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Disable Javascript for that site. I keep Safari with JS disabled for every site, just for these types of sites.
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I'm curious what other trade-offs you've noticed yourself making. Can you share?
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2018
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We suspected this at our primary school: across gender and ethnicity divisions, STEM and literacy scores were highly correlated.
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The "one thing" was accepting the turnover. They did some investing in their staff, put in ESOP, and responded as best they could to employee suggestions/requests. No silver bullet.
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Anyone have a pointer to a write-up with who did this, identifying the software being compared?
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"My supervisor observed that I was anxious to learn new things. He assigned me to the Discoverer project to develop system schematics, interconnection diagrams, and wire harness definition. I was working for the Electrical Systems engi
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Mick Herron's "Slow Horses" series is fantastic, highly recommended. Slough House (from which the title) is where agents go when they fuck up. So everyone is flawed, and know they have failed. They're the ones who get a
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How did it turn out? Not too bad for her: she still had work and eventually returned to IAG, the employer that fired her for the tweet. https://www.vox.com/2018/1/19/16911074/justine-sacco-iac-mat...
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Subhead on the article: "The synchronized brain waves of non-REM sleep may play a key role in preventing toxins from accumulating in a person's brain." It must tick off good science journalists to have their "may" t
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Zero Sum and Null Set are both muscular pew pew novels, written by an MIT grad. I enjoyed them, but found myself oddly bothered by the fact that they feature telepathy. That said, if you enjoy muscular pew-pew novels and enjoy dilithium cry
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They announced a while ago that they were getting out of the "distributed books as files" (aka buying ebooks and getting the files on members.oreilly.com) game, and doubling down on the "subscription service to consume books
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Very cool. It's a variant of the V8 JavaScript engine that has a ton of instrumentation of property access, function calls, etc. Paper about it: http://kapravelos.com/publications/vv8-imc19.pdf
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Summary of this Business Insider piece: * I went to a Walmart store in Virginia with the intention of buying a gun as part of an investigation into the placement, selection, marketing, security, and sales of firearms in Walmart’s stores. *
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I've been reading Vogel's writing for something like 25 years now, and it always repays the time. He's entertaining but thoughtful with it.
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(Not answering the question you asked, but hopefully a useful answer nonetheless) My son discovered he'd been faking math and not retaining and understanding it. He had excellent success using https://brilliant.org/ to
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Don't drink coffee. I'm much more functional in the mornings since giving up caffeine. The mechanism by which your body acclimatises to a new baseline of caffeine is known -- you're inflicting those hard mornings on yourself.
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A textbook covering complexity analysis, the standard types of algorithms and most common algorithms in each category, with implementation notes. Could have been the textbook I had in 1992.
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Nice. Their key insight: "Inspired by the observation that the faces under close poses look similar, we reformulate the facial pose estimation as a label distribution learning problem, considering each face image as an example associat
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> One of the unique challenges in comics is the monthly gamble on what will sell. Comics released every few weeks, as opposed to the collected editions available in bookshops or on Amazon, aren’t returnable; with 600 to 1,000 such items
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Buried in the middle: "The reason for limiting the distribution of the company’s tools, it appears, is due to embargoes with those countries, as well as exportation legalisation, which regulates the sale or distribution of certain tech
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Sounds like you'd really enjoy reading Francis Fukuyama's "The Origins of Political Order" < https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00457X7VI/> . He analyses how different cultures came to wrangle larg
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2010 document.
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His newsletter is A+: https://desert.glass
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Who's going to pay for the project? Who's going to have to use it? Who will have veto power over the project? Whose bonus depends on the software working? Whose bonus depends on the successful delivery of the project? What are you
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Hello, fellow Kiwi. I married an American (in 1996, simpler times) and most of the immigration bullshit just melted away. (Still married 23 years later, with kids off to uni, so be careful of the possible consequences of your actions!) Anot
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Aotearoa/New Zealand's Māori facial tattoos (moko) were pushed underground during the late 1800s and 1900s. The detailed drawings from a Victorian collector of preserved heads enabled a revival of the art form from the diminished
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That paralyzing illness: > acute flaccid myelitis, or AFM, a rare, mysterious and sometimes deadly paralyzing illness that seems to ebb and flow on an every-other-year cycle and is beginning to alarm public health officials because it is
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tl;dr: "I don't know the specifics of the 737Max but I do have prejudice against a methodology of software development that mistakenly write like it's an acronym. Let me share that with you."
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"bumfuck nowhere" ... Aussie or Kiwi? :)

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