keshet

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by keshet 2y ago
And if I drink alcohol then my world also becomes kind of blurry.. then reality also becomes less defined? It sure feels that way. But not to my friend sitting next to me who chose not to drink. We live in separate realities at least as far
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by keshet 2y ago
By using an android tablet they leverage the existing OS/UI/Java ecosystem to write a (fairly simple) app. Recreating that from scratch would require a lot more development.
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by keshet 3y ago
Another +1 for the smartwatch. Before: Every time a message arrives the phone makes that noise, and a little lamp is lit in my brain which stays lit until I pick up and unlock the phone and look at the message, answer, etc. After: The phone
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by keshet 3y ago
Changing desk height to standing height and buying a saddle stool. I used to bike to work but as soon as I sat down at my desk I felt like I was cutting my body at the waist. My lower body/legs were some kind of passive appendage stuck
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by keshet 4y ago
git subrepo is what I chose to include a "core" library of functionality in a number of repositories. Works fairly well, the main thing is that git treats all the files in the subrepo the same as any other files, so no surprises.
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by keshet 4y ago
Imagine the world we could live in if there were no weapons. That's the world we would have if nobody built them. I have heard the line "If I don't build it somebody else will." from an engineer working on multi-million
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by keshet 4y ago
Somebody is still wrong on the internet
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I can't let go of “The Dunning-Kruger Effect is Autocorrelation”(andersource.dev)
468 points by keshet 4y ago|285 comments
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by keshet 5y ago
https://dergigi.com/2021/01/14/bitcoin-is-time/
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by keshet 5y ago
I recently saw an article about reversing fibrosis in mouse studies using an FDA-approved drug, e.g.: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/08/210823170126.h... If I google "pulmonary fibrosis rever
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by keshet 6y ago
GitAhead works for me
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Sheep Logic(epsilontheory.com)
2 points by keshet 8y ago|0 comments
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The Great Cyber War(medium.com)
17 points by keshet 9y ago|2 comments
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by keshet 9y ago
All flash-based memory devices have a limited number of write/erase cycles. Internal flash memories have more sophisticated strategies to extend memory life but they all rely on having spare memory available. Try not to go past 80% usa
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by keshet 10y ago
From Google's experience with SSDs: High-end SLC drives are no more reliable that MLC drives. Source: http://www.zdnet.com/article/ssd-reliability-in-the-real-wor...
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by keshet 11y ago
HN is now officially reddit
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by keshet 15y ago
"..because, when compiled, it was known to produce code that could be unpredictable." All the code I write is unpredictable when compiled. Such is the life.
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by keshet 15y ago
No awk? I'm outta here.
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by keshet 16y ago
tx!
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by keshet 16y ago
My $0.02 <disclaimer> I don't use twitter (I have an account, but never tweet, almost never look at the people who I am following) - so maybe I am too old school to have anything interesting to say. </disclaimer> This strike
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by keshet 16y ago
Does a hammer use stairs? You can do rollovers with Javascript - many sites do. Bit you don't have to.
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by keshet 17y ago
You can try pisa (xhtml2pdf) here: http://www.xhtml2pdf.com/ Pretty robust. I am having some trouble with bidirectional support, but otherwise looks good - it's an all-python solution.
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by keshet 17y ago
Finally reply to all the comments. And I would have the last word. Ha.
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by keshet 18y ago
I had an appointment for Lasik, but chickened out at the last minute (the idea of shooting a laser into my eyes was too much). But then I continued to abuse my eyes with cheap contacts and ended up with a corneal infection which left one ey
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by keshet 18y ago
In a way Google is doing QA on the whole web. This will expose all kinds of bugs sites have hidden behind their form-processing scripts. Databases will get filled up with random junk ('Google was here'), but that is also good for QA. On the
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by keshet 19y ago
As I read this article, I realized that if you scale its message up to include not just companies, but the way modern society is structured, you will see exactly the arguments presented by Theodore Kaczynski: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki