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19 giorni fadiscuss

So cool! Congratulations to the team. When scroll 4 (PHerc 1667) was first published, it was clear that the sheets were less compressed than the first two scrolls, so it would be easier to segment the surface. However, the whole surface looked similar to what the ink had looked like in scroll 1 where letters were first discovered.

But the team persevered and scanned at higher resolutions and eventually found letters: https://scrollprize.substack.com/p/finallyletters-in-scroll-...

Now they've managed to bring out the ink across the whole scroll. Truly inspiring, can't wait to read up on how they did it.

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25 giorni fadiscuss

Nice. I want one in Spanish so I can compare results.

spelufo

25 giorni fadiscuss

do you really think so?!

I think bang-interro just didn't sound as nice and that's probably why it is called an interrobang.

spelufo

2 mesi fadiscuss

Pedantic note on notation:

"A > B" reads as "A greater than B"

"A -> B" reads as "A to B"

spelufo

2 anni fadiscuss

  Location: Italy, Uruguay by November.
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Julia, Python, Django, Go, Kubernetes, Clojure, Javascript, etc.
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/santiago-pelufo-409baa1aa/
  Email: santiagopelufo at gmail

Experienced web developer. Problem solver, scientifically minded. Vesuvius Challenge contributor.

spelufo

2 anni fadiscuss

What is bullshit is the attempt to appropriate a useful neutral adjective to mean more than it does. Mathy is just mathy. Physics is more mathy than psychology. Too mathy can be bad, sure.

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2 anni fadiscuss

Fair point, I might be mistaken. But I think there are lots of small resellers that wouldn't exist if buying online from abroad was as seamless and risk free as buying online locally through mercado libre. The real problem is the requirement of contacting a customs officer to import anything above 200usd, and the risk of having the product stopped by customs. The resellers value is in saving you that bureaucracy by doing it in bulk. And in practice, because of the small market, it greatly reduces the variety of products on offer.

spelufo

2 anni fadiscuss

I'm Uruguayan and this drives me crazy. Specially for products that are also tools for industries where we can and do compete. Buying a computer in Uruguay costs about twice as much as in the US.

If this is all self imposed by tariffs, which as far as I know it is, what industry are the tariffs really defending? Certainly not Uruguayan electronics manufacturers, there aren't any. The only people that I imagine benefit are customs officers and companies that import stuff to sell in Uruguay. There isn't any new capability to build things that the country gets in return. We learn from exporting talent instead.

And if we want to compete we need to do it globally. Our market is too small, the population is ~3M.

spelufo

2 anni fadiscuss

There's a way to configure readline (which bash and many other use) to use up arrow history, like Matlab or Julia do by default, where you hit the up arrow key to search the history for commands that start with what you've typed so far. It is a small thing, but I use it all the time.

In ~/.inputrc:

    "\e[A": history-search-backward
    "\C-p": history-search-backward
    "\e[B": history-search-forward
    "\C-n": history-search-forward

spelufo

3 anni fadiscuss

Also, `cd -` to go back to the previous directory. And for git branches `git checkout -`. Handy.

spelufo

3 anni fadiscuss

What about the database side of things?

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