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by gerbilly 8y ago
They sailed west to east on purpose, because it made it easier to get home if they didn't make landfall. The canoes they used were not tacked, they were shunted, which made it much easier to said into the wind. To get back home, they m
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> Bearings for coastal nav, celestial angles if you want latitude at sea, accurate time source Right, that's the western way. But non instrument navigators could find tiny islands on purpose thousands of years ago without any of tha
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> True, people can abuse those terms for a doublespeak effect, but they have legitimate uses. Yeah, and opium sometimes has legitimate uses in pain management.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
This is totally true. See the book Vaka Moana for the real story. Polynesians populated the pacific islands from west to east. They probably are the best navigators on the planet.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Glorious day! I wish they would ban them where I live. I detest noise, but judging by the popularity of Harley's I must be in the minority.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
I don't like being dragged into the minutiae of pricing plans like this. It's makes me feel like a rodent in a maze responding to some twisted experiment. And whenever I overhear people discuss the tricks they've come up wit
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Except that many of these terms exist not to make communication clearer, but to obfuscate, to hedge. It's a type of obscurantism. It also sounds like a bunch of shibboleths, secret handshakes of the C level people. Why do we accept te
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> Using Docker you build one fossilized fat package with both all OS and app dependencies baked in. Exactly. Most uses of Docker are like a junk drawer: neat on the outside, a total mess on the inside. People stuff their python 2 app in
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Depending on the context yes. If your bank has some COBOL systems running to keep accounts up to date, do you really want some team of pinheads to 'fix it' by porting it to python?
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Nice reply. I myself do not find it harder to find jobs, and I'm even older than you. My post above didn't mention it, but I also learn new stuff. And some of it is really useful. I don't insist the client use my preferred
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Everyone has different tastes, but there is some nice new music out there. This for example: http://www.hawaiianreggae.org/artists Nice and mellow, lots of young new artists. It's a pretty good scene.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Well, in my comments I was restricting my examples mostly to server side software running on UNIX. This eliminates much of the proprietary lockin and portability problems you mention. I never was saying people should just keep using Delphi
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by gerbilly 8y ago
The older I get, the more 'liberal' I get. I think it comes from having more and more empathy. The more I live, the less I feel I can judge people and their choices. Even if it is to prefer Mongo over Postgres :-)
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by gerbilly 8y ago
That breakfast wouldn't last you through a multi hour surf session. I'd bonk on that after half an hour. I think oatmeal would work better for actual surfing.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> I also noticed that older programmers tend to not be as up to date in newer technologies or ways of doing things. I've been doing this a long time and it doesn't matter to me. The newer stuff is most of the time just a variat
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> since there’s no paper trail with cash. Exactly this. This is why cash is good. Anonymity. Enjoy it while it still exists.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Good for them, I never really liked wearing shoes.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Oh there are, all those cheque cashing places for example, and they're under-regulated, so not too great either. Still paying a larger fee to cash a cheque sure beats having all your assets frozen entirely.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> Places should be forced to accept cash until everyone can go cashless Places should be forced to accept cash AND I'd suggest people never go cashless. Once people surrender the right to anonymity, we might never get it back.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
High cost (fees are proportionally much more expensive), shady practices[1], accounts frozen by creditors. Poor people are making completely rational decisions when choosing not to trust banks, and it's patronizing to assume they simpl
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by gerbilly 8y ago
If I give 5$ to a homeless person and he then tries to go buy a coffee at a cashless coffee shop, what do you think will happen? After all he has money, right?
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Our young technocratic elite can be so clueless sometimes. Aside from helping to build our future surveillance dystopia, they promote cashless retail as more 'futuristic', and make fun of cheques and cash. I don't understand
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Swimming pool urine combines with chlorine to pose health risks(purdue.edu)
3 points by gerbilly 8y ago|1 comments
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by gerbilly 8y ago
I agree, and it's not surprising. Conscientiousness is one of the 'Big Five' personality traits[1], and it is the one most strongly correlated with success in any field.[2][3] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by gerbilly 8y ago
I haven't read the paper, but it could be that the 0.02% difference is not statistically significant.[1][2] Say you pick two groups of people from a population, two groups of 10 000 people at random. Imagine then that you count the pro
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Now overlay that with the belief that your are literally descending into the underworld.[1] It must have made for a very transformative experience. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xibalba
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> if someone can deal with being tortured for years and get through it, I can make it through this. I understand what you're saying, but being tortured for years leaves physiological and psychological scars that never go away. Willi
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by gerbilly 8y ago
The article mentions incense too.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> Go back to those dozen people, if possible, and present your work. Rinse. Repeat. This is a bad idea. If you do this, your notional dozen people (or company/government PR departments) will try to manipulate the story in their fav
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Too bad people aren't more afraid of smoking, which does have serious health consequences.

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