davidweir

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by davidweir 5y ago
Exactly - assessment methods that are difficult for the sake of being difficult benefit nobody. They’re only marginally more meaningful than FAANG interview questions. Employers, students and society as a whole have all moved on; they want
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by davidweir 6y ago
> when adjusting volume in the status bar the UI dragbar position is very jumpy I've noticed this as well. Qualitatively, it seems to be worse when external audio output devices are selected, than for the Internal Speakers.
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by davidweir 7y ago
> Most important is good bread Having lived in Norway for two years, and resorted to deep frozen baguettes from Meny (an upscale supermarket chain) because the fresh bread was so bad, I'm... not sure about this. Glad to be back in F
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Tom Kibble, theoretical physicist, has died(theguardian.com)
2 points by davidweir 10y ago|0 comments
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Fire balloon(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by davidweir 11y ago|0 comments
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by davidweir 12y ago
In addition to "the quick and the dead", it also appears in the idiom "(cut) to the quick", meaning to cut someone deeply - usually emotionally. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cut_to_the_quick http
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The Rosenhan experiment(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by davidweir 12y ago|0 comments
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by davidweir 12y ago
Transporting goods inland was hard because no way had yet been found to use horses to provide motive power without strangling them, hence "It remained cheaper to transport heavy goods in bulk from one end of the Mediterranean to the ot
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Is the moon only 60 pixels?(astronomy.stackexchange.com)
1 points by davidweir 12y ago|0 comments
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by davidweir 13y ago
With javascript disabled or on a text-based browser, there is no content on that page. What price accessibility?
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by davidweir 13y ago
Useful to note that parent's Ref. 0 has been peer-reviewed and is published in JHEP, a respectable high energy physics journal. Sadly, articles like those linked often do not check the authors' credentials or whether the research being summ
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by davidweir 14y ago
In a sense, not putting their eggs in one basket was their downfall: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/10/nokia_ui_saga/