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by dandare 4y ago
Massive Chalice 2, essentially something where you build your dynasty and all the shortcomings of Massive Chalice 1 are fixed.
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by dandare 4y ago
Serious question: Why electricity and not hydrogen? I really wanted to buy an electric car as our main (and only) family car but the technology is not there yet. And it never may be, because the metals required for batteries will probably b
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by dandare 4y ago
> [...] chronic soil compaction [...] negatively impacts various soil functions (9, 26). These are manifested by a persistent decline in crop yields (13, 27, 28), limited water infiltration capacity (8, 10), and a decline in other soil e
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by dandare 4y ago
> Oh, and also, Miller is hiring if you’re interested in joining the team. I want to change my tire! Get off my back, and stop trying to make money off me for one second while I solve this tire crisis. So, you want someone to help you an
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by dandare 4y ago
One thing that baffles me in corporate IT is not just the snake pace of development but rather the fact that nobody seems to be bothered by the snake pace. There is zero effort to measure or speed things up. The only important thing is to b
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by dandare 4y ago
Tangential: on a mobile, you can not zoom the images in. When you click on an image, it is elevated into a lightbox that is roughly the same size as the original and can not be rescaled either. I still have no idea what the before-after ima
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by dandare 4y ago
I just finished a MoO2 on Impossible this week :D (Democracy + Charismatic). It always fascinates me how Steve Barcia managed to balance so many different game mechanics, traits and science paths into a single game.
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by dandare 4y ago
It is surprising how bad YouTube is at discovering new content. No advanced search, no categories, no labels, nothing. Title and a thumbnail are your only two guides. Also, long series are hard to keep track of. Like if you want to watch WW
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by dandare 4y ago
> Should we go back to Waterfall? In many areas we are already doing waterfall, except it is a sin to call it that way and we must pretend we are doing agile. Let me give you two examples: - Contractual requirements. If you have a contr
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by dandare 4y ago
Best design of a documentation page I have seen in ages. Large font, clear hierarchy, great use of color and font weight.
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by dandare 4y ago
A library of person-to-person communication snippets for those of us on the spectrum like this tool https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31224996 but curated by well intentioned community.
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by dandare 4y ago
A single policy update can reverse all of this.
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by dandare 4y ago
Not true, the bits live in a super complex hardware, the don't create any complexity on their own.
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by dandare 4y ago
It always fascinated me how basically two quarks, one electron and some bosons can create so much chemical complexity. It feels like trowing just 6 types of lego bricks into a huge bag and after a lot of random mixing obtaining whole univer
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by dandare 4y ago
In my case not at all. While it is true that I may do laundry between meetings, even have a power nap, in the end I have more energy for the demanding marathon of work. One more important thing: I thrive in the environment were important th
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by dandare 4y ago
Definitely gross. But illegal? I think that is where the controversy lies.
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by dandare 5y ago
I don't understand why the fear of being sued is not preventing Google (and other big players) from misusing their position like this. Is it impossible to sue Google?
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by dandare 5y ago
Spotify does this as well. I hate it. No, I do not speak the local language, stop!
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by dandare 5y ago
I am one of them. Started with ActionScript 2 and ended up with TypeScript. Also, Flash IDE is one of the best vector graphics editors. Speaking of which, do you use Scratch or similar to teach your kids programming?
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by dandare 5y ago
I know this is a controversial topic, but the very same is happening when IT companies deliberately hire and promote women to increase diversity. Like race, gender is an immutable characteristic and if you target it to positively discrimina
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by dandare 5y ago
I recommend to combine it with Threads (1984) for a maximum effect. https://archive.org/details/threads_201712
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by dandare 5y ago
Yep, that is my question :)
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by dandare 5y ago
I always wanted to build a "periscope windows". Have a large light-gathering lens on the outside, then focus the rays into a much thiner "sun tunnel", bring them underground (in the same shaft as the water and heating pi
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by dandare 5y ago
Not Kuhn's fault, but this book started a different kind of revolution: > Postmodernists interpreted Thomas Kuhn's ideas about scientific paradigms to mean that scientific theories are social constructs, and philosophers like P
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by dandare 5y ago
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson tells the story of many important scientific discoveries.
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by dandare 5y ago
I have always been fascinated by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence
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by dandare 5y ago
So this sent me down the wikipedia rabbit hole :D One thing I never realised is how dramatically the viscosity of water changes with temperature. This is probably why you can recognise hot water from a cold water in a video. Temperature (C)
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by dandare 5y ago
> That's more true of Saudi Arabia, than UAE It was in UEA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alicia_Gali
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by dandare 5y ago
Dictatorships are not holiday destinations or places for business - and this applies tenfold to UAE and Saudi Arabia. There has been plenty of warning over the years, enter these countries at your own risk. https://en.wikipedia.o
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by dandare 5y ago
> Then Pontzer asks a set of questions designed to boost a student’s stress levels: What’s her dream job, and what exactly is she going to do after graduation? or > launches into a time-honored method to boost her blood pressure: He

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