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by jackfoxy 3y ago
Think of nonprofit not as another term for benevolent or charitable organization (which is what people instinctively think), but as an alternative tax accounting scheme. Excess revenue gets funneled to the insiders at the top so that at
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by jackfoxy 3y ago
Anecdotally, I once worked with a guy who told me his wife was so hooked on seaweed is healthy she ate too much of it over time and the iodine destroyed her thyroid. All things in moderation.
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by jackfoxy 3y ago
The Monty Hall problem is a fun one to code up, and yeah, there are otherwise smart people who refuse to believe it. I coded it up in F# https://github.com/jackfoxy/LetsMakeADeal to convince one of the founders of a st
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by jackfoxy 3y ago
VsCode, or Codium, which is what I use, does not have a macro facility. That for me is the killer feature of Notepad++. I have no experience with the other editors, but I suspect they also have no macro capability, or if they do it doesn&#x
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by jackfoxy 3y ago
Took a look at it and rejected it pretty much out of hand...don't remember why, but IIRC it doesn't fully implement macros among other things.
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by jackfoxy 3y ago
I would certainly accept this vulnerability in order to have Notepad++ on Linux. Nothing like it.
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by jackfoxy 3y ago
It was a single well-documented event with survivors to tell the story. And the story of the survivors itself is a harrowing tale. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essex_(whaleship) It's entirely possible there were
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by jackfoxy 3y ago
"Natural Key" actually refers to column(s) already available in the dataset you are turning into a row that is unique by row, and thus a candidate for being the key. (Subject to all the normalization, etc.). An artificial key is a
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by jackfoxy 3y ago
> Tutorials show harmful patterns. Try to find a sample SQL database, for any vendor, that does not employ artificial table primary keys. This was a requirement in the 1980s so that your queries would execute before the heat death of the
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by jackfoxy 3y ago
A "dash" is a very small amount of the liquid. So yes, there is a vanishingly small amount of sugar. It didn't make the drink sweet. There was probably the equivalent of 4 jiggers of bourbon. I forget the name of the glass it
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by jackfoxy 3y ago
A real mint julep, which I had the pleasure of drinking in New Orleans, is bruised fresh peppermint on the bottom, crushed ice, filled up with premium bourbon, and a dash of peach liqueur. No water and no sugar. It's a great drink.
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by jackfoxy 3y ago
But a news site (SFGate) that purports to be local to the area should know the name of the county seat of one of the Bay Area counties.
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by jackfoxy 3y ago
Redwood, California? Was this article written by ChatGPT? Did a local human editor even read this?
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by jackfoxy 3y ago
The USA didn't invade Texas. Texians (Anglo Texans who had migrated) and Tejanos (Mexican Texans) alike were fed up with Santa Anna's rule and successfully rebelled, forming the Republic of Texas which lasted for 10 years, at whic
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by jackfoxy 3y ago
> the structure has weathered significant damage since it was first built in the ’70s Another case of the architect getting ahead of the materials and engineering available. Frank Lloyd Wright, who designed much more aesthetically pleasi
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by jackfoxy 4y ago
Ward puts out quality content on his channel. He frequently interviews professional military analysts and asks the kind of questions professionals want answered, not the puff-piece talking head interviews on the major networks.
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by jackfoxy 4y ago
"You will own nothing and be happy." - WEF
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by jackfoxy 4y ago
They thought of everything except...their website, which crashed Error establishing a database connection
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SpaceX Starship builds VERA Station in 6 months?(youtube.com)
3 points by jackfoxy 4y ago|1 comments
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by jackfoxy 4y ago
...and since you brought up Merlin engines. Search YouTube for Jay Leno's Garage. He has one episode of firing up a Merlin on a test stand, and another of a Merlin powered custom automobile he bought and restored. He takes it out for a
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Court rules that data scraping is legal in LinkedIn appeal(zdnet.com)
36 points by jackfoxy 4y ago|2 comments
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by jackfoxy 5y ago
I figured this out about a year ago. As well as ad-free viewing I get YouTube Music, so I don't need to pay for an additional music service. Now, if they would only stop with the censorship. When in the history of mankind have the cens
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by jackfoxy 5y ago
Skip the retelling and go straight to the source, South , by Ernest Shackleton.
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by jackfoxy 5y ago
This is a good read documenting technology history in the first half of the 19th century. Babbage drew on his experiences trying to source manufactured parts for his Analytical Engine. At the time manufacturers just could not meet the speci
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by jackfoxy 5y ago
Add to the list of preposterous baseless debunked conspiracy theories that turns out to be true, NIH has finally admitted that Ecohealth, the NGO headed by Peter Daszak, the most vocal opponent of the lab leak theory , did indeed carry out
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by jackfoxy 5y ago
Hoon, the higher level functional language of Urbit, is homoiconic and very Lisp-like. Written using runes , which define relationships of daughter branches in a binary tree and using limited semantic white space it does not suffer from th
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Precepts: Technical maxims that define Urbit's approach to engineering(urbit.org)
2 points by jackfoxy 5y ago|1 comments
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by jackfoxy 5y ago
Edit: Yes. And I know the difference between evidence and proof and even the difference between skepticism and certainty. I also recognize ad hominem arguments.
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by jackfoxy 5y ago
> I change my mind when facts/reality change. What do you do? Exactly this. Which is why I remain skeptical. My elderly father had a massive stroke 3 days after receiving the second shot, which was administered right after he recove
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by jackfoxy 5y ago
It's pretty easy to find old video clips of both Biden and Harris talking very skeptically about how fast a vaccine could be rolled out, its efficacy, and safety before they won the election. Contrast with the administration's pol

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