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by ornel 4y ago
It basically depends on how accurate you want to be. I looked into this so I could generate lunar calendars for friends. I got the phases of the moon predictions from the BSD Games program pom by Keith E. Brandt[0], which is itself based on
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by ornel 5y ago
I use it, but the requirement to be online in order to add or update entries is quite annoying
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The SSP Scenarios(dkrz.de)
1 points by ornel 5y ago|0 comments
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by ornel 5y ago
Considering an apartheid state synonymous with Judaism is incredibly anti Semitic and promotes antisemitism
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Furuno marine GPS affected by 2022 rollover issue(twitter.com)
1 points by ornel 5y ago|0 comments
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by ornel 5y ago
"The Dawn of Everything" by David Graeber and David Wengrow, a radical take on human deep history. Extremely thought-provoking so far, though I'm not finished yet (it's massive)
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by ornel 5y ago
How did the boycott against the South African state "destroy" South Africa? It just made it a democratic country, something Israel is not
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by ornel 5y ago
"Umberto Eco and Roland Barthes were unavailable for comment" I want to believe that is some dark sarcasm by the article's author
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by ornel 5y ago
Just for reference, the author of the linked article is the founder of the Genetic Literacy Project: "Its executive director is Jon Entine who promotes GMOs. Bloomberg and The Progressive have reported that lawyers suing Monsanto state
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by ornel 5y ago
Not much trouble slipping into Palestine for a foreigner, but you do get interrogated on your way out of Israel right at the airport and if you say you went to the occupied territories you may get sent to the little room for further questio
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by ornel 6y ago
Does anyone know about a well maintained (anti-) gaming blocklist?
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by ornel 6y ago
My setup for this purpose (on Linux Mint) uses that camera, a Lumix G7, which is indeed about $500, compared to a Logitech HD Pro webcam for about $100, it is totally worth it. I can pick up the Lumix, which uses my existing collection of m
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by ornel 6y ago
Google Maps in next to unusable in rural areas of the third world (as far as I have seen) with unpaved roads. I guess there is no business case for Google in spending money to map those areas
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by ornel 6y ago
I have to agree with Cory Doctorow: when shit hits the fan, it's solidarity what happens. "The fact that we remain here today, after so many disasters in our species’ history, is a reminder that we are a species of self-rescuing p
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by ornel 6y ago
I need azulfidine (sulfasalazine, salazopyrine) to control my arthritis flare ups. It suddenly disappeared from pharmacies due to messed up logistics of precursors. It really made me aware of how totally dependent I am on this product of co
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by ornel 6y ago
I got one of those capture devices and connected a Lumix G7. Plug and play in Linux. Now I'm using OBS with v4l2loopback to have greater control, crop, etc. Nobody cares or notices the nearly half second delay. And nobody notices the b
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by ornel 6y ago
I do lots of work in my hammock -- I can shift to many different positions, including putting my feet down and gently pushing side to side. Laptop only, but hopefully eventually with VR
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by ornel 6y ago
Forced automatic updates are a dealbreaker for me as I need an OS to run on a slow satellite connection on a ship with 35 people. I need total control over updates. I guess Ubuntu is designed for an idealised sort of user that does not need
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by ornel 6y ago
I made a generator of Panamanian-sounding names by making a syllable based 2-gram analysis of all first and middle names registered in Panama until 2012. By increasing the weight given to likely syllable sequences you can make names sound m
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by ornel 6y ago
I measured myself at home in Mexico City and got 93%. I got kind of worried, knowing people sick with COVID-19 can have very low saturation levels without realising it. Then I remembered I was standing at about 2200 m above sea level. Lots
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by ornel 6y ago
Scott also mentions in another book how cultures based on roots (potato, manioc) tend to be less hierarchical as they don't easily support taxing and strong states, whereas grain can be easily quantified and taxed all at once at harves
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by ornel 6y ago
This is fantastic. Textures are an excellent alternative for quantifying things in cartographic maps and to reduce the often distracting use of color. I wonder how these patterns would perform if imported into Inkscape, which in my experien
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500K air quality measurement data points and API(openaq.org)
2 points by ornel 6y ago|0 comments
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Awesome list of geospatial and earth observation links and stuff(github.com)
1 points by ornel 6y ago|0 comments
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by ornel 7y ago
Nice interface and very easy to set up, it's great I could get to try it without entering any payment methods. I actually need a Linux machine (for GIS with QGIS), it would be nice to get other OS options aside from Windows. I also wan
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by ornel 7y ago
This is the closest to a primary source I've found: https://twitter.com/NickAstronomer/status/113779137705039462...
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by ornel 8y ago
We just finished a project in rural communities in Panama and gave laptops (ThinkPad 13) with Mint 19 Cinnamon to people with very little experience with computers. However, we kept Windows 10 in one of the computers and guess what, that&#x
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by ornel 8y ago
I just signed up for the Linux trial version of the ProtonMail bridge and installed it on my Mint box. Now I get mail via IMAP on Thunderbird totally transparently and couldn't be happier. My only complaint right now is the inability t
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by ornel 8y ago
Hey, this is great. With concurrent editing/sharing I would use this to work on collective texts before translating to LaTeX for actual typesetting. Any plans to offer that in the future?
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by ornel 8y ago
We remember him in Panama for signing the treaty that gave us back the Canal and the surrounding military bases. He's the only US president I would shake hands with

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