on its moment of inertia. And since the reduction in mass when switching from stainless steel to titanium is occurring almost entir
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by gniv 3y ago
I'm curious how much early comments influence the rise of a post. Do folks look for items with comments when they browse /newest?
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by gniv 3y ago
Here in France the larger Carrefour stores have another system in addition to the usual self-checkouts. You can grab a scanner at the entrance and scan each item as you take it from the shelf. At the checkout they check a few random items a
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by gniv 3y ago
This is great as a technical approach, but I would argue that sometimes it's not the right way. Debugging a difficult bug alone takes a lot of time and can be frustrating, especially if you're not familiar with the code base. I fo
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by gniv 3y ago
Interesting question, but the article doesn’t really answer it. It talks about how long they are supposed to last and about failures, but I didn’t see statistics on the time to failure of actual installations, compared to expectations.
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by gniv 3y ago
> There's nothing we can do, short of war, to force other countries to stop releasing CO2 That's a good point that is not mentioned enough in these discussions. Basically, we cannot stop other countries from releasing CO2, but
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by gniv 3y ago
That page doesn't render correctly the intricate visuals of the original (which, btw, works for me without a subscription).
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by gniv 3y ago
There's nothing really new in this article. These companies hire H1B's all the time. There is no evidence that they are low paid. I was an H1B at [FAANG] and I had a bigger salary and more stock options than most of my teammates (
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by gniv 3y ago
I thought this too until I saw how even popular shows can be manipulated. The TV show "King the Land" is a Korean drama that aired on cable in Korea this summer and was released at the same time on Netflix worldwide. It was very p
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by gniv 3y ago
> This quote puts it quite succinctly: “Do people confuse motor oil, olive oil and jojoba oil? I think not. No more than they confuse vegan steak from beef steak.” I've met people here in France who did not know what "vegan&quo
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by gniv 3y ago
Try using the Verbatim option in the Tools menu.
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Oh, I see it now -- sometimes it's there, but for a lot of places I cannot even lift the drawer, probably because there is no data other than category, like "Cafe". So I cannot edit.
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by gniv 3y ago
You can ask a few friends to report it as well. I suspect Google looks at how many reports are made for a feature.
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by gniv 3y ago
> I did fix it but I will not report about the error to Google Why not? That seems like a weird stance. Is your desire to hurt Google so strong that you are not willing to help potentially thousands of people?
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by gniv 3y ago
There is no UI for opening hours in Organic Maps afaict. I think that's part of the complaint.
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> with a small minority of surnames being two characters I was confused for a long time when I saw the name of Namkoong Min, I thought they wrote it reversed for some reason. Now that he's in the news again, I realized Namkoong 남궁 i
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by gniv 3y ago
I'm not sure that helps. I suspect -- but I would really like to know -- that the sources of microplastics are non-obvious. I've heard of cosmetics, textiles, tea bags, foams as the most likely culprits, rather than plastic contai
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by gniv 3y ago
Sigh, "The uploader has not made this video available in your country" (France)
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This was a better article than I expected. Interesting insight towards the end: "Experts have coined the term "ambisumer," a shortened term for ambivalent consumer, to describe the consumer trend currently unfolding. This tre
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by gniv 3y ago
This looks like a thorough treatment of the subject. But my intuition is that B-trees are better than BSTs in almost every context. A good B-tree implementation is more cache-friendly, so faster to insert, delete, traverse. In my previous j
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We’re splitting hairs now. Let me rephrase again. There was a period when Rome was ridiculously wealthy (gold from Spain etc). It was a time when science could have advanced rapidly but didn’t. My point was that a few “great men” there migh
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Yes, of course. What I meant was we could have had all the stuff that lead to Galileo before the great reset that was the fall of Rome, so maybe civilization would have been ahead a few hundred years.
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> The much more parsimonious explanation is that “great men” were in the right place at the right time to apply their (undisputed!) talents. But isn’t this part of the point? How many times did we not get the right person in the right

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