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by kahirsch 9mo ago
The ICU mappings files have entries for U212A in the following files: gb18030.ucm ibm-1364_P110-2007.ucm ibm-1390_P110-2003.ucm ibm-1399_P110-2003.ucm ibm-16684_P110-2003.ucm ibm-933_P110-1995.ucm ibm-949_P110-
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by kahirsch 9mo ago
https://archive.is/koIkj
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by kahirsch 9mo ago
http://web.archive.org/web/20070320003919/www.informatimago.... http://informatimago.free.fr/i/linux/emacs-on-user-mode-linu...
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by kahirsch 11mo ago
The ghacks website is free. A Samsung fridge is not.
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by kahirsch 11mo ago
That is in the Reason article.
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by kahirsch 1y ago
Professional writers and editors use it.
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by kahirsch 1y ago
The guy behind that page and bitvise appears to have gone totally crazy during the pandemic. On his blog, he said in 2021 "I forecast that 2/3 of those who accept Covid vaccines are going to die by January 1, 2025." And in 20
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by kahirsch 1y ago
Not per mile driven.
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by kahirsch 1y ago
This reminds me of a little bit of trivia. In very old versions of BASIC, "FORD=STOP" would be parsed as "FOR D = S TO P". I found that amusing circa 1975.
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by kahirsch 1y ago
The Republicans are planning to increase the deficit.
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by kahirsch 2y ago
> The most direct way that the U.S. government can control inflation is via layoffs of federal workers. I'm not sure what you're claiming here. Civilian employees are less than 3% of federal spending, so it won't have a me
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by kahirsch 2y ago
This is in the middle of the desert at high altitude. There are basically no local people who aren't associated with the telescopes. https://maps.app.goo.gl/cWgWx1RKjEUjavPn8 Whether the facility is built there or 50 k
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by kahirsch 2y ago
There's an iframe with a link to the youtube api. When I watched a video, it was being streamed from a server named rr4---sn-p5qlsny6.googlevideo.com
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by kahirsch 2y ago
Emo Philips once said "I used to think that the human brain was the most fascinating part of the body. Then I realized, whoa, ‘look what’s telling me that’." There seems to be this naïve view among some philosophers that what our
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by kahirsch 3y ago
Santa Maria!
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by kahirsch 3y ago
The Inflation Reduction Act contains some big subsidies to try to jumpstart hydrogen in the U.S. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/13/why-ira-hydrogen-tax-credit-...
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by kahirsch 3y ago
Wow.
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by kahirsch 3y ago
Many decades ago I read a book which had an anecdote of some military officer taking an important message to the White House and he was told to take it right to President Johnson in his bathroom. The President came out of the shower to acce
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by kahirsch 3y ago
> never allow more than one app to share the db I'm a little stunned by this suggestion. I've worked in quite a few different context for application systems, e.g. retail, manufacturing of fiber optic cable, manufacturing of t
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by kahirsch 3y ago
It's in the title of the work, though, which may be different than appearing in the work, though. And it's in Japan, where the law may be different from US law.
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by kahirsch 3y ago
It's not 1987 any more and Excel doesn't use the file format that it used back then. The price of main memory and long-term storage has declined by many orders of magnitude since 1987.
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by kahirsch 3y ago
> The New York Times was happy to report her claims[2], and didn't even mention that their reporting of the meeting when it happened showed no evidence of this. The article does mention the earlier story and links to it in the para
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by kahirsch 3y ago
The 3rd part is a lot of fun. Billy Preston shows up and they start having a really good time in the studio. Then they decide to give a concert on the roof and the staff work to stall the police.
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by kahirsch 3y ago
The 4C there is not really a temperature, though. It's a difference in temperature. I guess that's a limitation of dimensional analysis, since they both have the same units and dimensions.
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by kahirsch 3y ago
You might be interested in Wright's lecture/one-man-show My Trip to Al-Qaeda, where he talks about his research for the book The Looming Tower, going overseas to meet Al Qaeda members and their relatives. It's available for f
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by kahirsch 3y ago
And Johnson continued those policies.
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by kahirsch 3y ago
> You can’t pitch a research project and then go rouge and do whatever with the data. That's not what this case is about. The California Department of Education is not claiming that Thomas Dee misused confidential data. The CDE said
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by kahirsch 3y ago
This is a holdover from COBOL, which uses fixed-length, space-padded strings. I read an interesting bit in a DBMS paper once about space-compression and the oddities of space-padding collation order. As this article says, 'A\x03'
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by kahirsch 3y ago
Here's what Ted Kaczynski wrote in February 2018 about the experiments in a letter[1] to journalist Andrew Kaczynski (no relation): > ... media reports about me have generally been loaded with bull manure. In particular, reports ab
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by kahirsch 3y ago
> Every free college country sends less of their people through college than the US. That used to be true.

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