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by quink 4y ago
Switzerland is in Europe. With 1'000'000 percent certainty.
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by quink 4y ago
Non-renewable energy problematic? Let’s blame advocates for renewable energy. That’ll make people see reason and solve the issue /s
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They have 127 Boeing 757s, a plane that stopped being made two decades ago with still no clear successor.
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by quink 4y ago
https://dmarcian.com/fortune-100-dmarc-policies/ Around between four and four and a half orders of magnitude for the Fortune 100, with five orders being the maximum possible wrongness.
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by quink 4y ago
Iosevka Slab has been my go to for a while now. The only thing that’s still missing to make it near perfect is a proper variable font variant.
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Scott Bell, user sctb.
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The examples given are, with native speaker numbers, Assamese (15 million), Catalan (4 million) and Kinyarwanda (10 million). These alone are more than an Australia. Furthermore, Facebook considers the internet to consist of Facebook and Wi
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by quink 4y ago
If it smells like overfitting, it probably is overfitting.
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> Which of these body fonts feels most appropriate for a sci-fi book set in 2975? EB Garamond > EB Garamond has a very classic, formal appearance. We want something that has a modern edge. No.
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by quink 4y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/9pow06/louis_rossman...
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by quink 4y ago
Or you could just do IRV or multi-member electorates or any number of other things done in other more democratic countries that are at least harder to characterise as stealing votes.
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> upgrading is basically as expensive as laying new line That assertion is highly dependent on too many factors and even recent developments to be of much use. That general assertion needs to be backed up with everything around the soil
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by quink 5y ago
Three, BBC, Channel 4 and S4C. Even Australia with only 25 million has two, and IMO it's nowhere near enough. Ireland has two. Germany has twelve and through those also participates in two transnational public media organisation. Much
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by quink 5y ago
It's not "enlightened {thinker} or {poet}", it's "enlightened {thinker or poet}".
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One person's definition of morals - especially as espoused by Kipling - is another's oppression. In those contexts, yeah, I agree, it's repulsive.
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Between that and tfa essentially exhorting do whatever you think is right and this ending up at the top of HN, being probably the leading discussion board for VC and at least somewhat influential in the future direction of technology, I thi
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by quink 5y ago
Considering Ariane 5 has only a few launches left it's probably more a superb advert for ESA / Arianespace.
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"bizarre" Is this the fallacy known as "Appeal to ridicule"?
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They got out of the smartphone business. That's enough of a motivation I guess.
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by quink 5y ago
Well, of course, they got out of the smartphone business. The last new model was the W41 released in February, in the Indian market only.
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by quink 5y ago
How about a friendly reminder about best practices. A very innocent statement, don't mean no harm by it. Just helping out a friend. "Did you know that personal files can disappear just like that, just like that? Oh, I just noticed
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by quink 5y ago
Pandoc plus jinja2 to generate its markdown input makes for a really simple yet very flexible system.
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I have no idea how I managed it as it was a long time ago, but I'm on exactly the plan that _everybody_ is crying out for. It might have been the result of some A-B test for all I know. I can't see any reference to it on any websi
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by quink 5y ago
> legal status > Access to information and knowledge is a basic human right. Sci-Hub will fight those laws that make free exchange of infomation impossible. The project will eventually be recognized as legal I keep thinking about sens
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Straight from Wikipedia: > In 2011, Swartz was arrested by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) police on state breaking-and-entering charges, after connecting a computer to the MIT network in an unmarked and unlocked closet, and
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by quink 5y ago
Great, a whole new way to automatically introduce bugs through code duplication. From the examples: body: text=${text} `text` isn't properly encoded, what if it has a `=`? rows, err := db.Query("SELECT category, COU
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by quink 5y ago
“Actually, I have never even checked 386BSD out; when I started on Linux it wast available (although Bill Jolitz series on it in Dr. Dobbs Journal had started and were interesting), and when 386BSD finally came out, Linux was already in a s
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by quink 5y ago
Fixed at around 21:02 GMT.
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Organization Let's Encrypt Not Before Fri, 05 Mar 2021 19:48:43 GMT Not After Thu, 03 Jun 2021 19:48:43 GMT
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Unicode Consortium SSL certificate expired(unicode.org)
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