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by lwn 5y ago
Hello!
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by lwn 5y ago
I used to trade e-mail addresses with various banks, some 15 years ago. I'd just call up their marketing departments and offer those as 'financial leads'. I had a network of people who had various ad campaigns running where a
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by lwn 5y ago
I'd love to see the Orient express being revived. I'd much rather take a train than plane. The trip itself is more like an adventure.
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by lwn 5y ago
Well.. After learning how to create music I've come to appreciate certain artists more and others less. Sometimes I missed the ability to listen to music without analysing it. Other times I've wished I could hear my own music, lik
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by lwn 5y ago
I haven't been tinkering with audio/ browser for a while. I'm surprised latency got down this much. The lessons seems very well done. Personally I use Renoise Tracker to create music, but it's a little hard to explain to
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by lwn 5y ago
works fine on my Safari (macbook).
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by lwn 5y ago
Agreed. Less latency and continuous.
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by lwn 5y ago
The academic-theme seems to have a duplicate entry at position 1 and 4 in the list. The academic-theme card at position 1 links to another theme: wowchery-hugo-theme, which has the correct/ corresponding github stars.
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by lwn 5y ago
I'm using json schema all the time. The big step forwards for me is I can validate data everywhere down the application pipeline, no matter the programming language, using a single document (single source of truth), and it's human
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by lwn 5y ago
They've build an entire neighbourhood with those 'tiny' houses near my place. Link: https://www.tinyhousewoldwijk.nl/gallerij (Dutch) It's incredibly popular. A friend of mine is living there in a 50 squ
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by lwn 5y ago
'Deet' is also available as repellent against ticks, although less effective. Permethrin is (also) extremely toxic to fish and aquatic life.
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by lwn 5y ago
First look - UI: 1. After hitting search there's no indication of activity (while loading. Page remains empty and unresponsive for a while. 2. When updating the search box, [enter] does not work. 3. There is no visual feedback between
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by lwn 5y ago
Hmmm, I haven't though about it in this way. You do have a good point. Creating bypasses for problems is very realistic.
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by lwn 5y ago
I ran my life into a train-wreck, after doing a start-up. I'm still recovering from a burn-out. Luckily I still have my wife and kids around. They also had to put up with a lot. Some advice: 1. Go do a ten day retreat with Vipassana:
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by lwn 5y ago
For developers there's the "stackoverflow developer story" https://stackoverflow.com/users/story/join and for start-up related roles there is https://angel.co . I hardly encountered recru
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by lwn 5y ago
U+FEFF"aaa","b CRLF bb","cc"c" CRLF zzz,yyy,xxx Just an example of the wonderful world of CSV \( . )/ which I've used quite a lot, because it enables quick and easy (dirty) data dumps
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by lwn 5y ago
Will do!
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by lwn 5y ago
$15 a month is too much for me to consider switching from Safari. Although I'm looking for a decent browser-replacement, because of the <Safari - OS - hardware> update interlock. I don't mind paying for software, but for $15
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by lwn 5y ago
Interesting hypothesis about airconditioning being the reason for staying indoors. I always assumed TV was the main cause.
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by lwn 5y ago
In my opinion it's impossible for a small group of people/ politicians to determine what's good for 445 million people.
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by lwn 5y ago
Oh my thread! I hope this doesn't go Slack. edit: After my initial response (above) I was thinking I don't remember chat systems having 'proper' threads implemented, while forum software and commenting systems do have. W
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by lwn 5y ago
I've based my comment on observations from relatives living in Maharashtra. Getting estimates seems impossible to me, because India doesn't record cause of death very well (if deceased person itself is even recorded)
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by lwn 5y ago
This is my perception aswell. India doesn't have the infrastructure and social well-fare systems needed to support a population in lockdown. Because of quarantine restrictions many householders were not able to provide food for their f
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by lwn 5y ago
Criminalising goods which are in high demand seem to have that effect.
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by lwn 5y ago
I have practical experience with that society as well. And have children at school. I used to go to house-parties a lot in '90 and '00 and have first hand experience in the 'drug-scene'. What you are describing has happe
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by lwn 5y ago
I've had many trades as well, before ending up as a software engineer. My hardest, most exhausting job was in the food industry. Entering office live was easy, work a picnic. Plenty of energy coming home after work. With my previous at
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by lwn 5y ago
Many links to translations seem to be broken as well, example: http://classics.mit.edu/Aeschines/aeschin.3.html At least there's a webmaster address. Let's see what happens when notifying them.
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by lwn 5y ago
You'd be surprised how many websites continue to work, even if it's a server-side-rendered (SSR)/ html-only version. But you're correct. I should have mentioned: "A majority of the websites I visit", since I ha
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by lwn 5y ago
I find disabling javascript to give a more pleasant browsing experience these days. Most of the privacy-popups and paywalls don't appear, while websites still continue to work.
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by lwn 5y ago
From what I observe in NL (EU) is: Mass market is moving away from home PC's to handheld devices, either iOS or Android (about 50/50) (for example my dad uses an iPhone and iPad, mom uses an Android phone and iPad) Lot's of s

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