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by D-Coder 6y ago
I looked into that when I was told to take 2,000 IU daily, since I had no idea what an IU of vitamin D involved. A web search said that people who were taking megadoses of vitamin D, which was mislabeled and actually 10 times stronger than
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by D-Coder 6y ago
I'm guessing that they have a patent on "same number on both sides."
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by D-Coder 6y ago
Not normally. This situation however is not normal.
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by D-Coder 6y ago
This quote from Niquette's web site, "proving" that English has about 38,000 words, does not impress me: > I took down from my shelf The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, which is not the OED but one I
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by D-Coder 6y ago
Use the local electricity to crack water into H2 and O2. Release the O2, use the local electricity to compress the H2 into liquid hydrogen, pump in across the country. The pipes themselves are a storage facility.
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by D-Coder 6y ago
"...a major concern about the studies which argued that grit has a strong impact on success is that they were based on selected samples such as West Point cadets (Duckworth et al., 2007), employees in technology companies (Jachimowicze
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by D-Coder 6y ago
I once dealt with offshore developers who decided to store some binary values ("feature on or off") as ASCII "1"s and "0"s. Yep — ASCII-encoded binary. They could have at least used "Y" and "N&qu
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by D-Coder 6y ago
Panix.com has a similar feature. If you are dcoder@panix.com, you can use <anytag>@dcoder.users.panix.com, which avoids the problem of places that don't understand "+". I usually use companyname@dcoder.users.panix.com f
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by D-Coder 6y ago
I seem to remember Joel Spolsky recommending that UI demos be done on paper... with pencil. That way even a manager can see what it will look like without thinking that it's all done. (Can't find a reference quickly.)
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by D-Coder 6y ago
> The solution is to also look at gains, not just losses. Billionaires can kill people with a tweet, but they can also inspire and, yes, save lives with a tweet. If I save six lives, I can then kill six people?
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by D-Coder 6y ago
> They are smart like that kid in high school who comes up with a formula to turn the world into silly putty, and is stupid enough to use it. So that kid isn't intelligent?
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by D-Coder 6y ago
Laugh/learn links Links to things that make you laugh or help you learn. https://laughlearnlinks.home.blog/
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by D-Coder 6y ago
First published in Astounding Science Fiction, 1946 (Astounding later become Analog). Often recirculated with accumulated changes. As far as I know, this is the original. MEIHEM IN CE KLASRUM by Dalton Edwards
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by D-Coder 6y ago
First published in Astounding Science Fiction, 1946 (Astounding later become Analog). Often recirculated with accumulated changes. As far as I know, this is the original. MEIHEM IN CE KLASRUM by Dalton Edwards
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by D-Coder 6y ago
> I realise it's a ridiculously counter-intuitive result. Apparently when Einstein was told this, he stopped dead in his tracks while crossing a busy road. For a smart guy, that's not very smart.
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by D-Coder 6y ago
Tesla is not selling these trucks to pilots.
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by D-Coder 6y ago
It's exactly the right connotation for people who know the connotation. I suspect a large fraction of the population thinks that "autopilot" means "no human pilot needed."
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by D-Coder 6y ago
As for your first sentence, that's very true. A lot of white people think that since Obama was elected, there are no more racial problems.
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by D-Coder 6y ago
> Do you really think people before 1900 were just living with these supposed diseases of raw milk, completely unawares? No, they drank raw milk and they were fine. Except for the ones who died. Life expectancy has gone up dramatically s
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by D-Coder 6y ago
"Split hairs". If that's not... splitting hairs.
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by D-Coder 6y ago
This is the "Doesn't cure cancer!" response. They don't have to be perfect. They don't have to save the world. They don't have to cure cancer. Any improvement is an improvement.
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by D-Coder 6y ago
Feature-removal has been the most aggravating part of my Mac life for the past several years. Admittedly I tend to use unusual features, but it's just another PITA when they go away.
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by D-Coder 6y ago
So... did they make you an offer?
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by D-Coder 6y ago
Not all of it.
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by D-Coder 6y ago
Fikanta filo de hundino! (Not Klingon, tio estas aĉa aro da merderoj.)
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by D-Coder 6y ago
Right. Eventually the task gets so small, it's easier to do it than to cut it into yet smaller pieces.
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by D-Coder 6y ago
If you are referring to 2016, the national results were pretty accurate. Clinton did win the popular vote. The Electoral College gives slightly more power to small states than they would get under a popular vote, and occasionally that extra
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by D-Coder 6y ago
I believe a huge percentage of non-technical users have no idea what an adblocker is. I've installed them for a couple of friends and family who complained about ads and slow websites, but hadn't known about blockers.
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by D-Coder 6y ago
Not according to a professor who did actual research on number of speakers of languages. Three letters from Professor Sidney Culbert (English originals): >Notes on the letters: http://www.panix.com/~dwolff/docs/
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by D-Coder 6y ago
Kaj al vi! Restu sana.

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