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by zczc 5y ago
Reading some comments here on perceived sexualising in manga, I've started to think that's why we have that ugly asexual Corporate Memphis illustrations everywhere.
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by zczc 5y ago
Title should be: Euler’s 243-Year-Old Impossible Puzzle Gets a Quantum ‘Solution’
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by zczc 5y ago
What helped me was moving channels from YouTube subscriptions to RSS feeds. Thus I stopped opening YouTube homepage and play videos straight from RSS client. RSS URLs are https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel
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"In the end, the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of
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Moreover, Disney will just register its decade of works as a single multipart work, so this regime would encourage further monopolization
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by zczc 5y ago
Firefox extensions: - uBlock Origin - Firefox Multi-Account Containers - Tree Style Tab - Context Search Origin - Allows searching from bookmarked search providers, killer feature is "Search All in Tabs" option which opens a tab f
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by zczc 5y ago
If the response is xhtml then de-serialization as easy as with json
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by zczc 5y ago
link: https://hubermanlab.com/adhd-and-how-anyone-can-improve-thei...
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by zczc 5y ago
Similar, perhaps more feature-rich tool is OCRmyPDF https://github.com/jbarlow83/OCRmyPDF
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by zczc 5y ago
There are some 8-bit and 7-bit encodings which have unified Latin and Greek, like 7-bit SMS encoding [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM_03.38
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Russian companies generally have ascii-only username policies
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Google, Apple remove Navalny app from stores as Russian elections begin(msn.com)
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In fiction writing this pattern known as “Burly Detective” Syndrome, see https://www.sfwa.org/2009/06/18/turkey-city-lexicon-a-primer... , https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main&
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by zczc 5y ago
Thanks to this post I've reread Solzhenitsyn's Live Not by Lies [1]. It is still relevant today as an ethics guide, not only in the context of the Cancel culture. [1] https://www.solzhenitsyncenter.org/live-not-b
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Thank you for pointing to John Perry Barlow's 25 Principles https://www.jambase.com/article/john-perry-barlow-25-princip...
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Read "Ten Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer" https://haseebq.com/my-ten-rules-for-negotiating-a-job-offer... Discussion (two weeks ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27160934
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by zczc 5y ago
Found this: Apple human interface guidelines: the Apple desktop interface, 1987 https://archives.design/post/645150403066003456/apple-human-... https://archive.org/details/applehumaninterf00ap
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CEO activism in America is risky business(economist.com)
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by zczc 6y ago
Not all orthodox churches: Greek and Bulgarian churches are on Gregorian calendar (technically on Revised Julian[1] which is aligned with Gregorian until the year 2800). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revised_Julian_
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by zczc 6y ago
Also utf-8 (or any Unicode) wasn't supported by most (all?) Netscape versions. Falling back to default Latin1 works with English text though.
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Earth's atmospheric hydrogen is oxidized
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Welcome to 2030: I Own Nothing, No Privacy and Life Has Never Been Better (2016)(forbes.com)
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"Kitsch is the absolute denial of shit, in both the literal and the figurative senses of the word" ― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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"The Communists" in Niemöller's "First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist" [1] were not "the people advocating for economical models", but (in his eyes) viol
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"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Gilmore
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XSLT 3.0 streaming with Saxon requires Saxon-EE (closed-source Enterprise Edition), see https://www.saxonica.com/html/documentation/sourcedocs/strea... Are there Open source xstl 3.0 processors with streaming
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Security by obscurity was the perfect way to send the largest diamond across the world: "Due to its immense value, detectives were assigned to a steamboat that was rumoured to be carrying the stone, and a parcel was ceremoniously locke
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by zczc 7y ago
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by zczc 7y ago
It's even worse for people with multifocal intraocular lenses implanted after cataract surgery: they see strong glares and halos around light objects on dark background (including text), and unlike astigmatism this cannot be corrected
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Just updated. Alas, the new viewer still does not provide nondestructive viewing. Open file, press PgDn, exit, and the viewed file is silently changed. The viewer writes current position in the viewed file itself (META-INF/calibre_book

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