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by tombh 4y ago
Location: Nomadic, currently South America (British passport) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Rust, Ruby, Typescript, Golang, Kubernetes, Postgres, Linux Résumé/CV: https://tombh.co.uk/cv
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I actually came across this video on HN a while back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQFqDKRAROI It explains the extraordinary idea of using the sun as a gravitational lens.
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SEEKING WORK | Nomadic, currently South America (British passport) | Remote Technologies: Rust, Ruby, Typescript, Kubernetes, Postgres, Linux Résumé/CV: https://tombh.co.uk/cv.pdf Email: tom at the same domain as
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Location: Nomadic, currently South America (British passport) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Rust, Ruby, Typescript, Kubernetes, Postgres, Linux Résumé/CV: https://tombh.co.uk/cv.pdf E
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Thank you. I'm very glad to know that it resonated with somebody else with a similar family history <3
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Thank you :-) The base image is indeed public domain: https://www.flickr.com/photos/srahn/9013096528 But I don't remember where I got the image of Andromeda from. Not that I believe I have any power to claim
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I made that image![1]. And this is not the first time it's been on the front page of HN either[2]. So I'd like to share some context that I've not mentioned elsewhere before. My father died from alcoholism in 2004. He made hi
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I never thought of that! Thanks, I updated it a bit to not break on narrow screens
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Really? Thanks. I sometimes get downvoted for it, and I'm not really sure why.
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* ⠌ ⠑ ` · I am github.com/tombh . · . Full-stack engineer with 15+ years experiençe ' British digital nómad currently in S𖠶uth America .
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* ⠌ ⠑ ` · I am github.com/tombh . · . Full-stack engineer with 15+ years experiençe ' British digital nómad currently in S𖠶uth America .
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How would one conduct a similar study on meat diets? We'd have to find vegetarians and give them meat?
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This resonantes. Thanks for posting, and the upvotes everyone else. I've done a lot of work with these feelings, can't say I've found the answer, but it's definitely been worth the effort. To anybody, if you find any of
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I grew up in this part of the world! Quite a strange juxtaposition seeing my home on the front page of this site. So maybe I can offer some lesser known interesting context: Wales is only some 300km west of London, yet I have childhood memo
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I heard those same opinions and based on recommendations from r/AskHistorians they suggest Why The West Rules - For Now by Ian Morris as a replacement.
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It's basically the ability to deal with the strongly held thoughts, feelings and beliefs of other people (other people could be our colleagues, but also, the open source community and even just documentation in general). Now, the most
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My degree is in Religious Studies (which I actually think has been more useful to me in my software career than CS). I don't know who the author of the article is, or what the overall theme of the website is, all I can see is that it&#
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This is about _scrolling_ visual lines. Navigating them as you say, is just fine.
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Another issue is scrolling visual lines one by one that have been wrapped. (N)vim can only scroll by literal lines, so if a line is longer than the screen and wrapped, there is no way to step through line by visual line. https://
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That is such a genuinely wonderful video <3
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I wasn't aware of that. It was so drummed into me at university (Religious Studies) to avoid the word that I'm intrigued as to why another academic field would uses it seriously. Do you have any reading recommendations that might
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> This article discusses the _original_ meaning of the word "cult", not the term in the sociology of religion, new religious movements called "cults", cults of personality, or popular cult followings. Emphasis mine. A
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In what field is it technical? I have a degree in Religious Studies and we were taught it was strictly jargon.
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Cult? What unfortunate word choice. We're talking about a period possibly 8000 years ago! The common understanding of "cult" is shaped by the Euro-centric, post-Christian New Religious Movements (the preferred academic nomenc
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I was certain this was going to be an article about OSC52[1], which is a very widely supported ANSI escape sequence (basically invisible TTY terminal codes) that your terminal application (ITerm2, Alacritty, etc) listens for in order to pla
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` I am github.com/tombh Full-stack engineer with 15 years experience ' British digital nomad currently in South America
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` I am github.com/tombh Full-stack engineer with 15 years experience ' British digital nomad currently in South America
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They're not insisting anything though right? They've only said it's funny and confusing. That you consider them to be insisting is interesting. I'm British so I've never been on the receiving end of any of that insi
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I had exactly the same response as you. If they were even loop-faded I could listen to them for a few hours on repeat quite happily
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I feel like you might not be that familiar with r/AskHistorians? It is the least reddit-like part of Reddit, it has extremely high standards and is rigorously moderated. Here are the most notable critical threads on Guns, Germs and St

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