alisonatwork

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by alisonatwork 5y ago
Yeah, the Windows implementation is annoyingly buggy. I've found the best way to force it on (or off) without going into the settings and toggling it again is to kill explorer.exe via Task Manager - when it restarts then the night ligh
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We used AI to measure Canada's urban sprawl(ici.radio-canada.ca)
2 points by alisonatwork 5y ago|0 comments
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by alisonatwork 5y ago
I think the idea is that it strengthens over time and helps to build a sanitized history. When a new generation of people have internalized this national story, then that can then be leveraged by those in power to justify crackdowns and exp
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by alisonatwork 5y ago
New York City and Montreal are both well known for having very good bagel bakeries, each with their own distinct traits. In my experience the further away you get from those two cities, the more a bagel ends up tasting like regular (and oft
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by alisonatwork 5y ago
As other posters have pointed out, different shaped breads have different textures because they cook differently, so there is a flavor aspect to preferring bread with a hole. But I wonder if perhaps historically there might be a convenience
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by alisonatwork 5y ago
OsmAnd~ is spectacularly good. If you spend a lot of time hiking, biking or just traveling outside, i also recommend Trail Sense (compass and a bunch of other things), Forecastie (weather, including wind speed) and BRouter (offline routing
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by alisonatwork 5y ago
Are you the person who came up with the "delenda" tables at one of my old jobs?
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by alisonatwork 5y ago
Iran, Venezuela and Cuba had/have a decent middle class too, if you ignore the rural peasants and people in other places that "don't matter".
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by alisonatwork 5y ago
There are a few. Off the top of my head Tibet and Western Sahara come to mind. Perhaps some parts of now-Israel.
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by alisonatwork 5y ago
To be fair, there are huge flat expanses in the Vancouver metro area that have nothing but single-storey, single-family homes on them. It's not really the most efficient use of the space.
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by alisonatwork 5y ago
Fantastic. We had a similar problem with test code that always worked on a remote team's computers during their work day but failed when we got into the office and tried to run it in a different timezone.
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by alisonatwork 5y ago
I can't remember exactly the problem - it was some time ago - but I think it might have been related to console input. Either it was built for Windows console and didn't quite handle mintty LF, EOF and line wrapping, or the other
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by alisonatwork 5y ago
Glad I'm not the only one. I started using dc for shell scripts before I knew that expr existed, and when some UNIX systems I logged on to spat out a bunch of noise on the console whenever bc was invoked. As a result I started thinking
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by alisonatwork 5y ago
In China there is already a gender imbalance in the favor of men thanks to the one child policy, which means straight young men can struggle to find a romantic partner. When older, richer foreigners come along and snap up local women - who
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by alisonatwork 5y ago
I noticed this in China too. Older male expats with local wives or sex partners. Some of them were on their second or third local wife. There's a whole culture that develops around it of young women who make it a goal to try find a wes
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by alisonatwork 5y ago
Mexico, Costa Rica and Panama are already popular retirement destinations for people from Canada and the US. Much like with gentrification in cities, I expect to find the truly affordable destination you will need to be a little bit ahead o
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by alisonatwork 5y ago
This. I tend to move countries every few years, which means I leave many of my friends behind. For a while, social media was a good way to keep in touch, but nowadays nobody I know regularly logs in to social media any more (me included), s
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Supercomputer helps Canadian researcher uncover thousands of viruses(cbc.ca)
2 points by alisonatwork 5y ago|0 comments
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by alisonatwork 5y ago
After having been in this industry for 20+ years, I can pretty confidently say the world of software will never wake up. It's just been an endless cycle of adding abstractions, removing them again, using back end languages on the front
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Vastly unequal US has world’s highest Covid death toll – it’s no coincidence(theguardian.com)
22 points by alisonatwork 5y ago|26 comments
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by alisonatwork 5y ago
I'm not sure what your point is? The issue is if someone can continue eating the food of their own region or culture while also following a more plant-based diet. In all but the most arid and inhospitable parts of the world, there are
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by alisonatwork 5y ago
Can't speak for Kazakhstan, but Germany and surrounding countries have sauerkraut, pretzels, beer, cider, wine, french fries, dumplings, pumpernickel and many other breads and brötchen, apple sauce, veges like asparagus and kohlrabi, d
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by alisonatwork 5y ago
I've had some excellent "pulled pork" made out of jackfruit. The consistency is similarly chewy/stringy, and if you are looking for American-style BBQ flavor then a lot of that flavor comes from the sauce anyway, so it&#
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by alisonatwork 5y ago
I agree that there are a lot of delicious curries, but personally I've really struggled to introduce spicier dishes to people with - for want of a better word - very bland palates. There is definitely a type of person for whom just sal
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by alisonatwork 5y ago
I think becoming a more adventurous eater and becoming a more plant-based eater are orthogonal life choices. Nowadays it's perfectly reasonable for people to eat more plant-based dishes without giving up too many of the flavors and tex
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by alisonatwork 5y ago
You might be in the US. In many other countries WhatsApp is a first class communication mechanism, comparable to WeChat in China.
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by alisonatwork 5y ago
Some local businesses only provide their "number" as a WhatsApp contact, so you're kinda stuck on a Facebook-owned platform anyway.
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by alisonatwork 5y ago
If you feel that all of these meetings are significantly impacting your ability to deliver your work on-time, and your experience was shared by everyone on your team, that should have come out in a retrospective, and your team should have d
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by alisonatwork 5y ago
If you know that you have a scheduled meeting coming up, and then you scheduled your "deep work" to run over the top of it, that's not great time management on your behalf. It's also potentially a symptom of inefficient
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by alisonatwork 5y ago
It's poor management if you have nothing to say and the 1on1 goes on for the full block anyway. With my reports in the past I'd hold the block open for a long conversation if they needed it, but if they showed up and really didn&#

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