gewoonkris

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by gewoonkris 2y ago
This morning my daughter walked into the living room and started telling me about something that happened to her. She stopped talking mid-sentence when her eye fell on the television that I had forgotten to turn off. Only after calling her
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by gewoonkris 5y ago
Or this one from when the LHC came online: http://www.hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com...
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by gewoonkris 7y ago
Not sure if this is exactly what you are looking for, but there was a hackernews discussion related to this a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17905657
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by gewoonkris 7y ago
I try to make it a point to do all the chores when the kids are awake. When they are asleep is time to relax; not do mundane tasks I don't feel it's my duty to entertain my kinds every waking hour, so if they have to settle with w
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by gewoonkris 9y ago
The article gives a nice intuition about how encryption works using elliptic curves without going too deep into the math. I'm curious for a similar explanation for how decryption would work though; a trapdoor function is nice and all,
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Yes, there really is a world championship for Microsoft Office(edition.cnn.com)
8 points by gewoonkris 9y ago|2 comments
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by gewoonkris 9y ago
I noticed that more and more freelance development jobs (at least in the Netherlands for regular non-rockstar-developers) are asking for full-stack skills. So being only a back-end developer makes it a tad harder to find a gig. So I suppose
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by gewoonkris 9y ago
Since the title isn't very informative about the content of the article: it's about the 2017 world expo which is held in Kazachstan and the steadying decline of visitors to these events. I hadn't even heard of the fact there
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by gewoonkris 10y ago
For those who are also wondering about the briefly mentioned hexagon-shaped jet stream: One hypothesis, developed at Oxford University, is that the hexagon forms where there is a steep latitudinal gradient in the speed of the atmospheric
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by gewoonkris 10y ago
I always understood the distance is measured by the amount of red shift: the further away a galaxy is, the faster it moves away from us due to the expansion of the universe. As a result, the wavelength of the light originating from this gal