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by jacobkg 6y ago
My loose impression is that the countries that did the best are islands: Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand. South Korea is effectively an island since its only land border is locked down. Could this be an important factor?
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by jacobkg 6y ago
Serious Question: I have been super paranoid about surfaces for the past year. Disinfecting groceries, quarantining packages, washing hands after touching the mail or opening takeout, etc. This is pretty draining. Should my takeaway be that
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by jacobkg 6y ago
There is a truly excellent children’s book about the discovery of the Patagotitan, also in Argentina. It was my son’s favorite story for months. Highly Recommended! https://kids.scholastic.com/kids/book/titanosaur-
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by jacobkg 6y ago
Same here. Twenty years ago my dad gave me a TI-85 and told me I could program it. I remember being stuck for a while until I learned that “string” meant text. The first game I built was hangman, using “split mode” where you could show half
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by jacobkg 6y ago
Same! What’s especially misleading is that most of the car manufacturer websites have a “Build your own” tool where you can select the features and options that you want, only to discover that no cars exist in that configuration.
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by jacobkg 6y ago
For context, Plaschke is the senior sports writer for the Los Angeles Times. I have been reading his columns (mainly Dodgers coverage) off and on for at least 20 years. So my subjective experience was that this definitely felt like someone
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by jacobkg 6y ago
You could just as easily have said: I love your food but your country has some problems
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by jacobkg 6y ago
I guess that’s an advantage of buying Amazon branded merchandise? It’s the only brand you know won’t be counterfeited since no other seller has it in their stock.
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by jacobkg 6y ago
I ordered a bunch of expensive cardboard for my kid but of course they only wanted to play with the box it came in...
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by jacobkg 6y ago
The original paper on this “How to Share a Secret” by Adi Shamir is incredible. You should absolutely read it. - The system is proven to be information theoretically secure (not just computationally) - It uses only high school math - The pa
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by jacobkg 6y ago
Unfortunately in exchange for severance, these folks likely had to sign some sort of agreement limiting what they can say about the company
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by jacobkg 6y ago
As someone still on Postgres 9.6, does anyone have advice on how to make the business case for upgrading to 10, 11, or 12? I want to upgrade but I have a hard time articulating the benefits against the costs of downtime and risk
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by jacobkg 7y ago
I was a Screenhero customer for about 3 years. I used it daily for pair programming and it was far and away the best screen sharing tool I have experienced. Being able to have both people use the mouse and type on the same screen was a game
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by jacobkg 7y ago
This comment from SO seems relevant: “ Potentially is just your own DB being exposed and now being utilized by someone else (such as hosting a covert/malicious site)... I had this happen once when accidentally left a testing (non-produ
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by jacobkg 7y ago
I just finally read the The Stand a couple months ago. Not the best timing in retrospect. Also had just started playing Pandemic Legacy, but I had to stop when the cover image of the game started looking the same as the front page of the ne
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by jacobkg 7y ago
After reading all the classic Ronald Dahl stories as a child I more recently discovered “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar”. The titular tale is great entertainment, especially in light of the current trendiness of meditation. Another stor
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by jacobkg 7y ago
I can vouch for this. I took the course after seeing it posted in HN and feel like among other things I finally understand joins
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by jacobkg 7y ago
Incredible book!
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by jacobkg 7y ago
Fun aside, if you buy a cheap wall clock from a big box store, you can often swap out the clock movement with a vastly superior one for very little money. A nice Seiko movement with a sweep second hand can be had for under $20.
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by jacobkg 7y ago
In my mind I always regard P/NP in the same category as the Riemann Hypothesis^. That has been open since 1859 (160 years) and shows no signs of cracking. So in other words we may be in for a long wait. ^Perhaps because one of the hypo
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by jacobkg 7y ago
I agree, I was also disappointed. Meanwhile the oldest known living tree is a still astonishing 4,800 years old https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methuselah_(tree)
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by jacobkg 7y ago
You can opt out of credit card offers here: https://www.optoutprescreen.com/?rf=t
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by jacobkg 7y ago
You can try opting out using the DMA (Direct Mail Association) website https://dmachoice.thedma.org/
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Would You Pay Someone $40 to Keep You Focused on Work?(wired.com)
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by jacobkg 7y ago
Or, in the case of Tolkien, construct a world just to flesh out their language
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by jacobkg 7y ago
Business Intelligence https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_intelligence
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by jacobkg 7y ago
“GitHub recently made this really easy by adding a one-click button to resync master into the PR” I’m trying to find this feature but my google-fu is failing me. Can you link to an announcement or doc page for this?
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by jacobkg 7y ago
“ What does this mean for developers? The main thing is that there's no longer any advantage to trying to use the same URLs as other sites. You won't get performance benefits from using a canonical URL over hosting on your own sit
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by jacobkg 7y ago
Even more surprising is to go back and read early Garfield.
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by jacobkg 7y ago
I grew up reading newspaper comics during the “Calvin and Hobbes” era. I read Peanuts but I never understood its appeal as seemed extremely dull. Later I read a collection of Peanuts from around 1955 and it was incredible. Kinda like early

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