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by kovek 8y ago
I think asking locals can be one solution. If not, check out a blog of the city you are visiting, they might publish new places there.
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by kovek 8y ago
I've searched "Food near me" at least once a week this past semester. I wish I could do something like "tampon near me" to be able to find a business that sells tampons near me for example
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by kovek 8y ago
I just wanted to share that I also had success setting a regular timer woth a short period: 3 minutes. If I do not notice the timer (it's just a small sound), then I am focused on my work. If I do hear i, then I realize that I am distr
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by kovek 9y ago
I am taking a course on food this semester. They explained two things a few weeks ago: 1. The idea that sugar makes kids hyperactive is a myth. In fact, eating sugar will cause a certain protein or amino acid to not go into the brain as muc
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by kovek 9y ago
How to find people to follow? Is there a hashtag on mastodon to ask about finding certain people based on certain interests?
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by kovek 9y ago
Some people are confused about what this is. On this page you see examples of websites you can host yourself. I'll use Mastodon as an example since I've used it. I know about hubzilla slightly but have not used it. Mastodon is a p
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by kovek 9y ago
I've seen that people start off gofundme's or the like when they need some financial support with an urgent unexpected issue. People are happy to help and contribute, sometimes even if they are complete strangers. I've read s
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by kovek 9y ago
I've found it easy with python recently. - Go on github, find the repo - Fork the repo - git clone https://github.com/me/forked_repo - cd into the repo, and 'git checkout -b me_myfix' - write your change
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by kovek 9y ago
I've found kind experienced users who supported me on webchat.freenode.net , #nixos. I always make sure to say thanks when they help!
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by kovek 9y ago
On the topic of Google finding issues in others' software: I am wondering how do the engineers at Google that work on finding software issues or vulnerabilities approach that kind of work? Is there a way to heuristically find security
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by kovek 9y ago
I’m an undergrad, and I’ve only very rarely worked out in the past. I just wanted to share how I feel about this today. I’ll be going for my second time today. I think some important factors for this: - It feels good - I’m feeling sad and a
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by kovek 9y ago
A siblung comment writes: > doing startup things I believe the network in the Bay Area is valuable. However, I don't know concrete examples of benefits that being based in the Bay Area brings. From my perspective as an upcoming newg
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by kovek 9y ago
My understanding is that Deep Learning is a type of Machine Learning. Artificial Intelligence is the idea that a machine performs similarly or better than a human for a specific task. Artificial General Intelligence is when a machine perfor
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by kovek 9y ago
I think of Emacs as a program with a great text interface. I think that something like this should be easily done in Emacs. However, I don't think this is the case today, as per some research I've done this summer. Anyone has idea
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by kovek 9y ago
> I use sloppy focus follow mouse and mouse raise only on titlebar click so I can use windowed applications in actual nontrivial ways. That's sounds interesting. Where did you learn about this? It sounds like an unusual usage of the
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by kovek 9y ago
Sending funds to family in a different country. It's a use case I have not had experience with but which I think makes sense.
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by kovek 9y ago
It is unclear how you would `pip install numpy` on mybinder.org
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by kovek 9y ago
I like school but it's not as exciting as working on a product change that will be used by many many people! I think I would like to keep taking a course per semester and do some learning on my own, even when I work full time.
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by kovek 9y ago
I really like it. I didn't try it yet but it feel like I would enjoy this points system for waking up on time. I noticed that over the summer, when I was excited about my work (and trying to meet deadlines), waking up on time was not a
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by kovek 9y ago
Seems like lots of people here are sharing their experience with #emacs. I like it a lot, and think that it would be part of the ideal #workingset for me. However, I have never found a nice 'jump-to-definition that worked for most lang
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by kovek 9y ago
> That should make you want to invest in the #1 company that manufactures satellite components. I understand the idea, and I might agree. I just wanted to point out that in the book "The Intelligent Investor", there was the ide
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by kovek 9y ago
We were just discussing this earlier with some friends. Don't bitcoin transactions take a large amount of time? A block takes 10 minutes to mine, and there is no guarantee your transaction will be picked up by the currently mined bloc
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by kovek 9y ago
Why? Do you understand Ethereum? I'd like to understand it better
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by kovek 9y ago
Would be interesting if cells of groups of cells in a spreadsheet could show a subset of the UI of another graphical program on the system. If it could allow user interaction with that graphical program then even better. That could allow us
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by kovek 9y ago
Are there no valuable use cases with Bitcoin?
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by kovek 9y ago
With ed you can do cursor movements? How? I meant to ask people how they use ed and compile an article, so that people would have a better idea of what's possible and what is not with ed. Could we talk about how ed can be used?
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by kovek 9y ago
That's interesting. Could you please share how is the TouchBar the best for programming?
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by kovek 9y ago
On that /s, do you know if there has been research done on what the smartest way to do funding would be? How could I find reputable resources discussing this idea?
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by kovek 9y ago
Check out the audio he presents in the article. His screen reader reads him text at 450words per minute. I wonder how quickly he can finish reading non-technical books.
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by kovek 9y ago
What are some key learnings you got from that book?

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