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by jounker 3y ago
In the USA fast food companies are requiring non competes for burger flippers.
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by jounker 3y ago
Article telling you to avoid queues and priorities advises you to implement a priority queue.
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by jounker 3y ago
There are very few grid failures under regulated systems too. Also, was said, the grid itself is a heavily regulated service.
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by jounker 3y ago
I beg to differ. Difficulty depends upon the recipe. Lamb/mutton tagines are incredibly easy to make. They’re basically “throw it into a slow cooker and come back eight hours later” dishes. You can improve the flavor by browning, but t
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by jounker 3y ago
You’ve been digging yourself a deeper hole rather than climbing out. I hope you start climbing soon.
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by jounker 3y ago
It’s a great theory, but it has a problem. There are quiet motorcycles. For example, BMW motorcycles are quiet. [BMW made a cruiser bike for a few years. They were trying to move into Harley’s market segment. In order to get the “right” so
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by jounker 3y ago
What i remember from my PDE class was a lecture which involved solving the wave equation for a particular bounded case and, with a slight transformation, the professor showing that the normal distribution was embedded in that solution.
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by jounker 3y ago
Global warming is a direct result of technological change.
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by jounker 3y ago
From looking around at the opposition to chemical industry regulations, it seems that knowingly poisoning people still isn’t considered wrong.
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by jounker 3y ago
Incidents eventually resulted in the creation of Institutional Review Boards. All research on human subjects must now pass an IRB, and these are not rubber stamp organizations.
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by jounker 4y ago
I’m an American. I lived in Switzerland. There is no glorification of the military. It’s a job that people have to do. It’s less, “I proudly serve my country,” and much more, “Aw crap. It’s time for my annual marksmanship certification.”
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by jounker 4y ago
It’s super easy to parse until you have interesting higher order functions.
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by jounker 4y ago
It’s amazing how hard the majority of poor people work. If effort was all that counted then the slums of the world would be overflowing with billionaires.
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by jounker 4y ago
Garbage collected applications require 2x-4x more memory to run efficiently. Android apps use GC. IOS apps do not use GC. Therefore apple can ship devices with less memory to get the same effective functionality. Less memory means smaller b
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by jounker 4y ago
And who is going to make that comprehensive information available?
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by jounker 4y ago
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41545-020-0051-0
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by jounker 4y ago
Non human animals. Farmers feed massive amounts of antibiotics to their livestock. This used to increase their weight, but it’s no longer clear that this works.
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by jounker 4y ago
And then there is the realists take with running your own: OH F*K. Another bug I have to deal with.
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by jounker 4y ago
If it generates an artists signature when producing something in that artists style, then I’d argue against that idea. And frequently enough, they will generate a recognizable signature.
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by jounker 4y ago
If I could upvote this a thousand times, then I would. Bad management makes any development methodology suck.
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by jounker 4y ago
If I could upvote this 1000 times, then I would.
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by jounker 4y ago
Hi end gas ranges will beat a good electric kettle in the USA. (kettle 7min, range <6 min). My wife picked up a used thermidor this last summer and it beats any kettle we’ve had in the USA so far by at least a minute. That said, the ket
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by jounker 4y ago
This article contains really good advice.
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by jounker 4y ago
My current experience with hiring for remote positions says otherwise.
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by jounker 4y ago
I think the metaphor is more apt than you’re giving it credit for. You just don’t have enough experience with the trade offs involved with “the best tphysical ool for the job”. :)
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by jounker 4y ago
Sonic is pretty good. https://www.sonic.com/
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by jounker 5y ago
If you are a german resident, and you make two or more long distance rail trips a year, then you a buy a bahncard 25 or bahncard 50 which give you (respectively) 25% or 50% ticket discounts.
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by jounker 5y ago
Yup. Paul Graham doesn’t seem to have a very accurate memory of historical conditions.
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by jounker 5y ago
> Up till about 1985 the window [of what you can say without being cancelled] had been growing ever wider. Anyone looking into the future in 1985 would have expected freedom of expression to continue to increase. Instead it has decreased
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by jounker 5y ago
I know at least one of these people. When you give her an opportunity she hits the ball out of the park. Wherever you put her she quickly rises to the top, but she has been denied many opportunities because she doesn’t test well on standard

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