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by nxc18 9y ago
I wrote a tool to convert pptx files to markdown. Using python it was maybe a 3 hour project. I'm sure some of the more nuanced formatting is a challenge, but the format really isn't bad and keeps the content quite manageable.
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by nxc18 9y ago
I was taught multiplication by rote memorization of the tables. It didn't go well as I'm bad at rote memorization. People ask me if they see the beauty in math when I'm complaining. I do, but I also see the other kids outside
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by nxc18 9y ago
That's kind of the issue with automation in general. Its funny to see the 'fuck you we're automating jobs/art/literally everything' coming from a subgroup of an industry that is apparently now cannibalizing its
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by nxc18 9y ago
Those practices (handing out oxy) are a major contributor to the current epidemic, if not the root cause. I've gotten opiate prescriptions I had no business having without asking. I get that some people need pain medication or will suf
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by nxc18 9y ago
I'm from Manchester but I don't think I've ever heard Mancunian in usage, although I'm fairly certain at least in NH that demonyms are really not culturally significant outside of the national ones. NH isn't easily
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by nxc18 9y ago
Crooked IIHS wants to improve highway safety by making cars safer. How dare they? If I'm buying a $30,000 electric car, I demand my car be at least as dangerous as the least safe ICE cars. What good is a car if you can't get some
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by nxc18 9y ago
It would be really nice if Microsoft kept some of their products in a consistent working, high-quality state. As a long-term OneDrive (SkyDrive, Windows Live Mesh, FolderShare) user, it has been really disappointing to see features come, go
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by nxc18 9y ago
I remember when I moved from the northeast and heard the positive anymore for the first time. I assumed the speaker was just somewhat dim, or maybe suffering from a minor stroke. It turns out this is an established construction if you ventu
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by nxc18 9y ago
You're getting downvoted but this is a good point - southwest does it right. For whatever reason, people dislike the back of the plane but if you can tolerate that, you typically have your choice of isle or window, even with crappy lin
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by nxc18 9y ago
It looks like mainly kernel and drivers were leaked. WINE is emulating the Win32, which is distinct from the Windows NT kernel & drivers - kind of like how the Linux API is distinct from the Windows NT kernel, despite Windows supporting
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by nxc18 9y ago
There are plenty of neighborhoods and even countries that might give you pause. There are plenty of people for whom having children is their only goal, their only live purpose, and the only meaningful thing they do in their life besides liv
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by nxc18 9y ago
One of those things is how you spend 40+ hours of your non-sleeping week. The other two are completely irrelevant to anyone but yourself. What would you even say about your family? They exist? "My mom died of cancer, thanks for asking.
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by nxc18 9y ago
At least once a week if not more. Of course I'm biased coming out of a CS degree program...
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by nxc18 9y ago
I've done this multiple times over the last 2ish months, and every time it has been because I don't want to create the wrong perception of myself. In fact, I almost did that with this comment, but decided the irony was too much.
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by nxc18 9y ago
I think that's kind of the point. Angular was not only the choice just a few years ago, it is still a relatively new technology. It was just as obvious a few years ago as react is today. And now? Angular is dwindling out.
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by nxc18 9y ago
Microsoft has a long history of not making durable products. I've been a bit of a fan boy, and all but one piece of Microsoft hardware I've owned has needed factory service. Xbox 360, Zune 80, Surface RT, Surface 3, Surface Pen, N
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by nxc18 9y ago
Surface and MacBook are not marketed to those people. They haven't been marketed to those people since the removable battery was killed off. How many of your MacBook Pros shipped with removable batteries?
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by nxc18 9y ago
There's no product description whatsoever... How do you plan to monetize plain text?
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by nxc18 9y ago
The preferred usage (I'm told) is that man/woman is used for gender and male/female is used for sex. Gender is largely limited to humans, but humans also have a biological sex that is both difficult to ascertain in some cases
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by nxc18 9y ago
Damage control and placating the media. Having scandal after scandal while doing literally nothing is a really bad look. The board here gets the best of both worlds, publicly appearing to do something while also still doing basically nothin
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by nxc18 9y ago
Define popular. For example: No one really uses reactos in production and a significant number of hn commenters are disappointed its not a js framework. Yet I would consider legitimate contributions there to be similarly interesting to cont
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by nxc18 9y ago
Really, no one has said Linux yet? This is very surprising, given how often it is put on a pedestal for its excellent design... Realistically this is because it is in fact a big messy pile of 'at least it works'. Still, it is wort
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by nxc18 9y ago
Dubai was built on slave labor... I don't think anyone there cares at all about homeless or hungry people, as long as they're in the outskirts or out of sight. Here's a quora link: https://www.quora.com/To-wha
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by nxc18 9y ago
What was your program? I suspect there is considerable variation. My program only required students to take the intro courses for all those topics, but students were expected to pick one or more areas of concentration. I wrote an operating
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by nxc18 9y ago
Those are all very good points. Personally I'm a big fan of sustainability and at the very least emphasizing poultry over beef would be a good move, with vegetable alternatives being a longer term aspiration. Even today I've found
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by nxc18 9y ago
Evidence? I'm all for environmental sustainability, but there are very few people who would have their survival threatened by any environmental changes in their lifetime. For those few on an island somewhere who very well could be thre
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by nxc18 9y ago
Lots of fish medication is copper based due to antibacterial/anti-parasitic action. Real bad for invertebrates though.
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by nxc18 9y ago
For sure, and Windows is not a microkernel, but it does have separated kernel-in-kernel and executive layers; it would approach being a microkernel architecture if the executive was moved into userland. This is similar to how macOS would be
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by nxc18 9y ago
If you are sufficiently motivated, NT 4 leaked many years ago and you could find it; it even has interesting things like DEC Alpha support & various subsystems still included IIRC. Perhaps you could find a newer version like 5.2 on GitH
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by nxc18 9y ago
The NT kernel is surprisingly small and well-factored to begin with - it is a lot closer to a 'pure' philosophy (e.g. Microkernel) than something like Linux to begin with. If you have a problem with Windows being overcomplicated o

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