seewhat
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Comment · 7 months ago
“Storm of Steel” by Ernst Jünger, for one view from the German side. It has been variously perceived as pro- and anti-war.
Comment · 8 months ago
I’ve occasionally found myself wanting a comments filter with an account-creation date cutoff.
A -3dB cutoff might be >= 01/01/2020, to pick a round figure.
Yet I never browse https://news.ycombinator.com/classic
Perhaps a classic comment filter might work…
Comment · 9 months ago
> “The hypothesis is that estrogen can be protective, so that women may develop risk for heart disease later, by about 10 years, but then after menopause, it catches up,” Khan said. “After menopause, and particularly during that perimenopause period for women, that risk can accelerate.”
> By contrast, the researchers found no meaningful sex difference in stroke risk; men and women reached similar stroke incidence at nearly the same ages. Heart failure also showed little difference early on, but men had a slightly higher incidence rate by age 65.
Comment · 4 years ago
The tarsier appears on the cover of some versions of a DJ Shadow album…
https://www.discogs.com/release/324160-DJ-Shadow-The-Private...
Comment · 4 years ago
Similar-length hiking options exist in the EU, like Via Alpina.
Adjacent suggestions for long-distance and/or solo tourism are worth considering.
With the luxury of time, investing in oneself can be done in novel ways, e.g. flying or ocean sailing, triathlon, surfing, craftsmanship, golf.
Comment · 5 years ago
I have occasionally dipped into this book for instruction and consider it a freely accessible reference:
Unix Text Processing, Dougherty and O'Reilly, 1987 https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/utp/
Cherry pick chapters like those on the Shell and AWK, and avoid those on troff, macros etc unless specifically interested.
Comment · 9 years ago
On pg 38: Field Gate Programmable Array (FPGA)
Surely: Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) ?
Comment · 10 years ago
I have seen the term "tenderpreneur" applied to those who become enriched through favourable access to government contracts, as in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenderpreneur
... a tenderpreneur is a person in government who abuses their
political power and influence to secure government tenders and
contracts. The word tenderpreneur is a portmanteau of "tendering"
and "entrepreneur".
Comment · 11 years ago
10 KV? I think it's max about 400 V, depending on region.
Comment · 12 years ago
Another suggestion, if you haven't ruled it out.
I enjoy using console vimdiff in PuTTY, because my configuration allows quick navigation without too much thought.
The accumulated time for starting vim can become annoying when iterating over many files. (I could investigate loading diff pairs into tabs if I was sufficiently bothered.)
Helpful .vimrc settings:-
Firstly, map some keys to navigate to preceding/successive differences...
" Next/ previous diff (analogous to j/k, use the same fingers)
nmap <F6> ]czt
nmap <F7> [czt
" Diff update, i.e. repaint the screen when needed
nmap <F5> :diffupdate<CR>
" Get from Buffer 1/ 2/ 3/ 4
nmap <F1> :diffget 1<CR>
nmap <F2> :diffget 2<CR>
nmap <F3> :diffget 3<CR>
nmap <F4> :diffget 4<CR>
" Apply window-local settings to all diff windows
au! FilterWritePost * if &diff | set wrap | set foldcolumn=0 | set nofoldenable | endif
" Override the diff colours
highlight DiffAdd term=reverse cterm=NONE ctermbg=darkblue ctermfg=white
highlight DiffDelete term=reverse cterm=NONE ctermbg=black ctermfg=blue
highlight DiffChange term=reverse cterm=NONE ctermbg=darkgray ctermfg=white
highlight DiffText term=reverse cterm=bold ctermbg=brown ctermfg=white