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by placesalt 3y ago
The geometry available and the frankly very subtly good alignment-snapping that it has makes it very useful. Posters, ERDs, I'm sure there are other applications too.
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by placesalt 3y ago
I got an attaboy when I used sounds and flying text in my first summer office job. It was cool.
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by placesalt 3y ago
16 lines of go, with comments & whitespace
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by placesalt 3y ago
I think there a link that can be drawn between the type of contract you describe, and feudal-era serfdom. Serfs at the time were effectively prevented from owning property - land. In this case, people are being prevented from owning propert
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by placesalt 3y ago
I haven't thought about Hinterland Who's Who in a long time. Nice selection, too. Nature's engineer.
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by placesalt 3y ago
It's worth mentioning what, at least in my mind, is a peer to the NFB: the Heritage Minutes. Sort of like The More You Know, they were (are?) usually shown in-between children's TV shows. There's no irony or shame in their pr
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by placesalt 3y ago
> I've tested both π and g, and while they both work well, g results in far fewer disk full errors. I've heard c works even better, though I haven't tried it yet. Good to know. FWIW i should also be avoided. It's temp
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Teardown of Huawei's new phone shows China's chip breakthrough(reuters.com)
5 points by placesalt 3y ago|0 comments
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by placesalt 3y ago
The song 'Move Along', by Tommy Makem and Liam Clancy, about Gypsies / Irish Travellers, is very affecting: https://youtu.be/vV7suDUeXSc?t=286
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by placesalt 3y ago
A couple things I haven’t seen mentioned: - a keychain sized measuring tape I got as conference swag years ago - a geologists’ hand lens. I’m not a geologist but it is useful on rare occasions when you need to see really small things. Thoug
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Ask HN: Misquoting of Search Result Numbers
2 points by placesalt 3y ago|0 comments
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by placesalt 3y ago
There are plans to send people back to the moon.
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by placesalt 3y ago
I hope someone had the acerbic wit to label the tape 'tape'
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by placesalt 3y ago
> mute moot?
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by placesalt 3y ago
The plant doesn’t cost $53B, it’s being funded in part by the $53B Chips Act. Headline in The Grauniad is wrong.
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by placesalt 3y ago
As a counterpoint, as Troy Lee Hudson said at a JPL lecture, 1 is infinitely more than zero[0]. [0] https://youtu.be/kqTR0mrIIEc?t=2676 (The entire lecture and Q&A in that video is quite good).
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by placesalt 3y ago
Confined farts and tea, A grand place to be! On board HMS Majesty For nukes a tour or' sea What kind of men are we? Who fly 'bove the floor? Hardy! and Strong! and Work all day long! and Sing a sweet song when we come back to thee
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by placesalt 3y ago
If you see a car with those plates in 'the south' (ie where 90+% of the country's population lives), you can presume that a car has physically travelled thousands of kilometres across a vast, nearly unpopulated wilderness to
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AI-generated art cannot receive copyrights, US court says(reuters.com)
8 points by placesalt 3y ago|0 comments
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by placesalt 3y ago
(beautiful writing, as others have said!) > the same depressing crumbling economy of coastal towns all over the UK I'm surprised to hear that coastal towns in the UK are doing poorly. In North America, it's generally the coasta
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by placesalt 3y ago
What do 'CAC' and 'LTV' stand for?
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by placesalt 3y ago
Ecology?
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by placesalt 3y ago
I did the same sort of thing with a broken iPod hard drive. If it was squeezed, it would work; the fix was to put a folded business card in-between the exterior back plate and the drive. That would squeeze it enough that it'd work. Nev
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by placesalt 3y ago
The basic premise I got from Mike Duncan's podcast was that: when Rome ran out of dangerous external enemies to fight (ie Carthage), people in Rome found internal enemies to fight. That was fine for a few centuries, until external enem
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by placesalt 3y ago
"We kill people based on metadata" - General Hayden
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by placesalt 3y ago
More to the point, any government could be run by criminals in the future.
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by placesalt 3y ago
At some point say 'ooh, is someone making popcorn?', then leave, make popcorn, and come back and share.
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by placesalt 3y ago
> 90% of jobs aren't people's "passions" and have no chance at becoming some big world changing venture. Lots of employers like to delude themselves that their company is some big important, cutting-edge enterprise th
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by placesalt 3y ago
IOW, it is what it is, and it's not what it's not, and it may be what it was - it even may have been what it will be - but it won't be what it can't be, though even then it may have been what it isn't. So it goes.
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by placesalt 3y ago
UPS is capitalized in the BBC story title (and everywhere else), it should be capitalized in the HN title, methinks.

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