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by jknz 3y ago
Why wouldn't apple allow to remove all animations when switching desktops, without disabling SIP? https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/434555/can-you-com... Native keyboard shortcuts are there for all to
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by jknz 3y ago
Millions of families make this reasoning and spend $30k or more per year and per kid from age 2. Very few of these kids make it to Harvard or other top 4 colleges, maybe 1 will become president. Sane Western countries have free and decent p
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by jknz 4y ago
The GP is unclear as to whether the loan happened before or after the friend obtained a job offer. Loaning moving expenses money to someone who just got a high-paying job offer and needs the moving money to start the job does not sound that
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by jknz 5y ago
A field is more delicate if it needs to be enlarged (into a larger field) for all polynomials with coefficients in the field to have roots. There is rich and intricate structure in the possible successive enlargements. For the field C of c
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by jknz 5y ago
Start a jupyterqtconsole and use vim-jupyter. With vim and the qtconsole side by side you can send lines and selections (or entire cells delimited with #%%) to execute in the qtconsole. Plots appear in the qtconsole.
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by jknz 5y ago
Mathoverflow is for level research questions. Homework type questions (anything before PhD student level) are typically asked on https://math.stackexchange.com/
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by jknz 5y ago
Since Covid, NYC daycares have uniformly updated their sick policy. Child has fever or one diarrhea, has to wait home 3 days before returning. E.g.: Daycare calls the parents to pick up a sick child on Tuesday midday, child can return next
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by jknz 5y ago
> The loss of arts and social sciences would be a catastrophe for the academic world. But a blessing for most students who need a job to pay their student debts after graduation. Sacrificing art students by taking their tuition knowing n
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by jknz 5y ago
To avoid confrontation in the 48h window, a good squatter strategy is to target summer or weekend houses that have typically other weekend houses next to it so that neighbours aren't there and won't alert the owner. Then squatter
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by jknz 5y ago
If you leave the property unattended and squatters move in, after 48h of them being on the property, you cannot have law enforcement kick them out and have to use the courts for months of proceedings.
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by jknz 5y ago
Super rich people have the same phone as me. They got the same vaccine as me. The same flue as everyone else can knock them down every winter. On average their kids die with the same frequency and for the same reasons as mine. Once you get
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by jknz 6y ago
I don't think name calling the EU as bullies advances anything. It is unsubstantiated and sounds like political speak and click-bait. The problem of unsustainable debts of EU countries is complex. Debts cannot be fully forgotten as thi
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by jknz 6y ago
> Part of the student debt crisis are families making poor economic choices. I am not sure families are the ones to blame here. Astronomical tuition and loan interests that cannot be forgotten in bankruptcy is a predatory combo. In the E
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by jknz 6y ago
I found the second best definition of the urban dictionary greatly refreshing. Quoting it here: > beg the question > Phrase that is now used instead of "raises the question" due to the fact that the true definition is uninte
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by jknz 6y ago
The victim is a real person with a PhD thesis that anyone can read. Why would someone jeopardize his reputation by using his real name on some kind of staging of a fake account swap? I kindly disagree with your second sentence.
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by jknz 6y ago
There is some evidence of some kind of takeover though. Searching for site: http://instagram.com/danny in google, the first result is the following: Danny (@danny) • Instagram photos and videos www.instagram.com ›
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by jknz 6y ago
alias rg="rg" might be more flexible as it allows you to specifify a root folder to search in as well as other options. edit: The previous sentence is a joke. This should not take away the usefulness and polish of kb.
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by jknz 6y ago
How do you reassure users that someone else won't pick their bags? Are there lockers in the secure storage room? Do you have insurance for lost/unrecoverable luggage?
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by jknz 6y ago
> I see it more as hostility to the HR policies in place at some of the companies. A new parent at facebook gets 4 months leave after the birth and then can take another 10 weeks of family leave. It's not like facebook employees typ
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by jknz 6y ago
Managing remote school sessions plus my work was a mess. I made my 10 and 12yo kids drop their remote school stuff and work with me instead. The young one is responsible for slack, keeping everyone in the living room updated and replying wi
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by jknz 6y ago
Truancy: the action of staying away from school without good reason; absenteeism. (Had to google it! Thanks for a new word) Truancy can be dealt with by providing food to the kid at the end of the school day, food meant to be brought home.
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by jknz 6y ago
That was Shift+5, not 6. Thanks for pointing that out :)
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by jknz 6y ago
I would hope the key presses required to use the native search among opened tabs had changed. - Ctrl-L to go to the address bar - release Ctrl (otherwise, the next keypress fail) - Shift-6 to type "%" in the address bar - space -
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by jknz 6y ago
A funny one: I am locked out of a former Gmail that forwards every email to my currently active address. This "forward everything" is not throughout IMAP/Pop but some Gmail feature. One day I couldn't login anymore to th
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by jknz 6y ago
The Euro at $1.10 is at one of its lowest level. This suggests that the dollar does not drop in value, or that the Euro drops faster.
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by jknz 7y ago
Criticism of interview practices is very common. However, I can't imagine that large companies that hire in the hundreds/1000s every year (say, FANG) don't have enough data to have optimized their interview practices. These c
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by jknz 7y ago
Dividend is 123456 and divisor is 37. 37>1, 37>12 but 37*3<=123. Write down 3 (meant for 3000) and start again with 123456-37x3000 as the new dividend. I wish the algorithm was taught by writing the full 3000 instead of only the di
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by jknz 7y ago
I am as happy as I could get with Firefox except for the native tab-switching Among opened tabs. Tab search is done by typing % in the address bar followed by a keyword to search among opened tabs. - Ctr+L to get in the address bar - Shift+
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by jknz 7y ago
On iOS, Chord AI [1] gives pretty good results for the guitar chords of any music surrounding the phone. [1]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chord-ai/id1446177109
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by jknz 7y ago
There are ways to run trusted code on a client using remote enclaves (provided it is supported by the local CPU) https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/

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