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by jperras 3y ago
Love seeing more visibility for the NFB. My favourite of theirs is a short documentary on Doug Rogers, the first Canadian to win a medal at the Olympics in judo. https://www.nfb.ca/film/judoka/
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by jperras 3y ago
I live in a very Hasidic Jewish neighbourhood in North America; they (almost) uniquely use flip phones instead of smart phones. I've even seen women with cordless landline phones mounted to their shpitzel so that they can use it "
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by jperras 3y ago
Pavoni owner here - they're simple, built like a tank, and you can do basic maintenance on it with a 10mm wrench and a few other small hand tools. As long as you're willing to invest a bit of effort in the learning curve of liter
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by jperras 3y ago
python-box does this in the most intuitive way possible: >>> from box import Box >>> empty_box = Box(default_box=True) >>> empty_box.a.b.c.d.e.f.g # <Box: {}>
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by jperras 3y ago
"Further out past the observable universe" pretty much doesn't matter (hah), by definition.
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by jperras 3y ago
I really hope that they're using the Prio system ( https://crypto.stanford.edu/prio/ ), perhaps via Divvi Up ( https://divviup.org/ ), which is offered by the fine folks at ISRG. But, the fact that th
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by jperras 4y ago
Glad it wasn't just me who was baffled by the whole thing!
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by jperras 4y ago
I honestly don't even know how to respond to most of this. You must be The Chosen One™ if all you need to do to avoid being thrown by an opponent who is more skilled than you are is "pay attention to footwork". > just be i
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by jperras 4y ago
I'm quite interested in the outcome of this "experiment". I wish the best for the OP, but I feel like things will end poorly. I've been a judoka for several years; I also started late, in my 30s. I train 4-5 times a week
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by jperras 4y ago
Energy is released when two atomic nuclei combine to form a larger atomic nuclei. There's a threshold of energy required to attain this fusion reaction (otherwise there would be no light nuclei in the universe), and once the nuclei com
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by jperras 5y ago
I tend to avoid self-promotion, but this was just too on the nose to ignore: what you've described is almost quite literally the functionality of https://teuxdeux.com . We like to say that our biggest competition is pencil &
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by jperras 5y ago
Sounds like you're new around here :) Sadly this is the modus operandi for most HN comments these days; it's easier to nitpick details about something fun/interesting that a person did than it is to actually _do_ something fu
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by jperras 5y ago
Pink Lady was my favourite apple until I happened upon a Lady Alice! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Alice_(apple)
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by jperras 5y ago
Yeah, it's hard to describe to people that haven't lived in them before. Couple that with the fact that everyone typically gets their own private entrance/exit to outddoors due to the exterior staircases, and it's a fant
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by jperras 5y ago
I had no idea that they were common enough in Chicago to have a colloquial name! That's awesome.
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by jperras 5y ago
Most cities and urban areas would be much better off with a preponderance of middle-density housing! But, as has been mentioned elsewhere, protectionism in zoning laws and rampant NIMBYism is a difficult wave to break. Our love affair with
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by jperras 5y ago
Montréaler here; I live in a neighbourhood which is uniquely composed of plexes - 3 to 8 units per "plex", with the typical number being 3, thus the term "triplex". Honestly, it's the ideal density IMHO. I get the c
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by jperras 5y ago
> Just to clarify, does emacs/magit really pop up when you run "git rebase -i" on the command line? I haven't experienced this, but maybe that's because my EDITOR env var is set to "vim". It would only
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by jperras 5y ago
> Good collaborative travel software needs voting. It needs a way for teams of people to make wishlists and then helps determine which will work out the best. A few years ago we built this exact thing for an airline that you have definit
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by jperras 5y ago
SDEs are the underpinning of most modern mathematical finance models; they're the underlying concept behind the Black–Scholes model for option pricing.
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by jperras 5y ago
Another vote for Sony noise cancelling headphones from me. I have the WH-1000XM3, and they're fantastic. I easily wear them for 3-6 hours at a time. The only thing I dislike is the lack of multiple device support, but that was added in
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by jperras 5y ago
> This statement seems a bit funny because in order to have a good idea that they cheated, you would have also had to been analyzing the game with the chess engine. You analyze the game after it is played. When your opponent managed to h
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by jperras 5y ago
I've been remote in a distributed company for almost 10 years. The fact is, if the organization isn't setup to be remote- first , then you're always going to be lagging behind in terms of communication. Even then, it's s
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by jperras 5y ago
I own a La Pavoni Europiccola, and it is likely the most cost-effective purchase I ever made. It's slightly more advanced than the Robot, but only just. Pavoni have been making them for 60 years or so, and they haven't fundament
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by jperras 5y ago
Sean Carroll is incredible, and his textbook on Spacetime & Geometry was the only reason I understood anything in my graduate-level class on general relativity. There's truly an art to be able to explain incredibly complex topics i
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by jperras 6y ago
We have this in many neighbourhoods of Montréal, but with exterior staircases. A collage of examples: https://montrealstreetfrench.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/esc... In the summer it's incredibly common to fi
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by jperras 6y ago
Likely due to the regulatory difficulty in then brokering fractional share purchases. If your "index fund" includes a few stocks that have large share prices (e.g. TSLA, AMZN), then to buy a single "share" of your fund w
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by jperras 6y ago
> Still worth it for 'free' education and 'free' healthcare? Yes.
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by jperras 6y ago
There isn't much point to using the Facebook container if you're using FB login in enough places that you get annoyed by it.
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by jperras 6y ago
I have definitely needed this exact functionality in the recent past. We had an application where a canvas-based editor was used to create diagrams, and then these diagrams were saved to a library. We wanted to have each saved diagram to ha

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