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I love this list of stationery items from Jet Pens that is BIFL (Buy It For Life). Stuff that you buy once and it lasts a lifetime of regular use.
https://www.jetpens.com/BIFL-Buy-It-For-Life/ct/1975?mc_cid=6af2d2cf65
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"The Gideons, a Christian charity founded in 1899, has placed 2.5bn Bibles and New Testaments in hotels, hospitals, prisons and domestic-violence shelters around the world—roughly one for every Christian man, woman and child."
https://www.economist.com/culture/2024/03/29/how-to-make-money-from-the-bible
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"The Rwandan genocide is 1 of 2 events in the 1990s that prodded a guilt-ridden world to pledge never again to stand aside & allow mass atrocities. The other was the massacre by Bosnian Serbs of thousands of Muslim men & boys in Srebrenica the following year. In 2005 the UN General Assembly adopted the principle that all countries have a “responsibility to protect” (R2P) people from genocide and war crimes, by force if necessary."
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"This month’s launch is the first time that India has tested a missile with multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles, known as MIRVs, first developed by America in the 1960s. These are small warheads, crammed atop a single missile, each capable of striking targets hundreds of kms apart from one another."
https://www.economist.com/asia/2024/03/14/india-is-souping-up-its-nuclear-missiles
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"Last year the size of passive funds overtook active ones for the first time. Index funds trace their origins to the idea, which emerged during the 1960s, that markets are efficient. Since information is instantaneously “priced in”, it is hard for stockpickers to compensate for higher fees by consistently beating the market."
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GTC 2024 keynote by Jensen is now on Youtube. 👇️
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What an astute observation!
"Mr Wang admired how Americans put their thin history to work inculcating a shared political tradition. He was impressed by the pageantry [of the inauguration of the president], by the creation of a tradition strong enough to guarantee the transfer of authority. The important result, he wrote, “is not that the new president has power, but that the old president thus loses power”."
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"The voluntary pursuit of financial wherewithal, rather than any ideology or political system of coercion, was the ultimate source of stability. Technological superiority had become the source of Americans’ sense of national superiority.
Mr Wang was astonished by the public libraries. American libraries gave everyone access to the knowledge of generations."
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"Mr Wang saw important, enduring patterns in what Americans might overlook as the wallpaper of their lives. He spotted subtle controls everywhere. The police did not have to mandate identity cards because the government persuaded each citizen to volunteer to have one by calling it a driver’s licence & issuing it through a motor-vehicle agency. Big corporations such as Coca-Cola relieved the government of management over the lives of millions."
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"Power Slap, America’s first official slap-fighting league. Slap fighting is simple. Two competitors, usually beefy men, slap each other. Hard. The bout typically ends when only one of them is conscious."
https://www.economist.com/culture/2024/02/01/the-violence-of-power-slap-is-part-of-its-allure
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"In a practice called “load shifting”, data-centre operators move certain tasks that are not time-sensitive, like training an AI model, to different times or even to different data centres. Google has created a system that can shift computation jobs to when and where grids are cleanest."
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Van Damme's Timecop is so bad that it is actually a fun watch! The time travel police concept is completely full of holes, but if you just roll with it, the plot is just barely interesting enough. Compared to today's movies, it is real easy and light to watch it, the 1.5h just fly by.
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How Jet Pens packs stationery orders. 👇️ That is some finely configured packing software they use!
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"The fields of atoms in an antiferromagnetic material point in opposite directions to those of their neighbours, cancelling each other out perfectly."
"In altermagnetism, neighbouring atoms could end up with spins pointing in opposite directions if the atoms themselves were rotated by 90 degrees compared with their neighbours."
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"India’s GDP per person grew briskly under Mr Modi but had risen half as fast again under his predecessor, Manmohan Singh of the Congress party, who also ruled for 10 years. Stockmarket returns, too, have been lower in the past decade than in the one before."
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"In China, children must be good at skipping rope to become eligible for scholarships. Most provinces include skipping tests (measuring skips per minute) in their versions of the high-school entrance exam, known as the zhongkao. In the Yunnan province, for example, elite skippers can score 11 points on the exam, where the maximum total is 700."
https://www.economist.com/china/2024/01/25/why-skipping-ropes-are-so-expensive-in-china
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@jackerhack I didn't have the Miyoo Mini Plus on hand but I did watch the RetroGameCorps comparison video of these two before making the call. They are both pretty well matched (except for Wifi) and the Anbernic was more easily available (back when I was buying), so I went with that.
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@jackerhack I have the Anbernic RG35XX. Quite nice, small enough to just pick up and de-stress whenever there are a few minutes in between tasks.
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@benfulton @carnage4life Correct, the real beginning is Facemash. IIRC it even appears in The Social Network movie.
2003 report from Harvard's student newspaper:
"The site was created entirely by Zuckerberg over the last week in October, after a friend gave him the idea. The website used photos compiled from the online facebooks of nine Houses, placing two next to each other at a time and asking users to choose the “hotter” person."
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2003/11/19/facemash-creator-survives-ad-board-the/
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@benfulton @carnage4life Correct, the real beginning is Facemash. IIRC it even appears in The Social Network movie.
2003 report from Harvard's student newspaper:
"The site was created entirely by Zuckerberg over the last week in October, after a friend gave him the idea. The website used photos compiled from the online facebooks of nine Houses, placing two next to each other at a time and asking users to choose the “hotter” person."
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2003/11/19/facemash-creator-survives-ad-board-the/
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@benfulton @carnage4life Correct, the real beginning is Facemash. IIRC it even appears in The Social Network movie.
2003 report from Harvard's student newspaper:
"The site was created entirely by Zuckerberg over the last week in October, after a friend gave him the idea. The website used photos compiled from the online facebooks of nine Houses, placing two next to each other at a time and asking users to choose the “hotter” person."
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2003/11/19/facemash-creator-survives-ad-board-the/
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@benfulton @carnage4life Correct, the real beginning is Facemash. IIRC it even appears in The Social Network movie.
2003 report from Harvard's student newspaper:
"The site was created entirely by Zuckerberg over the last week in October, after a friend gave him the idea. The website used photos compiled from the online facebooks of nine Houses, placing two next to each other at a time and asking users to choose the “hotter” person."
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2003/11/19/facemash-creator-survives-ad-board-the/
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@benfulton @carnage4life Correct, the real beginning is Facemash. IIRC it even appears in The Social Network movie.
2003 report from Harvard's student newspaper:
"The site was created entirely by Zuckerberg over the last week in October, after a friend gave him the idea. The website used photos compiled from the online facebooks of nine Houses, placing two next to each other at a time and asking users to choose the “hotter” person."
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2003/11/19/facemash-creator-survives-ad-board-the/
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Someone on TikTok shared this product and I have to thank them for discovering the Bar Keepers Friend. It worked like magic for me on the stubborn yellow/brown/black colorings/stains that forms over time in bathroom sinks, shower stall and bathtub. No other general bathroom cleaning product available in the store worked this well before. 👌
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No tool available on the entire Internet that can convert an ABNF grammar to an EBNF grammar. 🤔
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@sethmlarson It seems to fail on most ABNF files. Could you share what ABNF input you provided to get the railroad diagrams you had in the post?
I tried running it on the `examples/abnf.abnf` it ships with and that produced nothing:
kgt -l abnf -e rrtext < examples/abnf.abnf
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There is not a single tool on the entire Internet to convert ABNF grammar to railroad diagrams. 🙄
PS: https://github.com/katef/kgt is the only one that claims to do this, but fails on its own example ABNF files.
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Google Podcasts is being killed. I had chosen this as the podcast app when I started on my iPhone.
A lesson for me to never rely on any Google product - they seem to kill everything.
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What a great discovery! John Lasseter, the Director of "Toy Story" also drew the BSD Daemon logo. 🌟
https://www.jacobelder.com/2024/01/17/director-of-toy-story-also-drew-bsd-daemon.html
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"The Vulcan Centaur is the first rocket developed by United Launch Alliance (ULA), a joint venture between Lockheed Martin and Boeing. […] The first stage, Vulcan, is powered by engines developed by Blue Origin. The second stage, Centaur, is the latest revamp of a design that has been flying since the days of Apollo."