i_feel_great

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Former doctor Jeff Kai Fong gave up medical career to become truck driver(nzherald.co.nz)
32 points by i_feel_great 2y ago|6 comments
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by i_feel_great 4y ago
Very helpful. Maybe a mention of using https://validator.w3.org/ would also be helpful to check that all the html is correct and complete.
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Klarna funding round makes it Europe's most valuable startup at $31B(reuters.com)
1 points by i_feel_great 6y ago|0 comments
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Wearing someone else's face: Hyper-realistic masks to go on sale in Japan(reuters.com)
2 points by i_feel_great 6y ago|1 comments
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Catholic Church sexual abuse cases(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by i_feel_great 6y ago|0 comments
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Toyota War(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by i_feel_great 6y ago|0 comments
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Why No One Wanted A&W's Third-Pound Burger(mentalfloss.com)
2 points by i_feel_great 6y ago|0 comments
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by i_feel_great 7y ago
Even if they were, and/or are surrounded by advisors with science credentials, the overwhelming political pressure coming from corporate lobbyists will likely mean science will be ignored.
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by i_feel_great 7y ago
You can apply for a grant to develop a new gait at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ministry_of_Silly_Walks
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by i_feel_great 7y ago
Superior marketing
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by i_feel_great 7y ago
It was a political concensus. And that political concensus is still strong today. Our (Australian) politics are infested with it. It is like another reality with them.
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by i_feel_great 7y ago
"...The man (the authors seem to know it was a man, at least) who wrote the software for this machine did so alone, without documenting what he was doing. The company then sort of vaguely tested it." Lone wolf programmer, no docs,
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by i_feel_great 7y ago
"... better to truck in heavy fuel oil..." Your answer right there. The nuclear power industry just doesn't lobby hard enough.
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by i_feel_great 7y ago
So would be Nader Khalili
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by i_feel_great 7y ago
Outlier? Well that depends on a lot of things - social class, colour, gender, religion, position on the environment etc. What looks like an outlier to you may not be an outlier to lots of other people.
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Human hair behind pigeons' lost toes, Paris study finds(theguardian.com)
2 points by i_feel_great 7y ago|0 comments
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by i_feel_great 7y ago
Poverty exacerbated tremendously by financial and social corruption all around.
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by i_feel_great 7y ago
The Smalltalk web framework "Seaside" is inspired heavily by WebObjects
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by i_feel_great 7y ago
Too hard to chew gum crawling on all fours
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by i_feel_great 7y ago
Don't forget that abusing the environment contributed to our achievements.
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by i_feel_great 7y ago
Why not let the function in the coroutine exit normally? Maybe I should go read the docs. Killing a coroutine from the outside looks like poor design/bad idea.
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by i_feel_great 7y ago
What would you use coroutine.close () for?
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by i_feel_great 7y ago
Junk DNA do not encode information (that we know of as of now) but seem to have the role that pragmas/annotations/compiler directives have in code. Edit: for clarity Or maybe I am thinking of epigenetics...
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by i_feel_great 7y ago
Have you tried sarcasm? Works a treat. Little by little, undermine them by agreeing but disagreeing with subtle sarcasm until they doubt themselves. Works, but don't become an asshole yourself.
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by i_feel_great 7y ago
Wayne, is that you? I hated you at first for modifying the core libraries to break standard fuctionality, writing 500-line SQL statements full of string concatenations and using mutable globals all over the place, but now I see your point.
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by i_feel_great 7y ago
I have been watching this for a while: the Chez Scheme concurrency engine https://github.com/becls/swish Another in Gambit Scheme, but it hasn't been touched in a while: https://github.com/mindpool
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by i_feel_great 7y ago
Post from the implementing engineer himself: http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2017-December/0...
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by i_feel_great 7y ago
That Quora post refers to Facebook Chat - not WhatsApp. As far as I am aware, it is still implemented in Erlang.
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Sustainability expert Michael Mobbs: I’m leaving the city(theguardian.com)
2 points by i_feel_great 7y ago|0 comments
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by i_feel_great 7y ago
Caring will do nothing now. It is almost certainly too late to stop the permafrost from melting.

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