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by untech 2y ago
Dear matrixages, I recommended this essay to you because I think you might be going through a dangerous manic episode. It might feel as a productivity and creativity boost, but it is an illusion. I think you should do a quick evaluation wit
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by untech 2y ago
Yes, on digging deeper into the site and reading comments here, I think it’s related.
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by untech 2y ago
I think it could be useful to read: https://kennethreitz.org/essays/2016/mentalhealtherror_an_ex...
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by untech 2y ago
Brazil is a potential superpower. Indonesia is 4th most populous country in the world.
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by untech 2y ago
Very interesting points: - He wants to open source Factorio in about two years - He wants to create successor language to C++ And other fun tidbits. Very interesting interview, done during recent Space Age LAN party.
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Factorio Creator Interview [video](youtube.com)
3 points by untech 2y ago|1 comments
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by untech 2y ago
I wonder why Stripe would buy green hydrogen from them.
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by untech 2y ago
That it isn’t the same translation they read as children and that was used in movies. It is not a particularly high-brow debate, as HP, unlike Dostoyevsky in en-world, is read by everyone. People usually concentrate on proper names. Rowling
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by untech 2y ago
Funny how translations of Dostoyevsky is a contentious topic in English-speaking world. In ru-speaking world, we bicker about Harry Potter and Lord of Rings translations :) There’s a particularly inflammatory translation of HP which causes
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by untech 2y ago
This was an incredible article. Thanks for sharing!
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by untech 2y ago
I understand the sentiment, but to be fair, CGI doesn’t give you an infinite scalability. AWS Labmda based solution is far less susceptible to something like HN hug-of-death.
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by untech 2y ago
Wow, thanks for Cyrillic, Armenian and Georgian, not many fonts have support for all three. Will definitely give it a shot. Iosevka doesn’t have Armenian and Georgian, for instance.
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Dataset-Centric Visualization(preset.io)
1 points by untech 2y ago|0 comments
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by untech 2y ago
I’ve definitely enjoyed working out today’s puzzle. Thanks! However, I am not sure about the daily aspect. I doubt I’ll remember about the puzzle tomorrow, and in any case, I like to do puzzles in larger batches, like for one hour in the ev
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by untech 2y ago
Quick PSA: If you want to do a facecam-overlayed screen recording on a Mac, all you need is QuickTime. 1. QuickTime -> New Movie Recording 2. View -> Float on Top 3. Position face view where you want it to be. 4. Hit Cmd+Shift+5 to re
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by untech 2y ago
Well, how many languages have flags? There are thousands of languages, but hundreds of countries. Surely, some languages would be left without a flag? And this doesn’t affect just some "obscure" languages. For instance, what flag
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by untech 2y ago
How many flags would you use for English? If you want to use flags of the most populous countries where English is the primary language, the second country after the US is Nigeria (182 m people). How many flags would you use for Spanish? Fr
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by untech 2y ago
Why using $ symbol to represent English is less correct than using the US flag? (Re: colors: see my suggestion to use these colorful icons to represent time zones)
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by untech 2y ago
Well, why not use currency symbols to represent language? Same amount of correctness. If you like flags because they are colorful and memorable icons, you can use them to represent time zones. Much more convenient than some obscure "UT
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Command Line Data Visualizations [video](youtube.com)
2 points by untech 2y ago|0 comments
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by untech 2y ago
Can’t you use aliases or functions in the ~/.bashrc? That’s what I do for complex lines I want to reuse.
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by untech 3y ago
Yep, I’ve learned most of my English vocabulary from Harry Potter and man pages, sorry :)
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by untech 3y ago
Whoops, I’ve just checked the thread and it seems that I angered some folks. Not that this comment would be read by anyone, but just for history: as non-American, it was hard to wrap my head around the fact that the minimum wage is $11 de f
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by untech 3y ago
I didn’t like this article at all. Maybe I am missing something, but the thesis seems just too shallow, borderline pseudoscientific. The main argument is “fine-tuning”: the fact that global constants in the universe are in an optimal state
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by untech 3y ago
I’ve looked up minimal wages in Arkansas. It’s $11/h, which seems ridiculously high, but I’m not an American. I think that in a depressed town, it shouldn’t be hard to find someone for, say, $35 per 12-hour night shift, just to patrol
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by untech 3y ago
I think buying a warehouse is kinda cool! But if he’s facing security problems, can’t he just hire guards? The labor price must be as low as land price there.
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by untech 3y ago
What’s the story of dbcooper?
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by untech 3y ago
Coming from classic Pixel Dungeon and a bit of Nethack, I can suggest the following heuristics: - Don’t leave a level without finding a ration - Identify scrolls and potions as early as possible by using them in a safe context - Use doorfra
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by untech 3y ago
Very cool! I am often frustrated by the lack of SQL features in Google Sheets.
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by untech 3y ago
Heh, I thought it was L1, symbolising both aerospace (Lagrange point) and “close-to-hardware” (cache). (odin means one in some languages)

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