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(Disclaimer: I'm not a fitness expert; I'm just writing my own personal observation). > People tell me this all the time, but when I exercise I just feel tired afterwards? Okay, to normalize the discussion, consider stationary
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Exercise. Try daily rigorous cardio workout for 30 minutes a day. AFAIK the brain releases endorphins or something when you exercise, so you actually get a high out of exercising (in addition to getting fitter). Do it in the morning so that
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> yeah, that’ll definitely consume quite a bit more power than a new MacBook Pro running macOS Considering they're targeting (or at least ought to target) efficiency, I feel they should probably get the newer macs with the efficient
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The UK covid dashboard[2] mentioned in the article also has a "simple" version.[1] I love it when websites have a simple text version. [1] https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/easy_read [2] https://coronavir
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> Why can't we live in a world where everyone wears heated clothes and we just leave the windows open (even in winter)? If the goal is to keep the place warm, shouldn't the windows be closed? (I'm from a tropical part of t
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If they can afford to, they probably will. Lots of Westerners travel to Asia/Africa/middle East/Latin America. (And yeah, sometimes they catch diseases). Also, you have to think whether people who normally live in those count
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> But now we're finding out that the old retirement system is too expensive for the young generation to handle I had read somewhere that, long long ago people who retired at, say 60 would probably eventually die by 65. In that case
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Yes I have felt this before. There are plenty of native mobile apps out there that are better off as web apps. If it's a service that people use constantly, then there may be some merits in using an app. But more often that not there a
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I've just been hit with a big wave of nostalgia. Haven't used MS Office for over a decade, but I remember those green underlines. So if red was wrong spelling, and green was grammatical errors, then what were blue underlines used
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If your program benefits from having a garbage collector (GC) — which I guess is a lot of programs — then by all means go for a GC-ed language. It's one less thing to worry about. However, the garbage collection process itself sometime
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Whoa, I didn't even know there was a Windows LTSC.
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> I've heard from 3 different pilots from three different ME airlines Oh really????? I find that hard to believe. Anyway, I'll assume you aren't lying. If you have conclusive evidence, why don't you do us all a favour
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While I agree with the point you're making > there is no such thing as a separate gate for arrivals You might be surprised. In many of the newish airports I've been to (outside the US) the gates are designed such that arriving
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> local noobs What's that supposed to mean? UAE doesn't have a high local population to begin with. Majority of people living there are expats. And among that low population only a few choose to become pilots. You know, from th
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I just felt like I walked into a Ferrari dealership :)
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And I'm in a 3rd world country making 3rd world salary. Sure I'd like to get myself into big tech (not necessarily in America). But... I don't even know where to start.
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No. It was initially hard. But once I read through the excellent Git Book[1] things became very clear and intuitive. [1] https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2
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Sanskrit could also be like Haskell. Structured. Very precise rules. Yet nobody speaks it in practice. Also while on the topic, may I point out that there are some things you could say in some languages that are nearly impossible (AFAIK) to
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> can't wait for the US empire to fall so we can all switch to Castellano In the unlikely event that US falls, I don't think anybody would switch to anything else when communicating cross culturally, because people across the w
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I live in an Asian country extremely high numbers of coconut trees. I thought this was obvious. Surprised to see people talking about it here, although in retrospect it makes sense that people here find it curious. (When I saw snow for the
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What's IANAPLT? I googled and got nothing.
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Third world country here. Commit and push often.
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> Most of the justifications for using collections of command-line Unix tools are no longer valid today. Why is it not valid today? > One-liners which pipe text between four or five different commands are the equivalent of hand-solder
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I remember "quarternions" from my math-heavy computer graphics class. Today, I have zero recollection of what they were or why it was in my graphics class. Heck I barely remember anything from that class today, which is ironical c
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I have a theory about this: in America people seem to be aware that at least some of them are racists. Therefore, they're doing something about it. In the places I've been to in Asia, racism is not something that's actively t
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You're all talking past each other! It depends on the machines. I'm biased towards Linux. I also really like Macs. I've had Linux machines that just works. Buuuuut, before getting my hands on those machines I researched onlin
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I see stories about so many people quitting FB recently. Is that happening only at their headquarters, or is it happening globally across all their offices?
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Oh, okay. Never been anywhere near these places, so, yeah. Pardon me.
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Is the problems with Facebook only a big problem at their Menlo Park, or American offices? What's the situation in their other offices, like UK, Europe, and Canada? Pardon me if this is a stupid question, but could it be true that thei
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> Just look at Musk Not a good example. You make it sound like he was being persecuted back in South Africa, which is not true. Musk was from a wealthy family. And he actually went to Canada first. (Don't get me wrong — I think it&#
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