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by gHosts 5y ago
Back in the precovid 3rd world I met people who took very dubious / polluted / rotten stuff as a "purge". a. The placebo effect is real. A bout of induced vomiting and diarrhea makes whatever you are left with feel less
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by gHosts 5y ago
If you have as a Biggest Label about the nutrition on Carrots is "Carrots a good source of vitamin A" then it's misleading. It's "spin".
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by gHosts 5y ago
The sugar aisle smells like a gas station to me now.
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by gHosts 5y ago
I want to start a Truth in Packaging campaign. Mint Sauce? Nah. That mint flavoured sugar water. Cheese is a Good Source of Protein? Nah. Bollocks, it's clearly a better source of fat. I could go on for ages. I'm truly glad I don&
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by gHosts 5y ago
No, that isn't a conclusion from the study. > Individuals who were both previously infected with SARS-CoV-2 and given a single dose of the vaccine gained additional protection against the Delta variant. Note also... > evidence o
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by gHosts 5y ago
Trouble is I've burnt a lot of man hours fixing shit that was done truly shitly by people who had a reputation for getting shit done... and then they move onwards and upwards to another role to create more shit that needs cleaning up b
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by gHosts 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-Oriented_Software_Const... Although http://touch.ethz.ch/ looks like an update to the classic. The main take away, which is really really really important is Design
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by gHosts 5y ago
Ever been in a situation where superior officer commands you to commit what the rest of the world calls "a crime against humanity"? I have. And I repeat. Don't be an Apparatchik. Malicious Compliance is a valid response to an
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by gHosts 5y ago
> It will feel strange for a while and then it will not. It will be normal. Except for the people who, in addition to those who die year after year after year from flu, now die will die from Covid. For them it won't feel normal at a
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by gHosts 5y ago
I suspect wrong hypothesis there.... the variable is probably what other allergen is on you skin (or finger nails) and whether and how much you scratch it! Temperature is probably also a factor.
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by gHosts 5y ago
> There is no pot of money in between that defines limits or possibilities. We should by all means spend time thinking about what it would be good to spend $ 5 trillion on, but given the available resources and the amount of slack at our
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by gHosts 5y ago
What is this "shock" thing you speak of? Is this a nasty side effect of "e" bikes? A "cheap" bike is just a rigid frame with rigid forks.
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by gHosts 5y ago
> I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me. aka. Don't be a Corporate Apparatchik. Remember this isn't a black & white think. Feel if you don't fit in with the corpor
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by gHosts 5y ago
Except it isn't robust. Exceptions occur when "Very Bad No Good Undefined Horrible Things" have (at last, been found to have) happened. So if you have no guarantee that the memory space is uncorrupted, you have no guarantee t
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by gHosts 5y ago
I would go with the Erlang approach. Just die FFS. Let the process monitor restart you if you deserve to live.
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by gHosts 5y ago
I wish I was joking. But our versioning scheme doesn't include zero. Not even for minor version numbers. As we (rightly) believe our customers don't trust them (for good reasons).
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by gHosts 5y ago
This is either the most important paper in Computer Science.... or a trivial side effect of representing function composition by string concatenation... http://nsl.com/papers/rewritejoy.html
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by gHosts 5y ago
I know of someone broadening the traditional "Mr/Mrs/Ms" "M/F" and is unclear on what to broaden it to, nor can find agreement amongst the clients as to what to broaden it to, beyond that they want it broa
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by gHosts 5y ago
A valuable resource, but needs to catch up with the gender diversity issues now coming to the fore.
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by gHosts 5y ago
My view is a bit more pragmatic.... I used to don ever thicker layers of neoprene to survive in the sea.... and still my hands would go pasty white and lose all feeling and function. Then I read about this guy and thought, never mind the th
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by gHosts 5y ago
As someone who swims in the South Island seas of NZ Winter, Rain, Snow and Hail.... Wim Hof is on to something. It works.
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by gHosts 6y ago
https://medium.com/incerto/the-masks-masquerade-7de897b517b7
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by gHosts 6y ago
> but these sound like a 1970s-era chatbot. HA! Sums up my feelings about the reflect back advice crap I've been reading for years. > Rather, it’s cargo cult advice: it teaches you to imitate the surface appearance of good liste
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by gHosts 6y ago
Let me guess what happens next... Coming up shortly at a Chinese github like thing near you... Republican Party membership list.
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by gHosts 6y ago
Won't favour First Past The Post, Red Party or Blue Party it's the Money Party style democracies. There are other flavours that do better.
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by gHosts 6y ago
Actually, the main motivation I have seen over the decades has always been some variant of the Precautionary Principle. https://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/PrecautionaryPrinciple.ht...
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by gHosts 6y ago
What excites me is if you're working down at the high frequency, low latency I/O domain... linux traditionally has actually sort of sucked. We're _very_ good at buffering things up and handling large chunks to gain high throu
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by gHosts 6y ago
Oh come on man... Get Real! Next you'll be asking programmers to estimate how long they going to take to do something...! ;-)
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by gHosts 6y ago
Ha. Took up Skyrim: Elder Scrolls... Turns out there are some things about me cannot be changed, even in a fantasy world. Yup, happy to change skin (and gender) in anyway. But any scenario in which my follower or dog dies.... it's relo
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by gHosts 6y ago
That's because USA is broken. I went from a tipping + starvation wages culture to a no tipping + living wage culture. Soooooooooo much better. Sadly the push to deunionize and deregulate and zero hour contracts.... is pushing things to

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