jojoo

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by jojoo 4mo ago
I also liked St Yoree and really like Rozana for a few glasses a day. I always bring a six pack home when I’m in France.
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by jojoo 3y ago
Are the fractions ongoing efforts or did you drop it? re-reads for me: Diamond Age (4) (I'm an educator), Cryptonomicon (2), Baroc cycle (2) However i plan to re-read Anathem in paralell with my second re-read of Russels A History
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by jojoo 4y ago
My context for "learning" Imperial is solely based on measurements of length. I've "learned" it b/c i listen to a lot of US-Centric carpentry podcasts. I've just memorized 1 inch ~ 2.54 cm ; 3/8 inch
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by jojoo 4y ago
For educators i always suggest "The Diamond Age". In the last few years, AI has just catched up enough for non-tech people to take it serious. I really liked the first half of Fall; Or Dodge in Hell. But it has been the only Steph
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by jojoo 4y ago
> It’s possible Chris is buying SEO and marketing, but given his self-described anti-corporate anarchism, I sort of doubt it. I mean you never know. But i think there's another explaination: He is one of the most popular woodworker
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by jojoo 4y ago
I'm not good at nautics, but in my understanding currents slowly stop and later turn around. Most tide charts are more or less a sine wave, with different highs and lows. So it's interesting how this 100kw was produced. The articl
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by jojoo 4y ago
> Or, hear me out, devise a concrete that reacted with atmospheric co2 to produce something more benign. That way it changes from an emitter to being a passive remover Good propertyy. It would be even better if the material acted as a go
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by jojoo 6y ago
Sadly the machines from the repairable / upgradable era are getting to the end of their lifespan; at least with normal MacOS and standart software. I'm writingh this on a 2010 mbp on it's third battery, second ram upgrade and
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by jojoo 6y ago
the switch from ppc to intel definetly contributed to the fact that my powerbook only held up ~8 years
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by jojoo 6y ago
ACK. I switched from google reader to feedly to newsboat. One cloud service less. While i like the idea to be able to read my feeds from multiple computers, i don't actually need it. In fact, readig them on only one device gives me b
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by jojoo 6y ago
What did you get out of it? I read "His Master's Voice" as a teenager and was deeply touched by it. Every other Lem Book was downhill from then.
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by jojoo 6y ago
> On Android, OSMAnd is really good and there's also Maps.me. Imo if you're a outdoor user on Android you should try out Locus Maps. I've used them with the downloads from openandromaps. Imo no other program comes close i
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by jojoo 7y ago
Palm really had the PIM suite down. A lot of other parts of WebOS were great, too. Too bad the hardware was so mediocre.
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by jojoo 7y ago
Living next to a low elevation resort this makes me quite sad. Climate Change will also impact other snow sports: The future of backcountry skiing (at least in the alps) will be to drive up a mountain pass, get on a E-Mountainbike, drive up
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by jojoo 7y ago
Not really, because Glue is quite specific. And just because Glue X can be substituted with glue Y if you glue A and B together, doesn't mean Y is a good glue to bond A and C
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by jojoo 7y ago
> A mail server is hard. yeah, but compared with other services like WWW mail is IMO harder. You deal with two main Protocols and a lot of software. While mail takes 11 components in your tutorial, you'd get a website in 4. And some
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by jojoo 7y ago
I've been running a mailserver for ~15 Years. I found it to be very time consuming and complicated, mainly because of the trouble of outgoing mail.
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by jojoo 7y ago
> you were going to buy a collection of Linux distributions + the Sunsite archive on a 5-cd set that was released quarterly and available at computer stores. I ordered debian potato (debian 2.2 / August 2000) as CD Sets via a german
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by jojoo 7y ago
that was one of my biggest problems ~8 years ago. keeping the macports and the debian versions in sync was too tiresom, someday i just switched to rsync which worked well enough for my usecase.
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by jojoo 7y ago
> He’s lived a long and fulfilling life, a life I want my daughter to have. I've only worked with three students with spina bifida in my career in special-ed but everyone of them was a positive-optimistic child with a lot of emotion
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by jojoo 8y ago
it's about half as expensive.
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by jojoo 8y ago
they are very not precise. Most give a 80% confidence interval of +- 8 Points (or 1/2 STD). Also the different tests measure slightly different types of intelligence/put emphasis on other things. There's only ~0.8 correlation
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by jojoo 8y ago
It's probably a reference to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful
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by jojoo 9y ago
> The trick (as with almost any other field)? > Practice, practice, practice. That's it. There is no magic sauce there. Practice isn't the only ingredient to the magic sauce. The learning input also has to be in a form whi
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by jojoo 9y ago
And TUNIX has the double-meaning w/ unix and do nothing (nix is nothing in german slang)
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by jojoo 9y ago
As a german who moved from berlin to the south of germany: living in berlin feels like living in a failed bundesland. the public transport is broken all the time, the bürgerämter are crowded, you can't appointments, the administration
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by jojoo 9y ago
> There is not enough hydroelectric capacity in Germany Build pumped storage plants in 1km succession along all the high Fall lines of the Mittelgebirge. Ideally right next to the Wind Turbines that are already there. Sure, it's onl
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by jojoo 9y ago
a lot of pages that use wordpress underneath still have feed-urls; if you know the URL, you can subscribe to them, even it if's not advertised in the head. if wordpress stops using RSS it will be really dead.
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by jojoo 9y ago
> Even before it's demise, a lot of content publishers > were only publishing headlines and abstracts via RSS, > with the intent to drive clicks to hosted articles. yes, but that can be helpful as well: spiege
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by jojoo 9y ago
I said: " The immense impact and usefulness of Piagets stages of cognitive development are orginally his and not to be found in Montessoris Teachings" Montessori via your source on mathematics: "Mathematics: Formation of the

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