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by athenot 8y ago
I like the idea of incorporating locally available microbes but forgive my ignorance: is it safe?
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by athenot 8y ago
I noticed Facebook's feed is now only 4 posts from friends between sponsored posts. To me this looks like they are starting to push the boundary of advertisement beyond what makes sense for the UI. I didn't think they were despera
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by athenot 8y ago
> People often ask me what they can do to help the homeless and I always say, "Just look around you!" When someone has so little, it doesn't take much to help. You can start by not judging the homeless. This indeed where i
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by athenot 8y ago
Here's the thing: your browser has a handy tool to increase/decrease font size. Usually it will also scale the images in sensible ways. And it's available via keyboard shortcuts, so it's easy to zoom in/out. Also th
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by athenot 8y ago
This really depends on the kind of industry. If we follow the money trail, software exists to achieve a business goal, either directly or indirectly. As with most things in business, what matters is "good enough". Some software ex
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by athenot 8y ago
Most platforms already do.
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by athenot 8y ago
This is a similar encoding as airline reservation numbers, except it also has lowercase characters. But the requirements are very similar. It's amazing how much confusion is removed by suppressing ambiguities between number 0 vs. lette
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by athenot 8y ago
AWS is IPv4-only? Can you elaborate? It seems IPv6 is pretty well supported. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/get-started...
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by athenot 8y ago
I drove 2 Nissan LEAFs for 5 years. They are solid cars, and this year's iteration moved out of the "early adopter" segment and is being marketed as a mainstream car. Their roadmap in 2022 calls for 4 EVs plus 2 more under th
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by athenot 8y ago
> Weary of long days earning minimum wage, he quit his job in a pizzeria in June. He wants new employment but won’t take a gig he’ll hate. So for now, the Pittsburgh native and father to young children is living with his mother and trai
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by athenot 8y ago
You might also be interested in Perl6's grammars: https://docs.perl6.org/language/grammars#Creating_grammars
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by athenot 8y ago
Moving voting day from a Tuesday to a Sunday would also make a big difference. There are many people who have have informed opinions but can't afford to take off work (write-up for being late to work/take off early, lost income, t
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by athenot 8y ago
"Scared to death" is not just an expression, as your case perfectly illustrates. There's a general tendancy to discount the matters of the mind when treating the body, but both are very much connected and usually for a good r
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by athenot 8y ago
Finally! Marketing is important, even for a programming language. First, coming up with a new brand name will go a long way to get rid of the conflation with Perl 5. Raku sheds that confusion; even though for now we all know it's Perl
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by athenot 8y ago
Ambulances are also used for medical transport. If you as a patient drive yourself to an outpatient cardiology office to get some diagnostics and feel perfectly found but severe blockage is found, the staff will call an ambulance and have y
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by athenot 8y ago
Ambulances don't come from the hospital. They are stationed a bit all over and listen for emergencies. They also listen on the police scanners and can get to an emergency before actually being requested. The gas station right next to m
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by athenot 8y ago
That gives a whole new meaning to "surf and turf"... :) All jokes aside, I wonder how they account for the extra salt that's in seaweed. I know cows usually have salt licks to supplement salt and other minerals; perhaps seawe
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by athenot 8y ago
> Astronomers interested in joining the team should speak fluent English and expect to work in the remote location on a long-term basis, according to the job postings. The compensation package totals around $14,400 per year. > “It’s n
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by athenot 8y ago
This is intersting. From a UX perspective, you're basically forcing the user into making a choice on the spot: to subscribe or not. You're in or you're out. It takes away the non-commital mind wandering, nudges those who are
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by athenot 8y ago
The wording is poor. A more accurate way to put it is that to put together a good service, back-end engineering is critical but is only part of the story. Good UX is also critical to success, and that comes with a focus on the human needs,
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by athenot 8y ago
Or they might have a legitimate case. You can't tell just by looking at volumes. It could be that fringe group of customers who use international credit card numbers (but also happen to spend well). It could be elderly consumers who co
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by athenot 8y ago
Thanks a lot, this is useful for comparing. Edit: did a quick search and the discussion for the first link is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17766566
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by athenot 8y ago
I used to have the 13" MacBook Air but am now on a 15" MBP. What I found is that whereas I'm reluctant to pull out my MBP on the couch or bed; I used to do that without hesitation with the MBA. There seems to be some threshol
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by athenot 8y ago
It would be nice if they did a quick comparison to InfluxData and other time series databases.
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by athenot 8y ago
Hydrogen is no more explosive than other flammable gasses when mixed with ambient air. To get the explosive effect, you need to mix it with oxygen in the right proportion (2:1, molecule-wise) and not have any filler gas such as nitrogen.
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by athenot 8y ago
Bring up a Javascript interpreter and try this: $ node > 0.1 + 0.2 - 0.3 5.551115123125783e-17 Close enough for trivial cases but errors can accumulate. Ruby, Perl5, Python also fail this. Perl6 uses Rat numbers for thin
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by athenot 8y ago
I'm very aware of that. I noticed that my own attention can get sucked into my phone deeper than when I'm doing any other household task, which usually will have me meeting their gaze on a regular basis. And my toddlers can pick u
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by athenot 8y ago
> Crayons for instance don’t help kids test their knowledge of letters or numbers or full words, and I’m not sure Lego brings that much over Minecraft for instance. Anedote but I don't allow any tablet– or phone–play, yet my daughte
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by athenot 8y ago
I got to tour Delta's OCC (and met the same weather dude with all the screens—nice setup). I didn't know whether their approach was unique among airlines but I did learn that their weather modeling is indeed more accurate than The
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by athenot 8y ago
The example of the Subaru Outback comes to mind: these are relatively harder to find used because most owners hang on to them.

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