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by sidpatil 4y ago
My favorite is East Village Books. I've had luck finding interesting books there.
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by sidpatil 4y ago
From a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32332132
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by sidpatil 4y ago
This approach has been around a lot longer than Electron too. Privoxy, i2p, CUPS, etc. were/are all local-first software with Web-based interfaces.
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by sidpatil 4y ago
Was it one of the sites in this list? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Q%26A_sites
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by sidpatil 4y ago
The article is published in Medical Hypotheses , which has an... interesting history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_Hypotheses
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by sidpatil 4y ago
Contrast with https://xkcd.com/353/ .
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by sidpatil 4y ago
> The biggest problem with it as far as I can tell is the requirement for manual entry. GnuCash isn't restricted to manual entry. It supports OFX [1], which you can set up to automatically pull transaction data from your bank. [1]
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by sidpatil 4y ago
Including Search?
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by sidpatil 4y ago
> Lacking that, maybe Americans will have to keep settling for all these clunky, incompatible intermediated patchwork solutions like Zelle and Venmo and USDC-on-Ethereum and whatever. FedNow is supposed to launch in 2023. https:/&#
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by sidpatil 4y ago
Where'd you get the 3 from? I thought it'd be 24 or 32, since that's how many bits you'd need to represent the color.
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by sidpatil 4y ago
What about Java?
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by sidpatil 4y ago
They're called violin plots. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violin_plot
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by sidpatil 4y ago
Not just the tree, but the fruit itself. Almond fruits are essentially peaches. If you crack open a peach or nectarine seed, you'll see an almond-like kernel inside. Almond trees have been bred to improve the kernel at the expense of t
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by sidpatil 4y ago
Exercise's benefits go beyond burning calories. Burning 500 calories is not the same as avoiding those 500 calories.
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by sidpatil 4y ago
> "Mommy music" doesn't appeal as much which I find a little fascinating. What genres does "Mommy music" consist of?
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by sidpatil 4y ago
I believe struts are reserved margins along the sides of the desktop, similar to gaps.
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by sidpatil 4y ago
> That seems a better word to describe that to me. It's all relative. For example, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_computer
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And before DeX, there was the Motorola Atrix ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Atrix_4G#Webtop ).
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> I can fully see them trying to add something like this to a DVD so you couldn’t watch it more than X times [...] There were a few different attempts at something along these lines in the early 2000s. They weren't that popular. ht
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by sidpatil 4y ago
I'm reminded of this: https://xkcd.com/827/
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by sidpatil 4y ago
Not to be confused with Privoxy: https://www.privoxy.org/
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by sidpatil 4y ago
Aren't you just citing different statistics?
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by sidpatil 4y ago
What cafeterias?
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by sidpatil 4y ago
What's wrong with CRUD apps? They may be boring to develop, but they tend to be the most useful. Every single one of those industries uses multiple CRUD apps in the course of their business operations. The database is one of the most i
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by sidpatil 4y ago
This seems related to the concept of the degree day. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degree_day
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My understanding is that OS thread operations require the processor/OS to switch between user mode and kernel mode, which is slow. Virtual threads don't require this, since they are managed entirely by the user process.
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by sidpatil 4y ago
Why is their name and logo so similar to the old TP-LINK logo? Are the companies related?
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by sidpatil 4y ago
The original title is "Absolute monster builds 'cursed' USB-C port that works differently if you flip the cable". From the title here, I thought it was saying Monster Cable [1] built this port. [1] https://en.
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by sidpatil 4y ago
> Tiny wrappers do not work since .NET, while being very Performanz will never be C like tiny. I meant tiny wrappers around non-.NET libraries, to approximate the functionality you get in PowerShell in a traditional UNIX shell.
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by sidpatil 4y ago
Maybe no emergencies occurred because of the presence of these emergency call stations. (At least those perpetrated by other people, i.e. assaults, thefts, etc.—I presume potential perpetrators would be discouraged by the presence of thes

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