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Snoddas

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    Comment #48768438

    Since I'm almost never interested in the formatting I run all pdf files through pdftotext from the Poppler library before llm use.

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    Comment #48585065

    I realize I've missed a lot. Someone should write an Emacs guide for people who haven't meaningfully touched their .emacs since the early 2000s

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    Comment #48458481

    I think you are wrong. They never asked for one becase they never imagined being able to afford one. The amount of administration organizing a normal household takes I suspect most…

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    Comment #46897492

    Your experience isn’t representative. Mine isn’t either.

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    Comment #46868374

    This brings back memories. I used CoyoteLinux to surreptitiously share my ADSL connection with my SO. This was against my provider's ToS at the time.

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    Comment #46600990

    Having one digit numbers count as a palindromes takes away most of the amazement.

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    Comment #45450067

    They tried to up-sell me when I was in the chair during surgery. (sweden)

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    Comment #45450042

    My mom got angry and asked why no one had told her how wrinkly she'd gotten.

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    Comment #44179241

    You may also enjoy Farewell Horizontal K. W. Jeter, takes place on a giant floating cylinder

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    Comment #43459160

    The trust is gone. Even if the dems win the next election, we now know that the US isn't stable enough to handle one rouge president. With the massive cost of shifting infrastructu…

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    Comment #43169708

    This calendar is what we work after A useful addition would be to show weekdays/weekends with a localization option for holidays (Here in Sweden we have 5 days off this Q2)

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    Comment #43010726

    You must be of size medium to small then because legroom is definitly an issue for me, especially for longer flights and I'm just 180cm. (just below average hight) Or alternativly …

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    Comment #42735632

    It will have atleast be > than zero, and doing it every year instead of giving it away to some overpriced CEO will it will accumulate.

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    Ask HN: How to improve your presentation skills

    I'm an IT technician, system administrator, and sometimes developer. I regularly have to inform my colleagues or direct managers about various technical topics, such as problem des…

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    Comment #42304269

    Probably sarcastic as the temperature of Nairobi is quite moderate. A quick web serach states that the average summer temperature is Average High: ~28°C (82°F) Average Low: ~14°C (…

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    Comment #41922601

    [flagged]

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    Comment #41463442

    I see it's read only Is it possible to launch a browser for writing replys/comments?

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    Comment #41425292

    Both will get you where you want to go, but I don't think the usecase for perl and awk are the same. I reach for awk when my bash-scripts get a bit messy, perl is/was for when I wa…

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    Comment #40873464

    The common solution is having an UPS and a NAS that supports graceful shutdown when the UPS detects powerloss

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    Comment #40809947

    [flagged]

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    Comment #40725944

    Here is another example https://www.sarakulturhus.se/en/303172/The-Wood-Hotel-by-Eli... "In the 20-story wooden house, there are 205 modern hotel....."

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    Comment #39892911

    quantify enough

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    Comment #39892900

    No it won't. Proof myself

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    Comment #38879844

    Not OP, but I used to do this regularly in the early '90s. I accessed Usenet from my university, printed it very cheaply, and brought it home. My home PC didn't have any internet c…

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    Comment #38456714

    probably because biohacking has a reputation for being rather expensive A nbc news clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc5CRvzzywU