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by klenwell 5y ago
Article's subtitle: "Laurent Binet’s latest book, “Civilizations,” imagines what might have been if the Incas invaded Europe in the 16th century." First thing that came to mind when I read this was Guns, Germs, and Steel. It
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'I'm Walking Out with You Alone': A StoryCorps Love Story(npr.org)
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But "the verse" in question refers to the Old Testament: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancestral_sin#Judaism
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Yeah, that makes sense. A load increase that tripped the autoscaler to add a second instance that put me over free limits for the first time. I think I figured out how to stop it from doing this: https://old.reddit.com/r&#x2
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by klenwell 5y ago
This Simpsons joke was funny in the 90s because of its absurdity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70ZMzE-wQOQ&t=80s Now it's funny because it's true! Download to Papa. Yoink-dot-adios-backslash-losers.
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"Is this a moral situation or an ethical situation?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBgM_Kw6PSM&t=93s
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by klenwell 5y ago
I have an app that has been running on the old Python 2.7 App Engine platform for a few years. It gets very light traffic and usually costs $1 or $2 a month, mainly for datastore read ops. Suddenly this month there was an additional $11.65
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by klenwell 5y ago
> everyone should get an opportunity to be a manager One way to test drive being a manager: read the Ask A Manager column ( https://www.askamanager.org/ ) for a few days or browse the archives. Read the question submitted
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by klenwell 5y ago
I could only access the first of paragraph of the article, but this recalls a line I bookmarked in The Long Haul, the memoir of a liberal arts school dropout who ended up as successful trucker for high-end moving company criss-crossing Amer
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by klenwell 5y ago
I had no idea this was an issue until my sister (a rider not a driver) mentioned it a couple days ago. It makes sense: But he was exhausted from the daily stress of driving, after taking passengers on more than 15,000 trips over three year
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by klenwell 6y ago
Regarding Getty's "aggressive acquisitions", some interesting background turned up in this recent NY Times obit for Daniel Wolf: Daniel Wolf pulled off what may have been the greatest legal art caper of all time: Over the co
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by klenwell 6y ago
This grouping convention reminds me a lot of Better Specs from the Ruby world: https://www.betterspecs.org/ With rspec, you use the describe and context keywords. At one level, yes, it's mainly syntactical sugar. As th
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by klenwell 6y ago
> I didn't go, but the photos of the architecture from the different countries were beautiful. Apparently, the American pavilion was not among them: Now that the US Pavilion has been open for several days, its reviews, to be genero
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by klenwell 6y ago
Here's a pretty good one from 20 years ago on cycling: In this world, the dunces and losers are those who rely on their clean physiques. Voet cites the case of Charly Mottet, a top French rider of the eighties and nineties, who came t
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by klenwell 6y ago
Nice to see Swamp Dogg getting a little attention. I was introduced to him last year by this duet with John Prine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSR3pRtkWWs Great song for a lousy year.
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by klenwell 6y ago
I just happened to finish reading this recent New Yorker article about Sputnik V: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/02/08/the-sputnik-v-... It covers the development of the vaccine as well as some
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by klenwell 6y ago
I like the last season. I thought it was a comic masterpiece (darkly comic) and a master class in all sorts of irony. Maybe that's the rub. Still, these two scenes are gems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn0ylNZhOJI
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by klenwell 6y ago
The problem had to do not just with data analysis per se, but with what database researchers call “provenance” — broadly, where did data arise, what inferences were drawn from the data, and how relevant are those inferences to the present
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Yes. My cheat sheet includes a "Minimum base salary" bullet point that is much higher than my walk-away number. This anchors the discussion. I find the recruiters who get back to me are pretty open and transparent. If not, that&#x
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by klenwell 6y ago
One additional tip on recruiters: have a cheat sheet ready (web page or public Google doc) that answers the basic questions they'll have for you and makes clear your expectations. Here's the info I ask them to provide: - Job Title
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by klenwell 6y ago
> It's hard to explain just how good Google was back in the day, compared to those early search engines. This 2000 New Yorker article does a pretty good job: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2000/05/
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by klenwell 6y ago
In my early twenties, I was scheduled to get my wisdom teeth removed. It was going to cost me the equivalent of about a couple week's wages at the time. If I did it without general anesthetic it would be significantly cheaper. The oral
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by klenwell 6y ago
Here's a New Yorker article that I bookmarked years ago that also questions the efficacy of back surgery for chronic pain: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/04/08/a-knife-in-the... From the op
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by klenwell 6y ago
It is definitely one of the internet's great rabbit holes. > how has this been accomplished? I always assumed it was user-driven like Wikipedia or Stack Overflow and that appears to be the case: https://tvtropes.org/
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by klenwell 6y ago
Not exactly what you asked for but something in a similar vein are profession-specific Reddit forms. I'm not sure they fully qualify as professions but I've found these two regularly odd and insightful: - https://old.re
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> I'm building the UI using ElectronJS and Svelte, whilst the backend is a separate Python project. Thanks for sharing this. I have a relatively simple Python script that I'm trying to package for a non-technical Windows user s
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Yes, that range looked odd to me at first glance. But your explanation made me realize that I actually use it all over the place. Except on a 1-5 scale. Starting with good enough at 3 (or 0 in this case): 1 = WTF? 2 = Needs Improvement 3 =
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by klenwell 6y ago
> I can't think of any actual use I would have for a thermal printer, but I like the idea of it. Is that beige thing labelled Expansion Port a thermal printer? That's what it looked like to me but I couldn't find it identi
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by klenwell 6y ago
That beige thing at the top right is labelled Expansion Port. For some reason, I really want it to be the output for one of those built-in scroll printers like you'd find on an old calculator. I suspect it could be surprisingly useful.
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by klenwell 6y ago
I've only recently started to pay attention to Elm after hearing some good things about it so this article was timely for me. I've also dealt repeatedly with the example the author uses, a wizard or multistep form, so I was defini

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