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by jbm 4y ago
Hey, I was there. 9-11 disrupted my life pretty fierce, and then I wound up losing a job offer right after Lehman collapsed. It took an year or so after to get a "normal" consulting job (that was over a handshake only). Worse ye
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by jbm 4y ago
I wonder whether arguments constructed for censored topics will suddenly sound fresh and convincing; as they could not come from a robot, you might suddenly start seeing these sorts of viewpoints becoming fashionable. If default ideas are g
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by jbm 4y ago
If you increase the number of cyclists you'll see more accidents. If anything, the anonymity that accompanies cycling could result in more accidents if a larger portion of the population engages in it. I have seen bikes ride on the s
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by jbm 4y ago
The only time my daughter went to the hospital was when a careless cyclist with an umbrella in her hand struck her on the sidewalk. The MRI and everything was awful and I wish I had been able to do something to stop it. You are going to be
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by jbm 4y ago
I don't find the safety canard to be very convincing. You can turn it against cyclists fairly easily. I've seen reports of cyclists who murder pedestrians through hit and runs. Sure this is rare, but we need to make sure the eld
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by jbm 4y ago
The Canadian government has a page that includes some information about the effects of Far-UV light against Covid-19. https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/201... > A whole room UV
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by jbm 4y ago
I can't be the only person who made this mistake, but "ReFS" doesn't refer to ReiserFS[1], but rather Resilient File System[2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReiserFS [2] https://learn
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by jbm 4y ago
> The recipient's mailbox is full and can't accept messages now. Please try resending your message later, or contact the recipient directly. I hope he is getting the help he deserves (I dropped a message on twitter after seeing
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by jbm 4y ago
I wish there was an actual picture instead of just a molecular structure graph. I found one here: https://makezine.com/article/science/transparent-aluminum/ Also a video of it being used as Armor? https:&#x2
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by jbm 4y ago
Is this still the case for Windows? I remember hearing something like this when I was getting my BCompSci, but I assumed it must have changed since then.
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by jbm 4y ago
That is a nearly 2 hour video without any links or any details, with the top comment being from someone with the name "woke world order". Can you please offer some synopsis beyond the video title?
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by jbm 4y ago
> "Generic Bitching" I feel targeted. Here is some detailed complaining about Teams and why I feel a bullshit "note taker" AI is not appropriate place to put development effort. 1. It really does crash my Google Chro
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by jbm 4y ago
I love you. Thank you for this.
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by jbm 4y ago
The real premium version of Microsoft Teams will be the one that doesn't crash my Google Chrome window every 30-45 minutes.
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by jbm 4y ago
Not a fan of 4chan, but almost all memes (the foundation of modern culture) seem to start there.
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by jbm 4y ago
A minor point, but I am grateful for the self checkout lanes — they have greatly speeded up my checkout, and w/ covid spiking I just want to leave asap. I have never seen "no" registers open though.
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by jbm 4y ago
This is not an exaggeration, although it is still better than local retail that has a 1000% markup. I went to buy some velcro at a local store and that project got delayed 6 weeks for the shipment to arrive from Aliexpress.
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by jbm 4y ago
I did send money to my parents when I was in Japan. I found some links online, but I think the total I could send was 380k yen per parent (which is about 1/5th of what you are sending)
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by jbm 4y ago
Another article about the same topic. https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/01/future-refrigerators...
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by jbm 4y ago
What is the school doing about evidence that attending in-person school increases suicide? That seems like a much easier issue to tackle and well-within their remit. (Legit question as you seem well informed about their current thought pr
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by jbm 4y ago
I'm not sure if that is the case, but if it is, it is the educational equivalent of the police seeing everyone as a threat because they deal constantly with the law breakers of society.
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by jbm 4y ago
You are talking over the parent poster, not trying to understand the situation. Your rosy picture is not in line with my life experience. I lived in Tokyo where I took the train and walked everywhere. I also lived in Quebec, which is cold
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Covid drug Paxlovid was hailed as a game-changer. What happened?(nature.com)
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by jbm 4y ago
> When I asked “what about sanctions” he gave me the blankest look I’ve ever seen. Yeah, in the same position I wouldn't care about those either and would give you the same blank look. Economic sanctions are a political act, and I c
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by jbm 4y ago
I am not sure if you are implying this, but Ghosn's case is far from clear-cut in the way that SBF's is.The hilarious implication that all the bad apples at Nissan were non-Japanese foreigners was far too convenient to be true.
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by jbm 4y ago
"Never Travel" strikes me as "Not domestically or internationally", and I feel there are good reasons for both that might not be obvious.
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This is great! Thank you for the share.
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As someone who lived in Japan for 10+ years, I feel Japanese tourism is "consume product" style packaged boredom. The stuff that is nice (easy train trips in and out of Tokyo, neighbourhood grocery stores, safety, etc..) are not r
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by jbm 4y ago
I was secretly hoping someone would respond with an insult and the correct way to do Opaque Types in TypeScript, but sadly no such luck. I took a look and found that it is possible to do something similar here (albeit with more heavy liftin
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by jbm 4y ago
I truly wish I could get Opaque Types (Newtypes?) in Typescript. Great writeup!

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