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by barrkel 3y ago
Photos as reminders of times past are a double edged sword. Sometimes it can be healthier to forget. Photos may not just be reminders of happier times, but reminders of things that can never be gotten back. Social media and sharing isn&#x27
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by barrkel 3y ago
Lamb cutlets; rack of lamb, sliced up into little popsicles of rib bone with meat attached. IMO there is no nicer meat than lamb cutlets.
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by barrkel 3y ago
Doom gameplay has aged quite well. The sprites have a bit of "cardboard cutout" quality to them in higher resolutions, but the gameplay is still really good.
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by barrkel 3y ago
Travelling by scooter in London, about half the time is spent waiting for traffic lights. I took videos of my commute for about a year, in case of interesting events. Traffic isn't a big deal on a scooter but traffic lights add up. Sti
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by barrkel 3y ago
This is both a collective action problem (people not using the right gear will be faster and cheaper than those with, meaning bad behavior outcompetes good) and an information asymmetry problem - workers are usually not fully aware of the p
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by barrkel 3y ago
For poverty effects to dominate across countries, there would need to be a causal relationship between phasing out leaded petrol and countries' distribution of income; it looks implausible at first glance. It's much easier to phas
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by barrkel 3y ago
For certification, I don't think it's important for FAANG - a referral or other way of getting a recruiter to get you to an interview, and passing the interview, is all that really matters. The only part of a degree course that re
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by barrkel 3y ago
Generally this comes with the downside of being unable to use banking apps.
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by barrkel 3y ago
Moved here two years ago. Spent three months in Zurich (more local, smaller shops were worse) and now live in Baden, Aargau.
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by barrkel 3y ago
Finding a lot of moldy "fresh" products on supermarket shelves was one of the big changes I experienced moving from UK to Switzerland. Food prices in Switzerland are generally 2x or 3x EU prices, but the most aggravating thing was
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by barrkel 3y ago
IME holiday without a moment of privation is less memorable, and if you're travelling with others, the struggle is bonding. If hot drinks are important to you, bring a travel kettle.
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by barrkel 3y ago
I have never been to a great Swiss restaurant. They're ok. I eat much better in London and Paris, as a rule.
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by barrkel 3y ago
Bitter tannins are what you want in black tea, they're smoothed out by milk but a good cup needs to be grippy in the mouth. Black tea made with anything less than boiling water is usually not very nice, in my experience.
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by barrkel 3y ago
Famously cheap Switzerland. I get the feeling that the same tricks are being played in Switzerland. Coop and Migros feel a lot like a duopoly, and discounts also cyclical. Not unusual to see 40% discount on outrageously overpriced detergent
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by barrkel 3y ago
Presumably this is a feature, not a bug. The forum posts will age out of the search corpus, and negative feedback - evidence of low quality - will gradually disappear.
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by barrkel 3y ago
Let's not say in WedDev only, because the cycle predates web. Thin client - dumb terminals connected to a powerful central computer; 1960s, 1970s onwards Thick client - multi-tier architecture, 1990s onwards, with client typically runn
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by barrkel 3y ago
I've never seen a camera in a phone better than a $500 camera, never mind $1000. They are way more useful (portable, always present) and do lots of cool processing to get usable images in low light etc., but image quality is not compet
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by barrkel 3y ago
Well presumably if there's a threshold effect, +40 minutes should have shown an increase because it would have pushed people who were already walking over the threshold.
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by barrkel 3y ago
> 40 min per day more walking [...] psychosocial (quality of life and pain) outcomes were typically small and often non-significant Interesting if 40 more minutes a day walking didn't have much if any effect on happiness.
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by barrkel 3y ago
The answer that springs to mind from general knowledge is that rainwater picks up minerals in solution on the way to the sea, where it gets concentrated by evaporation. The real question is why the sea isn't saltier. Why is the Dead Se
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by barrkel 3y ago
Trees can be a hazard. Roots and branches need to be monitored, for tripping or falling risks, or the risk of the tree falling over. Trees need to be trimmed, especially where they intrude into problem space - cables (very rare in London),
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by barrkel 3y ago
Trees can be a hazard. Roots and branches need to be monitored, for tripping or falling risks, or the risk of the tree falling over. Trees need to be trimmed, especially where they intrude into problem space - cables (very rare in London),
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by barrkel 3y ago
London GDP is about £500 billion. They’ll need this info to maintain the trees in any case. If it cost 100k, it would be 0.02% of GDP. For the difference trees make to urban areas, it would be utterly trivial. If you made £50k cash after ta
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by barrkel 3y ago
No, I’m saying that smart people can be blinkered, that knowledge is distinct from intelligence, and successful businesspeople are sometimes lacking in general knowledge, sometimes startlingly so.
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by barrkel 3y ago
Some traffic lights in Zurich are only green for 5 seconds or so, then you need to wait another minute or two. I’ve never seen honking at 10kph under the limit, and I regularly drive longish trips to Germany for shopping on 80kph roads wher
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by barrkel 3y ago
I drive an indicated 130kph on Swiss motorways, an indicated 108kph through tunnels, and generally an indicated 88kph on regular roads when I get the chance. I think the 80kph limit is too low for many country roads, and it inhibits overtak
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by barrkel 3y ago
I think most successful business owners are above average intelligence, but they’re also frequently really blinkered - they know a lot about something but almost nothing about a lot of other stuff, if it hasn’t come up in their path. It’s s
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by barrkel 3y ago
sftp doesn’t make it easy to copy files from one place to another on an ad hoc basis while developing, using the shell operations you’ve got to hand.
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It's interesting; I'm the kind of person who feels uncomfortable using something without understanding the shape of the stack underneath it. A magic black box is anathema; I want to know how to use the thing with mechanical sympat
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by barrkel 3y ago
You can't understand leveraging one distribution channel to expand into another market segment could possibly be anti-competitive? Like using Windows to expand into web browsers?

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