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LinkedIn Just Made Writing Your Resume in Microsoft Word a Whole Lot Easier
(blog.linkedin.com)
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AltspaceVR joins Microsoft
(altvr.com)
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This ancient mnemonic technique builds a palace of memory
(aeon.co)
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Here you go. The prior art you were looking for: http://www.spiekermann-wegener.com/mod/time/time_e.htm
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Why not? Have a professional supplier handle the mods to mil-spec and you have a mil-grade product. If it fits the requirements you shouldn't just rule out something just because it sounds DIY. The process might double the price, but s
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What stops anyone from soldering (the USB) and/or hot-glueing those parts on? The tradeoff between customizability and ruggedness is quite easy to fix. In my experience the buttons most likely to break are the LB and RB shoulder ones,
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follow up to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15243477
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Butterick’s Practical Typography
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I doubt this will ever be updated, since it's reference for a very specific, 20 year old, code interpretation related proposal und not meant for type setting. But for anything related to contemporary typesetting on the web I recommend
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to add to the confusion: ' PRIME (U+2032) " DOUBLE PRIME aka inch mark (U+2033) have their own codepoints http://practicaltypography.com/foot-and-inch-marks.html which describes implications for typesetting coordi
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Art project for train passengers [Video]
(dw.com)
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Univariate Distribution Relationship Chart
(math.wm.edu)
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Beocreate:HiFiBerry – Upcycle vintage loudspeakers
(hifiberry.com)
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Note the difference between Pathlines and Streamlines and keep in mind that what you see is not an animation of the actual air movement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLSmNZm1e0k&feature=youtu.be...
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The article is missing to mention the most important change, when it comes to on screen fonts, in recent years: HiDPI displays. Before that, only a few monospaced fonts, like Consolas , with proper pixel hinting worked for me, or I had to
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Translating Moby Dick into Macedonian, a language with no maritime words
(globalvoices.org)
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RFly: Drones that find missing objects using battery-free RFIDs – MIT Media Lab
(media.mit.edu)
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A bit of post hint.fm streamline history: It can be sourced back to Cameron Beccario's project getting some exposure in late 2013 after launch as open source. https://github.com/cambecc/earth It's cited as di
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New and improved bike routing, with low stress options
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Taxation should compensate for the fact that the top 0.1% of people have the means to pay specialists to optimize their financial gains. This advantage has nothing to do with individual skill or hard working ethics. Taxation schemes that do
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I you apply a scaling factor 𝒌 to everything, nothing changes between the incomes in relative terms and that relative change is what matters and is shown in the chart.
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One caveat you typically have with them, is that you forfeit your right to file a lawsuit for individual damages. So I see hardly any advantage for the individual customer who got some individual issue of magnitude and is forced to choose b
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Just look at how the EU consumer protection directives are working over here. You're simply not allowed to waive your guaranteed rights as a customer in some sort of EULA or TOS. And if you are forced to, the whole contract is void in
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Experiments with Google
(experiments.withgoogle.com)
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GoogleChrome/puppeteer: Headless Chrome Node API
(github.com)
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If you want to read some German. Dietmar Dath's Skye Boat song is a more fictional hommage to Shannon. http://literaturkritik.de/id/4437
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Actually it looks like the reason is purely chronological: This article is about the research and live events following up to the publication of his seminal work A Mathematical Theory of Communication in 1948 and ends there. He met his wi
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It's an excerpt from the same book by the same two authors, who are promoting it in another publication with another focus. It's missing in this article, which is focussing on the theory, not on his life, but it's in the book
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Of cause projections themselves don't have to be restricted to the geometric planar case: https://github.com/shaunlebron/blinky and don't miss the explanatory part further down: http://shaunlebron.
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In general also see some other factual problems with his history backdrop arguments as well, besides PC and the arguably simplified popular history version narrative in the retelling of the Galileo Affair . In fact, Copernicus was a canon
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