shem73

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by shem73 4mo ago
“If someone calls you a resource, call them overhead”
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by shem73 4y ago
It just means one is not improving monotonically. There may be plateaux but the general trend is upwards.
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by shem73 6y ago
We have been using https://www.domaininfo.com/ for a long time and have been satisfied with them. They are based in Sweden.
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by shem73 6y ago
I've had a Stokke Duo for 23 years. Varier is a new name for the company and the Duo is a milder version of Varier Gravity Balans [1]. It's been so good that I just recently had it reupholstered. I've tried Gravity and find i
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by shem73 6y ago
Kitty has a very nice way to search and insert unicode characters (shift+control+u).
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by shem73 7y ago
I've used IRC since 1988 or so, when all the users were from the University of Oulu, Finland. I hang out in a couple of channels of old pals (in IRCnet) and in a few technical channels in Freenode (#sway, #clojure, occasionally others)
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by shem73 7y ago
Finland has thousands of winter swimmers, just normal people, and Russia at least 10x more. The article makes it sound almost superhuman, whereas in real life it's something that thousands of old ladies do daily. No need to travel to t
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by shem73 8y ago
In the mid-eighties, you could ask any BITNET machine, anywhere in the world, who was logged on. You could then send any of them a message. I did, and had interesting correspondence thereafter with people thousands of kilometers away.
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by shem73 8y ago
Anything by PG Wodehouse. Perfect antidote to too much seriousness. Often in spring I read Dylan Thomas 's Under Milk Wood.
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by shem73 9y ago
I think this overlooks the fact that mathematics is very specialised, segmented. Enormous talent in one strain of maths does not mean that anybody, following a slightly different course, would recognise the talent. So, being an arbiter alw
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by shem73 9y ago
I run into these all the time in Finland. I have never actuated their buttons. I often have feelings about the quality of the establishment or the experience but they can never be expressed adequately by a 1-5 scale. I suspect the data gath
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by shem73 10y ago
Tampere, Finland. 2.5km. 20-25min walk. A bit less on a bicycle.
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by shem73 10y ago
I'm using Beyerdynamic DT 797 PV. The sound quality of both the headphones and the mic are excellent. It needs 48V phantom power, so I feed it with a Focusrite Scarlett USB audio interface.