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by jfk13 5y ago
> They have honed their craft enough that they only need one practice And how many (unpaid) hours, across how many years, did it take to "hone their craft" to such a degree?
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by jfk13 5y ago
When you think how many of hours of study and rehearsal each of those musicians put into creating the 3 hours you enjoyed, it starts to look even better value.
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by jfk13 5y ago
It's disingenuous, to say the least, to equate Mozilla's telemetry with Google's data gathering to feed its advertising business. These things are vastly different.
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by jfk13 5y ago
We had a spectacular view of them a few years ago on a flight from Portland (OR) to London.
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by jfk13 5y ago
I agree many of these things are a pain. This often reflects a workflow that is approaching things from entirely the wrong direction. ("If I wanted to go there, I wouldn't start from here.") E.g. instead of trying to OCR a PD
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by jfk13 5y ago
Taking a quick look at https://pspdfkit.com/api/documentation/tools-and-api/ , I'm puzzled.... what distinguishes a "PDF Generator" from a "PDF Creator" from a "PDF Writer"?
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Firefox bins Russian search engines over misinformation fears(techradar.com)
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by jfk13 5y ago
It's been mentioned on HN before, but in case you haven't seen it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OfxlSG6q5Y .
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by jfk13 5y ago
Does a dollar a day sound more affordable? Just read the news over a cup of home-brewed coffee instead of getting a take-out, and you should easily break even. :)
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Bitcoin cash machines ordered to shut down in UK(bbc.co.uk)
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by jfk13 5y ago
> It's possible the author you linked was inspired by this as well. More than possible; I'm pretty sure it's deliberate. They like to take well-known, even clichéd, elements and re-imagine them in new and creative ways.
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by jfk13 5y ago
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/654419.It_Was_a_Dark_and... Unforgettable, brilliant. (Find the original large-format hardback, not the paperback re-issue that can't possibly recapture the exuberant pictu
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by jfk13 5y ago
My wife is also a musician and music teacher, but I have not been able to persuade her to tackle Lilypond. (I have occasionally done projects in Lilypond for her, and the results are great, but the barrier to entry is too high for her to sc
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by jfk13 5y ago
From the rates I'm seeing, it depends how much you're sending. Revolut has "no fee", but their rate is slightly lower. So for large transfers, the £3 fixed fee works out cheaper.
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by jfk13 5y ago
That's not "money" in a useful sense for most people in most places. So then you're left with the problem (and expense) of converting it to/from usable money at each end.
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by jfk13 5y ago
At least the UK edition https://www.theweek.co.uk/daily-briefing doesn't feature that... though it has other items that you might feel are similarly unnecessary.
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by jfk13 5y ago
> 1. ctx.roundRect() ... Note: I can't find mention of .roundRect() in the MDN documentation. https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/519#is... raised some questions about the addition o
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by jfk13 5y ago
Also the extent to which the pieces of the puzzle may get scattered, I guess. A car crash rarely leads to body parts strewn across entire fields.
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by jfk13 5y ago
No. As per https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:visited , > For privacy reasons, the styles that can be modified using this selector are very limited. (and loading a background image isn&#
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by jfk13 5y ago
Sure, it shows those colours to the user. But they're not exposed to the website; if it tries querying the colour of the links, the browser returns the same blue value for all of them, visited or not.
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by jfk13 5y ago
In one sense, yes. In another, though, most great artistic works draw inspiration from other earlier works, and so are arguably not a "creation" by a single human; more like an evolution, a synthesis, a derivation, a continuation.
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by jfk13 5y ago
It's an older book, but I remember getting a lot out of Adrian Hill's How to Draw when I read it many years ago. Probably out-of-print, but cheap second-hand copies are around. https://www.goodreads.com/book&#x2F
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by jfk13 5y ago
I suspect long-term, large-scale hydrogen storage is not "just like natural gas"... those pesky little H₂ molecules are awfully small, and may leak out rather easily compared to hydrocarbons.
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by jfk13 5y ago
Of course sex is normal, but thousands of years of societal development in vastly different circumstances around the world tend overwhelmingly to agree that it is a private matter, not a spectacle for public entertainment. Perhaps we should
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by jfk13 5y ago
Discussion from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30386852
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by jfk13 5y ago
> You’re off by a factor of 5. Surely that would be a factor of 50.
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by jfk13 5y ago
That looks quite far from accurate/complete/current.
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by jfk13 5y ago
In FORTRAN, thank you. (It was a long time ago, and there was no C compiler on our IBM/370...)
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by jfk13 5y ago
Where did you obtain such a test, if you don't mind sharing that detail? Did you know what you'd be getting, or did the "app-assisted" aspect come as a surprise (which is how it sounds)?
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by jfk13 5y ago
Why are the wild birds more important than all the insects they will kill? You should be grateful to the cats for helping to protect the bugs.

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