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by shezi 6mo ago
The image referencing "Haussystem Didot" is an example of a catalog not containing the Angzarr symbol in question. I did not find any evidence for earlier examples in any of the very few scans I looked at, nor does a search throug
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by shezi 6mo ago
Neither did I read all these pages nor did I pretend to. > Neither the wikipedia page for the Didot family, nor for Histoire générale des voyages shows the Angzarr symbol, I've carefully checked on all the scans on these pages. You
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by shezi 6mo ago
I'm sorry, but I don't understand your comment at all. The linked article does not refer to Didot, nor does the Wikipedia page for the glyph in question. Neither the wikipedia page for the Didot family, nor for Histoire générale d
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by shezi 2y ago
SEEKING WORK | remote, Stuttgart area, Germany | Python full-stack developer I've worked for 15 years as a freelance Python/Django developer, in projects both big and small. I've created entire projects myself, including
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by shezi 2y ago
SEEKING WORK | remote, Stuttgart area, Germany | Python full-stack developer I've worked for 15 years as a freelance Python/Django developer, in projects both big and small. I've created entire projects myself, including
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by shezi 3y ago
Back when we played the original game, there was a bug that leads to underflow in the money. You had to build a tunnel that spanned the entire width of the map, which would cost just more than 2 billion dollars, underflowing and giving you
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by shezi 4y ago
This looks really nice and people interested in mathematical computing should try it out. I certainly will. Apparently many commenters here do not understand the word "alternative", which means "a thing that you can choose to
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The Zen of Python, One-Liners and Being Pythonic – Pat Viafore(patviafore.com)
2 points by shezi 5y ago|0 comments
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by shezi 5y ago
I love that! Argparse is such an old and boring solution to such a simple problem that we need more like this. And I have hope that one of the solutions will make it into the standard library at some point. There are some others like yours:
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by shezi 5y ago
This is a pet peeve of mine: csv was a bad format already when it was created, because it intermixes data with meta data, ie it uses characters that can appear as either data or control characters, leading to escaping issues. This is in add
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by shezi 5y ago
If you liked this, you might also like "Friendship is optimal" ( https://www.fimfiction.net/story/62074/Friendship-is-Optimal ) And "the metamorphosis of Prime Intellect ( https://web.archiv
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by shezi 5y ago
Panasonic has duplex document scanners in various price ranges, starting from about 300 €, and they are all Linux compatible with one sane SANE driver. They scan super quick and easy and work very reliably.
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by shezi 5y ago
Here is one of the most enlightening explanations for these kinds of spirals I have seen by 3blue1brown: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EK32jo7i5LQ Note that the setup is slightly different,since in that video they plot numb
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by shezi 5y ago
According to AcoUP, transport cost over land is five times that over rivers, and twenty times that over sea. https://acoup.blog/2019/07/19/the-lonely-city-part-ii-real-c...
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by shezi 5y ago
For a historically accurate overview over how cities actually were, and on how they sustained their size, I recommend Bret Devereaux' excellent history blog: https://acoup.blog/2019/07/12/collections-the-
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Depopulation of cockroaches in post-Soviet states(en.wikipedia.org)
11 points by shezi 5y ago|2 comments
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by shezi 5y ago
When I worked at a small consultancy, we had similar requirements, Masters or higher. I asked our hiring manager (who himself was a 22-year-old student) why they did that. He told me that in any week they'd get 100 applicants, while hi
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by shezi 5y ago
There was a django security issue where password length lead to a possible DOS attack against the server. So now they limit passwords rather arbitrarily to 4096 bytes. https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2013/sep&
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by shezi 5y ago
According to the recent article on an extra robotic thumb, people got used to it very quickly. And that one wasn't even controlled by neural link, but by sensors on the user's toes. https://news.ycombinator.com/ite
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by shezi 5y ago
You could try RealityCapture, https://www.capturingreality.com/ , which is a professional 3d capturing software. It has been free to try since Epic bought it. Unfortunately, you'll need a lot of photos to get reliable 3
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by shezi 5y ago
I built commandeer, a library for seamlessly exposing python functions as command line calls. https://commandeer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ I was fed up with having to build the nth argparse parser and instead used
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Autofac, by Philip K. Dick(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by shezi 5y ago|0 comments
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by shezi 5y ago
Those are all excellent beginner friendly recommendations. In general, the Spiel des Jahres are quite good suggestions, offering enough depth for long-term play, yet being easy enough to learn.
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by shezi 5y ago
Those are all great games and great suggestions, but they are also very heavy and and long games. Even with skilled players, you won't be able to complete a session of Terraforming Mars in less than two hours. While Catan is not a perf
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by shezi 5y ago
If you bend a coin, one side has larger area than the other and will prefer to land on that side accordingly. The turn-based argument depends on the fact that both sides of the coin are the same size, which is not true if you bend the coin.
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by shezi 5y ago
The CCC is both. It's a club of computer- and technology-interested d people. Most cities have some rented space that doubles as a hacker and tinker space. It really depends on the members in each city what the specific location looks
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by shezi 5y ago
Apparently there were studies on adenovirus 5 vector vaccines against HIV in 2007. The vaccine was not successful, but I cannot find any data on long-term adverse effects.
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OtterCast: DIY Open Source Audio Streaming(cast.otter.jetzt)
2 points by shezi 5y ago|0 comments
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by shezi 5y ago
This reminds me of El Ateneo in Buenos Aires, which is built into a former theater. https://www.buenostours.com/el-ateneo-grand-splendid-booksto...
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by shezi 5y ago
So you agree that this was a breakdown in procedure and reporting, instead of an actual case of something interesting happening? As a German, to me it feels a lot like politicians covering their assets instead of properly evaluating the sit

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