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by inetsee 6y ago
As an aside, I believe "foobar" is a sanitization of "fubar", which is an unofficial military acronym for "f*ucked up beyond all recognition". If you're interested in the history of fubar, a search of &quo
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by inetsee 6y ago
When I first saw this I was somewhat confused. I was wondering whether Slate Star Codex was back, but I hadn't seen any announcement. When I scrolled down to the bottom I saw that this post was from May 28, 2020. So Slate Star Codex is
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by inetsee 6y ago
There is a hearing aid app called Fennex that seems to be very highly rated. It works with any IPhone running iOS 11 or later (thus less expensive IPhones) and works with any Bluetooth earbuds, not necessarily the AirPods Pro (thus less exp
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Reflecting on Teaching Computational Thinking/Computer Science to Grad Students(geraldardito.org)
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‘We Blew It.’ Douglas Rushkoff’s Take on the Future of the Web(coindesk.com)
21 points by inetsee 6y ago|6 comments
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by inetsee 6y ago
>> “if the system is designed to keep out external viewers of the content, then it is illegal” Does that mean that GEO-restricting content will be made illegal?
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by inetsee 6y ago
A position with a defense contractor that requires a special-access clearance can pay very well. The problem is that you very often need to have the clearance to get the job. Getting a special-access clearance for an employee can take six m
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by inetsee 6y ago
A quick search leads me to believe that the majority of people use their smartphones as phones; they make calls, they send text messages, they may use apps to buy movie tickets, check their mail, play games. Most of these uses don't re
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by inetsee 6y ago
I would have hated being in that bus driving towards the crash site. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sUWC2jfjqI
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by inetsee 6y ago
I once bought a Kindle version of a book that was originally published before Kindle existed, and the publisher never produced an ebook version. I bought the Kindle version because the print version was very hard to find, and the copies ava
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by inetsee 6y ago
The promise of "The Silver Bullet". You'll find an article that will tell you how to be more creative, more productive, happier. You'll create the next unicorn business, get filthy, stinking rich, and have everyone wanti
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by inetsee 6y ago
I believe it's because the Broadcom System-on-a-Chip (SOC) that the Raspberry Pi uses has one or more binary BLOBS that are required to access features on the SOC. RISC-V is an open standard; chips made based on this standard are open
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by inetsee 6y ago
I have always thought that diet and exercise are both needed. If you can cut your caloric intake by 250 calories a day, and increase your aerobic exercise to burn 250 more calories a day, you should be able to lose a pound a week, without g
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by inetsee 6y ago
"This demo (talktotransformer) is turned off for the moment." It appears to have been replaced by https://inferkit.com/ . I don't know how the usage limits for inferkit compare to talktotransformer. The prici
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by inetsee 6y ago
I'm running Firefox 79.0 and Chromium Version 83.0.4103.61 (Official Build) Built on Ubuntu , running on Ubuntu 18.04 (64-bit).
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by inetsee 6y ago
The video at the bottom isn't working for me in Firefox. It does work in Chromium, and it is quite pretty.
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by inetsee 6y ago
Ebooks available on IRC are often compressed as RAR files. More often lately Epub books are not being compressed since Epub files are already compressed, and compressing them again as RAR files doesn't really gain you anything.
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by inetsee 6y ago
I was going through some old bookmarks and I came across this. It's a collection of online interpreters for an impressive set of programming languages. The website says that there are "260 practical and 420 recreational programmin
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Try It Online(tio.run)
4 points by inetsee 6y ago|1 comments
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by inetsee 6y ago
There have been several articles linked on HN recently saying that Scots Gaelic (which is different from Scots), is in danger of dying out. This young man seems to have put in an enormous amount of effort into adding articles to Wikipedia.
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by inetsee 6y ago
The linked page doesn't actually say that Linux is no longer supported. You need to go to the Previewer Product page https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000765... then scroll down to the Syst
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by inetsee 6y ago
Missing a last name: "Anatomy of Lisp by John Allen".
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by inetsee 6y ago
>>> "... Farnam Street’s tips on remembering what you read. ... writing your notes on the book itself ..." Almost all of what I read is not on paper. If I'm reading something that I'm serious about remembering,
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by inetsee 6y ago
If you're seriously concerned about the security of the information on your phone, you could look at the NSA's Security Configuration recommendations. [1] These recommendations are intended for "Apple iOS 5 Devices", and
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by inetsee 6y ago
The very first paragraph lists one of the features as "direct integration to the IDE so software developers can talk and collaborate in real-time". It doesn't sound to me as if it's aiming to support "100+ concurren
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by inetsee 6y ago
The billable hour is not actually an hour; it's more fine-grained than that [1]. It may vary from one jurisdiction to another, but the example I found uses 0.1 hour as the increment. The result is that it's possible for a lawyer t
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Love After Life: Richard Feynman’s Letter to His Departed Wife (2017)(brainpickings.org)
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by inetsee 6y ago
I can honestly say that this is the most unusual article I have ever seen on Hacker News.
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by inetsee 6y ago
Hydrogen software drum machine https://sourceforge.net/projects/hydrogen/ for those of us who don't have an extra $3000+ lying around.
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by inetsee 6y ago
The subject's actual webpage is here https://theotherlifenow.com/tag/jumping-ship/ Thank you otoburb for this link. Third paragraph down in the first section lists "University of Southampton".

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