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by msravi 8y ago
Many moons ago, my dad taught yoga as a hobby. One of my early memories as a 11 or 12 year old kid, was when I attended a class of his. The class would end with a "shavasana" (corpse posture), where you'd lie down and the ins
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Knowing assembly made me a better C programmer. I still remember this tech interview I had with a Seattle based company (no, not MSFT) many years ago. The interviewer was trying to twist and turn all kinds of C-pointer questions, but knowin
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Ok. So I spent a while on https://developers.facebook.com/docs/ and in particular on https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/ trying to find documentation on deleting your app. Wasn't
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> Twitter removed their app from the Facebook platform which had this as an unfortunate result. > TechCrunch also heard from a source with understanding of the situation that the deletion of the app took Facebook by surprise, as well
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Yes, I've been "follow"ing users using lists for a long time. I have a "Left" and "Right" list and use Twidere (on mobile) and Tweetdeck (on the laptop) to keep track of current political banter using the
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> Particles may be moving fast (high temperature), but if there are very few of them, they won’t transfer much energy (low heat). Since space is mostly empty, there are very few particles that can transfer energy to the spacecraft. That
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Looks like it has everything that I wanted. Thank you.
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It isn't clear from the article - does Mastodon have the equivalent of Twitter lists in which I can group sets of handles into separate timelines that I can follow independently/parallelly? The one timeline thing doesn't work
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Can you point to a Mozilla announcement that says they'll turn on DOH by default in a regular non-experimental non-nightly release? This is what Mozilla says in their DOH blog: Our second effort focuses on building a default configurat
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The article is incorrect. 1. TRR is not turned on by default. To turn it on, you need to go to about:config and set network.trr.mode to something other than 0 or 5. 2. Even if trr.mode is turned on, you need to go in and set the DOH server
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So it appears that this is taped out using Intel's 22nm FinFET process. https://twitter.com/ShaktiProcessor/status/10232743804309217...
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Or to Kannada, where the fruit is called "kittaLe", despite also being classified a Dravidian language. Kannada and Telugu in general seem to have too many differences from Tamil and Malayalam to be lumped into a common bucket. Th
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I store my data in 3 places: 1. A 2TB WD Mybook Live 2. A $60 per year 1 TB Amazon Drive account (contemplating moving to Backblaze) 3. A $100 per year 1 TB Google Drive account. I use rclone to sync with Google and odrive to sync with Amaz
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Duh. Looks like there's a fundamental misunderstanding of how statistics works all around. The probability of an event does NOT predict a particular outcome. Ever. It only says that if the experiment is performed again and again and ag
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Not in the list, but Blokada ( https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.blokada.alarm/ ) is a must-have. It sets up a VPN and blocks ads and tracking. Rooting the phone is NOT required. FWIW, as per its inbuilt metr
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Right. And the humans have anti-virus swords and shields to keep those pesky viruses at bay.
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Now all it needs is a legend! Reminds me of Talakadu ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talakadu ), a deserty patch along the Kaveri riverbank, about 130km from Bangalore. It even comes with its own legend in which a quee
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My experience with AWS reserved instances has not been very good previously. 1. Once you buy a reserved instance, you're locked in to that type and price for the duration, even though newer types at lower prices may get introduced (as
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You forgot "radioisotopic": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_ge...
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Not as much fun, but you can request them for a static IP for no extra charge, and the requirement to periodically login will go away. At least, that used to be the case until I moved away from Hathway in Bangalore (about 2 years ago).
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I'd suspect that it's harder to take over and avoid a colision in a self driving car, than a car that you're continuously in control of. You first have to recognize that the system is failing or about to fail. And that has to
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woof -i <ip_address> -p <port> <filename> woof: http://www.home.unix-ag.org/simon/woof.html 1. Allows directory upload/download (tar/gzip/bzip2 compressed) 2. Local file server (doesn&#
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Wait... how did he manage to cash checks that were made out to UPS? Doesn't the bank verify the beneficiary when cashing a check?
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In Kannada, they translated hovercraft to ಯಾಂತ್ರಿಕದೋಣಿ - mechanical boat, and eel to ಹಾವುಮೀನು - snake fish.
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> S. Asian history contains many varying political entities and cultures each covering varying sub-regions of the region covered today by India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh Sure. However, the India that is being referred to in the post is t
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The earliest use of the decimal system in Hindu mathematics is in the Yajurveda Samhita, where there is a list of numerical denominations given: eka(1), dasha(10), shata(100), sahasra(1000), ayuta(10000), nryuta(100000), ... all the way to
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Unfortunately, flipkart seems to have been put on a backfoot w.r.t Amazon in India for the last few years. First, their search is broken. I rarely find what I'm looking for on flipkart, while on Amazon, I almost always do. Second, the
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Walmart to buy 73% of Flipkart for up to $16 bn; Alphabet might put in $3 bn(factordaily.com)
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Trivia: Ju-py-ter = Julia Python Terminal Although it's gone far beyond just Julia and Python now. Edit: Ahurmazda is right. ...the core programming languages supported by Jupyter are Julia, Python and R. While the name Jupyter is not
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So yes, this was a TSR, except that it resided in unaccounted for memory. Also, since you put it into the MBR, it would get loaded into ram automatically with every boot, and no fiddling with autoexec.bat or anything where it could be easil

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