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by bmj 5y ago
This very thing occurred in PGH with the Greenfield Bridge[0]. This caused significant disruption because the bridge spans a major highway to the eastern suburbs. Of course, the infrastructure issues with that bridge were rather obvious,
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by bmj 5y ago
there are many bridges like this all over Pittsburgh This is the really scary part. Given PGH's geography, it is nearly impossible to travel through the city in an efficient way without crossing a bridge. Also, let's not forget
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by bmj 5y ago
Thankfully there didn't seem to be anyone on the trail! That is a heavily trafficked trail during the day, and there is a dog park in the shadow of the bridge. I use that trail all the time to access the mountain bike trails that Fri
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by bmj 5y ago
Scott Alexander did some analysis of metastudy of various ivermectin studies, and came to the same conclusion. https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ivermectin-much-more-t...
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by bmj 5y ago
The more I look at the parent's list of "student" activities, the more I realize I am a "student" in every way, despite my "lead engineer" title!
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by bmj 5y ago
cleaning yourself I did not realize this was a mark of the student life. Who knew I was still a student at age 49?
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by bmj 5y ago
The Christian theologian Stanley Hauerwas put it this way: When couples come to ministers to talk about their marriage ceremonies, ministers think it’s interesting to ask if they love one another. What a stupid question! How would they kno
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by bmj 5y ago
I would expect the FDA to push back against individuals doing throat swabs with an at-home test kit -- the organization approved these tests based on a specific testing protocol (nasal swab). The FDA won't offer alternative protocols
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by bmj 5y ago
The U.S. government allocated $190 billion dollars to schools for pandemic response[0][1]. Some school districts updated their athletic facilities. There is no single solution to the current problem. Remote learning is a heavy burden on f
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by bmj 5y ago
Get a KUM sharpener, too, while you're at it, and chances are you'll never look back. This. You can spend a lot of money on a sharpener, but the KUMs are more affordable and work very well.
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by bmj 5y ago
I am a fan of the Musgrave Tennessee Reds. Dark graphic that doesn't require a lot of pressure, and a fine looking pencil. Be warned, however: Musgrave hexagonal pencils have a very crisp shape, and some people find them uncomfortabl
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by bmj 5y ago
I recently switched to a Micron pen for my diary (i.e. bullet journal) after years of using a pencil (favorites include the Musgrave Tennessee Red and the Blackwing 602). I like the extra precision they afford, but I did need to get used t
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by bmj 5y ago
The only job I've ever had to do any kind of test for wasn't leetcode - just a practical demonstration that I could write a basic CRUD app. Was actually a pretty good test to weed out people who were just completely useless. I t
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by bmj 5y ago
Let's not forget about our Olympic sports. Perhaps the massive sex abuse scandal in gymnastics?
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by bmj 5y ago
Usually 30-60 minutes day during the week, and more on the weekends. I've become more disciplined over the last few years. Prior to the pandemic, I was involved in several reading groups (reading a wide range of subjects, from theolo
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by bmj 5y ago
It’s not a serious incident for a human And perhaps that's part of the problem. "Oh, this person crashed his heavy machine into something...it happens" seems to significantly undervalue the responsibility and risks of driv
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by bmj 5y ago
My guess is that downvoters don't get the context of your statement.
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by bmj 5y ago
I needed to spend hours just to get it to sort of work. Some people consider this a bug, others consider it a feature. I use both VS Code and (Neo)Vim on a regular basis. A huge advantage of VS Code is that for many languages, it works p
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by bmj 5y ago
What definition of "vaccine" are you using? From Wikipedia[0]: Vaccines can be prophylactic (to prevent or ameliorate the effects of a future infection by a natural or "wild" pathogen), or therapeutic (to fight a disea
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by bmj 5y ago
My employer really wants to use this. The IT department dislikes supporting Apple hardware and software. But...we have a product that needs to end up in the Apple App Store. They tried to convince the iOS engineers that it would be fine
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by bmj 5y ago
Maybe Pfizer should go back to the drawing board though. The vaccines (on the U.S. market, at least) were never promoted as providing complete protection from Covid. It was about preventing serious illness and keeping people out of the h
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by bmj 5y ago
The Jelly was my son's first smartphone, much to his chagrin (imagine being a 15 year old pulling that thing out when your friends had iPhone Xs or whatever massive Samsung phones were on the market at the time). I've been using
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by bmj 5y ago
I’ve also seen plenty of new editors rise and fall in the past 20 years - Komodo, TextMate, Sublime Text, Atom, etc. Two of those editors are Mac-only, and only one editor is open source. I suspect if Sublime had become open (and cross-p
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by bmj 5y ago
And people will still be shipping code faster and more efficiently than they would do in Perl. I feel that quite a bit of software written these days is designed to have a short shelf life. I wonder how many of the "Show HN" po
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by bmj 5y ago
Americans are generally clueless about bike laws. There, fixed that for you. But they also end up keeping their car driver mentality of me-first and objectifying everything else on the road around them. This is a great point, and I&#x27
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by bmj 5y ago
And in the days before the internet, they likely had a bookshelf full of reference manuals. True story: when I became a programmer in the 1990s, I used to buy the printed manuals for the Java APIs as they were released. At one of my first
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by bmj 5y ago
You're correct. But, clearly the model of government oversight isn't working out so well, either.
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by bmj 5y ago
If you are genuinely concerned about the production quality of the food you eat, stick to local producers who are willing to have you at the farm. Many non-organic producers end up following many traditional "organic" practices b
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by bmj 5y ago
My employer uses a training and document system (third party) that requires the use of Acrobat to view PDFs. I never have to fill out forms within the PDFs; I simply can't open the files via Preview (or Firefox). Apparently the provid
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by bmj 5y ago
* 13 year olds today almost exclusively communicate through text, whereas in the 70s it was quite plausible for a 13 year old to simply not spend time reading.* Comparing the way teenagers text to reading an actual book seems a bit ridiculo

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