eindiran

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by eindiran 10mo ago
Then maybe stop commenting about contentious topics in US politics?
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by eindiran 10mo ago
> you really need to have a specific reason to choose something outside of bash/zsh/fish The reason in question is that not that long ago, people said "you really need to have a specific reason to choose something outside
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by eindiran 1y ago
The first four words on that page include the name of the author "Dave Liepmann" which != Tufte
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by eindiran 2y ago
Your definition is definitely the historically more common one. But see the final definition under the verb here: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/interdict#English (transitive, US, military) To impede (an enemy); to int
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by eindiran 2y ago
A lot of my friends are professors or lecturers at universities with "motivationally-diverse" undergraduate populations; LLM-based cheating has become so common that they often reward higher marks to poorly-written papers, just by
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by eindiran 2y ago
That Wiki page even has a section about the RH: > The Riemann hypothesis is noteworthy for its appearance on the list of Hilbert problems, Smale's list, the list of Millennium Prize Problems, and even the Weil conjectures, in its ge
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by eindiran 2y ago
I am generally open to this idea, but this particular way of defining what bundles are allowed or not seems incredibly weak. Take Adobe's Creative Cloud. There is almost no one in the world who uses all of the tools in it. There are do
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by eindiran 2y ago
The Republic of Gilead is named for the biblical name "Gilead" for a region in Jordan[0]; the shot is presumably named for the Balm of Gilead[1], also named for biblical Gilead. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by eindiran 2y ago
At some point the test stopped being fizz buzz and started being "reproduce Brent's cycle detection algorithm from memory or from first principles if you have forgotten what it is", which isn't testing your ability to pr
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by eindiran 2y ago
Marijuana remains Schedule I in the US: > 7360 Marijuana, including cannabis resin > 7350 Marijuana extracts; cannabinoids The alleged rescheduling to Schedule III has yet to pass muster with the White House Office of Management and B
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by eindiran 2y ago
The thing that makes them "caustic or acidic" is that they are acidic (~3pH), by virtue of having dissolved carbon dioxide (ie carbonic acid) + acidic preservatives in them. You are putting them into your stomach (with your gastri
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by eindiran 2y ago
OP's "cannot be used for bezos yacht" problem is about discriminatory licenses. If you don't care that eg Amazon can use your software, there is nothing at odds with what OP sees as a problem (discrimiatory licenses that
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by eindiran 2y ago
For anyone wondering why this is here, I just found this: https://redis.com/blog/redis-adopts-dual-source-available-li... > Redis will no longer be distributed under the three-clause Berkeley Software Distribution (
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by eindiran 2y ago
Yeah, not sure where the other figure came from. There is literally a project to build unmanned craft to visit Proxima Centauri sometime in the next 50 years or so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Starshot
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by eindiran 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knockdown_resistance I don't know if this has appeared in ticks but it has appeared in mosquitos.
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by eindiran 3y ago
Not OP, but Mautam in bamboo is another: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mautam Some other interesting links: - On bamboo in particular (semelparous and allochronic like cicadas): https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by eindiran 3y ago
The 3 things mentioned so far are governed by very different regulatory regimes: - Using a camera drone to spot game will fall under the purview of both Federal and state level Fish and Game/Wildlife departments, eg https://
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Ask HN: Resources for finding dotfiles and config files
1 points by eindiran 3y ago|2 comments
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by eindiran 3y ago
As William Gibson famously said, "The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed."
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by eindiran 3y ago
I clicked thinking it was going to be about one-time programmable memory.
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by eindiran 3y ago
> registration If you purchase a firearm from an FFL anywhere in the United States, you are required to fill out an ATF form 4473 and do a NICS background check. There isn't a giant database of all firearms in the US indexed by owne
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by eindiran 3y ago
2 up quarks, so 2/3 * 2 -> 4/3. And then 4/3 - 1/3 = 3/3 = 1
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by eindiran 3y ago
> [W]hen we find a (fast) way turn CO2 back into gasoline The more salient point than fast is cheap, preferably something with a net profit, which seems... unlikely.
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by eindiran 3y ago
Right, but they will know what "chai tea" refers to, ie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masala_chai
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by eindiran 3y ago
The Flipper Zero is a small-form computing device that is immensely popular, not particularly niche. > Any(sic) incredibly small number of engineers and scientists would ever use this device. I personally know over a dozen people who own
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by eindiran 3y ago
If state-level actors are looking into your data with any amount of individual scrutiny you are already fucked, this is a ridiculous reason to not use ad nauseum.
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by eindiran 3y ago
People post/repost the classics all the time, why are you tattling this aggressively, lol? It just needs a [2020] tag.
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by eindiran 3y ago
Yes, but "cost effectiveness" means very different things sometimes. If, for example a hypothetical country were to have huge stores of old equipment to throw at a problem, losing material from the stockpile doesn't actually
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by eindiran 3y ago
The last one puts a funny spin on Operation Paperclip.
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by eindiran 3y ago
You're comparing a no-ads[0], slow-moving, text-based feed (that has a maximum number of content pieces on the main pages at any given time) designed around fostering a specific tech-related community to an infinite, doomscrolling, vid

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