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by deepakg 1y ago
Aluminum in beer cans has been subject to aluminum tariffs since April (was 25% initially and was upped to 50%).[^1] Because they didn't use the right specificity in the announcement (used an 8 digit HTS vs 10 digit), there was some co
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by deepakg 2y ago
Also reminded me of the internet ray tracing competition https://www.irtc.org/ where many submissions would’ve been produced using POV Ray.
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Mosaic patterns of Lisbon's public squares on Google Earth(deepakg.com)
4 points by deepakg 2y ago|0 comments
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by deepakg 2y ago
Indeed! There was even a book on the topic I read years ago. Lead poisoning seemed quite conclusive even back then. https://www.amazon.com/Beethovens-Hair-Extraordinary-Histori...
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by deepakg 3y ago
This video has comparisons of devastation that would be caused by different sizes (around 7:50 mark) of asteroids: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wrc4fHSCpw
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by deepakg 3y ago
The catalog from which I took the tiles mentions their manufacturing process in passing: > The colours are at least one-quarter-inch thick, backed up to a full thickness of seven-eighth inch thick of pure granite sand and Portland cement
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by deepakg 3y ago
Ah repper reminds of the "kaleidoscope" effect in Pixelmator: https://www.deepakg.com/kaleidoscopic-dutch-houses Will play with them. Thank you for sharing.
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by deepakg 3y ago
Thank you for sharing the book recommendation!
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by deepakg 3y ago
This is fascinating. Thank you for sharing!
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by deepakg 3y ago
People I know swear by: https://cowboy.com They send the service technician to you. Saw it first hand - the service person came in a van that had all the tools and replacement parts. Not sure if it is better cost wise for them t
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by deepakg 3y ago
The municipality of Amsterdam have been doing this (i.e. running their own Mastodon instance) as well since Jan this year: https://social.amsterdam.nl/@gemeenteamsterdam
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by deepakg 3y ago
A little tangential, but I'd highly recommend Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Emperor of All Maladies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor_of_All_Maladies It really helped me appreciate how we went from trea
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by deepakg 4y ago
Had come across this talk a while ago. https://www.ted.com/speakers/rupal_patel Not sure what became of vocalid.org but would’ve benefited immensely from these advances. Edit: looks like it lives on as vocalid.ai
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by deepakg 4y ago
Seenons (Amsterdam/Berlin) | Backend/Frontend | Remote or on-site | Full-time | https://seenons.com/en/home/ Waste is a growing worldwide challenge. Each year, in the Netherlands alone, we send 2.75 mega
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by deepakg 7y ago
I guess it's going to be just TensorFlow in the near future. From the release notes: > This is also the last major release of multi-backend Keras. Going forward, we recommend that users consider switching their Keras code to tf.kera
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by deepakg 8y ago
Related: https://pyvideo.org/pycon-us-2017/modern-python-dictionaries...
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Sociological challenges that bedevil transition from coal in India(economist.com)
2 points by deepakg 8y ago|0 comments
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by deepakg 8y ago
For short notes I've been using deft[1] on emacs. It gives a Notational Velocity like interface for searching/viewing within emacs. The actual note-taking is via org-mode. For notes from online courses, I recently started using th
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by deepakg 8y ago
Indeed! I recently tried Rekognition's "celebrity detection" and was surprised at the no. of false positives - "doppelgänger detection" would've been more like it. Some examples: https://medium.com&#
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by deepakg 9y ago
But in Denmark, one pays high taxes which, among other things, go towards subsidising higher education: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_Denmark Under the Danish tax system, it is possible for a high-wage earn
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by deepakg 9y ago
It has also recently inspired a ggplot (R) visualisation: https://github.com/clauswilke/ggjoy
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by deepakg 10y ago
Interesting choice of domain name. Coming from docs.google.com, I almost thought this was Office 365.
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Alfred 3 Beta(alfredapp.com)
1 points by deepakg 10y ago|0 comments
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by deepakg 10y ago
> Rdio would inform me when new albums are out by artists I listen to. Spotify doesn't. Spotify does, but you need to follow the artist from the artist page. I get a push a notification on the iPhone and a notification on the Mac de
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by deepakg 14y ago
For Perl specific jobs I look at http://jobs.perl.org .
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by deepakg 14y ago
Probably relevant to the discussion, the mousetrap library: http://craig.is/killing/mice
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Show HN: Visualising the men's 100m Olympic champions with D3.js(deepakg.com)
2 points by deepakg 14y ago|0 comments
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by deepakg 14y ago
I just found it ironical given Facebook's privacy record. Identity thieves and Mark Zuckerberg in the same sentence.
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by deepakg 14y ago
"Hackers — the Mark Zuckerberg variety, not the identity thieves " being tongue and cheek are we :)?
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Using emacs with org-mode to keep yourself organized(deepakg.com)
5 points by deepakg 15y ago|1 comments

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