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by ward 3y ago
> Open source related application, for open source desktops like Linux (unfortunately not for open source Android/GrapheneOS currently), there's Alex Harsányi's ActivityLog2 (which is an impressive application in Racket):
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by ward 3y ago
> If you're waiting a long time for the train, you've done something wrong. Amtrak is delayed so often, I'd be hard pressed to blame the commuter for it.
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by ward 3y ago
I hate Newark airport so much because of this. Even worse, as a non-American just visiting, I tend to not have mobile data stateside. The wifi is pretty shit in many spots, I've had to literally leave one place because I could not get
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by ward 6y ago
> Bring up Finder: ⌘␣ "finder" ⏎ I had a finder window open still on another workspace. Doing this still does not give you a new finder window. You then have to press cmd+n... > Bring up Activity Monitor: ⌘␣ "am" ⏎
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by ward 7y ago
I used to think like this (and still do for movies and such), but recall reading that a driver under 4.6 or 4.7 rating will barely get any clients matched any more.
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by ward 7y ago
There is definitely a difference. If you don't hear it, you might be saying one of them incorrectly? Wiktionary has audio files for input (English) and put (Dutch) if you need a comparison. In IPA the difference is ʊ vs ʏ. In terms of
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by ward 7y ago
> I'm wondering about your personal reasons also. That's an ad hominem for something you clearly did not properly check yourself. - "Edit Berces, 24 hour treadmill world record holder; holds several Hungarian records"
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by ward 7y ago
No? The link geargrinder posted literally also has a 50 kilometer table.
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by ward 8y ago
> Science becomes a Special Discipline requiring Special Language different than what your family uses at home. Like if all science were still done in French or Latin, and you needed to study those to read a paper. You realize this is st
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by ward 8y ago
I like it. For some of these though, I feel like it would be nice if an "order" was established between different books (or the lack thereof mentioned). At least, I do not immediately seem to spot a mention of this. What I mean is
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by ward 10y ago
It says so in the article, it is the Garmin Forerunner 230 or 235. The 230 uses a chest strap for heart rate, the 235 has optical heart rate built in. The software is Garmin's. To connect the watch and get the data off it you can use G
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by ward 10y ago
Looks like tagbar to me https://github.com/majutsushi/tagbar
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by ward 10y ago
30% of the ranking's rating is based on nobel laureate/fields medal in alumni or staff. 20% based just on amount of publications in Nature and Science. I never know why people rate these rankings so highly when there are such unim
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by ward 10y ago
This uses the so called "octopus" merge strategy in git as described at https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-merge.h...
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This commit has 6225 parents(github.com)
2 points by ward 10y ago|1 comments
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The landscape of domain name typosquatting: techniques and countermeasures(blog.acolyer.org)
1 points by ward 10y ago|0 comments
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by ward 10y ago
I believe he is referring this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_B
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by ward 11y ago
NB: I used to help with STK development around 2011-2013, so have a likely biased view in this particular discussion. Actually, SuperTuxKart definitely moved some things away from Sourceforge already. You can find the Github account at htt
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by ward 11y ago
But you also use "vous" as a form of politeness, be it to people older than yourself, more formal situations, or just people you do not know. It is very prevalent. This form also still has the verb in its plural form despite talki
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Revisiting How We Put Together Linux Systems (2014)(0pointer.net)
50 points by ward 11y ago|54 comments
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by ward 12y ago
Ugh. I remember that, I had posted on that to explain to the developer why there was so much attention and kept receiving mails and notifications from github for ages. At the time there was no way to "stop watching" when you had c
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by ward 12y ago
Yet to encounter a monolingual English speaker to be able to pronounce my first name "Ward" (Dutch speaking Belgian). Only one I know of was someone who had spent several years in Paris (so he knew French and wasn't actually
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by ward 13y ago
Same in Dutch-Belgium setting. None of the names sounded realistic and when van de/van der or variants were used it was always in lowercase which is a thing from the Netherlands. In Belgium it'll be in capital letters.
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by ward 13y ago
And the beauty is that you are still able to easily convert it to the type you are used to. I, as a Belgian, might blink once when you use hectogram, but it is trivial to convert it to what I am more used to (say kg or g).
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by ward 13y ago
I know and because of this something nice looking in one font becomes something completely useless when not using that font. (like the Github character in my previous post) It's exactly what I dislike about the entire practice. I don&#
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by ward 13y ago
Ok, allow me to rephrase. Fonts shouldn't be used as icons in such a way that the same point gives me a wholly different icon in a different font. A 'y' will look like a 'y' in any reasonable font. Github's set
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by ward 13y ago
As someone who does not allow his font choice to be overriden, yes please. Fonts shouldn't be used as icons, it has felt wrong to me since wingdings. Document Font Toggle ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox&
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Pixel Scalers(datagenetics.com)
2 points by ward 13y ago|0 comments
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by ward 13y ago
Is that still correct for iOS5 and newer? I know I never solved that to anything remotely close to satisfaction when checking it out last time for iOS6
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by ward 13y ago
As a confused Belgian, what is meant by "Unlike traditional bank accounts, where you would never share your account number on national television, Bitcoin public addresses are secure"? Giving out your account number in Belgium is

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