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Great footnote from the article: > I'm often amused that people compliment me on things like PuTTY by telling me how much of their time it saved, whereas people compliment me on my puzzle game collection by telling me how much of th
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The transitional USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ setting might help. Saw this in the extended release notes: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/releases/4.0/#zoneinfo... > The Python standard library’s zonein
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Each HTML file is a complete wiki instance. The wiki code and data for all pages within the wiki are bundled in that file. The code let’s the webpage edit itself.
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This is a great question! It helps to put things at waist height minimize reaching easier (essentially apply heuristics from Human Factors Engineering like we do in factories). For example, in her 80s my grandma started keeping a small tras
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Now that remote work is more accepted, do you think people will choose to return to multi-generational homes instead of moving to the big city to work at the office?
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Thanks for sharing this tip! Are there any guides you recommend? Edit: Here’s one guide for the legacy Imagemagick (may not work for the latest release), https://legacy.imagemagick.org/Usage/compare/ I’m trying to
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He’s already going to college & sounds like he’s got a support system to finish. The poor financial choice is dragging it out. He doesn’t need to go to Stanford and take out $250k loans. Cal State Long Beach is $3k per semester & fi
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Call back some recruiters who turned you down because of the degree. Tell them appreciated their advice and are working on the degree. Ask them what experience they recommend you get over the next three years to be eligible for the job once
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> “However, for the Customs Brokerage role we require a BA/BS degree” Get that degree. Lots of people on here will discourage you from finishing college. Ignore them. Employers are directly telling you to get your degree so they can
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There are a few goals for 3MF. One is to have a common format that is portable across tools made by the big companies participating in the consortium. Another is support for specifying material in addition to shape. STL can represent a part
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Fuzzing: “Fuzzing or fuzz testing is an automated software testing technique that involves providing invalid, unexpected, or random data as inputs to a computer program” [Wikipedia]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzz
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How can Link’s sword be moved into another game? How can the value of a t-shirt in Animal Crossing be preserved beyond the life of the game?
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How is this different from publishing the pgp signed sha for the digital file, which is an inherent property of the file? For example, how Ububtu authenticates its Linux installers, https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/how-to-v
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Does an NFT provide a mechanism for enforcement of ownership? If not, how is it better than copyright law? Under copyright law, I immediately own a work of art I create (in your example, a Twitter profile pic I created) and have the right t
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How does this prevent Nvidia from switching to a new blockchain, migrating the transaction data, and deprecating the old one?
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In 1997 a classmate would write HTML on paper with a pencil during class. It slipped my memory until recently & now I like to imagine it worked out well for him.
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My professor used to say, “collect purposeful information” Collect just enough for the decision you need to make now. Collect more if you decide to continue. Make sure there is a purpose for collecting the data. Favor accuracy up front &am
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I agree with you. People don’t want a single, VR metaverse. Even in fiction, like Ready Player One, the metaverse is imagined as a dystopia. Having experienced Oculus, Hololens, and Pokémon Go, I think it’s much more likely people want AR l
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The HN discussion on the article shared about Facebook (over here, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28797325 ) made me wonder… What if Mozilla sold super simple web hosting for personal and small business websites? Essen
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The Qt idea is a cool one… pay them to convert the license to Public Domain, like SQLite. That said, my biggest takeaway from Facebook is that Qt may be overkill. Small businesses seem to want to post plain text (like on Hacker News), photo
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@SupervisorFoley on Twitter is a member of the Orange County Board of Supervisors & providing useful updates for anyone living in the area.
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Does it require a CAD model of the panels? Wondering if an inkjet process like this is possible on handmade, custom and restoration panels.
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This collection of links to the actual decks is quite helpful. Thank you.
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You’re on target with this. Companies can’t contribute to random OSS on GitHub. In order to receive donations from large corporations (money and/or commits), OSS must be affiliated with a nonprofit that is properly structured and has r
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Build a network of people whose expertise you trust on different topics. See what books, articles, information they recommend to you. Kind of like you’d do at work. Don’t worry so much about day-to-day news. It’s more useful for conversatio
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Are many people seeking charities that accept crypto donations? Or, at least, are there crypto donors?
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I don’t have a strong point of view yet. Linux [1] and Mediawiki [2] are two communities finding success with email lists. In those examples, the list archives can be read like a forum. Replies must be sent by email. It seems like the archi
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Can you elaborate on the “filter bubbles” concept?
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I think you’re right. As information moves from idea to discussion to documentation, choose the right tool for the job. Chat systems like discord, or even an email list, are useful for ephemeral discussion and working things out. Once a con
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I’ve looked at mailing lists for major, successful open source projects and you may be right. I like using Wikitech-L for Mediawiki. Some communities miss out on the potential of mailing lists because they implement the distribution list as

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