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by athenot 7y ago
I thought many insurance policies specifically excluded force majeure from coverage.
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by athenot 7y ago
This applies to programming too. To remove a piece of code (or even to improve it), one must first understand what it does.
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by athenot 7y ago
Normal body temperature was defined† in Celsius, at 37ºC; this explains the decimal when used in Fahrenheit (98.6F). So even that argument of convenience doesn't hold. † Yes everyone's baseline temperature is slightly different, b
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by athenot 7y ago
Having negative numbers for when water is in a different state is quite a convenient representation, especially for weather. To follow your scale, -50ºC is really cold (polar weather) and +50 is really hot (desert weather). Yes there are
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by athenot 7y ago
Yes, that too. Also it's important to realize that each study is a datapoint unto itself, and over time these data points paint a picture. But even if the study is not the whole picture, we can still get a hint as to what that picture
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by athenot 7y ago
Yes! Amazon's search has been driving me crazy but it went from bad (loose interpretation of what I typed with a whole bunch of irrelevant stuff) to worse (adding more sponsored results, i.e. even less what I want). Their recommendatio
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by athenot 7y ago
Low N is still interesting. If anything, it can help justify larger studies along the same lines, since there are costs for a study and researchers have to make their case to get the funding.
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by athenot 7y ago
That was true 5 years ago but with the quality issues on Amazon, I've found myself buying more on eBay.
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by athenot 7y ago
Maybe they wanted to send messages from one hilltop to another, where there was no aqueduct. Also the system described may be low bandwidth but it's also low latency. Would be useful to relay messages of a security/defense nature.
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by athenot 7y ago
This is interesting. I wonder if a memorable experience like the one you describe is what creates a desire within our brain to recreate more of the same. Whether it's the fresh air/sun/awesomeness of communal enjoyment of the
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by athenot 7y ago
You can also observe this in the opposite form: how hard it is to get laws that people want but special interests oppose. Current example: many individuals are trying to get access to their health records through APIs but the makers of Elec
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by athenot 7y ago
The answer probably lies somewhere halfway between you and them. What you are doing is probably good in terms of staying sharp with your skills. But some detachment can help: I am assuming (correct me if I'm wrong) that you care very
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by athenot 7y ago
- Open a medium URL. - In your toolbar, click the site settings icon (might need to edit your toolbar if it's not there). - Check: "When visiting this website [X] Use Reader when available"
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by athenot 7y ago
No, there's a lot more that goes into handling incidents that affect large production systems. Getting things back up as fast as possible, coordination, communication, getting the right action items out of it. There are tradeoff decisi
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by athenot 7y ago
I have Safari configured to open all medium.com pages directly in Reader Mode. Takes care of all the noise/interruptions they throw up on the screen.
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by athenot 7y ago
Like the rest of the country, Paris has open air markets twice a week in the morning. It's not 24/7 but it's way fresher.
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by athenot 7y ago
Here are a few links that contain some pointers: NYTimes Blog: Coca-Cola Funds Scientists Who Shift Blame for Obesity Away From Bad Diets - https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/09/coca-cola-funds-sc... En
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by athenot 7y ago
This is a great article. > I remember reading about cases of scientific papers that were advertisements pretending to be research work. I'll update this point when I find some actual examples. Not exactly the same but related: soda
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by athenot 7y ago
At the very least, paper & cardboard should be kept separate from plastic & aluminium. The first really need to be kept free of grease/dirt. Plastic/aluminium/steel can be separated relatively easy… but then comes the
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by athenot 7y ago
This is another use case where I prefer Touch ID, as the act of double-clicking the home button to summon Apple Pay also takes care of the auth.
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by athenot 7y ago
This is true. But most of us are not fully aware of the vulnerabilities in our own mental state. Nearly everyone is walking through life with some issue, hurt, scar, and many have trauma that is not fully understood. In that context, certai
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by athenot 7y ago
Isn't that under "Resurface existing lane" and "Improve shoulder"? Yes there are other costs associated with road upkeep, from vegetation trimming to pothole repairs. But I would think the first two are rather major
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by athenot 7y ago
> There is a philosophical conundrum at the root of all this: morality requires we maintain a safety net at the bottom that catches everyone—the alternative is simply inhumane—but we also need an aspirational target at the top, so as to
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by athenot 7y ago
This is a great-looking font, very well put together and a lot of thought put in to make it great for code. That being said, fonts are very personal. I compared it to PT Mono (Public Type, another open-source font) and have these observatio
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by athenot 7y ago
The very humble Notes app on macOS/iOS fulfills this for me. I just start typing, the minimalistic interface gets out of the way. Timestamping is on last modification instead of creation date but I add one manually. That's about m
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by athenot 7y ago
I haven't found a way to make daily standups work in my team which is fully remote and spread out on 3 continents and 4 time zones (so there is no "start of day"). Instead I have a weekly sync with everyone and 1:1 with each
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by athenot 7y ago
This reminds me a lot of Apple's OpenDoc but reincarnated as a web-based SaSS product. Key value is openness; I'm not sure how well that can be achieved in a tighly closed ecosystem, but I wish them all the best! https:/&#x2
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by athenot 7y ago
I've been to the place they mention in Florida. It's ok. But there are many other trails in the various state parks.
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by athenot 7y ago
The only thing this article really shows is that every state has a nice place to go hiking. Aside from that, there are many factors that make a hike enjoyable, and criteria are not the same for different people. Personally, I just try to ma
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by athenot 7y ago
Just get a blank page. Safari on mac.

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