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by sn41 6y ago
First, Hungary was part of the largest country in Europe at that time (ignoring Russia, which also had a huge Asiatic part), the Austro-Hungarian empire, so it was a cultural and intellectual center. There is also the legacy of the famous E
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by sn41 6y ago
I don't think this argument is entirely justified. There is a "sandpile" effect as more acquisitions come about, plus the merging of profiles in the context of social media platforms. The net effect is definitely more than th
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by sn41 6y ago
About the name: Feluda is a famous detective character [1] created by the director Satyajit Ray [2]: [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feluda [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyajit_Ray
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by sn41 6y ago
It's not really that. This happens even when you're the one who worked on that paper. A paper requires intense focus on details. Mere months after that paper, you forget some of the details. It's just natural, considering tha
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by sn41 6y ago
I think the base circadian day time is about 25 hours, or 24 hours 11 minutes, or similar [1]. I've always wondered what would happen to the sleep cycles of astronauts on long space journeys. They may not have "daylight" to r
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by sn41 6y ago
Perhaps, but "I did something interesting. This is what I found." style, which is the two-sentence style revealing nothing, seems to be a psychological bait.
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by sn41 6y ago
I think this style of title is deliberately designed to be clickbait. I will not click on this.
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by sn41 6y ago
I absolutely love science fiction of the 1950s and early 1960s. In my spare time, I try reading "Galaxy science fiction" from archive.org. It is a pleasure to read classics like "The Fireman" by Ray Bradbury, which even
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by sn41 6y ago
No... If I recall right, that was Steve King. Steve King was a congressman, not a senator. Maligning a single congressman does not invalidate the basic point that a lot of senators are making.
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by sn41 6y ago
The reason for banking regulation is so that banks do not take high-risk-high-reward-huge-losses types of risks with other people's money. If fintech does the same behavior with indirect or direct leverage of other people's money,
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by sn41 6y ago
Credit where credit is due. The great West Indian fast bowler Michael Holding correctly gave Latimer the credit for the carbon filament. Politicians on the other hand, distort the message.
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by sn41 6y ago
Yes, this is something that I have realised of late. Very few people except maybe the most psychopathic, start by believing that they are evil. Most of us believe that we are being victimised. Maybe I am an unemployed youth, outraged at the
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by sn41 6y ago
Does bzflag have something to do with this term?
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by sn41 6y ago
Yes, I do this as well. The improvement is significant, and the relief, noticeable.
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by sn41 6y ago
As a person who occasionally teaches programming languages, including Haskell, I have found the PHP community to be exceptionally supportive when it comes to documentation and examples. It has a very respectful attitude towards comments on
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by sn41 6y ago
I use dictation on my MacBook Pro liberally. One thing I wish is that my Emacs interacts with the Voice Control features - Voice control does not recognize the Emacs on my Mac at all. Also, Karabiner-Elements helps me to remap some of my a
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by sn41 6y ago
It is an interesting historical note that T. V. Raman won the ACM best doctoral dissertation award as a blind scholar [1]. I take an active interest in accessibility partly because my wrists hurt. Technologies initially meant to help blind
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by sn41 6y ago
This is great!!! I will try this out, and port some of my small apps on to my mobile.
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by sn41 6y ago
Hey... what's wrong with Tcl? Whenever I have a shell script and want to tack on a "GUI", Tcl/Tk is the most time-economical one for me. I am happy that it is still around, and that it works on most platforms (of course
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by sn41 6y ago
Probably your baggage is scanned at some point, if you have checked-in luggage.
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by sn41 6y ago
Clicking on the timestamp to get to a comment so that I can favorite it, is not that intuitive either.
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by sn41 6y ago
Org mode has an extension export to epub from markup with latex notations. https://github.com/syohex/org-epub Probably markdown/pandoc has similar options.
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by sn41 6y ago
Amen to the article. High Sierra was the high point of my romance with Apple. Dictation used to work decently until that point, just as a small example. Catalina has pretty much ruined a lot of my favorite features. I had to update the OS b
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by sn41 6y ago
A classic example of bikeshedding.
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by sn41 6y ago
Yes, in fact his documentaries are initially unnerving, because suddenly you see Robert Mc Namara shouting at you : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317910/
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by sn41 6y ago
Very cool. This is somewhat similar to the mechanism of flipping a rearview mirror in order to dim lights from behind at night.
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by sn41 6y ago
We should have a GNU like alternative for the mobile. Mobiles are the primary computing devices now, and we should give liberty to the developers to distribute their products as they wish.
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by sn41 6y ago
... to the point of killing off nearly all other competitors. They are neatly poised if they now want to do monopoly-based price gouging, or create a walled dystopia.
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by sn41 6y ago
I have Emacs pinkies - I see the value in similar efforts. I will try this out for some time to see if it actually helps. But muscle memory is a thing for me, it is hard to undo 20 years of Emacs habits.
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by sn41 6y ago
This sounds a bit like "fixed role therapy" [1] [1] http://www.pcp-net.org/encyclopaedia/fixed-role-ther.html

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