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by jbj 6y ago
my big issue with invisible scrollbars are particularly when they dont appear in small boxes and I dont realize I am passing a scrollable area
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by jbj 6y ago
my birthday is at the end of the month, during a processing of a document for my US visa 10+ years ago, I was dealing with 2 different sites, one accomodating my local date formatting, and one fixed for the US standard. I was puzzled that I
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by jbj 6y ago
His second anecdote; after drinking too much soda pop, being distracted by looking for a bathroom.
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by jbj 6y ago
These captchas must be contributing to the technological divide; If I am met with an endless loop identifying busses and fire hydrants, I know the only solution to prove I am not a robot is to change my internet connection (ie. by vpn) I ca
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by jbj 6y ago
Talking about the sun ... We got a variant of those credit card sized NFC cards to check in to public transit, the issuer decided that they should have an expiry date. From what I remember reading in local tech news, the logic was that peop
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by jbj 6y ago
Made me think of a time I didnt do adequate research before buying an expensive flight ticket: I was in Changi Airport and had a cheap return ticket to Malaysia, when I got back I was going to travel in the east coast of Australia for a few
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by jbj 6y ago
For me it was using Yandex in Denmark
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by jbj 6y ago
One thing that always puzzled me about telegram was seeing maps being loaded from yandex when sharing locations with friends
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by jbj 6y ago
Now I don't know how these legal structures work. For what it is worth, it looks to me as if Singularity University transitioned from being a non-profit to being a "for benefit corporation". I also have no idea what that mea
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by jbj 6y ago
One of the points of Signal is that the app is owned by a non profit and not a company. I highly do pressume that it means that it can't be sold to the highest bidder.
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by jbj 6y ago
Some of my lecturers throughout Uni, always glanced across the entire auditorium to see if anyone needed clarity of what was said before switching slide/erasing the blackboard. Having those extra seconds after something has been said,
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by jbj 6y ago
The vertical scaling of the counting function with log(p) went a little quick, does someone know an easy to digest resource to this? also what would be the logic for now including the p^n of primes, p ??
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by jbj 6y ago
there is also a plan for an artificial island: https://energinet.dk/Om-nyheder/Nyheder/2017/04/25/Kampe-kun...
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by jbj 6y ago
Researchers also trippled the speed of optimists by making a foiling version: https://www.chalmers.se/en/news/Pages/The-optimist-dinghy-pr...
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by jbj 6y ago
introductory short video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=VQUl_hf6yo8
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New competitive sailboats foil at 50kts (90kph+)(sail-world.com)
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by jbj 6y ago
Absolutely, I have used pebble time round since it came out, no button issues
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by jbj 6y ago
After using a pebble time round since it came on the market, I really value the 4 physical buttons (back) on the left vs (up/select/down) on the right. I have never used a watch with a touch screen function, but I read oppinions o
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by jbj 6y ago
That was alledgedly how the Technical University of Denmark was started by Hans Christian Ørsted after he praised government officials of "their" idea of a polytechnical learning institution.
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by jbj 6y ago
one month ago, I set up nextcloud on a rasperry pi with snap. It required very little work to get going, and most services are pretty decent. The only thing in the pack that I didnt like that much was the document editor, where letters appe
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by jbj 6y ago
Maybe it is because the website owner has full authority to change anything at their discression, while git packages usually exists in an ecosystem that can be observed and tracked.
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by jbj 6y ago
my ephasis should be that much of "protein folding" is reffering to the final folded conformation and not the biological process of the protein actually folding
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by jbj 6y ago
if they do they probably open up the market to competitors for that subsegment of users
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by jbj 6y ago
the construction project: https://www.ncc.no/vare-prosjekter/undersjoiske-tunneler-far...
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by jbj 6y ago
true, I was just thinking in terms of interpreting the word "fold" in many of the articles currently circulating
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by jbj 6y ago
To avoid a misconception, it is not known how a protein fold (as a verb) what is known, is how the final product is folded. The actual folding process may involve other molecules to assist the biolocical process
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by jbj 6y ago
global power consumption
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by jbj 6y ago
I'd imagine a lot of things can be streamlined from big companies that individual/independant farmers can't keep up with; one thing that came to mind was those big circles visible on aerial photos like those pictured here ht
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by jbj 6y ago
I got a different vibe with the association to a Churchill quote[1] I moved from Ubuntu to Debian a few years back, if I need anything beyond the ordinary I can always set it up manually and I am pretty content with that. [1] https:/&
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by jbj 6y ago
If you sign up for google voice while in US, you can keep on using it while not inside the US. (As far as I know you can only get a US phone number)

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