kwoff

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by kwoff 8y ago
Had one of those dumb phones for a decade. Definitely not interested in connecting to your demographic.
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by kwoff 8y ago
How do you reconcile the novel "1984" (published 1949) with the comments about the internet and millenials?
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by kwoff 8y ago
You might be turning away people who are just sensitive to being manipulated. I can't find a reference, but it's a common trick for manipulative people to "task" someone with a trivial thing. Once they've done that,
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by kwoff 8y ago
(from the link) "In specific". Are my grammar sensors malfunctioning? (I can see that it's logically the opposite of "in general", and you can say both "generally" and "specifically", but... :)
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by kwoff 8y ago
They should send these out every decade or so. Especially if they could get to where they can relay data from probes further out. Technology advances so quickly, after all.
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by kwoff 8y ago
Irrelevant tangent: I was in Albert Heijn (common Dutch supermarket) today, the one in Amsterdam at Dam Square. They recently sell "Danish Chef Cheese Spread" (you might imagine Cheez Whiz in a tube), which I'm addicted to, t
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by kwoff 8y ago
Really terrible article overall. "The walkouts followed a New York Times report". Indeed...
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by kwoff 8y ago
Micro garbage.
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by kwoff 8y ago
How is this nonsense upvoted on hackernews..?
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by kwoff 8y ago
I think it's not a coincidence...
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by kwoff 8y ago
If you want to go the opposite direction, Hamilton's "Elements of Quaternions" is long out of copyright: https://archive.org/details/elementsquaterni00hamirich/page/... (I doubt most people get
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by kwoff 8y ago
Good luck in your move out of the US!
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by kwoff 8y ago
Deepmind collaborated with Blizzard to create the SC2 AI API: https://deepmind.com/blog/deepmind-and-blizzard-open-starcra...
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by kwoff 8y ago
In addition to the sentinel/in-band replies, they also put properties on that symbol: https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/81b5131e11fa96d32... ( https://www.gnu.org/software/e
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by kwoff 8y ago
For multi-line greps (rare, I guess), I use: pcregrep -Mr
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by kwoff 8y ago
I also use: (defun go-up-one () (interactive "*") (scroll-down 1)) (defun go-down-one () (interactive "*") (scroll-up 1)) (global-set-key [S-up] 'go-up-one) (global-set-key [S-down] 'g
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by kwoff 8y ago
I also wonder if, in some ways, devops (I mean the "idea", not the engineers themselves) could be commoditizing IT people (not implying there's some conspiracy), blurring the distinction between devs and sysadmins in particul
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by kwoff 8y ago
Not sure why, but I was the one who waited in the garden Doubting the morning and the early light. I watched the mist lift off its own soft burden, Permitting not believing my own sight. reminded me (I guess it's kinda iam
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by kwoff 8y ago
Me too. Apparently similar etymology to English "-borough" or "-burgh". Contrast with Star Trek's borg, which comes from "cyborg", short for "cybernetic organism".
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by kwoff 8y ago
In terms of hurdles, of those four I think Danish is a clear winner there. Finnish is "ah, hell no" as far I know. :) In terms of usefulness, I'm not sure - maybe Polish. (That seems quite complicated grammatically, like othe
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by kwoff 8y ago
I think the Cyrillic alphabet has enough overlapping letters with the Latin alphabet, that it's relatively easy to learn the other. Possibly the Greek alphabet even overlaps better with Cyrillic than Latin? Try Arabic, though. I took a
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by kwoff 8y ago
Thanks, I remove those bookmarks too. (Being offended gives them more control over you than necessary, in my opinion.)
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by kwoff 8y ago
Just for context, from a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16654524 . (I'm still wondering if the "mass" of plastic is relevant, so clue me in.)
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by kwoff 8y ago
Just about "alternately bake and freeze" (no opinion on the rest): Mercury does spin (slowly, every 60 earth days; previously was thought to be tidally locked), but on the other hand it's not tilted with respect to the "
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by kwoff 8y ago
Exactly why Google needs to be reined in.
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by kwoff 9y ago
I still play https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWblpsLZ-O8 over and over, just for the song, not only because it is 256 bytes, but because it is a compelling song too.
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by kwoff 9y ago
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2017/03/27/foundation-and...
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by kwoff 9y ago
That was my assumption, too - cartoon, exaggeration, caricature, baby talk.
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by kwoff 9y ago
I'm not sure how on-topic this is, but this story/topic reminds me of the latest from Isaac Arthur called "Portable Power": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffXqcf48D9Q That's not about electric powe
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by kwoff 9y ago
In English at least, the corresponding Greek letter is normally spelled "upsilon", which is obviously similar. The "psilon" in both "upsilon" and "epsilon" meant somethign like "simple" in G

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