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by jxcl 3y ago
The 90’s TV comedy “Father Ted” painted a bleak picture of one of these islands. It’s not something that would appeal to me
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by jxcl 4y ago
> Not sure why your dishwasher changes anything, they normally run off cold water and use their own heaters. For North America at least, this is not true. Dishwashers are hooked up to the hot water supply[1] (and it's a good idea to
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by jxcl 4y ago
You do get better about using the functional operators as you use them, and they can be incredibly powerful and convenient in certain operations, but in this case he's missing the simplest implementation of this function using the `?`
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by jxcl 4y ago
You're right, but for those learning Rust, there's _so much_ to learn, that having occasional reminders of the more basic things is really handy. I've been hobby programming in Rust for years and professionally for about 6 mo
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by jxcl 4y ago
There was an article on HN earlier this week about PBKDF2 iterations[1]. The gist of the article was that adding iterations to the key derivation function doesn't actually increase the entropy of a password all that much. No matter how
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by jxcl 4y ago
Tesla has an "Auto high-beams" feature which attempts to detect traffic and dip the lights when it does. I find that it reacts much slower than I normally would to oncoming traffic, so I don't use this feature. If the car is
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by jxcl 5y ago
LG tvs will let you update firmware over a flash drive! It’s a bit fiddly but worth it in my opinion to avoid the internet connection.
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by jxcl 5y ago
I actually really hate it. Palantir does all sorts of stuff I disagree with; this is the first time I've heard of a company named Anduril though. I want to enjoy my LotR as an escapist fantasy without being reminded of the American mil
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by jxcl 5y ago
They both look like they might be similar sizes in an illustration like that, but the Hubble mirror is 2.4 meters, whereas the JWST mirror is 6.5 meters, which has 7 times the light-gathering capability of Hubble.
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by jxcl 5y ago
Does “listener” mean the same thing as REPL here? I’ve never that term in this context before.
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by jxcl 5y ago
I haven’t yet read Dostoyevsky, though I have read Chekhov and Pushkin in translation. I’m speaking more generally about Garnett’s translations rather than a specific work. I’m currently learning Russian, and I’m sure it’ll be a while befo
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by jxcl 5y ago
> The big problem, though, is that we’re constricted by the supply of public domain translations. We simply can’t typically offer much more than Garnett Certainly! If your reading is constrained to public domain works, you have basically
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by jxcl 5y ago
If you’re interested in reading Russian literature, do yourself a favor and avoid the Constance Garnett translations. Her main goals were speed and volume of translations, rather than to actually make the translated works a pleasure to read
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by jxcl 5y ago
I don't know about the other books off the top of my head, but Count of Monte Cristo and Dumas' other works were published as serials in a newspaper, where I'm pretty sure he was paid per word. Such a system really encourages
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by jxcl 5y ago
I'm not sure about the specifics of the protocol but I've used tens of DACs and only ever run Linux, and I've never had a problem with compatibility. I'm pretty sure the USB audio standard is pervasive enough so that bas
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by jxcl 5y ago
I tested this on my own system somewhat recently, with a Ryzen 5950X, 64 GB of 3600 MHz CL 18 RAM and a 1TB Samsung 970 Evo, using the config file that ships with Fedora 33. I created a ramdisk as follows: ~$ sudo mount -t tmpfs -o si
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by jxcl 5y ago
Firefox lets you disable keyboard overrides on a per-site basis, if that's something you're interested in Page Info -> Permissions -> Override Keyboard Shortcuts
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by jxcl 5y ago
> I feel like the art world has a very weird “winner take all” mentality. I agree strongly with this. I'm lucky enough to have a good job in software and I enjoy it enough to keep me happy, but I've also had serious art hobbie
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by jxcl 6y ago
I was looking at this sensor available from Adafruit (and others): https://www.adafruit.com/product/4867 Seems like a reasonable price for a true CO2 sensor.
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by jxcl 6y ago
> My guess is that using color sensors would have either increased the 3D mapping precision or added weight/power/bandwidth requirements, or otherwise been less robust in that environment. I think you meant to say decreased? In
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by jxcl 6y ago
Interestingly, they only mention vaccination in the second phase of the trial. It's not clear to me if this is misreported, or they're planning to expose unvaccinated healthy people to small amounts of the virus in phase 1.
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by jxcl 6y ago
> More feasible If they don't interact with the thousands of miles of earth between the source and the destination, they probably also won't interact with the receiver! :p Imagine the retransmission rates! https://en
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by jxcl 6y ago
Yep! I own a 2012 Wrangler. It's a toy more than transportation. It gets me where I need to go but carrying more than one passenger is a pain. The windscreen fluid jet is poorly located and doesn't get the whole windscreen when I
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by jxcl 6y ago
> If you use a DNS name as an endpoint, and that DNS entry changes, you have to refresh it. This is really frustrating for me. If you put a DNS name as a peer endpoint, wg-quick will resolve the name and then _replace the name with the
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by jxcl 6y ago
> In rhinovirus, a virus causing the common cold, a similar pocket was exploited to develop potent small molecules that bound tightly to the pocket distorting the structure of the rhinovirus, stopping its infectivity. These small molecul
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by jxcl 6y ago
Maybe it's a whiteboard problem, but I would just call it a puzzle. Puzzle solving requires creativity. Picking up new technologies doesn't require creativity. Being a good developer (these days) also doesn't require much cre
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by jxcl 6y ago
I have been reading Orbital Index since October 2019, you guys do a great job, thanks so much! I wish to continue to be subscribed to your newsletter.
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by jxcl 6y ago
> The orange car in the article image acted as kind of an 'anchor' for the colour compensation. It's funny that you mention this because to me the car kind of looks like it's grey, lit by orange light from all sides e
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by jxcl 6y ago
I don't really agree with this. I'm not sure what my definition of lying is but of course it entirely depends on the purpose of the photo. A photojournalist cropping out an important piece of context is definitely lying. Me croppi
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by jxcl 6y ago
One thing that I had to get through my head when I was learning photography was that there's no such thing as "no filter". Every image you take is an interpretation of the scene, either through digital signal processing or fi

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