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by jeramey 5y ago
Sounds like there are more stories there!
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by jeramey 5y ago
Cheers to your mum for that! One of the trickiest parts of changing the rules in any bureaucracy or medium-to-large organization is if the org are lucky enough to still have people willing to stick their necks out to try to make things bett
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by jeramey 5y ago
Got it. Your previous statement didn't really seem like you were speaking in broad generalities and instead seemed more absolute, like math is something that could always be learned by any human brain. Clearly that's not the case,
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by jeramey 5y ago
Is the brain not a physical thing? Do you believe that all human brains are physically and functionally equivalent such that one brain should be able to learn to do anything that another can? What about those people in this world with genet
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by jeramey 5y ago
But us pop kids still stuck to 101.5, annoying everyone with our bad taste.
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by jeramey 5y ago
As cool as this is, I'm very curious where the data is from, and am suspicious about the validity of this map. The Pacific Northwest, where I am at, has a lot of variability in sunshine in a fairly small geographical area, so the big b
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by jeramey 5y ago
Seems true! The longest amount time I ever engaged with anyone on public transit was when I was sitting near a couple of fellows who had decided that polishing off a full case of long drink on the train ride north was a good idea. Thankfull
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by jeramey 5y ago
I'm am American who works for a Finland-based employer which has given me a few opportunities to travel there. My experience suggests this is changing a bit generationally as I've generally found it pretty easy to have brief, frie
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by jeramey 5y ago
I’d never heard of this, so thank you! I’m not very excited by the prospect of surgery, and all of the other “treatments” I’ve been recommended are steeped deeply in woo, or pretty obviously a bad idea, or both. (E.g. colloidal silver.) A l
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by jeramey 5y ago
Using a dutch oven is indeed a fantastic way to get a lovely crust and good oven spring in your bread! I often will mist the loaf before putting it in which I find helps a little with a good rise. I do occasionally like to make longer loave
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by jeramey 5y ago
Marmite and Vegemite are also really good for adding some umami-saltiness to tomato sauces and stews without being very noticeable for what they are. (Assuming I can stop myself from spreading it all on toast first...)
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by jeramey 5y ago
It feels like it almost did. There was a pretty frustrating couple of years there where it wasn't clear if 2.x or 3.x was going to be the winning version and the Python community seemed to have a lot of disagreement on that subject. My
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by jeramey 5y ago
It certainly used to! That machine introduced me to a weird variety of things when I lived near it almost 20 years ago. Cheap thrills as a broke young 'un. Thanks to it, I still have to try strange sodas when I am traveling--especially
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by jeramey 5y ago
Depends a bit on your shell. That works great in bash. Other shells have different semantics. For example, zsh will wait for input until you type ^D or ^C and tcsh will complain about an invalid null command. The variant I know that works i
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by jeramey 5y ago
I always wonder if these kinds of stories are real, and this one does seem to be. It was reported in the San Diego Union-Tribune. https://digital.sandiego.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=117... (PDF link)
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by jeramey 6y ago
You are correct. At the time, AOL had released TiK and documented the TOC protocol but TiK was a bit slow and clunky, so Mark Spencer, the original author of GAIM, implemented faster client in C using GTK for the UI. OSCAR support came late
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by jeramey 14y ago
Also look at fpm: https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm/wiki This sysadmin uses it frequently and it's a big time-saver for many software packages.
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by jeramey 15y ago
At my day job, we run CentOS 5 on EC2 instead of Amazon Linux because we actually run a hybrid local-node/EC2-cluster and it is easier to verify software builds on a single platform rather than two of them. The distribution we use actually
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by jeramey 15y ago
Since Speakeasy was bought by Best Buy and then shuffled off into MegaPath's maw, their customer service has gotten progressively worse. Qwest's customer service is OK as long as you're willing to learn the right magic phrases that they use
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by jeramey 15y ago
e. e. cummings might have a thing or two to say about a thing or two regarding the use of capitalization. It can be worthwhile to overlook or adapt to someone's stylistic peccadilloes if the ideas they have are interesting and useful. Not t