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by jperras 7y ago
Whenever I cook bacon, I always cook it in the oven. In addition to keeping things relatively clean (as opposed to cooking on the stove top), it also makes collecting the rendered pork fat much easier – you just tip the baking sheet and tri
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by jperras 7y ago
I first learned how to operate and administer Linux-based operating systems with Scientific Linux 3 when I helped setup the tier II compute site for the WLCG (called LCG at the time) at my alma mater. SL was, at the time, a thin-ish veneer
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by jperras 8y ago
Wow, that brings me back. I studied GR under Robert Brandenberger, and we used Caroll's book. What a wonderful text. Definitely going to listen to his podcast!
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by jperras 8y ago
I really do love what Alacritty is doing. I've been using it as my principal TTY for a few weeks now, and it has been a joy to use. Thank you for all the hard work. It might go unsaid sometimes, but it is not unnoticed!
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by jperras 8y ago
The largest forces are under braking. For example at Monza, a famous racetrack in Italy, the average peak deceleration force per lap is around 5.6Gs. The braking zone before the Parabolica corner has a peak deceleration force of 6.7Gs. An
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by jperras 8y ago
Michael Schumacher (Formula 1 driver) was at the forefront of this. His training regimen in the late 90s was known to be very rigorous, and not typical of his competitors. Now, though, they all train their bodies accordingly. The stresses p
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by jperras 8y ago
As someone who spent literal years working at a McDonald's as a teenager, the basic hamburger is perhaps only eclipsed by the Filet of Fish sandwich as one of the least ordered regular lunch menu items. The Big Mac probably outsells al
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by jperras 8y ago
You are correct. This is also a prevalent myth in the bread making world with sourdough starters.
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by jperras 8y ago
> If there was a Consumer Reports-alike where I could pay "per report" (like paying for investment news "per report"), I'd pay. But I wouldn't subscribe. I subscribed to CR for a month when I was shopping fo
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by jperras 8y ago
H-1B visas fall under the doctrine of dual intent, though, so isn't that already the case? Having the H-1B does not preclude someone from seeking out a green card. Or am I misunderstanding your first statement?
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by jperras 8y ago
This was the policy for any final exam at my alma mater. You had to be rather certain that you were sufficiently wronged overall, otherwise a few points more on one question could be offset by a large number of negated points from other que
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by jperras 8y ago
This long-form article/confession from a self-professed (adult) vaping addict might give you some idea as to just how bad it can be: https://medium.com/s/love-hate/confessions-of-a-juul-junkie-...
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by jperras 8y ago
It's explained in the paper.
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by jperras 8y ago
> more than some of the more obscure control characters it has It's perhaps an oddity now, but these control characters were most definitely necessary when ASCII was formalized in the 1960s from teletype machines.
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by jperras 8y ago
Many years ago, UTF-7 was a viable way in which you could try to exploit Internet Explorer's somewhat questionable default of interpreting a resource as UTF-7 if it finds a UTF-7 character in the first 4096 bytes: http://shi
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by jperras 8y ago
> What's the advantage of IV over oral / nasal ingestion? Generally, oral anabolic steroids are more hepatoxic than their IV counterparts. So the advantage is that you end up with less liver damage.
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by jperras 8y ago
Lady Alice > every other apple. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Alice_(apple)
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by jperras 8y ago
It's not for everyone, but projectors are mostly bereft of "smart" features. You plug in input sources, and that's it.
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by jperras 8y ago
Finding loopholes or under-specified gray areas in rules to gain an advantage is the secondary activity, besides actually racing, in almost all motorsports.
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by jperras 8y ago
> Hearing a 20-something Albertan casually reference "frogs" made the bottom drop out of my stomach. (This was the better part of 20 years ago.) Still happens today, really. Lots of casual cultural/ethnic (if you consider
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by jperras 8y ago
We could debate this ad nauseam; it depends on where you fall on the ingredient/structure matrix for a poutine. Here's the equivalent matrix for sandwiches: https://i0.wp.com/flowingdata.com/wp-content/up
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by jperras 8y ago
> Intent matters. There’s an entire aphorism dedicated to the idea that intentions and effects are often vastly different. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_road_to_hell_is_paved_wi...
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by jperras 8y ago
It's a dish of 3 ingredients, but you really need to get those 3 ingredients perfect. You need very fresh cheese curds, the right gravy (it's a mix of beef and chicken stock as a base) the right size and cut of fries to stay struc
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by jperras 8y ago
> The paper is highlighting the dual identity of being Québecois: whenever Canada celebrates anything Québécois it’s Canadian, but when it’s a bad thing then that’s not Canadian. You've hit the nail on the head with this statement.
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by jperras 8y ago
> It’s not done from malice, just good-natured ribbing about our differences. I'm Québécois. My family has been Québécois for hundreds of years. My first language was French but I spoke English from a very young age, and went to a m
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by jperras 8y ago
I believe kilotaras is implying that it is more lethal.
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by jperras 8y ago
Are you advocating to simply spout out a random number when asked for an estimate on how long it would take to implement a feature in an application?
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by jperras 8y ago
It is not - we develop a lot of our own internal tools that better suit our workflows and varied tasks, since we don't fit a traditional mold of "agency" or "startup". In reality it's just a little window that
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by jperras 8y ago
* IM: we use IRC. Yes, we know it's old. But we can and do run our own IRC server. * Video: Zoom * Source control: Github + github issues/pull requests * Project management: Github * Email: they're all kind of th
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by jperras 8y ago
Would you accept a random number from your car mechanic when you bring your vehicle in the shop for repairs?

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