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Tip for people trying to stay cool without AC in the UK
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How the Mid-Victorians Worked, Ate and Died (2009)(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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by ganonm 9y ago
The main issue I have with this feature is that as far as I can tell there is no way to opt out. I don't want this feature and I choose not to respond to the notifications I occasionally receive when there is a terrorist event in my ci
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by ganonm 9y ago
For me a large part of the reason I use Vim and only Vim for writing code is it just makes the experience so much more enjoyable. I realise this is quite subjective, but my personal experience is that whenever I use a colleague's non
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by ganonm 9y ago
I attended a lecture course on quantum information given by a young professor who was a direct descendant of Erwin Schrodinger. He didn't find out he was descended from him until mid-way through his PhD.
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by ganonm 9y ago
I would highly recommend reading 'A brief history of everyone who ever lived' by Adam Rutherford. IIRC it contains a whole chapter on GWASs (pronounced jee-wazzes). There are some phenotypes (characteristics) which clearly can be
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by ganonm 9y ago
I just deleted the app and moved several of my smaller group conversations over to WhatsApp (yes, the irony that this is also owned by Facebook is not lost on me). Been contemplating this for a while but you have provided the necessary impe
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by ganonm 9y ago
I have played piano and guitar (piano for almost my entire life and guitar for several years) and have used both tabular sheet music and traditional sheet music. Tabular sheet music is much easier to read initially as it provides a one to o
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by ganonm 10y ago
> I can get a small web site serving JSON REST requests and memcache up in ten minutes with a simple Maven/Gradle build and full IDE integration. Dropwizard is a great example of this. It's an opinionated (convention over confi
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Quotas for procedures is a very interesting topic. Doctors (in the UK at least) carrying out appendectomies consider a negative appendectomy rate (NAR) of around 20% to be optimum. The NAR being the proportion of appendectomies where it tu
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I have a directory ~/Documents/TODO/ inside which I have single file for each feature I'm working on. These files simply contain a list of items marked as completed or not completed using a tick/cross. It's sim
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Yes, and the fact that a relational model is such a convenient way to represent lots of data problems means that even if SQL disappeared, the concept and usefulness of a relational database would long outlive it.
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> Everyday I'm holding onto the shares is the same as if I made the decision to buy that many shares on that day This is a great way to think about holding investments. I remember using this argument to try and convince a family mem
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' A Powerful MacBo...' would be a more accurate title - there are actually a few more options out there such as the Dell XPS Developer Edition or System76 offerings. I used a Dell XPS 13 (2013 model) Developer Edition at my last