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by elric 2y ago
My favourite pet peeve is opening an interesting looking link in a new tab, and then when I finally get around to looking at the tab, it's just a giant overlay with a prompt for an email address, with no hint of what I was actually try
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by elric 2y ago
Perhaps common ailments such as iron insuffiency (anaemia), excess bilirubin, heck maybe even cholesterol?
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by elric 2y ago
Yeah that's something I disable in every tool I touch. Especially when I'm typing something like foo(), by the time any autocomplete inserts that closing parenthesis, I will have already typed it, and now I'm distracted. I do
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by elric 2y ago
I use eclipse for most of my Serious Work. With most "clever" features turned off. The kind of code-completion that lets me browse a list of partial matches is very useful (e.g. was it foo.bar() or foo.baz()?). Other than that, I
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by elric 2y ago
I'm sorry to hear that you've been plagued by shitty codebases. Have you considered trying to improve them? Or maybe try looking for greener pastures.
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by elric 2y ago
FYI: Schizophrenia and psychosis are two different things. The latter can be a symptom of the former. But psychoses can occur for many different reasons. They're quite common in bipolar disorder ("manic depression", during ma
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by elric 2y ago
If you're interested in some scientific background to Software Engineering, I can recommend the book "Making Software" (O'reilly) by Andy Oram & Greg Wilson. It's a bit old now, but addresses and challenges many
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by elric 2y ago
My previous customer insisted that documentation (Javadoc in particular) was Bad and should be Avoided. Because "code should be self documenting". It's such a stupid fallacy. I could not convince them to even add the bare min
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by elric 2y ago
> Like e.g. in Java it was common to have a comment on a simple (!) setter, telling you "this sets X" This has never been common in any sensible environment. Only on projects with project leads who had zero clue about anything,
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Candida auris cell surface adhesins identified(nature.com)
2 points by elric 2y ago|1 comments
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by elric 2y ago
Had to editorialize the title because it was too long. TL;DR; Researchers identified two potential targets to reduce the strong biofilm produced by Candida Auris, which could result in new ways to treat the pesky fungus.
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by elric 2y ago
Similar thing in Belgium: "stamcafé" or "stamkroeg" in Dutch. It just refers to your local pub which you (and maybe some of your friends) frequent often enough to be a regular. Not to a table. Mine isn't even local,
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by elric 2y ago
Not every roof allows for perfect southward angling (obviously). And I'm obviously not saying that you should point panels north either. I'm disputing the parent commenter's claim that it would be beneficial to have all panel
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by elric 2y ago
That's terrible advice unless it's tied to local energy storage. When every roof and every solar panel is angled the same way, a sudden cloud (or a sudden lack of clouds) can cause huge fluctuations in power output. Diversity is p
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by elric 2y ago
Passion used to run Goodreads. Then Amazon acquired it.
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by elric 2y ago
I installed a central ERV in my home, a Zehnder ComfoAir Q. Installing it was quite involved, but not hard. Definitely within reach of anyone with basic DIY skills. The hardest part is finding a good spot for the ventilation unit, which is
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by elric 2y ago
Surely you can just use git and limit yourself to the commands you're comfortable with?
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by elric 2y ago
I've tried them, but something about the button placement feels off for the shape of my hand. I recommend them to people quite often, and they're usually well received.
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by elric 2y ago
Does it? The "good enough" Dell keyboard is made by a multi-billion dollar corporation in extremely large quantities. Economies of scale bring the price all the way down, and they skimp on parts (e.g. no real mechanical keys). The
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by elric 2y ago
My initial reaction is that yes, you do seem to be living in a very strange bubble. And, I say this out of curiousity rather than malice, I wonder whether you struggle with empathy? There are any number of reasons why people can't cons
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by elric 2y ago
I imagine we'll be seeing more personalized setups as time progresses. Custom keyboards have been pretty feasible and affordable for a good while now, with things like QMK and even custom PCB designers. It can still be a bit fiddly, so
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by elric 2y ago
I too know of such people in Europe. Including people in perfectly legal industries, and refugees from war torm countries. Banks are a necessary evil, but evil all the same.
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by elric 2y ago
KYC is a joke. Source: I worked on a KYC system.
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by elric 2y ago
I'm sure that's an option for large, (semi-)detached houses. But it's not an option for the small homes or apartments that the vast majority of people live in.
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by elric 2y ago
> Aren't self-leveling headlights standard by now? I don't know, but as a pedestrian & cyclist in the EU, not a day goes by where I don't get blinded by headlights. SUVs are by far the worst offenders, but it's no
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by elric 2y ago
As someone who started balding at ~19, I would have been very happy with grey hair instead. One person's self-esteem damaging condition is another person's hope.
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by elric 2y ago
Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin) in particular can be helpful for those with migraines. But it seems like it only effects those with migraines headaches, and not migraine auras. Did nothing for me :-( Also N=1, but I remember coming across some rese
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by elric 2y ago
My experience with projectors is that they are noisy, power hungry beasts with display quality far inferior to monitors. Has that changed?
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by elric 2y ago
The includeIf stuff is pretty neat. I currently keep the SSH complexity in ~/.ssh, where I have several includes, one for each customer|project|identity. Things without unique hostnames, like github, get an alias assigned: Host c
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by elric 2y ago
Nice writeup. Liking the API. I've created a couple of DSLs for internal use of the years, some of them compile down to Java, others are interpreted and call Java at runtime. Never liked the existing bytecode tools much, but it looks l

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