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by nbernard 4y ago
AFAIK, the only difference (for the UHK keyboard, at least) is that, on the ISO layout, the left-shift key is narrower, in order to make space for an extra key. This is visible for instance if you compare their US (ANSI) and UK (ISO) layout
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by nbernard 4y ago
Depends on what you put under "ergonomic", but you could take a look at the Ultimate Hacking keyboard: https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/ (split, ISO layout & mechanical switches, not wireless however).
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by nbernard 4y ago
If money is not a problem, have you considered getting both? I cannot speak for the calculators currently on the market, but over the years I had both a TI-92+ and a HP-50g: I liked both and for some things I preferred the TI, for others th
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by nbernard 4y ago
If you like old movies, don't miss the 1959 adaptation!
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by nbernard 4y ago
I'm not sure about unusual or not, but I believe it was (then and there) possible to start a doctorate right after graduating from high-school (if I remember correctly from a biography of J. von Neumann).
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Oğuz Atay: Tutunamayanlar (The Disconnected)(themodernnovel.org)
26 points by nbernard 4y ago|2 comments
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by nbernard 4y ago
I don't remember either of those two, but I see GenerallyIntelligent ones very (too) often...
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by nbernard 4y ago
If the previous work is a single paper, you are right. However it consists usually in multiple papers, it becomes then more complicated to hide that all these papers share one (or more) author(s).
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by nbernard 4y ago
IMHO, the short film 2081 [0], based on this story, is also worth watching. [0]: http://www.finallyequal.com/
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by nbernard 4y ago
What do you think of HN's cstross take in his novel _Saturn's Children_ ? > Please excuse my lack of depth; I'm a generalist, not a specialist. > Why bother learning all that biochemistry stuff --- or how to design a bu
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by nbernard 4y ago
> Yes they can ignore the VAT if they operate outside of the EU. It's up to the importer to pay the tax in that case. National posts and delivery companies have a standardized procedure for it. Yes, but... there is usually some &quo
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Logistics, How Did They Do It, Part II: Foraging(acoup.blog)
2 points by nbernard 4y ago|0 comments
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by nbernard 4y ago
Somewhat related, there is the Simple English Wikipedia: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_English_Wikipedia
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by nbernard 4y ago
> The pipes ran through the sewers of the city, and the tunnels of the Metro and the RER, a commuter rail network serving Paris and its suburbs. > However, the system was repaired and pneumatic clocks continued to work until 1927. Co
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by nbernard 4y ago
To me, what you describe is just flow state [0]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)
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by nbernard 4y ago
In France, it depends a lot on the target and size of the store. They are still relatively rare in city stores that target the general consumer, but they are readily available in larger suburban/rural stores. However, even in these, sm
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by nbernard 4y ago
Under the assumption that the lifetime of such "tools" follows a power law, then the life expectancy of a currently used tool is how long it has already been around. So, from this point of view, the older the tool (editor, languag
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by nbernard 4y ago
> natural gas furnace literally is a controlled blast of explosive gas without a smell OT: in Europe, a thiol is added to natural gas to give it a distinctive smell. Isn't the same done in the US?
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by nbernard 4y ago
> is it possible to do USB pass-through monitoring? I fear it would need something a little bit more complex than just an Arduino on the hardware side. For some options, you could take a look at some recent versions of Facedancer [0] and
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by nbernard 4y ago
> It ignores that much of the risk comes from outside of the drivers control. True; on the other hand I remember (I don't have a handy reference, sorry) a study showing that car drivers were leaving less space around cyclists wearin
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by nbernard 4y ago
Maybe not the kind of "tech" you were expecting, but... Respect the Unstable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Lhu31X94V4
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by nbernard 4y ago
Take a look at Supermicro motherboards. They should have server class Atom-based motherboards, hence low power but with network management, possibility to use ECC RAM, hardware support for virtualization, etc.
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by nbernard 4y ago
Maybe this could be a starting point: https://joakimsoderberg.github.io/catcierge/ ?
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by nbernard 4y ago
> The "fig" file format, being text, is easy to drop into source control. Yes, and using transfig it can be transformed into whatever format you need. So, for instance, you can have a complete LaTeX document with .fig figures (
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by nbernard 4y ago
Swapping on the SD card is a nightmare. I found out that disabling the swap actually leads to a better experience, even if it means that firefox gets killed from time to time. [This comment was written on a rpi4, btw.]
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by nbernard 4y ago
Thanks for the link! I see what you mean, but is using the "general overestimation" slider actually unbiased? I don't really understand what it is supposed to represent. Looking at the code, it seems to be only an additive te
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by nbernard 4y ago
> The article argues that the graphs supposedly demonstrating this fact, can also be generated from a model that does not have this difference, i.e. where bias_lowskill == bias_highskill. But as I understand it, it doesn't: In the g
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by nbernard 5y ago
IIRC, Seb: https://www.seb.fr/
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by nbernard 5y ago
Not really, the World's population then was less than a quarter of what it is today.
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by nbernard 5y ago
Well, considering that Yubikeys can generate crypto keys (for SSH, PGP, etc.) on device, I assume it would be possible for a fake one to use a backdoored/weak random number generator so that encryption/authentication based on thes

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