Looks like you've basically created an RSS frontend for reuters.com. Which is useful since they seem to have got rid of their own feeds. Would be nice if you could add your own feed so that neuters is actually readable via RSS.
Readit Newsmzd348 commented on Neuters: Lightweight front end to Reuters News neuters.de/about... · Posted by u/walterbell
mzd348 commented on Moaan InkPalm Plus is weird, cheap, small, and my kind of e-reader sixcolors.com/post/2024/0... · Posted by u/kermatt
Looking at that picture of the narrow column of text with so many very badly spaced lines of two or three words each firstly gives me flashback of my days in newspaper production and secondly makes me hope it has a landscape view option. Making the type smaller might help, but there's a reason most books don't look like that.
It's sold by a Chinese company, their software probably doesn't worry much about optimal formatting, since Chinese writing doesn't really have any spaces. It would be nice if koreader could run on it.
mzd348 commented on Mitsubishi robot solves Rubik's Cube in 0.305s soranews24.com/2024/05/28... · Posted by u/nanna
I remember reading a sci-fi story - kind of an echo of ender’s fame - where that was the precise setting, smart kids being raised to compete against other nations in what were essentially hyper-realistic RTS games as a proxy for actual wars. I don’t remember if it had the same twist as ender’s game, but maybe it did? Man I should try to dig that up again.
Sounds like "The Last Child Into The Mountain": http://www.williamflew.com/omni54a.html
a) 3/14 = 0.21428571428
b) If I take reasonable date formats, it's date 2024-03-14 = 2007 today
But kudos for only taking the first three digits, 3.14, as approximation for pi, which is in nearly all cases enough. Some friends in automotive engineering even tried using pi = 3 and 2*pi = 7 for a while, and the results were good enough.
> Some friends in automotive engineering even tried using pi = 3
Did they end up with engine cylinders that were hexagonal in cross-section?
mzd348 commented on Emacs commands I got by with for years macadie.info/2023/12/30/e... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
> C-h k runs the command describe-key. You do this and after that any command, and it will give you the explanation.
But what about the opposite direction ? Is there anything like an "apropos" command ?
I'll usually do C-h f (describe-function), then hit tab to make it build a list of all (interactive) functions, and then switch to that buffer and search for whatever I'm interested in.
mzd348 commented on Cool, but obscure X11 tools (2019) cyber.dabamos.de/unix/x11... · Posted by u/RalfWausE
I also remember a lot of these from the 90s. But I didn't see xphoon, that was a pretty cool one to display a (fairly) detailed picture of the current phase of the moon in your root window/desktop.
mzd348 commented on How to Insure Your Money When You’re Banking over $250K (2022) nerdwallet.com/article/ba... · Posted by u/O__________O
Fidelity also offers an alternative, to its automated FDIC-insured deposit sweep, of keeping a brokerage/retirement account's cash in SPAXX, which is currently yielding 4.22%. (Both options are mostly transparent to the UX, and happen automatically -- you normally only see the dollar total, and a monthly interest/dividend transactions.)
SPAXX is riskier than FDIC-insured sweep, but I don't know how much riskier.
Rates for the FDIC-insured and SPAXX: https://accountopening.fidelity.com/ftgw/aong/aongapp/intere...
One problem with SPAXX (which I realized when doing my state taxes last week) is that the monthly dividends it pays aren't exempt from state income tax. I expected that they would be, since SPAXX invests in federal-level government bonds, but they aren't.
> But you aren’t forced to live in Manhattan.
$45k is not a livable wage anywhere within an hour commute of Manhattan
> And I thought we were talking about book cover artists?
"editors, marketing assistants, publicists, sales associates, designers, and contract assistants"
> $45k is not a livable wage anywhere within an hour commute of Manhattan
I think $45k comes out to a take-home of about $2800 per month. I see ads on craigslist for 2-bedroom apartments in Brooklyn in the 2000-3000 range, and 3-bedroom apartments also in Brooklyn in the 3000-4000 range, either of those seem reasonable with a $2800 take-home. Of course it means having roommates.
mzd348 commented on Huawei phones automatically deleting videos of the protests? twitter.com/msmelchen/sta... · Posted by u/qwertyuiop_
Can you give some examples or links to governments outside of China doing this? What sort of products are they trying to infiltrate?
"Smart TVs" come to mind, though this is corporate rather than government. For example there's talk of them having an embedded 5G modem so that they're able to phone home even if you've blocked them from your network, or never connected them to your network in the first place.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/40.752323/-73.977539