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by lr1970 4y ago
> My notebook, which I use like a Bullet Journal, has no batteries that need recharging, no screen that can crack,... And also no backup of any kind. So if and when your precious dead-tree notebook is lost or stolen what are you going to
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by lr1970 4y ago
Why not having language icons. Sometimes they correspond to flags sometimes not. The point being that a colorful icon is a better GUI indicator than a two letter gray di-gramm. After all, we have emojis for pretty much everything under the
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by lr1970 4y ago
Do they properly control for important confounding factors such as Dutch language proficiency both spoken and written? Alternative hypothesis could be that someone with insufficient command of the official language has hard time finding job
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by lr1970 4y ago
A word of caution: Uber uses `zig cc` toolchain to compile C/C++ code, not Zig language. Moreover, from the article itself: > "Uber does not have any plans to use zig-the-language yet."
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by lr1970 4y ago
> It shouldn’t be so complicated. If it makes the phone one mm thicker but you can swap the battery easily without requiring all this equipment, why aren’t we there yet? Because a non-replaceable battery is a great marketing tool. Dying
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by lr1970 4y ago
> It's been available for many years, but has never been trendy, despite its unique design and strengths. I recommend giving it a spin! I was a heavy TiddlyWiki user in the past but moved away from it precisely because of its singe-
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by lr1970 4y ago
> Brexit (loss of an economy 4x larger than Russia's) is not having a terrible effect on the EU. By Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) the GDP of Russia (4,365,443 $MM) is larger than the GDP of UK (3,751,845 $MM) [1]. Stating that UK ec
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by lr1970 5y ago
Virtually identical story of the scam with ApplePay was here 3 weeks ago. The victim was a scam prevention expert: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30869427 EDIT: silly typos
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by lr1970 5y ago
I am curious how this "no meeting after 12pm on Friday" would apply to companies with offices on the East Coast in addition to California. On the East Coast 12pm Pacific Time would mean 3pm. Would it put East Coast employees at di
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by lr1970 5y ago
yes, core obsidian support star notes and lists them in a star note tab.
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by lr1970 5y ago
Would like to mention excalidraw plugin for obsidian. It works in both desktop version and obsidian mobile (with pencil support). One can quickly scribble a drawing (LaTeX formulas allowed in drawings) and embed it in an obsidian note. Sync
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by lr1970 5y ago
$5K/hour to a useless "education professor" smells like a blatant misappropriation of the school funds. No wonder, this school district is short of money to pay actual teachers. This whole episode calls for a thorough audit a
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by lr1970 5y ago
Floating point numbers are represented in a form mantissa*2^exponent and they are distributed non-uniformly over their dynamic range. The density of normalized 64-bit floats around zero is about 10^-320, while around one is about 10^-16. Th
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by lr1970 5y ago
John Walker [0], the author of "Hacker's Diet", is also a founder of Autodesk [1] - maker of AutoCAD [2] - premier CAD design tool in mechanical and structural engineering. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by lr1970 5y ago
<sarcasm> Russians can get up to 15 years in prison for calling war in Ukraine for what it is - a war. Instead they are supposed to call it "special military operation". By the same token economic sanctions on Russia should
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by lr1970 5y ago
> The guy is giving away £3 billion+ to charity and writing off a £1.5 billion loan Don't forget that all his wealth he obtained through stealing and corruption in the early days of russian robber capitalism (for a while he was a cl
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by lr1970 5y ago
> 2. The majority of Russians are in their 40-ies, have families, have government jobs, and won't risk losing the only source of income they have by opposing said government. I would disagree. I vividly remember August 1991 coup att
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by lr1970 5y ago
I know this option is not available to many, but if you can -- take your family and run away from Russia as soon as possible. Yes, you may loose some money and property in the process. But if putler stays in power, the only way he can keep
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by lr1970 5y ago
It could be a Russian S-13 unguided rocket [0] used by Su-25 close air support airplane. They detonate on impact and have up to 33 kg (73 lbs) warhead that can cause the damage seen on the photo. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by lr1970 5y ago
> E.g. I don't expect Rust to go off the rails. Unless the rails are too rusty :-)
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by lr1970 5y ago
> "Peacekeepers" Orwellian language already won: "war is peace"
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by lr1970 5y ago
> US refineries have replaced sanctioned Venezuelan oil with a Russian type bumping them up to a very respectable 10% of oil imports. Nothing but political will prevent US to allow Venezuelan oil back. Also, Iranian oil. Both have simila
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by lr1970 5y ago
The following quote is attributed to Leslie Lamport [0], creator of LaTeX and important contributor to the science of distributed computer systems: "Writing is nature's way of telling us how lousy our thinking is." [1] [0] h
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by lr1970 5y ago
> Buy S&P ETFs, most preferably by Vanguard, because they are a non-profit and thus have very low fees Vanguard is certainly a for-profit organization [0]. What, I think you wanted to say, that many of the Vanguard funds are index fu
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by lr1970 5y ago
For what it's worth TeX/LaTeX allows execution of arbitrary shell commands from *.tex documents. Be careful there as well.
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by lr1970 5y ago
It was not surprising for sure, but Truman who succeeded Roosevelt was not keen seeing Russians meddling in Japan when it was already on a brink of defeat and surrender. Nukes can cool off Stalin's appetite quite effectively.
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by lr1970 5y ago
> It was the difference between Nazi fascism winning global hegemony or not. I don’t think there’s a serious argument that it shouldn’t have happened. By the time nukes were dropped on Japan [0] in August 1945 nazi Germany was defeated,
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by lr1970 5y ago
One of the authors of the posted article Dmitry Sklyarov of the "United States vs. ElcomSoft and Dmitry Sklyarov" fame [0] was arrested by the FBI in 2001 for giving a talk at the DEF CON exposing the weaknesses in the Adobe e-boo
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by lr1970 5y ago
> But it is essential. Google (and Apple) maps provide lane specific navigation directions, which are really only possible with assisted GPS. In theory GPS has the accuracy, but remember you are in a big metal box filled with electrical
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by lr1970 5y ago
Most likely, a missile will be rotating about its axis of symmetry making illuminating a single spot possible only in a short pulse mode.

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