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by hughdbrown 3y ago
Goodness. I forgot about exackly.
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by hughdbrown 3y ago
I wasn't thinking of a big long list. I envisage a project more like The Quintessential Dictionary: https://www.amazon.com/quintessential-dictionary-I-Moyer-Hun... It's an amusing work of high-vocabulary words wit
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by hughdbrown 3y ago
As a Canadian living in the US, this is the bane of my existence. The disappearance of Ts from so many words and phrases irks me: - bouny hunner - innerview - alannic ciddy - Rocky Mounins - haunid house - udderly - budder (the bagel toppin
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by hughdbrown 3y ago
I want to love this but it is missing things that I know of: - Fenwick tree - union-find algorithm / data structures Here is where I first saw Fenwick trees: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSFzHCZ4E-8&t=479s I thi
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by hughdbrown 3y ago
As I read it, the code scans listed websites for jobs and scrapes the jobs from each page, possibly using custom code, Is that right? That seems to be the weakness of scraping multiple independent webpages -- that each needs custom code. If
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by hughdbrown 4y ago
> JFK airport officials and U.S. Customs and Border Protection are reportedly investigating the Norse Atlantic snafu. If the airline is found to be at fault for the immigration check-in incident, it could face robust, per-passenger fines
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by hughdbrown 4y ago
In 2016, you had 45 failed interviews. At a 400-1 ratio, you're saying you put out 18000 job applications that year? That's staggering. Even at 20-1, that would be 1000-ish applications.
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by hughdbrown 4y ago
I've been sent this job description five times in the past day. I can't begin to understand what hiring process gives rise to a list of 34 requirements. How many people does this describe? Somewhere between 0 and 1, I figure. ----
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by hughdbrown 4y ago
Shortest path solution using breadth-first search https://gist.github.com/hughdbrown/5c14ec41c30532807afaeba9c... Same result as the solver below: https://github.com/rubenvannieuwpoort/funnyhowthek
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by hughdbrown 5y ago
Cherries and apples have seeds with traces of a cyanide derivative that can be converted in the stomach. > Cherries have a small, hardened pit that surrounds their seed, also called a kernel. The kernels of cherry pits and other stone fr
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by hughdbrown 5y ago
Y and N for yes and no.
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by hughdbrown 5y ago
Yes, there's much to reflect on in The Great Gatsby. In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, he told me, j
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by hughdbrown 6y ago
> “He saw there were old World War II teletype machines not being used,” said his daughter. “Another deaf engineer in California had come up with the way to send signals over phone lines. My dad came up with the coupler component the tel
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by hughdbrown 6y ago
I've asked Lambda Labs 2-3 times if they are going to do an Ubuntu 20.04 stack, but I have not had a reply yet.
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by hughdbrown 6y ago
From The Fugitive (25 seconds): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdPciselWuo
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by hughdbrown 6y ago
Numbers from: https://www.surveymonkey.com/results/SM-67XBXHYX7/ men: 11.74%, 298 subjects women: 14.24%, 288 subjects Statistical analysis from: https://www.socscistatistics.com/tests/ztest&#
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by hughdbrown 7y ago
Can someone explain how this model works? I see 1000-ish deaths in the US on the 5th. On the 7th, there are 1900-ish. What is the grounds for believing that the curve is headed down shortly after this? Or, what is the calculation behind the
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by hughdbrown 7y ago
0.5 mg of melatonin? or 5.0 mg? 5 to 10 mg of melatonin is the amount in most all doses sold on Amazon. I've never seen such a light dose.
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by hughdbrown 8y ago
Last year my family was all prime: 5, 7, 47, and 53. Six years from now, we will be 11, 13, 53, and 59. And then 36 year from now when the kids are approaching middle age.
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by hughdbrown 8y ago
> Saudi Arabia’s desalination plants produce about 31.5 million cubic meters of contaminated water each day. That volume of liquid, most of which is pumped back into the ocean, is equivalent to about 20 million barrels of oil a day, or,
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by hughdbrown 8y ago
So, these medical people did not consult House? https://house.fandom.com/wiki/Henry_(patient)
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by hughdbrown 8y ago
> And yet in Canada, we could fit most of Europe inside any one of our provinces or territories. How do you figure? Europe is 10.18 million km2. Quebec, the largest province, is 1.54 million km2. All in, Canada is 9.98 million km2 -- so
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by hughdbrown 8y ago
As an alternative, you could do this: found_item = next((item for item in list if search_condition), default_item)
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by hughdbrown 8y ago
Does anyone else think that this bears further detail? "One-third actually end up with a nest egg larger than they had when they left their jobs, the study says. Even people who had only $32,000 shortly after leaving the workforce had
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by hughdbrown 9y ago
This doesn't seem right: celery has 20g of fiber per 200 calories? Google estimates a 40g stalk of celery as having 6 calories, so we are talking about 1.333kg to get 20g of fiber. That means it is only 1.5% fiber by weight. Anyone thi
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by hughdbrown 9y ago
I thought it was ruby at first. (1..5).map{|n| n n}.reduce(: ) == 24 60 * 60 * 1000
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by hughdbrown 9y ago
I take the count of five-star reviews and divide by count of one-star reviews. "Oh, it's an 11, that's a good product," I say to myself. Then I check the one-star reviews to see what people find problematic.
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by hughdbrown 9y ago
And the infographic: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-colorful-pain-index...
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by hughdbrown 9y ago
Interesting. That was not the case (or not the legal advice) twelve years ago when I went through all this. I guess it is a stretch to suppose that things would not have changed but I thought this was a fundamental characteristic of the TN
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by hughdbrown 9y ago
A Green Card is a visa with permanent intent. A TN visa has temporary or limited intent. At best, such a transfer would signal that your TN was not pursued with temporary intent. In my IANAL experience as a Canadian who immigrated to the US

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