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Comment · 1 year ago
in fact, I did not edit the original contents of my first message at all, out of respect for the reader. The edit merely acknowledged your point.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
strange, Teams is not on my list. Maybe you are not using "(new) teams (for business and school) v2 (new)"
Comment · 1 year ago
reminds me of the recently enacted FAIR plan in California for last-resort wildfire insurance. It got state dispensation to carry otherwise-disallowed, lopsided balance sheets to cover more people -- but if a small fraction of those people do experience wildfire it'll go bust!

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edit: see below, I was wrong about FAIR being newly enacted

Comment · 1 year ago
i had a nuc with an eGPU, connected via a simple usb/thunderbolt connection, and I recall it was a nightmare to setup
Comment · 1 year ago
more general purpose is to use https://github.com/akavel/up

eg.

cat ./file.txt | up

and inside up, jq away!

Comment · 1 year ago
if you want to fall back to a less hardcore intro try spacemacs or doom emacs, very vim friendly
Comment · 1 year ago
this guy is like matt drudge, he caught lightning in a bottle and is holding tight onto that moment of relevance
Comment · 1 year ago
remarkable
Comment · 1 year ago
grep for /* and omit /v2 ?
Comment · 1 year ago
crazy if true
Comment · 1 year ago
I greatly appreciate these kinds of tools but I always err on the side of what's installed by default wherever possible so I can work across hosts as soon as i land
Comment · 1 year ago
this goes years back, but in the early 2000s I visited Paris and was a bit scandalized to hear the colloquial name for corner store was "l'Arabe" (!)
Comment · 1 year ago
Thanks!

This is the key piece of information for making sense of it. Ultimately the OP's insight is that the number-naming system used in the west is thousands based instead of millions based, but came to that by observing the number-naming outcomes instead of the source notation that led to it.

Comment · 1 year ago

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