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by magneticnorth 8mo ago
Yes, me too. Reading the caveat "– and she would give each pie away" made a lot more sense. It's a social commitment at least as much as a creative/culinary one, and since there aren't a lot of people you'd wan
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by magneticnorth 8mo ago
Hollow things are common, and of interest to many animals. If I thump a log and it makes a noise like it has a hollow space (low tones), then it may contain an animal nest or a beehive & honey, or it may be something I could use as a bo
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by magneticnorth 8mo ago
As someone who cooks a lot, I find the concept of "could I make this in my kitchen" to be a helpful guideline. I can tell a chipsahoy cookie is pretty different from anything I've ever made, whereas the ones at the local inde
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by magneticnorth 8mo ago
Yes, I found the group description confusing as well. The group 4 description starts off with "when foods are refined, bleached ...". I'm pretty certain the flour used to make standard grocery store pasta is both refined and
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by magneticnorth 8mo ago
Fiddleheads from ferns are available at farmer's markets in the spring in my area, though not from the cinnamon fern specifically. I'm having trouble finding sources for other specific fern species, though many ferns have been aro
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by magneticnorth 8mo ago
This is an interesting way to think about plants and animals. I'm finding it surprisingly hard to find sources for known age of species - is that information collected somewhere? Or is it something we often just don't know because
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by magneticnorth 8mo ago
Ah, yeah, the aging population is a good point. I can't find a citation now, but I recall reading at some point that weight gain with age (in adulthood) didn't used to happen very much before the obesity epidemic, though nowadays
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by magneticnorth 8mo ago
"The average woman’s waistline today is nearly 4 inches wider than it was in the mid-1990s." I assume they mean circumference rather than diameter, but this is still a shocking increase in only 30 years. I knew the obesity epidemi
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by magneticnorth 8mo ago
I really enjoy well-written accounts of experiences very different from anything I've encountered in my own life. I enjoyed the writing in this a lot; I'll check out the book.
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by magneticnorth 8mo ago
This looks very cute! Is there a way to disable the little dancing unicorn jelly at the bottom of the page? I have such a hard time reading text if there is motion so close to what I'm trying to read
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by magneticnorth 8mo ago
I was just this morning reading one of those navel-gazing moltbook posts where the agent describes their "soul.md", and one of its few instructions was all-lowercase (which it was doing). That early sentence "i’ll be vulnerab
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by magneticnorth 9mo ago
While this seems like good advice for breakfast, I'm not sure it's going to help too much with figuring out how to cut an infinite mathematical pancake with an oddly-shaped mathematical knife. It's a very different but rather
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by magneticnorth 9mo ago
I think that was Tao's point, that the new proof was not just read out of the training set.
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by magneticnorth 9mo ago
https://archive.ph/KVTqO
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by magneticnorth 9mo ago
If you're like me and wanted to know where the last 5 stores actually are: - Coral Gables, Florida - Orlando, Florida - Braintree, Massachusetts - Concord, California - El Paso, Texas According to another article I found ( https:/
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by magneticnorth 11mo ago
YMMV whether this will fly in your company culture, but I titled mine "Focus time, please ask before scheduling". And when people inevitably didn't ask, I'd just decline unless I especially wanted to attend. I find mysel
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by magneticnorth 1y ago
The idea of the heimlich is to put sudden force on the diaphragm and force air upward. You can do that alone by pushing your upper abdomen against a chair back, counter, railing, whatever. Not something I've ever tried, but good to kno
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by magneticnorth 1y ago
The submission guidelines summed up in a sentence is "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." Travel blogs for remote places definitely do gratify my intellectual curiosity.
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by magneticnorth 1y ago
Lots of science is "common knowledge"! This is one of those things that I'm glad to see confirmed in a study.
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by magneticnorth 1y ago
Yes, seconding this one too. I've opted for ugly black electrical tape squares over the worst offenders in sleeping spaces, but why is that the only option?
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by magneticnorth 1y ago
My previous Roomba had a bug where it would complain loudly at 3am about being unable to dock, 14 hours after its run cycle. This led me to discover that there is no setting to disable sounds, you must take it apart and rip out the speaker,
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by magneticnorth 1y ago
Is there a way to pause the game so I can read the rules? Dying before I know how to play is frustrating.
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by magneticnorth 1y ago
Longyearban, the capital of Svalbard, has 4 months of night and 4 months of day. I believe Earth has always had some axial tilt, so this kind of effect would always have happened near the poles. According the article, "During the Early
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by magneticnorth 1y ago
At least in (USA) American news sources, "American" means from the USA. Francis was the first pope from the Americas. See Wikipedia for deeper discussion of the use of the term in English: https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by magneticnorth 1y ago
I think you'll appreciate the first response in the "Letters" section - the one that starts off with "Wendell Berry provides writers enslaved by the computer with a handy alternative: Wife - a low-tech energy-saving devi
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by magneticnorth 1y ago
It's almost never that easy to get a simple side project website to go viral.
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by magneticnorth 1y ago
Ha, I just got that same one! I managed to guess the year (1/4 chance), and only 15.5 meters off.
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by magneticnorth 2y ago
It's a fairly well studied phenomenon known as short sleeper syndrome. https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/gene-id... There are no known health problems caused by this syndrome, according to
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by magneticnorth 2y ago
Yes, you can lie to people and have good things happen to you because they believed the lie.
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by magneticnorth 2y ago
In addition to your (presumably positive-enough) interview performance that the later company has themselves, they also have a "hire" recommendation from an entire other interview loop at a different company. That's a strong

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