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by jounker 1y ago
My washing machine has a timer. I do the wash when local electricity rates are near zero.
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by jounker 1y ago
You’ll still get some isolation since not all pathways share the same code. It’s not all or nothing.
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by jounker 2y ago
There’s film of the whale being blown up. The best part is the sound of whale meat falling from the sky.
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by jounker 2y ago
Is this a joke paper? This is unoptimized bubble sort. This is the first sort I wrote when I was 13. This is literally the most obvious sort that exists.
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by jounker 2y ago
It’s almost like a global trade war would be bad for businesses.
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by jounker 2y ago
My friend is a doctor. Her profession uses sections of the NIH and CDC websites on a daily basis. They are the references for drug interactions with medical conditions. These sections are just gone . Trump’s “cost saving” measures are alre
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by jounker 2y ago
Water is a greenhouse gas. That might just make things worse.
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by jounker 2y ago
That is a false dichotomy. We can certainly place restrictions without resulting in an authoritarian society. We can ban billboards. (Some states do this). We can ban gambling and drug ads. We can place ownership limits on media markets. Th
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by jounker 2y ago
But on the weekends the trains run 24 hrs a day, so schoneweide isn’t really a station of despair. It’s not even really that far out.
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by jounker 2y ago
The freakiest thing to me is the Lawsons. This was a tiny little convenience store chain that existed in a few counties near Cleveland, OH. It went out of business around 1980, but through some baffling chain of events managed to migrate to
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by jounker 2y ago
It’s almost like you haven’t been watching US politics for the last eight years.
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by jounker 2y ago
but keep it below 4% to prevent it from getting too viscous.
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by jounker 2y ago
It had a lot more to do with changes that were already in progress. The soviet union hadn’t been able to care for its citizens for a while. Most tellingly, life expectancy had been declining. In the late 70s/early 80s there were elemen
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by jounker 2y ago
It had a lot more to do with changes that were already in progress. The soviet union hadn’t been able to care for its citizens for a while. Most tellingly, life expectancy had been declining. In the late 70s/early 80/ there were e
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by jounker 2y ago
One of my favorite conventions is ‘TODO(username): some comment’. This lets attribution survive merges and commits and lets you search for all of someone’s comments using a grep.
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by jounker 2y ago
Why did the reviewer approve the change if the developer didn’t update the comment? It sounds like people are failing at their jobs.
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by jounker 2y ago
There are plenty of places in the world where people do think of insects as tasty meals. I’ve eaten a variety of land arthropods, and many were quite good. While it took some mental fortitude to eat a deep fried scorpion, the flavor was rea
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by jounker 2y ago
What’s really funny is that this doesn’t sound far off from the reality of what architects (the house kind) actually have to deal with.
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by jounker 2y ago
From what I know you’re mischaracterizing the research. To the extent that they were looking at gain of function, they were also looking at loss of function. My understanding is that the research was looking at how random point mutation aff
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by jounker 2y ago
The initial cases of covid 19 cluster around the wet market. The lab is in another part of the city. If it were a lab leak then we’d expect the initial cases to cluster around the lab, and to show up in those who had contact with lab worker
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by jounker 2y ago
Coronaviruses are a big family of viruses. The particular viruses they were working with were only distantly related to covid. Related in the same way that house cats are related to tigers. In addition they were not doing “gain of function
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by jounker 2y ago
There’s a rot in here somewhere
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by jounker 2y ago
The number of seeds that fit into a cheek pouch determines calories transferred per trip to storage. Knowing this number will be critical for any modelling of chipmunk energetics.
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by jounker 2y ago
I wonder if Twitter is about to be evicted for non-payment of rent.
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by jounker 2y ago
This is after all the airline which inspired following musical number: https://youtu.be/FLoHL2O04aI?si=eNqNBRrbSQ_INQYy
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by jounker 2y ago
Ryanair is not an airline. It is a byzantine bureaucratic game that rewards successful completion with a cheap airline ticket.
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by jounker 2y ago
As somebody who worked for Google, I think it’s adorable that you believe Google has a messaging app strategy. :)
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by jounker 2y ago
Move fast and break things runs into problems when “break things” translates to collapsed tunnels.
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by jounker 3y ago
You mean places like the Netherlands?
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by jounker 3y ago
On the other hand you often gain wisdom with experience, and often experience is proportional to age.

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