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by b0rsuk 6y ago
I once read an article linked from Hacker News. I don't remember the title or anything that could be used to rediscover it. It might have been something about Scrum, waterfall etc. It said there are 7 ways to deal with impeding deadlin
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Sounds nice at first, but if you poke some more you run into inconsistencies. This 9 minute video by Eddie Woo shows some. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2z5uzqxJNU Spoiler: A major one goes like this. Suppose X/0 is
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
Transcript of a Calvin&Hobbes strip: Calvin's Dad, sitting at his desk: "It used to be that if a client wanted something done in a week, it was considered a rush job and he'd be lucky to get it." CD: "Now, with
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Circulating fan uses tenth the energy of an air conditioner. The Revenge of the Circulating Fan https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2014/09/circulating-fans-air...
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I see. Here our opinions diverge, because I believe muscle mass is not valuable by itself. I prefer to have a more athletic looking, performant body.
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Can't you do calisthenics ? There's a ton of possible exercise which uses only your body weight, or only minimal equipment like a pull-up bar. Can you do a one-legged squat? Pushup with a hand stand? Dragon flag? Many other exerci
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In ancient Greek army, they had a death penalty for losing your shield, the same as desertion. There was no such penalty for losing your helmet or armor. Why ? Because they fought in a phalanx, and a soldier losing his shield endangered not
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What If the Big Bang Was a Big Bounce?(wired.com)
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Imagine a headline "A Male Artist Who Shaped Manga History". That would sound ridiculous. A headline with "female" is the same kind thing if you like equality.
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We need some articles along the lines "A male artist...". You know, because equality cuts both ways. If you elevate one sex over the other, you're being sexist. English is my second language and it has genderless nouns by def
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Numberphile, the youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxJubaijQbI
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What the article failed to mention is that a very common shuffling method - overhand shuffle - is terrible. You need about 10000 (ten thousand) of them to shuffle an ordinary deck of 52 cards. This can seriously impact you when playing boar
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Website Obesity Crisis, a witty talk by Maciej Cegłowski (2015): https://www.webdirections.org/blog/the-website-obesity-crisi... I would post the text version, but somehow the CDN is down.
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The last time I did googling on efficiency of glucosamine (several years ago, to combat runner's knee) I only found clinical trials sponsored by companies which produce glucosamine. Who's sponsoring this study?
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I enjoy (3) Venn diagrams for their blissful clarity. This Venn diagram technically works, but completely fails at clarity.
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Is this a net positive or a net negative as far as carbon emission go? With traditional techniques, the video can be recorded once and played "anywhere", no matter the level of detail. If you push the effort to the viewers, won&#x
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My mom told me a few times that, as a little girl, she wished she could see peoples' farts. Their color would depend on what they ate. I hope they hurry so my mother's childhood dream comes true.
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I'm not sure - visually it looks more less like the page I've seen. But it's thorough and a fascinating read anyway.
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Board games. Website design. When you start playing board games, you realize how many colorblind people are there! They're everywhere. Modern boardgames are usually designed to accommodate color blindness, but for example Race for the
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The technique is called 'dithering'. Have fun reading about it - I did!
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Once upon a time someone on HN posted about an old-school book describing patterns for graphs. Very useful for SVG, for website design, for colorblind people. I failed to bookmark it. Can someone help?? How to find that book?
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This is also setting a precedent - banning cards for political reasons.
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I dunno, maybe because many things turn black when they rot? Doctors and scientists dress in white or very light colors simply because it makes stains very visible, and it makes it easy to keep clean. I even asked a gay man why do they like
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
White is the color of death in (tribal) Africa, because people are afro-Africans and skeletons are caucasian-colored.
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> I'm honestly kind of amazed at how well-designed all of this is. I suppose that surviving the test of time does imply some sort of quality design, but this is remarkable. I'm amazed more people don't copy the idea (rathe
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Woodworking looks strangely appealing and it's satisfying to make something with your own hands, at least once in a while. But with how absent-minded I can be I'm scared of losing a finger. Around here we say every carpenter loses
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You may want to check out Blue Moon (Legends), a very enjoyable duelling card game with limited construction aspect. It has 9 carefully constructed decks that play very differently. It's a joy to see how differently they approach victo
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There's more to these colors than your short summary says. In particular it doesn't say what colors can't do. White is really bad at destroying stuff directly unless it's artifacts or enchantments. It can destroy or tap
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A 8-minute video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DkyahZplFo (Modern History TV)
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oko.press (has some english-language articles; investigative journalism), onet.pl (tabloid) , tvn24.pl (TV station), krytykapolityczna.pl (openly leftist so unpopular in Poland)

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