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by qohen 6y ago
You can get 3rd party toner cartridges for a fraction of the price of official cartridges. Just get the model # for the cartridges and look for a supplier on Amazon who seems reputable and where the product gets good reviews. In my case, I&
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by qohen 6y ago
Note that The Golden Age is book 1 of "The Golden Oecumene" trilogy [0]. (FWIW, I read the trilogy years ago and enjoyed it; also by Wright, but not about AR/VR/etc., is the six-book "Count to the Eschaton Sequenc
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Microsoft surprised everyone a few years ago with a good, modern cross-platform editor (Windows, Mac and Linux) called VSCode [0]. Its source was open to boot. It's GUI-based and looks spiffy It has a large ecosystem of plug-ins for di
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Note that this Bloomberg article is from April 2017.
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This Steve Jobs quote comes to mind: "A human mind is too precious to be wasted" I don't know if Steve Jobs said that -- I can't find a reference -- but, even if he did, chances are he got it from elsewhere, since that
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What do you mean by TC Total compensation (i.e. salary + stock-options/RSUs, etc.) and what is Blind? https://www.teamblind.com/ From its Wikipedia page[0]: Blind is an app that provides an anonymous forum and com
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by qohen 6y ago
Given that the publisher, Springer, is giving it away for free during the pandemic, you should grab the PDF of Steven Skiena's The Algorithm Design Manual[0] (direct PDF link[1]) -- it's a book that has often been mentioned favora
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Milwaukee, WI is famous for their Cream City bricks For anyone interested, Cream City bricks has a Wikipedia page[0] with pictures of buildings built with them. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cream_City_brick
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And as a non-American can someone explain the issue with the Aunt Jemima brand? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aunt_Jemima#Controversy (For more information on the origins of the character, you can scroll up the page
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Adrian Colyer's The Morning Paper[0] blog might be worth a look. (As he describes it, it's "a random walk through Computer Science research") If there are specific areas of interest, you can click "Tags" in the
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Tell HN: Skiena's “The Algorithm Design Manual” currently free from publisher
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Perhaps not exactly what you have in mind, but there is the Antikythera mechanism [0][1], the first known analog computer, dating back to about 100-200 BCE which exhibits gear-work that one doesn't see for another 1500 years or so. The
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For docker images in general: the best way is to do multi-stage builds [0][1]. You will need to (re)write your Docker files to use this. A quick-and-dirty way that doesn't require rewriting is just to use the experimental --squash flag
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I happened to recently read this blog post [0] by Patrick MacKenzie's (i.e. HN's own patio11) which, among other things, covers some of his early time in Japan. Part of it shows how things can work out -- towards the end, he relat
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The idea presented in the linked blog post, of having a gen_server's init/1 immediately time out and then having a handle_info clause handle the timeout so you can further initialize a gen_server, is not new -- it's a fairly
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Chwazi is great (and free), but you do have to have everyone get their finger on the device's screen (and, btw, some older devices can't recognize more than 5 fingers). Another free option that just requires you to select the play
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by qohen 7y ago
It's the first line of Tolstoy's novel, Anna Karenina . (TIL there's something named the Anna Karenina principle after this very line [0]; it's used in statistics and ecology). [0] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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Also, in the US, also in the 70's -- a bomb was put in a locker at Grand Central Station in 1976 and, a year earlier, a bomb was placed in a locker at Grand Central Station. Both bombs went off (and both may have been connected to Balk
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There's a recommended book on algorithms which is very nice (red cover, but can't recall title). Bit of a tangent, but, for anyone who's interested, I'm guessing the book was Steven Skiena's The Algorithm Design
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Glad to be of service :-)
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For anyone who wants more background on Suleimani, this New Yorker piece [0] about him from 2013 is detailed and interesting. A quick excerpt, if you don't have time for it all: Suleimani took command of the Quds Force fifteen years a
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Wasn't there something like this with Mexican gunrunning? You're likely referring to the ATF gunwalking scandal[0], the best known piece of which was "Operation Fast and Furious"[1]: [0] https://en.wikipedia
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For SlickDeals, you might want to use the following URL, as it'll give you 80 items per page (vs. the default of 30): https://slickdeals.net/forums/filtered/?f=9&perpage=80
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FYI, you might want to check out ZomboDB[0], which integrates Postgres and ElasticSearch. It's open source[1] and, fwiw, the developer was helpful when I pinged him with some questions a while back (and is available for consulting serv
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Horde is indeed a really interesting Elixir library. It's based on the CRDT library, DeltaCrdt [0], also by Derek Kraan. He discusses DeltaCrdt here [1] and Horde here [2]. BTW, Horde is a distributed supervisor, i.e. analogous to what
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Is this the part where you say that those countries stopped organizing their agricultural activity in a "socialist" way and that's why they no longer had famines? Yes, this is the part[0] and it's worth reading about i
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The linked Daily Mail piece is actually based on this article (which they link to); it has more details: https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-a-milli... (Note that even though the link indicates that it
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Distributed Systems for Fun and Profit is a free ebook available in various formats: http://book.mixu.net/distsys/
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About living past 75 and play not being so meaningful (per the author) and also about a year potentially making a difference: I just came across this story[0] on Metafilter, about a 75 year old woman, originally from France -- the author&#x
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Mikito Takada (AKA mixu) has a free book called Distributed systems: for fun and profit that you can read online or download: http://book.mixu.net/distsys/ From the introduction: In this text I've tried to prov

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