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by sleavey 6y ago
Reminds me a little of the two labs I've worked in in the course of my gravitational wave interferometry research in the LIGO collaboration. Analog electronics are still (usually) far faster and far less noisy than digital as a way to
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by sleavey 6y ago
What's the controversy over whether these types of good exist? Is it over whether the family would truly choose to buy more staple food and less luxury food based solely on cost and not some other figure of merit such as nutrition? For
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by sleavey 6y ago
Can you tell us more about your home brew weather station? That sounds cool.
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by sleavey 6y ago
Oh, so is GTK 2 the reason why we still have Python 2 as the default `python` command on Debian?
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by sleavey 6y ago
Ah, that's starting to explain the difference here. 5 EUR is approximately 8 CAD.
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by sleavey 6y ago
Niedersachsen. I usually get a falafel tasche which is €3 (same size) but you're right, maybe the equivalent sized döner is 1 or 2€ more. Still, there's a large gap in price I can't get my head around. Maybe your tax evasion
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by sleavey 6y ago
Something's up. In Germany in a normal city I can get a döner the same size as the one in the photo for €3 ($3.50?). It's not sourdough nor high quality protein but that can't explain the $7.50 difference. Edit: as the commen
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by sleavey 6y ago
Correct - this is explained in the YouTube video linked above [1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYeeTvitvFU
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by sleavey 7y ago
So not so much hard to understand (at least for trained physicists at the time), rather too much modesty from Maxwell himself to shout about the importance of his discovery.
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by sleavey 7y ago
This is great! What I miss though is some search or filtering of flour type. I only use spelt and rye.
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by sleavey 7y ago
Isn't this behavior in Python already via the functools module? Can't look it up right now but I'm pretty sure it's there.
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by sleavey 7y ago
I saw this paper [1] on Twitter today. At number 5 in the list of top-scoring chemicals that disrupt the virus's behaviour (PDF p11) is quercetin, which is apparently found in capers [2] and readily cleared for use as a supplement. Whi
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by sleavey 7y ago
I've been using KaTeX [1] for browser-based scientific logbook software since it loads and renders much more quickly than MathJax and doesn't make the page text move around while it renders. It doesn't support the complete Te
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by sleavey 7y ago
A few weeks ago I just logged out. I have since then never felt the need to log back in. Occasionally on autopilot I start typing the domain but when I realise I need to open my password manager and click a link in an email to log in, I los
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by sleavey 7y ago
I either get rid of cookie/tracking popups from the DOM (using e.g. Nuke Anything on Firefox, or developer tools) and use a bookmarklet to reenable scrolling or I open private browsing and accept all the junk they want to give. My brow
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by sleavey 7y ago
Don't get me wrong, I am not being a contrarian for the sake of it, and I'm willing to be proved wrong and would be happy to find out someone has solved this. I just can't see how - related to your point about Brave punishing
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by sleavey 7y ago
I did not say they should not necessarily exist, I said they should not exist in their current form. I also want to go back to the days where websites were a labour of love from individuals, not always for-profit enterprises. Ads right now
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by sleavey 7y ago
I will not use Brave because I disagree with the legitimacy it gives to ads on the web. I want an ad-free web, or at least an ads-in-anything-like-their-current-form web. If that means the web is 1000x smaller than it currently is, then fin
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by sleavey 7y ago
I don't have an opinion one way or the other, but isn't a day of a competent developer's work usually worth quite a lot compared to the integrated maintenance effort of looking after two (one of which is almost universal) lib
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by sleavey 7y ago
If it's a fabric variety facemask, I bet it absorbs a lot of the droplets. Not perfect, probably better than a smooth plastic facemask.
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by sleavey 7y ago
Aren't the main benefits of the mask the fact that you don't touch your face as much with potentially infected hands, and any sudden coughs or sneezes from the wearer are contained in the mask for others' benefit?
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by sleavey 7y ago
The Firefox developers only patch security vulnerabilities in standard Firefox releases. All minor bug fixes and new features go into Nightly and only after a few months into stock Firefox.
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by sleavey 7y ago
None whatsoever. I've had it disabled for about two years.
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by sleavey 7y ago
Furthermore don't touch my ability to paste into web forms. Some banks do this, and I have no idea why (some incredibly misguided idea of security?). I disabled the ability for websites to disable pasting using Firefox's about:con
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by sleavey 7y ago
Given that this is ARM, will this become available to the Raspberry Pi some time? I've set up a Raspberry Pi 4 as a media center but Netflix doesn't work because of codec issues.
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by sleavey 7y ago
For anyone wondering like I was, it's "Foreign function interface" [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_function_interface
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by sleavey 7y ago
It didn't block me, and I don't have a Medium account. Firefox 72 on Linux, ublock origin, Germany.
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by sleavey 7y ago
Nice. But I still dream of the day we make open source printer hardware and software with refillable ink and replaceable/repairable parts!
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by sleavey 7y ago
What's the model?
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by sleavey 7y ago
I've always wondered why someone hasn't started a company making expensive but fixable printers with ink reservoirs that can be refilled from bottles. You could charge 10x more than what HP and co charge for the hardware, and sell

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