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by seewhat 6mo ago
“Storm of Steel” by Ernst Jünger, for one view from the German side. It has been variously perceived as pro- and anti-war.
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by seewhat 7mo ago
I’ve occasionally found myself wanting a comments filter with an account-creation date cutoff. A -3dB cutoff might be >= 01/01/2020, to pick a round figure. Yet I never browse https://news.ycombinator.com/classi
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by seewhat 8mo ago
> “The hypothesis is that estrogen can be protective, so that women may develop risk for heart disease later, by about 10 years, but then after menopause, it catches up,” Khan said. “After menopause, and particularly during that perimeno
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Commission proposes 2 solutions supporting Ukraine's 2026-2027 financing(ec.europa.eu)
2 points by seewhat 10mo ago|0 comments
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In the Maker Shed: Gakken’s Ex-150 [video](youtube.com)
1 points by seewhat 4y ago|0 comments
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by seewhat 5y ago
The tarsier appears on the cover of some versions of a DJ Shadow album… https://www.discogs.com/release/324160-DJ-Shadow-The-Private...
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Ken Follett – killing time, I found the inspiration for my most successful novel(theguardian.com)
2 points by seewhat 5y ago|1 comments
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by seewhat 5y ago
Similar-length hiking options exist in the EU, like Via Alpina. Adjacent suggestions for long-distance and/or solo tourism are worth considering. With the luxury of time, investing in oneself can be done in novel ways, e.g. flying or o
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by seewhat 5y ago
I have occasionally dipped into this book for instruction and consider it a freely accessible reference: Unix Text Processing , Dougherty and O'Reilly, 1987 https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/utp/ Cherry pick
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by seewhat 10y ago
On pg 38: Field Gate Programmable Array (FPGA) Surely: Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) ?
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by seewhat 10y ago
I have seen the term "tenderpreneur" applied to those who become enriched through favourable access to government contracts, as in... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenderpreneur ... a tenderpreneur is a p
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by seewhat 11y ago
10 KV? I think it's max about 400 V, depending on region.
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by seewhat 12y ago
Another suggestion, if you haven't ruled it out. I enjoy using console vimdiff in PuTTY, because my configuration allows quick navigation without too much thought. The accumulated time for starting vim can become annoying when iteratin
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by seewhat 12y ago
For the curious: When the HN-posting bookmarklet limited the length of the article title, I lifted the title of the BBC News story.
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Scientists film inside a flying insect(plosbiology.org)
97 points by seewhat 12y ago|7 comments
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by seewhat 12y ago
I noticed that UTILITY.txt and QUICK.txt in v20source refer to an FGREP command which is missing. Perhaps it exists as the familiar FIND command (FIND.ASM and FIND.EXE).
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Francis Maude vows to buy more IT services from small companies(ft.com)
1 points by seewhat 13y ago|0 comments
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by seewhat 13y ago
An economic angle, summarised in: Lowenberg, Anton D. "Why South Africa’s Apartheid Economy Failed", 1997 http://www.freepatentsonline.com/article/Contemporary-Econom... TLDR:- 1. Decades of intensifying inte
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by seewhat 13y ago
Another song for Mandela, though released in 1989 as a B-side single: Simple Minds - Mandela Day... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandela_Day_(song)
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by seewhat 13y ago
Did your father experience a cross-over period of using OpenOffice (rather than MS Office) on Windows?
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by seewhat 13y ago
I've recently installed RCS on a Windows host for versioning my .emacs file, and I rely on Emacs VC to drive the tool. On Solaris hosts, including locked-down "production", I use SCCS to version my dot-files because it's
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by seewhat 13y ago
A piece of trivia: "Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities" is listed as a well-known example of a sell-side dealer (the publishing date is 2002). Understandably, some other firms no longer operate under their listed names.
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by seewhat 13y ago
I encounter vi on a production Solaris 10 box at my current consulting gig. I can access the box from other hosts with tramp. I believe that firewall rules will be changed to restrict many production SSH connections to be outbound, which mi
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by seewhat 13y ago
I believe Canonical sent warning emails to ubuntuforums.org account addresses.
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In pictures: Dark Pripyat(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by seewhat 13y ago|0 comments
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by seewhat 14y ago
Hi, thanks for the info. The initial difference is that I cannot use the installer due to Windows group policies associated with my account (the PC is not mine to administer). So I've downloaded and extracted the v0.3 zip archive. I manuall
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by seewhat 14y ago
Any advice on how to make these 3 tools work together? I scanned the web and experimented today for approx 1 hour but didn't succeed. My general efforts were: (i) injecting clink into the Console2 process (ii) hosting the injected cmd proce
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by seewhat 14y ago
An example in banking: John Thain, former CEO of Merrill Lynch (BSEE + MBA).
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by seewhat 14y ago
Another story: http://trading-gurus.com/sid-the-superstitious-robot-launche... The fund's website: http://asuperstitiousfund.com
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Superstitious Fund: Too mystic to fail(bbc.com)
2 points by seewhat 14y ago|1 comments

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