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This ethanol is produced via fermentation, though. Just not fermentation of plant matter. The OP uses the word "fermentation" several times. We don't normally think of the containers where wine or sour mash are fermented as
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Wordlebrain, a Wordle Cheat Tool
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Years and years (and years) ago I was considering starting my own business. An entrepreneurship book I read started (quite rightly) with a chapter on "Are you cut out to be an entrepreneur?" It mentioned that having (implicitly
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You can probably buy a more fulfilling job with a lower salary. My first job out of college was working as a programmer in a university research lab. It paid a lot less than working in industry, but was incredibly fun and fulfilling. The t
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The phrase "math equation" triggers my lack-of-rigor alarm.
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Sadly, most messaging apps send the message when you hit <enter>. Slack has a preference to send on cmd-<enter> instead, which prevents the one-message-per-sentence annoyance.
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https://www.nohello.com/
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Wordlebrain: Wordle Game Cheat Tool
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The poll should have an "I'm staying" option.
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You haven't been on the project very long if you've never run git blame and found your own name there.
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So you're saying, yes. There is confirmation bias, and earlier-than-expected things will be reported more, while later-than-expected things are "the wrong thing to be focusing on."
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How much confirmation bias is happening here? If things happen more than expected, would they get reported? The non-disappearance of the glaciers in Glacier National Park[1] is one example I can think of. [1] https://www.cnn.c
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> somebody who exercises 30 minutes 6 days a week is better off than someone who exercises once for 3 hours. My experience here is that it is more subtle. "Better off" depends on your goals. For losing weight, one or two sessi
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I think focusing on making your kid smile and laugh is a much more productive use of your effort. You and the kid will be much happier. (Be honest, is there anything that makes you happier than hearing her laugh?) If you make sure the kid
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Look out, St. Louis!
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I used to wonder if this was just a difference in semantic understanding of the word "to see", just as two people might argue whether a color is blue or green or on what side of some arbitrary line some liminal experience falls.
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Do these California laws (or other laws in CA) address restrictive covenants that would prohibit duplexes in a neighborhood regardless of city zoning? You often hear about how Houston, for example, "doesn't have zoning", but
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The Fender Telecaster guitar. Simple, versatile, reliable. The design is essentially unchanged since it’s debut in the 1950s and still popular today.
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> Apple came and filed a Joinder in Motion and sent expensive lawyers to lie to the judge about the judge's power to subpoena digital evidence. If a lawyer makes an argument in court about the law governing a case (as opposed to the
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"fizzing" and "fizzling" are too similar.
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Except that unlike /r/kafka, they could have chosen /r/superb_owl. Someone obviously wanted to make a joke by grabbing "superbowl" before the football fans could.
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Yeah, this article is describing the situation in Austin the spring. I'm here, my wife is an agent. Prices are higher now than they were, but the multiple-offer insanity has long since abated. I saw this article and couldn't figu
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> but joining the Euro was disastrous. It bound together countries like Portugal and Germany to the same monetary policy, even though they had/have completely opposite interests. I've often wondered about this. The US Dollar b
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The intro scenario is actually a pretty accurate representation of what it’s like to try to be a professional musician or composer. Hardly anyone succeeds; most have to work at a nonmusical day job, and many of those who do succeed in suppo
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I've been reading the anti-DST (or more properly anti-clock-shift) posts that appear hear and elsewhere every spring and fall for years. I really think this is a case of "be careful what you wish for". I think many folks, e
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I'm very interested in this! Can you say how this compares to something like https://jamkazam.com ? One of my issues with JK is that it seems to require all participants to be members, and to pay for relatively pricy membe
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If you buy your subscription as an in-app purchase, you can cancel it easily from your phone. Say what you will about the app store and in-app purchases, but when it comes to cancelling subscriptions they've eliminated the dark patter
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At first this vision seems like a bleak contrast to the world of the film, until one remembers that the 25 years immediately following the making of this film were arguably the bloodiest in world history, containing the great depression, WW
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I had an experience in my first year of grad school that has informed my code reviews and my general attitude toward reviewing others' work ever since. I was taking a graduate-level introduction to mathematical logic. In the class we
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It's not an implausible hypothesis that an invasion of Japan would have been a larger, and proportionally bloodier, version of the takings of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, two very bloody battles.
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