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by athenot 8y ago
By weight, I estimate that my household produces about 1/3 recyclable trash vs. landfill trash. But by volume, it's almost at parity (before compaction, since I'm a household). I wonder if an equal alternative would be to col
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by athenot 8y ago
On the bright side, those are probably the companies you don't want to work for. It is one of the signals for bad company culture.
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by athenot 8y ago
Of course the only way to have legal advice is to pay for legal advice. Free is subtantially cheaper. The way to use such sites is to rely on them at first, to help you navigate the waters. They should help you become MOSTLY compliant. On
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by athenot 8y ago
> Solving [business] problems is a viable career choice. This is spot on, whether you are free-lancing or working as an employee in a big organization. More generally, software development benefits from a large flow of money precisely be
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by athenot 8y ago
I'm torn on this. Yes chasing a higher purpose is important but on the flip side, there is the simple art de vivre which is increasingly getting forgotten, and in the process causing a lot of stress. Having very young kids and hangin
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by athenot 8y ago
On the other hand, we're internalizing the pollution associated with that form of energy production. CO₂ is one issue; but pollution of aquifers seems to be overlooked until it will be too late, contaminating many fresh water supplies.
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by athenot 8y ago
So this means that the FDA is now regulating the chemicals as drugs. The implications are: - you can't claim to cure/heal anything unless your product undergoes FDA formal approval. Then you can market it as a drug. - you can&#x27
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by athenot 8y ago
This was commissioned for an emperor and contains parts of the Liturgy of the Hours : prayers that Catholic religious do throughout the day. But it's not uncommon for lay people to partake in those, either doing the full version or so
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by athenot 8y ago
Out of curiosity I checked it out. This feels a lot like Chef or Puppet DSLs. On the pro side, this gives you flexibility to write whatever convoluted logic you want in code. But that also means you need to know the quirks of each DSL once
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by athenot 8y ago
If an article is about a "Brain-eating" danger, it captivates a host of emotional responses, mainly as a result of works of fiction. It's even more powerful if it's from something we can't see with the naked eye. Fr
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by athenot 8y ago
It's actually quite practical: boil water then stick a thermometer in it. Go do other stuff and check the temp; as it comes down and matches your body temp, it's perfect.
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by athenot 8y ago
When you swim in lakes & rivers, you typically don't get water way up your sinuses. Maybe a bit in the nose but not far back. So the odds are lower. Not impossible as there have been case of triathletes dying from the same thing af
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by athenot 8y ago
It's worth mentioning that in 1999 there were already tools that helped. Perl's Taint Mode was one of them. In a nutshell, any variables containing user input could not be used for stuff involving OS paths, system calls or databas
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by athenot 8y ago
Thanks! I searched for the URL before submitting but apparently the same article had multiple URLs :(
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Border Agents Fail to Delete Travelers' Personal Data After Electronic Searches(gizmodo.com)
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by athenot 8y ago
> Personally I think we'll look back on these massively open networks where everybody can reply to everybody as an anomaly. It's cyclical. - The internet and online communities (BBSes) started out decentralized. - Then came AOL
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by athenot 8y ago
This really highlights how hard it is to hire, at least in Tech. We come up with processes and fantastic lists of questions that verify how well a candidate knows minutia, and use that as proxy for how well he/she will do in a position
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by athenot 8y ago
Yes and there is an added benefit to frequent interruptions: despite all the monitoring equipement, a human assessment can go a LONG way in detecting trouble. My wife used to be an ICU nurse and her first code (CPR) in her career was when s
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by athenot 8y ago
You can also configure Ansible to lookup to Hashicorp Vault on the fly. https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.5/plugins/lookup/hashi_va...
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by athenot 8y ago
That looks nice but it does requires things to live in DynamoDB, so if you use multiple cloud providers and/or on prem, that might be limited.
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by athenot 8y ago
I use this when I need to locate my phone in a room. "Hey Siri! Where are you?"
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by athenot 8y ago
Cisco has the Webex Board (formerly SparkBoard). It has an array of 12 microphones on top and does audio processing to pick out who's talking, cancel the noise, and since it has an idea of where the participant is, the video part zooms
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by athenot 8y ago
ES comes in handy with very large sets of data. If it fits on one (or a handful) of nodes, you're probably better served by a relational database. When you try to scale something to large sizes AND want high availability, it's pre
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by athenot 8y ago
In some areas, tall grass becomes a habitat for snakes, which can be problematic for children. For most areas, it's aesthetic. Here in the south-east, a short lawn will have no mosquitoes but a grassy area will have plenty (as in you&#
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by athenot 8y ago
This is the most positive thing I've read in a while. Perhaps we'll reach a point where it becomes ingrained in society that popularity in numbers actually means nothing. Quantities of shallow praises become worthless once the pra
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by athenot 8y ago
I understand the feeling and mostly share it. But if you are wise about that, would I be mistaken in assuming you are also wise with your spending? Perhaps wiser than what the restaurant owners desire. Therefore it's probably in their
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by athenot 8y ago
Bubble charts show the value in the area of the circle, not its diameter. The chart is accurate but we're accustomed to seeing inaccurate charts using diameters, usually to sensationalize an article.
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That is beautiful! And thanks for the feedback.
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That's the same problem in the South East with tornadoes. They happen nearly every week (in summer) and can destroy neighborhoods. Yet we build lightweight framed houses and rely on insurance because the overall odds are low.
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Came here to post the same. This can be used in very interesting ways, either for quick ad-hoc queries or for import/export functionality (ETL), where the core of your data is in InnoDB but you keep a CSV version for one of the phases

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