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by tombh 5y ago
(sorry for the cheap meme, but..) linux enters the chat
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Like I say I think you have a point, which I agree with, I just think it's conveniently selective of its viewpoint
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Of course you have a point, but I just think that's a conveniently selective interpretation of the reality. I mean just take blackness for example, you don't even have to say anything for your life to be fundamentally undermined
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Whilst I fully sympathise with the points, none of them are convincing nor helpful to me. I'm all for a balanced helping of "just do whatever works", but that's my only takeaway from this article, namely: compromising on
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by tombh 5y ago
You might be interested in this r/AskHistorians post https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/r5m4rs/how_l... It explores the overlap between West African and African-American music.
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Thanks, I think yours is actually a much more relevant answer than the one in the article. Personally, I took the original question as a _geophysical_ one, not a logistical one. I mean sure it's geophysically interesting that our curre
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Meanwhile the actual problem on the platform is hijacked accounts used to show those "live" streams of Buterin or Hoskinson claiming to double your crypto. So the problem isn't the account holders, nothing is solved by bannin
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I have a bachelor's degree in Religious Studies. Quite literally in the first week they gave us a handbook with some 120 definitions of religion. It was quite a sobering introduction to understand that the field I was going to invest 3
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by tombh 5y ago
Note that Wayland users are already using EGL in Firefox, so I don't think this makes any difference to them?
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That is a really interesting video!
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I wonder if dithering techniques could be used to convert any image into a 16 million colour image? Edit: Yes: https://allrgb.com (should have googled)
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> The universe could possibly avoid eternal heat death through random quantum tunnelling and quantum fluctuations, given the non-zero probability of producing a new Big Bang in roughly 10^10^10^56 years https://en.wikipedia.or
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Ahhh, great thanks, I was just overthinking it then
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Thanks. Though I still don't understand, it just seems non-sensical to use "this country" when you're outside the country in question, likes it's just a fundamental error of grammar. Can you give me a specific examp
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That's a good point. Now that I think about it, the Indonesians from whom I heard "bahasa" were actually also native Javanese speakers. Bahasa Indonesia is of course a lingua franca, and an increasingly imposing one for minor
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Eye-rollingly obnoxious? I've literally heard native Indonesians refer to their language as just "bahasa", though admittedly those same speakers told me off for doing it myself. So whilst I agree "bahasa" has a comm
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DoH = DNS over HTTPS
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Generally I would say that for the average HN'er software is our life, it's not just a field in which exciting things happen (the internet, ML and blockchains etc) but also, indeed perhaps more so, a "boring", day-in day
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I just want to provide you with another data point. I may well be in the minority, but nevertheless I am a bonafide contributor and enjoyer of HN. I should also point out that I did not and would likely not flag posts about the Tienanmen Sq
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Obligatory: I love Hacker News Not only am I interested to hear that "hot boxing" is an ancient practice, but also the sense of immediacy that I now have with ancient Persia over our shared etymology of kanab .
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by tombh 5y ago
I always thought it was obvious that Vim has one of the best, if not the best ecosystem, plugins, documentation, community. And its portable. I absolutely love Vim for so many reasons, normal mode is just not one of those reasons.
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It's in the same spirit certainly, but it's just not complete. For example its interaction with other plugins means you get thrown back into normal mode a lot. Also I just think the name "easy" betrays its real intention
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Indeed, before the Greeks The Buddha would most commonly only be depicted by his absence, an empty chair or foot prints most famously. It's amazing that the iconography of a religion so ancient and "exotic" is so significantl
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I'm in the curiously rare position of being a long time Neo/vim user who doesn't use its modal features. Namely I have all my keybindings setup like a "normal" editor, CTRL+S to save etc. I say it's curious bec
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I'm British and only learnt this after studying Japanese which encodes vowel length in its writing system, eg, uncle: おじさん, grandfather: おじいさん. I refused to believe that English had vowel length, and was shocked to learn that my ears a
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by tombh 6y ago
I'd seen this before on HN, and thought about it many times after, but couldn't remember the name, so couldn't find it :( I'm glad to see it again. Personally I see this as a great work of art, perhaps in a way that some
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These seems very similarly priced to AWS Spot Instances. But you're guaranteeing uptime?
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I saw an intriguing comment yesterday on here about how the Extreme Ultra Violet Lithography machines that are producing our cutting edge processors are "the greatest achievement of science and technology on the planet"[1]. I can
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Thanks! I think we talked before about how to load balance UDP connections. I'll be sure to reach again when I need to :)
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Dearest fellow terminal lovers, The creator of Browsh here. I have such mixed feelings about seeing Browsh here again. I poured soooo much geeky passion into it, but I've just not had the opportunity to take it to the next step since i

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