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Which is significantly snappier than pdf.js on big and moderately-sized PDFs.
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> - A replacement/substitute for a therapist? I doubt even GPT-4 can do that job better than actual therapist Maybe if you qualify that with “unusually good” therapist. IME even Eliza in Emacs is better than most therapists. ChatG
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FreeBSD 14 is going to replace sendmail with DragonFlyBSD’s dma.
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> Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, "Don't do it!" He said, "Nobody loves me." I said, "God loves you. Do you believe in God?" > He said, "Yes." I said, "Are yo
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by yakubin 3y ago
This submission is not about drivers, which run on your computer, but about firmware, which runs on the printer.
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Don’t forget the cookie popup you get before the video can start playing.
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It's not a new problem. The Polish TLD is ".pl", which is also the file extension of Perl scripts. We get by just fine with that.
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Sadly the “ml” tag is applied both to posts about machine learning and to posts about the programming language. I’m interested in the latter, but not the former.
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Where by "coworker" you mean "exec". Not really a vulnerable person (as evidenced by their leaked comment).
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And if you have jot, but not Perl, like on a bare FreeBSD install: 0 */8 * * * sleep "$(jot -r 1 0 599)" && ~/.config/jobs/fetch-tcl-logs
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> I'm pretty sure anyone on earth would know whether or not they were on 75 micrograms of LSD I wouldn’t. I have no idea how strong the effects of LSD are supposed to be based on a dose. I suspect only people who have taken LSD kn
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> Siri is always constrained to one language Not only Siri — the whole iOS. You can’t type a sentence switching languages in the middle, without changing the keyboard language all the time, if you have autocorrect enabled. It will chan
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i3 can do that.
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> You could argue that Java (and C, and C++, and Javascript, and...) has the same "ambiguous parsing problem", then -- except that it doesn't The author didn’t claim there’s any ambiguity in parsing, only ambiguity in re
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by yakubin 4y ago
No. I've just made it up. But I've never heard it in my life playing with other people; only when watching Polish grandmasters and other people involved in chess in an official capacity.
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There is some in-country variation that's ignored in this article. In Poland, names of pieces will vary based on family you come from (as this game is usually learnt at kindergarten age from your parents/grandparents). For example
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by yakubin 4y ago
People live longer, but biological youth isn't shifted. People in their 20s are at the top of mental and physical performance. But our gerontocracies bar people of that age from any positions of significant influence. People also matur
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It’s depressing that in modern times people in their 40s are considered young. In 1776 Alexander Hamilton was 21, Burr was 20, Thomas Jefferson was 33, Madison was 25, and Monroe was 18.
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by yakubin 4y ago
That’s the second time I see bank account number framed as something private. Why? It doesn’t authorise anyone to do anything. It’s not like a debit/credit card number.
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The 3 month notice in Europe goes both ways. You can’t be fired on the spot, unless for gross misconduct.
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That’s how Leonardo wrote, because he was left-handed, so it was more practical — it preventing smudging the writing with the wrist. (Except Leonardo didn’t write in English.)
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I’m a non-native English speaker and I always appreciate corrections. Same is true for most non-native speakers I know personally. Most commonly I see this concern for possible offence at being corrected for bad English come from native Eng
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> That said, posting links to original content tends to get low engagement and is generally disliked on downstream social networks. It is often seen as not really participating in a native social network A long time ago, when I used Tw
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Correcting someone’s language is not putting them down.
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> Lithuania doesn't have free college My bad. I assumed free college is standard in that region.
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Rebasing on Linux would be replacing the great part (the kernel), while keeping the broken part (shell, ads, millions of GUIs, …)
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LLVM provides llvm-addr2line and llvm-symbolizer. Of course I understand not wanting to link with LLVM code, even when the licence is ok. :)
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Lithuania and Poland say hello: < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tertiary_... >
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> how many Linux systems do you have in prod where awk isn’t gawk All default Ubuntu installs? Maybe also Debian, I’m not sure.
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The grocery store buys the milk it sells. The UK government on the other hand has no input in what makes the UK appealing: nature, climate, humour, low fraction of religious bigotry etc etc.

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