earth_walker

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by earth_walker 5y ago
This is correct behaviour, depending on the definition of mod. See, for example: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/516251/why-is-n-mod...
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by earth_walker 5y ago
You'd think so, but here in Canada the groceries play the same games by changing the definition of 'per unit' in different ways, for example price per 100g vs. price per kg vs. price per serving/capsule/sub-pack.
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by earth_walker 5y ago
I reluctantly second the "easy way". I had heard about it, was skeptical, but found it for a buck at a second hand store so I gave it a try. I hated it. Badly written, pop psychology trash. Lame circular logic. The same few points
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by earth_walker 5y ago
Speaking of selling your soul, this post is a veiled advert funnelling you to sign up for audible.
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by earth_walker 5y ago
Although Yoga Nidra means 'psychic sleep', you are not actually meant to fall asleep while doing it! This is just a common side effect while people are learning the meditation - I guess it is so common this kind of body scanning i
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by earth_walker 5y ago
I disagree. These small unnecessary tweaks can really disrupt regular users' workflows. For example, they just changed "Undo close tab" to "Reopen closed tab". Not only is it difficult to justify how this is clearer
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by earth_walker 5y ago
Depends on your definition of 'simple', I guess. My preference is to have all behaviours be explicit in the declared code, rather than implicit or as a side-effect. Much simpler to read and reason about the program. Clarity over c
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by earth_walker 5y ago
That's what I love about HN. Make anything up, and someone's done it and posted pics. It's like being able to wish things into existence just by posting a forum comment. Next: Cold fusion jet pack!
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by earth_walker 5y ago
Not sure 'we can drive whatever we want to the store' is a rally cry to be particularly proud of, neighbour. We seem to think because we have the freedom to drive a V8 half ton dually less than a block to the mailbox with the airc
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by earth_walker 5y ago
Of course. So could a semi, a backhoe, and a dump truck do all these things. Point being, use the right tool for the job. If you're using the pickup to haul to and from the jobsite 99% of the time, sure it doesn't make sense to bu
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by earth_walker 5y ago
Taking a pickup for a grocery run is like using a jackhammer to push in a thumbtack.
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by earth_walker 5y ago
What we need is an electric Subaru Brat.
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by earth_walker 5y ago
Canadian diplomats in Cuba were exposed previously: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-tuesday-e...
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by earth_walker 5y ago
Just guessing, but a 72 year old farmer from Wales probably smoked most of his life.
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by earth_walker 5y ago
Well, Einstein's mom, for one.
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by earth_walker 5y ago
This. Our engineering exams were all open book and tested understanding rather than rote memorization. If you didn't understand the material well there was no amount of googling that could help you.
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by earth_walker 6y ago
When I was a kid my school got a Sinclair ZX81 with 1k of memory. One 1k computer for the whole school! Once in a blue moon we would get class time on the computer - Our class got to program a 'turtle' to draw shapes on a big piec
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by earth_walker 6y ago
This is going to sound a little overkill, but I do have some experience in this area, and this is the right forum for it so... Digital thermometers for freezers are relatively cheap (if you don't need them NIST traceable, anyway) and e
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by earth_walker 6y ago
And here we get at the root of the problem with the North American diet... The fact that people think an ingredient list like this is acceptable or 'not that bad' is a problem. The 'white bread' ingredient list looks not
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by earth_walker 6y ago
The cook in a pizza joint in small town West Virginia: "Faster'n a pack o' dogs on a three-legged cat"
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by earth_walker 6y ago
Those ratios looked off to me so I tried it out today. Now, the amount of moisture a flour will absorb depends on many things, including its age, source and your climate. I'm in an arid region of Canada, and our flours are typically ha
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by earth_walker 7y ago
Hah, you beat me to it.
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by earth_walker 7y ago
This can be a problem in Haskell, where you can find a library using some operator like +>>* that you haven't seen before, imported from one of its 30 odd globally addressed modules, which may just be re-exporting other modules.
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by earth_walker 7y ago
It seems you're insinuating that Alberta is somehow more (U.S.) 'American' than the rest of Canada. I have lived in Alberta for over ten years, and though culturally distinct from the rest of Canada (as is every other provinc
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by earth_walker 7y ago
Not just outdated values, but skewed. The idea that having kids is something that requires you to be a wage slave lacks imagination and perspective. You can absolutely raise children without a high salaried position, big house and tons of p
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by earth_walker 7y ago
James Carson gave a talk at this year's Elm Conf on using Elm to talk to Futhark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVP8zxpZKV8
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by earth_walker 7y ago
Unless you live up North or on a reservation...
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by earth_walker 7y ago
Except, of course, that while a Toyota has an excellent reputation for reliability, a Porsche not so much. So the latter may not get you to work at all. But you'll look damn good sitting at the side of the road...
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by earth_walker 7y ago
Though not a strict requirement of the religion, veganism has been common practice in the Jains of India for thousands of years. Some Jain monks even sweep the floor as they walk to avoid killing bugs. Not to mention Buddhist monks in some
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by earth_walker 7y ago
This is so great, thank you Daniel. This changes everything. Next up, org-web-agenda? Edit: Already a feature. I love it.

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