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by ragtagtag 2mo ago
This looks lovely, thank you. Is there a source repository available?
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This Meal Might Bring You to Tears(nautil.us)
2 points by ragtagtag 8mo ago|0 comments
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Finding Peter Putnam(nautil.us)
2 points by ragtagtag 1y ago|0 comments
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by ragtagtag 1y ago
Sounds interesting. How do candidates update their profiles? It can be annoying to have to replicate information that's already on both a CV and LinkedIn into yet another recruitment system's custom format. I can understand the li
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by ragtagtag 1y ago
Too much drama; too much!
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by ragtagtag 1y ago
This is one area where richer countries can learn a lot from poorer countries, should they choose to listen. When I lived in Liberia, there were about 10-15 different newspapers in the capital, from websites to print to one guy with a massi
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by ragtagtag 1y ago
I would add that the terrible politics doesn't need to be local. There are a large number of international norms that benefit the already-wealthy, at the expense of the poor, for example, by supporting authoritarians in other countries
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by ragtagtag 1y ago
You may or may not be correct, but I'd say, citation needed. It's not self-evident that life is such a zero-sum game that more people necessarily means fewer resources to go around; I'd even venture that the last hundred year
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by ragtagtag 2y ago
> I also do the bending while swallowing trick that was on HN sometime back Could you share the link for this, if you can find it?
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by ragtagtag 2y ago
You might want to look into EcoFlow. I use their River system to provide backup power for my home equipment (I have frequent power outages, usually about 2 hours in length). I can't tell you whether it'll work for medical equipmen
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by ragtagtag 2y ago
> Who’s going around giving pro bono Brazilian waxes to the homeless? Apparently this is most likely to be a local clinic; when handling lower-income clients, it's often a routine part of any sexual health treatment. (A friend who i
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by ragtagtag 2y ago
What's an anagram of Banach-Tarski? Banach-Tarski Banach-Tarski!
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by ragtagtag 2y ago
Ubuntu is an isiXhosa/isiZulu word, and the concept (and similar words) exist in other Bantu languages... But, although Swahili is a Bantu language, I don't think it's a word in Swahili. (To be fair, I can't claim fluenc
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by ragtagtag 2y ago
"A strange loop is a paradoxical structure where the highest level emerges from the lowest level, and the lowest level, in turn, gives rise to the highest level." This is saying the same thing twice; does the author mean that the
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by ragtagtag 2y ago
The headline is click bait. The results aren't surprising: more research needed. However, despite the terrible headline, the article is an excellent summary of the debate and the study, and well worth reading if you have pets or are in
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by ragtagtag 3y ago
In this case, I suspect "china" comes from Cockney rhyming slang, "china plate", "mate", as in "friend".
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by ragtagtag 3y ago
In case the site is unavailable for anyone else: https://web.archive.org/web/20240127101027/https://aa.usno.n...
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by ragtagtag 3y ago
Ah! Well the kittens didn't get up to any nonsense while I scrolled, they just sat, cleaning the poop that they had kicked up the wall off their legs... so 10/10, great success! Thank you! Now I just need to scroll endlessly... (S
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by ragtagtag 3y ago
I opened the webpage, settled myself down, and clicked "Start". A lovely bong resonated through my headphones, and I relaxed. Immediately, one of the foster kitten sidled past me with a half-butchered gecko, still weakly struggl
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by ragtagtag 3y ago
This is a really accessible introduction to a topic that is frequently glossed over in machine learning primers.
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by ragtagtag 3y ago
This is fun! I like the voice, and the picture of Santa and his helpers are cute. After discussing with my sister-in-law, though, we won't be showing this to my nephew -- still a true believer in Father Christmas -- because she reckons
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by ragtagtag 3y ago
The title definitely seems like a strawman, but it is the best use of a strawman that I've seen in an academic article: an outrageous and amusing title that makes me want to read the paper! (The rest of the article seems much more defe
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by ragtagtag 5y ago
I think there are two elements at play. Consider a person of colour living in the eponymous mansion of the city's wealthiest neighborhood. For a racist government, it's a symbol of defiance. For other people of colour, who have be
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by ragtagtag 5y ago
"Without seeking exemption from the law" is the key phrase. He refused to respect a discriminatory law, and, by living there, was effectively daring the Apartheid government to arrest a sitting archbishop.
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by ragtagtag 5y ago
Archbishop Tutu told me, a few years ago, that he had received a strange email from someone claiming to be a lawyer from a small English parish in which Tutu had been a curate in the 1970s. The person was asking for Tutu's assistance i
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by ragtagtag 6y ago
Interesting stuff! One of my clients uses Daily.co and it's a great system: much easier to use and more reliable than Zoom, especially since you're not forced into downloading software. It'll just run in your browser. I'
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by ragtagtag 6y ago
You raise a good point! I spent some time thinking about this. Ultimately, it wasn't clear to me that any plastic I could reasonably work with would be more fire-retarding than the dense wood that I ended up using, and of course a meta
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Building a UPS with LiFePO4 Cells(treehouse.org.za)
5 points by ragtagtag 6y ago|4 comments