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by hjek 8y ago
> Spreadsheets in the terminal: Totally doable. I disagree. I find vim, mutt and pandoc superior to LO Writer and Thundrbird for text editing and emailing, but sc is just nowhere near LO Calc or even Gnumeric. I really wish someone would
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by hjek 8y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17700590
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by hjek 8y ago
Back when I was eating meat, I was probably still aware that it was harmful, but in a kind of cynical denial about it. I've heard that one about "the annual crops" before, and it's simply not true that it's "th
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by hjek 8y ago
Good idea. I don't really know anything that isn't already out there, but still happy to talk to any journalists/NGOs/regulators about it. I have been going on about this to a journalist friend of mine who's works a
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by hjek 8y ago
Animal husbandry has a large negative impact on the environment. After this DOW Grassland app I felt I needed to take a look at the environmental destruction I'm contributing to.
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by hjek 8y ago
Worked for a company that was contracted by DOW to make an app promoting some extremely toxic agrochemicals, such as Forefront. They talked about this being so poisonious that if animals eat grass sprayed with it, then crops grown with thei
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by hjek 8y ago
Could have created another problem though. Plenty of flat-eathers[0] out there. [0]: https://theflatearthsociety.org/home/index.php/about-the-soc...
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by hjek 8y ago
Interesting. Never seen that it action yet. Sounds like there's some wiggle room, e.g. for carnival masks for entertainment purposes.
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by hjek 8y ago
Yes, sometimes explanations and reasonable arguments can just derail conversations completely. For preventing that, I find David Burns' disarming technique[0] really useful. It is about "finding truth in what the other person is s
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by hjek 8y ago
> For example, you can imagine that kids in school will be able to fully immerse themselves into education scenarios (like being on a farm) through virtual or augmented tech. I agree. We do really need to teach children farming is like,
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by hjek 8y ago
They're not illegal in the UK.
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by hjek 8y ago
First public release of Arc came not long after Clojure. Clojure is definitely better thought out as a language, and while Arc has some interesting ideas around web development, it also doesn't have a module system, so everything is ju
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by hjek 8y ago
For the last few years most of the work has been happing in the LibreOffice fork. If OO crashes on you, try LO. https://lwn.net/Articles/699755/
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by hjek 8y ago
> [Warning: Auto-playing Music] https://mebious.neocities.org/Layer/Wierd.html While it looks like Neocities doesn't suffer from this reverse chronological bias mentioned in the article, the page you linked t
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by hjek 8y ago
> The backgrounds were grey. The font, Times New Roman. Links could be any color as long as it was medium blue. The cool kids didn’t have parallax scrolling… but they did have horizontal rule GIFs. That's exactly what the web looks
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by hjek 8y ago
Thanks for taking the time to look that up. So their bot is only for instant answers, and DDG is really just a metasearch engine? I'm a bit disappointed by that. Might as well change to Searx then. It's also "just" a met
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Scid vs. PC (Chess Database)(scidvspc.sourceforge.net)
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by hjek 8y ago
Do you have a source for that? DDG has their own cralwer[1], so it would appear it also gets its own search results, even if may get some search results from other search engines. [1]: https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckbot
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by hjek 8y ago
Great news. Let's hope the rest of the world catches up. Would be better if the ban included plastic straws, too.
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by hjek 8y ago
Maybe this from gcide is more appropriate: > From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: > [...] > 4. A member of a group of either sex, usually a friend or comrade; -- usually used in the pl.; as, te
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by hjek 8y ago
Thought intentional feature (as FF video playback usually doesn't behave that way, I think). Strange. Will file a bug, yes.
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by hjek 8y ago
I think some people sometimes use guy in the more casual non-gender-specific way, myself included. Maybe it's a cultural or regional thing? And I guess it could be said that using guy is assuming the gender of someone, but one the
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by hjek 8y ago
> Definition of guy > 1 a : man, fellow > b : person —used in plural to refer to the members of a group regardless of sex > saw her and the rest of the guys From https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary&#x2F
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by hjek 8y ago
All the Rich Hickey talks are there. Great! A bit annoying that the video automatically pauses when the tab looses focus.
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by hjek 8y ago
Looking at a site like this makes me appreciate a language like Clojure more. I was quite surprised a while ago when I learned that `sort` in Common Lisp can mutate somehow randomly. > The sorting operation can be destructive in all case
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by hjek 8y ago
Eating animals.
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by hjek 8y ago
It answered my question 99.7% correctly! > Question: How many hours in a day? > Aristo's Answer: 23 and 56 minutes ( or maybe its 58 minutes) > Confidence: 57.70%
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by hjek 8y ago
Avast released RetDec as free software not long ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15912595
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by hjek 8y ago
Yes, they do. Well, I'd expect possibly not being able to sign up or donate or something, but not being able to read text I find a bit extreme, as if they've gone out of their way to actively break their web page when run w&#x2F
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by hjek 8y ago
What's up with Indiegogo just showing nothing unless you have JavaScript enabled?

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