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by fian 4y ago
Unlike many (but not all) other animals, humans spend considerable time in close proximity to other humans in enclosed spaces. If you are pungent, other people in an enclosed space with you will not appreciate your smell. I've done qu
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by fian 4y ago
The Snugglepot and Cuddlepie series of children's books by May Gibbs feature Banksia men as the villains: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snugglepot_and_Cuddlepie
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by fian 4y ago
The problems is that cars passing cyclists isn't the only time adverse car-cyclist interactions occur. I have been T-boned by a driver approaching from the opposite direction, in full daylight with no visual disruptions, when they fail
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by fian 5y ago
A similar idea from 15 years ago using a wind turbine instead of solar: http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsN...
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by fian 5y ago
To lose fat, the biochemistry requires conversion of long chain hydrocarbons (fats) to carbon dioxide and water. For a good explanation see: https://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/where-does-fat-go/11015048 To burn fat,
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by fian 5y ago
It is related to italics. I often use _phrase_ to italisise. This seems to trigger the left/right arrow key bug semi-regularly. This fix is to find the Teams icon in the Taskbar, right click and Quit. Then restart Teams.
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by fian 5y ago
Almost all the answers I can see at time of replying are assuming a web application. Web applications will require at a minimum HTML, CSS a server side language and probably Javascript. To meet your criteria for: no: >multiple programmi
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by fian 5y ago
Yes. Put simply it disconnects merge and deploy from launch. This is very useful when your changes rely on other teams or third parties having gone live. Having a feature flag (we call them toggles) lets you get it into production turned o
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by fian 5y ago
I'd assume Facebook has been tracking IP addresses and other computer fingerprint info from the machine(s) you have been using to upload content. The person who has taken ownership would have different machine fingerprint info. So Face
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by fian 5y ago
Root Cause Analysis is the term most used for this kind of exercise in many (non-software) engineering disciplines. The article even mentions root cause so not sure how they didn't find that term in their searching. When doing a root c
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by fian 5y ago
At a previous job, I has an assigned desk and I was expected to work from the office unless I had good reason to work from home. I definitely had dominion over my desk. To the point I built my own sub-base to raise the normal sitting desk
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by fian 5y ago
My current employer has an "Activity Bases Working" philosophy. This means we hot-desk. We do not get an assigned desk. We are likely to sit somewhere different every day you go to the office. We each get a personal locker to s
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by fian 5y ago
In the past Google appeared to better honour advanced searches using boolean operators. You could add operators to narrow a search quite effectively. From my experience, they have diluted that functionality in favour of keyword and context
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by fian 5y ago
https://energyinnovation.org/2021/09/16/after-the-megafires-... The fire intensities are much higher due to various factors. This kills more of the mature trees and alters the soil nutrient composition such
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by fian 5y ago
For those who also don't know the abbreviations: EM = Emerging Market DM = Developed Market
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by fian 5y ago
Leeching is a pretty strong word. Childless people pay taxes that go toward the education, childcare subsidies and healthcare for your children. Childless people often put more effort into their work or volunteering contributions which is o
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by fian 5y ago
The packaging has a barcode so it can be scanned faster at a checkout. Faster scanning means less checkouts and staff which means lower capital and operating costs.
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by fian 5y ago
This is the premise of a book by Thomas Wren: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2335064.The_Doomsday_Eff... From (distant) memory it was a fun read with some science but not overly realistic wrt to how humanity
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by fian 5y ago
I have encountered this. Many people just don't appear to know how to search and filter information on the internet. I regularly get asked questions I don't know the answers to but can quickly search and refine down to either an
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by fian 5y ago
Could you use a USB or wireless numberpad, or do you have particular ergonomics in mind leading you down the "built it" path? You'll get 15-18 buttons you could remap to trigger whatever events you want. On the ergonomics fro
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by fian 5y ago
You have mixed present work for the programmer with past work for the glass artist (blower?).
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by fian 5y ago
In the past senior people at major companies that were competitors entered into agreements not to poach staff from each other. I have seen this happen to a colleague who tried to leave for a competitor. His manager at his current job found
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by fian 5y ago
For what it is worth, as an Australian I quite enjoyed: Zone Blanche Lupin L'ascension Le grand bain
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by fian 5y ago
There are definitely IP address based tracking going on. My partners birthday was coming up and I thought she might like a weighted blanket as a gift. Within 10 mins of doing some light searching for prices and local outlets on my office co
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by fian 5y ago
Not cockatoos but I have had my hiking backpack opened by black currawongs in Tasmania: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_currawong#Feeding My hiking buddy and I dropped our packs to climb Mount Ossa off the side of
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by fian 5y ago
It's an Ant build file - nothing complex at all. If you no or few dependencies and are comfortable managing them manually, Ant is fine. Non-networked applications don't tend to need to be so paranoid about keeping up to date with
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by fian 5y ago
Sure _then_ you might opt to use Maven or Gradle. My point is there are a wide variety of application types out there, not everything is a web application, not everything needs to use a complex build and dependency management system.
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by fian 5y ago
Guess I'm nobody. I created a simple Swing (desktop) app in Java a couple of weeks ago. The process was something like: Create new Java project in IDE Add no dependencies Use the built in IDE tooling to create a runnable JAR and tick
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by fian 5y ago
Post version 8 work was done to modularise core Java. You can now generate a stripped down custom run time to bundle with your application: https://www.baeldung.com/jlink
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by fian 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squat_effect

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