yakovdk

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by yakovdk 7y ago
Thanks for posting this -- I hadn't heard of the Librem 5, and it's fascinating.
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by yakovdk 7y ago
It could have other interesting implications. Like, no more grinding labels off of chips so a customer has a fighting chance of replacing things. That would be a nice world to live in, I think.
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by yakovdk 7y ago
I'm serious enough about libre principles, though, that I'd be happy to buy weird europhones if I knew I had more control of my technology.
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by yakovdk 7y ago
If your immune system develops an antibody based on epitopes that differ in the second strain, I would think you could contract it again. Two people who overcome a virus may ultimately derive different antibodies, and some may do better at
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by yakovdk 7y ago
Per [1], it was a special toilet designed to support flushing at depth (I guess it makes sense that it's a tough problem to solve when the sub is under pressure). I guess previous iterations of U-boats had to surface to flush. It doe
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by yakovdk 7y ago
I was going to reply and complain that it was pancreatic cancer. But after fact-checking a bit, I see that fruits and fruit juices seem to have been linked to pancreatic cancer[1], and there may be some truth in your claim. TIL. [1] http
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by yakovdk 7y ago
This comes about because people can't get past the idea that art is a natural gift, whereas it is in most part a learnable skill. My thinking on this changed after watching the Great Course's "How to Draw" lectures [1].
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by yakovdk 7y ago
I think this "different language" concept is in many ways either revisionist history or scope creep. Originally, Larry said he wanted to remove historical warts, clean up the language design, and etc. I think the apocalyptic and
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Waiter there's a compiler in my shellcode [video](youtube.com)
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by yakovdk 8y ago
Hey! I take exception to that. I've been writing shellcode all week. C is uncomfortably high level for writing low level routines!
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by yakovdk 8y ago
Ah, I checked there seems to be an extension that lets you write macros in a JSON file: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=geddski.... But there seems to have been no movement on this request for a function
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by yakovdk 8y ago
I kind of put vscode in the same category as notepad++. Actually, as a text editor, I think N++ has some nice features that vscode doesn't (like macros, I think).
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by yakovdk 8y ago
Some scientists are religious, so ritual may be meaningful and sensible to them.