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by habeebtc 8y ago
Not just that--a family of opioids which never should have been approved for general use by the FDA. It's well documented, the shenanigans that the drug companies used to get these drugs approved, and to get doctors proscribing them fo
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by habeebtc 8y ago
Incredibly true! There's a lot of shibboleths, odd turns of phrase, that come from people translating their thoughts literally into another language. Japanese > English for example, you'll hear people say things like, "Wh
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by habeebtc 8y ago
What he really needs is a script to automate reading the camel book for him.
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by habeebtc 8y ago
Exactly so. I'm involved in a DevOps transformation at my company, and have been exposed to the topic over the last few years, including attending the Delivery of Things conference in 2016. What I've learned is that: 1. DevOps is
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by habeebtc 8y ago
I thought the same thing and did some searching. Based on the street price of potatoes in China, it's in the neighborhood of 30k pounds. More if that number is wholesale value. The other thing we can surmise which is strange about th
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by habeebtc 8y ago
Well, from an evolutionary perspective there are successful fish who evolved suction cups on the top of their heads so they could both save their energy swimming and also eat the food scraps of the shark they are attached to. Some would arg
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by habeebtc 9y ago
On the bright side, the "Rants and Raves" section has disappeared with it.
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by habeebtc 9y ago
The author is advocating adding a lot of complexity to the install routines to avoid having to ask users questions in order to configure the application. This is itself problematic. Using their example: 1. Reading info from package.json.
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by habeebtc 9y ago
So, this might seem like strange bedfellows, but recall that AMD and Intel are both competitors and each other's customers. AMD licenses x86 from Intel, and Intel licenses x64 from AMD (because Itanium failed to win the 64 bit market).
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by habeebtc 9y ago
Thinking about how a friend of mine was assaulted at work by her boss, who was a very powerful person at her place of work, I wonder how it would have played out if she had stabbed him instead of punching him in the face. I don't thin
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by habeebtc 9y ago
What, really? Weinstein had anecdotes floating around by word of mouth for decades. Maybe if some of those had been collected anonymously in a public forum, action would have been taken sooner.
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by habeebtc 9y ago
This is the current average size of tuna now, from what I gather. The average size 50 years back was much bigger. In 1979 a guy caught a bluefin of around 1,500 lbs. Tuna are big fish.
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by habeebtc 9y ago
"Now you have two problems" . ;)
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by habeebtc 9y ago
This shouldn't really surprise outdoorsmen overly much. The big game (for me, fish) are almost always more wily, because they've had to be to reach their advanced age and size.