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by kej 5y ago
It looks like that phrase was actually more common in the past: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=space+of+time&...
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by kej 5y ago
Winnie the Pooh is an interesting example, because while the first book will be in the public domain, the second book and the Disney films will still be under copyright. So you'd be free to make a story or merchandise based on the orig
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by kej 5y ago
They headline reminded me of this story, about the cosmonaut who watched the fall of the Soviet Union from space: https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/the-last-sovie...
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by kej 5y ago
I like programming ligatures for the same reason I like syntax highlighting: it makes it easier for my brain to quickly scan a line of code. I have yet to be bitten by some ambiguity, and the more prominent difference between == and === has
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by kej 5y ago
> Now I try to re-read one book I thought was meaningful for every new book. As a random piece of trivia, this was C.S. Lewis's rule as well: "It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one
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by kej 5y ago
The person was able to make other calls right before the attempted 911 call, though, so while it could be something like this it seems like it might be more complicated.
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As a counterpoint, I found HPMOR to be incredibly disappointing. It felt like a brilliant idea squandered on author-insertion proselytizing. This review sums it up better than I can, and I think I enjoyed reading the review more than HPMOR
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by kej 5y ago
You want Chordify, then. It uses YouTube instead of Spotify but does a pretty good job of finding chords. https://chordify.net/
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by kej 5y ago
Although not mentioned in the article, the trick can handle this. The rule should be "remove a digit that isn't 0", and if the sum of remaining digits is divisible by 9 then the removed digit must be 9 as well. That will cove
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by kej 5y ago
I would imagine there's a lot of overlap between places that use mainframes and places where anything unauthorized, let alone games, will get you fired.
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by kej 5y ago
His twitter feed is full of right wing talking points and he broke a 19 year voting hiatus to vote in the 2020 general election, so I don't think it's that unreasonable to think he did, in fact, vote for Trump.
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by kej 5y ago
That reminds me of the "Mojave Experiment" where Microsoft demoed the new version of Windows and after people said they liked it they revealed that it was just the same Windows Vista that people thought they didn't like. htt
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by kej 5y ago
Years ago I read a letter to an advice columnist that has stuck with me. The writer was debating going back to college and said something like "If it takes me four years to finish my degree, I'll be 50 when I'm done!" Th
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by kej 5y ago
If you like the idea of writing on paper and then doing digital things with it, I have been really pleased with the RocketBook line of reusable notebooks. They don't do the automatic blog hosting like this, but there's also no rec
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by kej 5y ago
The Livermore bulb only has a small part, but this reminded me of the story 17776: What Football Will Look Like in the Future [0]. It's a fun science fiction story that is also a great example of web storytelling. [0] https:/&#
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by kej 5y ago
Not really what you're asking for, but a language that compiles to bash for portability reminded me of Batsh [0], a C-like language that compiles to bash for Linux/Mac and batch for Windows. [0] https://github.com/
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by kej 5y ago
The Flipper Zero is this idea on steroids: https://flipperzero.one/
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Python's turtle module is an option worth considering. You get a good turtle graphics system but also the whole Python ecosystem. https://docs.python.org/3/library/turtle.html
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by kej 5y ago
I used to have a Sony laptop like this, where NumLock turned the uiojkl keys into 456123, so you could use them (along with 789 above them) as a number pad. It was a clever design and I wish more laptops offered it.
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by kej 5y ago
Fixed link: https://www.rutschle.net/tech/sslh/README.html Note that while this is a handy tool, its use is apparent to anyone observing the connection.
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by kej 5y ago
I do this with Google Play Books, and my notes magically appear as text files in Google Drive.
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I feel like if they were really committed to the joke, they should have made it something to do with the Hairy Ball Theorem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairy_ball_theorem
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by kej 5y ago
This story comes to mind: https://fin.plaid.com/articles/anatomy-of-a-bank-heist/
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by kej 5y ago
To follow on your point, it's interesting how much people take the results of unionization for granted. Do people not enjoy two day weekends? 8 hour workdays? Workplace safety regulations? Prohibitions on child labor? It wasn't un
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by kej 5y ago
I'm a big fan of the Rocketbook line of notebooks. You get all the benefits of paper and pen, and then you use the mobile app to scan your notes to email or DropBox or Google Drive or wherever. When the notebook is full you get a wet c
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by kej 5y ago
>The proper approach is to have a list outside content providers and use not use providers as discovery tools. As an aside, justwatch.com (and their mobile app) do a good job of filling this role. They have the same "promote the stu
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by kej 5y ago
For me, the Rocketbook line of notebooks gives me the best of both worlds. I write/draw in the notebook, then I can scan the pages with the app, and the images land in my Google Drive (configurable). Then when the notebook is full I wa
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by kej 5y ago
This isn't the total sum being spent by all of those countries, just the money they're spending on it together via NATO. There's still DARPA and similar agencies in other member countries who would be funding similar research
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That's just it, though. The working class doesn't get Memorial Day off. Businesses don't close for Flag Day. The people who have the hardest time voting on election day are the same people whose employers would still be open
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by kej 5y ago
I'm a happy user of Solid Explorer which has a plugin to host a local folder over FTP. It seems like there should be a more "modern" option but FTP has the advantage that pretty much everything still supports it. (It also con

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