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by roel_v 1y ago
Yeah there's an SK village inside the DMZ, I had lunch there last year on a tour. It's both wild and utterly unremarkable at the same time. There's a high fence around it, and you're warned not to go over that fence as t
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Ask HN: A better video player to learn stuff?
2 points by roel_v 1y ago|1 comments
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by roel_v 1y ago
I think, judging from your responses in this thread, that you're focusing too much on the 'generating stories' part. IMO that's the least attractive/useful part of your offering. The 'read something in two lang
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by roel_v 2y ago
In the Netherlands, it's not included in the 'standard' curriculum but it's optional if you take 'Wiskunde D', i.e. basically what elsewhere is called 'advanced placement math' or some such. ('Wi
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by roel_v 2y ago
Combined defense budgets of all individual member states was 214 billion in 2023. That's 'spending budget', not revenue like the 300 something billion of Apple's revenue cited above.
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by roel_v 2y ago
"13 billions absolutely nothing for Apple" LOL no there is not a single company or person in the world for whom 13 BILLION dollars is 'absolutely nothing'.
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by roel_v 2y ago
" and Apple should've known better." Of course Apple should've known better. Their lawyers warned them about the risks of these deals (I do not have internal knowledge, I just know they did, they do to everyone who enter
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by roel_v 2y ago
Not to highjack this topic, but she was recommended (like to many others of you no doubt) quite a bit in my Youtube feeds over the last few months; and the first few videos I watched seemed to be solid enough. Yet as I watched a few more, I
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by roel_v 3y ago
No, it has regional meanings, and you cannot assume that 'cider' always means what you say it does. I mean I too would have liked to have kept the original meaning of 'hacker' but alas, such is the nature of language.
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by roel_v 3y ago
I have not made enough cider and mead to be called a 'cider maker' in any sense but the most literal, and neither am I a chemist, so what I know about this is mostly from reading books and following others' advice. The way I
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by roel_v 3y ago
I have a working mental model for how electricity works that is useful enough to let me do (some) electrical work, figure out simple electronics circuits, have some sort of understanding of how electrical devices like light switches, light
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by roel_v 3y ago
Reminds me of a rumor in the first dotcom boom, where it was said that Larry Ellison would do 'laptop clay pidgeon shooting' from his yacht(s). He allegedly would have entire pallets of laptops carted onto the ships, take it out t
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by roel_v 3y ago
But don't worry, 2024 is going to be the Year Of Math On The Web. (I've been trying to do 'math on the web' (ish)) since 2002, and it's always sucked in some way; and all that time, images/pdf have Just Worked(
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by roel_v 3y ago
I don't think there are ways specifically for 8 year olds, what one needs is an 8 year old who is motivated enough to take the route that adults take. There's no material on topics like this to 'gamify' learning Blender
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by roel_v 3y ago
The movement did stand out to me, but I found it added to the atmosphere. It's a robot, its movements are supposed to be unlike that of humans. The non-physics based aspects just add to the mystique of the story for me, as this is clea
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by roel_v 3y ago
I've done a lot / most of the popular Youtube tutorials (donut, Grant Abbit's series'), but I found it very useful to combine them with some Udemy courses that usually take a slower, more curriculum focused approach. The
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by roel_v 3y ago
Just out of curiosity, did you investigate how much more expensive it would be to have molds made somewhere in the West? Is that even available at all for relatively small and inexpensive molds/projects/orders like yours?
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by roel_v 3y ago
" it is just a collection of anecdotes of the clueless" But those are the entertaining ones innit. What fun is it to read a blog (like OP) that says 'yeah we hired a bunch of experienced professionals and we didn't have
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by roel_v 3y ago
He was robbed of the label/title/achievement 'kernel contributor'. In the same way that the loser of a sports match due to a bad ref call is 'robbed' of something. Which I think is a fair description, given the
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by roel_v 3y ago
Do any of these methods actually work though? Last time I looked (admittedly, 6 months or so ago), there were 0 seeders on the torrents.
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by roel_v 3y ago
This is the point where I would tell the story of how I once got lost in Porto, while in a group of 25 geographers
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by roel_v 3y ago
It fits quite will within French legal tradition. Remember that it was Montesquieu himself who said 'le juge n'est que la bouche de la loi'. When I was working on my law degree, I (being a programmer) was quite interested in
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by roel_v 3y ago
Isn't that the geopolitical equivalent of 'You wouldn't know her. She goes to another school. In Canada."?
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by roel_v 3y ago
I have literally not once in my entire life heard a woman in real life say 'oh he's so tall, that's so attractive'. That's only an internet thing. Or an outside-Western Europe thing, maybe.
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by roel_v 3y ago
The HiP '97 mentioned in that link is actually where I first learned it and stole it from lol.
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by roel_v 3y ago
My last LAN party was back when everybody was still lugging around CRT's, but despite that being a long time ago, I remember the smell when you'd been inside for several days, pop outside to wake yourself up in the cold outside or
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by roel_v 3y ago
I have the top left button without modifiers remapped to esc, it's no problem at all. All your muscle memory works just fine, no retraining needed (UHK since 2018/2019, on of the first batches, and Vim user since late 1990's)
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by roel_v 3y ago
I've watched (non technical) people use ChatGPT a few times now, and most of them have rather underwhelming results. The reason is that they think it's just some other search engine, and they phrase their prompts as 'search q
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by roel_v 3y ago
Why would they? The resale value has plummeted because they're both prone to breakage and basically unserviceable.
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by roel_v 3y ago
I've never taught mathematics but I think it's much harder to teach the intuition, and I also think that more people are capable of learning the mechanics than the intuition. So from the point of view of someone designing a method

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