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by zzbn00 3y ago
I don't know, this is good advice perhaps for things which are not important. But, if you are writing an email to a person whose time is valuable, better not to do it quickly. Save a draft, come back to it tomorrow, read again, then se
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by zzbn00 3y ago
Yes, and in fact contract and invoices are bad examples because they involve exchange of something from both sides so denying them is very often a futile task. Better examples would be things like wills and deeds but because they are good e
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by zzbn00 3y ago
As an interesting edge case, in an auction contract can be formed without words either: it is formed on the "fall of the hammer" https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1979/54
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by zzbn00 3y ago
There is a nice and very long comment in the post regarding limited liability corporations. They existed for a before limited liability, especially through common law structures. Interestingly they were largely banned in UK after the bubble
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by zzbn00 3y ago
Very useful. One practical thing to add: enabling automatic snapshots (e.g. with https://github.com/openSUSE/snapper ), ideally backing them up separately (e.g., with borg) might help recovery.
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by zzbn00 3y ago
I've got a 3-seater bakfiets and it will take a weeks worth of groceries for a large family.
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by zzbn00 3y ago
It is not the sorting per-se which was improved here, but sorting (particularly short sequences) on modern CPUs with really the complexity being on the difficulty of predicting what will work quickly on these modern CPUs. Doing an empirical
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by zzbn00 3y ago
This press release is simply there to prop up the ISC '23 conference and participants and research projects there. Really don't know if its a good way of doing that.
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by zzbn00 3y ago
I think you can keep them alive after capture for a little while at least in water -- I think I remember seeing this in the delta of the Neretva river (and I think they used old washing machine drums for this purpose!)
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by zzbn00 3y ago
Yes the share based comp in 2022 was $1.7b which is a lot, but the losses on marketable securities were the biggest factor in 2022 ($7b). Some of that may have been on own debt though.
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by zzbn00 3y ago
"One enormous transaction shows that Ely Abbey, now known as Ely Cathedral, paid Thorney Abbey 26,275 eels to rent a fen" -- Ely Abbey/Cathedral are probably named after eels: see section 8 of https://www.histo
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by zzbn00 3y ago
The linked document writes: "Net loss attributable to Uber Technologies, Inc. was $157 million" The could have been profitable maybe if they didn't spend ~$400million on stock based comp!
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by zzbn00 3y ago
The simplest thing to do is to rapidly increase the price of carbon-emitting fuels by coordinated global taxation of it.
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by zzbn00 3y ago
That document shows Uber lost $9billion in 2022, right?
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by zzbn00 3y ago
Interesting tidbit in the article "Uber told CoStar News that the company never occupied the building." So looks like they over-provisioned by about a factor of 1/3
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by zzbn00 3y ago
Flying consumes a lot of energy, and flying by carbon combustion emits CO2 high up in atmosphere. As good as incremetal improvements like this neither really get fixed by technology like this. Very roughly a plane emits CO2 equivalent of us
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by zzbn00 3y ago
In the UK, the _average_ time spent watching TV/streaming content is about 40 hours per week. This in combination with generally sedentary lifestyle that relative wealth allows. Unfortunately gyms and fitness centres, as good as they
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by zzbn00 3y ago
There is also IJava ( https://github.com/SpencerPark/IJava ) -- a nice Jupyter Java kernel. Perfect for a lot of small Java programs for learning and teaching.
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by zzbn00 3y ago
All bats have and use vision "Bats are not blind and can in fact see quite well using their eyes. While most bats do have advanced ears that give them a form of vision in the dark known as echolocation, these good ears does not require
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by zzbn00 3y ago
I use MicroOS ( https://microos.opensuse.org/ ), to keep the base operating system clean you'd install helper tools for constructing containers in a container... so two levels of containers would be very helpful
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IJava: A Jupyter kernel for executing Java code(github.com)
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by zzbn00 3y ago
Google's Gerrit code review system had a Prolog engine but I see that it is being depreciated now... https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation/prolog-...
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by zzbn00 4y ago
My suggestion is https://panel.holoviz.org/ Fully open sourced, makes it easy to make reactive apps with small changes, can even configured as a graphical REPL.
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by zzbn00 4y ago
Depends on type of solar heaters -- vacuum insulated ones used in colder climates are not that cheap
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by zzbn00 4y ago
A little trick to rebuild targets based on the build options: use .VARIABLES and pipe to sha256sum to create an option-dependent suffix for all built files: https://bnikolic.co.uk/blog/sh/make/unix/2021&#
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by zzbn00 4y ago
"Poverty and childhood obesity: a 21st century role reversal" : https://foodactive.org.uk/poverty-and-childhood-obesity-a-21...
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by zzbn00 4y ago
Around 90% of liver disease deaths is from preventable risk factors (alcohol, viral hepatitis and obesity, https://ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2014/09/29/liver-disease-a-prevent... ). We have the tools to fix to these
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by zzbn00 4y ago
1. https://www.kiwix.org/en/ : see content at https://library.kiwix.org/ 2. Info manuals, info browser 3. Self-documenting programs & environments (e.g., emacs but also Python with docstrings etc)
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by zzbn00 4y ago
Gerrit's prolog rules may be worth a look: https://gerrit-documentation.storage.googleapis.com/Document... .
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by zzbn00 4y ago
I use Pi 4 with 8GB of Ram and 1TB SSD (in a Argon ONE M.2 case) as the main local linux server but not for desktop/web. Access it from an iPad pro usually (the whole combo is extremely portable) and use remote/cloud servers when

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