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by skripp 4y ago
I lived in London a couple of years in the early 2000s and me and my roommates used to watch Jeremy Paxman interview politicians and we were more or less in chock that he actually pushed them when they tried their usual non-answers. Now, we
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by skripp 4y ago
What makes this book great is that it more or less only assumes you know how an on-off switch works. Then he goes on to teach you how a (although rather primitive) CPU works and how you would program it. The teaching style in this book is s
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by skripp 5y ago
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software. Wonderfully written book on how computers work. It's even a good read for the curious non-technical reader. However, some chapters might be a bit hard for them. The first roa
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by skripp 5y ago
"It's UNIX system. I know this."
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by skripp 5y ago
”Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software” by Charles Petzold. It will take you on a journey from a lightbulb to assembly language. It’s extremely well written and I wish there were more books like it.
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by skripp 5y ago
1 gigagram, for us Europeans. ;) Edit: it would most likely be written as one thousand tonnes.
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by skripp 5y ago
>The aluminum cans are stolen because they actually have a intrinsic value. The plastic bag does not and there is no way to artificially add value to it so people collect and return them. Sure there is. When you buy a bag have it cost $1
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by skripp 5y ago
Here are four videos on the subject from my absolute favorite Yotuber, One Lone Coder (whom, sadly, is more or less on a hiatus now after having a kid. Damn those pesky kids!!!!) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tgamhuQnOkM&amp
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by skripp 5y ago
>“hey why don’t we go for a run, somewhere next Monday maybe around noon, just the two of us. I think there’s a nice track close to my place.” 欸！下个星期我们一起去跑步吧。比如星期一中午，就我们俩。我家附近好像有个挺好的跑道。 That's almost a direct translation that would
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by skripp 5y ago
> Ability to say that certain objects is far from both speaker and listener for example. Non-native here. I don't quite follow. How about: "The object is far away from both of us.". The concept is there, but maybe not as a
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by skripp 6y ago
$128
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by skripp 6y ago
Maybe this? https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/html/
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by skripp 6y ago
Very small audiance, but people with bad vision do enjoy the good displays on their machines and the GREAT built in zoom in OSX. Zoom in Windows is a joke. Unfortunatly Linux isn't really an option just yet for a lot of us.
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by skripp 6y ago
There are kits on Aliexpress/Taobao (I'm guessing Amazon as well) where you can convert any 5600/5610 to a metal bracelet. It has the casio and g-shock branding, so you have to be OK with a bit of light piracy. =) I did it la
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by skripp 7y ago
China
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by skripp 7y ago
This is anecdotal evidence, but I moved from a european town of 200 000 to a mega-city of 20 000 000 and I've seen far fewer incidents here during the last 5 years than the first 30 in my old hometown combined.
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by skripp 7y ago
I agree with the first sentence, but the second one makes no sense to me. Loads of energy in pasta/noodels, rice, potato, plant based oils etc etc. Getting all amino acids and various nutrients in sufficient amount sure, that is a prob
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by skripp 8y ago
She's telling you the time and weather. Depending on the circumstances she will add some tips like "Put on sunscreen", "bring an umbrella" or "put on a mask to protect against pollution". First time I hear