abh123

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by abh123 3y ago
A counter argument is that they paid his salary for all those years, they paid for his lab, for his machines etc. They don't owe him a job.
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by abh123 3y ago
I got bit by this once. Timezones aware date calculations can be an order of magnitude slower than non tz aware. Consider every time a legislative body changes dst, it creates an entry in the timezone database that needs to be checked when
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by abh123 3y ago
Sefaria is sort of this but for Hebrew scriptures. https://www.sefaria.org/Genesis.1.1?lang=bi&aliyot=0 You can't see the original image though.
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by abh123 3y ago
I got my COVID shot there.
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by abh123 3y ago
Spark dataframes in Scala seem to combine the best parts of relational queries with at least some typing. https://spark.apache.org/docs/1.6.1/api/java/org/apache/spar...
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by abh123 4y ago
Breaking the law is not expedient in the larger sense. What I meant is let's not hobble the car by for example like the sibling poster says giving away free rides or having to drop off free meals. These can be better achieved by Charit
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by abh123 4y ago
A company is a legal thing that is owned by shareholders. Like if I own a car, I want it to take me from A->B as expediently as possible. I don't want my car to have a social mission. I'm not sure why a company should be differ
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by abh123 4y ago
I've done this many times and it comes back shortly afterwards. I'm not saying they should optimize for my use case and I have enormous sympathy for the Twitter engineers. However on a personal level this removes a huge annoyance
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by abh123 4y ago
He already removed the login prompt which was a huge annoyance as a read only user of twitter
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by abh123 6y ago
well no, because they didn't actually release the feature, therefore no damage was actually done.
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by abh123 6y ago
But more missions would have been flown if the Shuttle was more reliable. This is a kind of survivorship bias where we don't know how many missions would have been flown with a different design.
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by abh123 7y ago
Did you realize you had to press the circular button on the back of the charging case. It's hard to see and they won't pair with anything unless you do.