andrewl

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541.
by andrewl 8y ago
This looks good. I would also recommend the Software Carpentry program: https://software-carpentry.org/
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by andrewl 8y ago
Breathing certain forms of diatomaceous earth can cause silicosis and other lung problems: http://npic.orst.edu/factsheets/degen.html Apparently breathing the amorphous form causes only mild and reversible lung infla
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by andrewl 8y ago
Second, both are not milks. Milks are what comes out of animals mammary glands (even legally in most jurisdictions). Advertisers and "health product" peddlers hijacked the term (that existed for millennia) to mean "random ju
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Death-Cap Mushrooms Are Spreading Across North America(theatlantic.com)
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India Can Hide Unemployment Data, but Not the Truth(nytimes.com)
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Gym Class Is So Bad Kids Are Skipping School to Avoid It(theatlantic.com)
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by andrewl 8y ago
From the home page, in the A glimpse of Pharo section: $ curl https://get.pharo.org | bash $ ./pharo Pharo.image eval "42 factorial"
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Low Eye Contact Is Not Just an Autism Thing (2012)(forbes.com)
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by andrewl 8y ago
They can still be cheaper if their pension and other benefits are not at the level of what the older employees are getting.
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by andrewl 8y ago
This is great! I'm glad to see FreeBSD on the To Do list. If you're taking requests, do one for Vim. And I was surprised to see SEPTA on the home page. Are you in Philadelphia?
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by andrewl 8y ago
Merry Christmas to all! And best wishes for a good 2019 everywhere in the world.
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by andrewl 8y ago
It may be experimental in that it's diverged significantly from FreeBSD, from which it was forked. But experimental does not mean new. Release 1.0 was in July 2004. Apparently the lead developer's experience with the Amiga OS infl
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Photos Day or Night: How One Photographer Documented the Segregated South(npr.org)
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by andrewl 8y ago
The comments on the article are fascinating.
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by andrewl 8y ago
I'd been vaguely aware of Bruegel for years, but it was Paul Graham's book Hackers and Painters that made me look more closely. Bruegel's Tower of Babel is on the cover, and Hunters in the Snow appears in the Taste for
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The Frighteningly Modern Visions of Bruegel Get the Showcase They Deserve(washingtonpost.com)
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Emergence of Lab-Grown Meat Poses New Questions for Religious Leaders(wsj.com)
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How Berlin's 'Death Zone' Birthed a Whole New Ecosystem – An Urban Comic(theguardian.com)
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by andrewl 8y ago
Researchers at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania found that extra-virgin olive oil contains an anti-inflammatory agent that acts similarly to how ibuprofen does. They named the substance ol
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Can the U.S. Stop China from Controlling the Next Internet Age?
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Ketamine might help prevent suicide(nytimes.com)
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Mind Control in China Has a Very Long History(nytimes.com)
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Will Taiwan Be the First Domino to Fall to China?(nytimes.com)
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by andrewl 8y ago
What are the negative effects people get when they don't work with a teacher?
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by andrewl 8y ago
I just want to note that the nychold.com site is new to me, and that there's a lot of interesting stuff there.
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by andrewl 8y ago
Luck is a part of it for sure. And survivorship bias isn't usually discussed in motivational stories. XKCD has something on it: https://xkcd.com/1827/
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The Size of Things: Now with Context(scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org)
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Koch Brothers Are Watching You: And New Documents Reveal Just How Much They Know(prwatch.org)
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MIT Scholars Take a Rational Look at Increasingly Irrational Political Discourse(technologyreview.com)
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Vim Creator Asking for Feature Suggestions(github.com)
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