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by makeset 6y ago
> Worst case scenario it creates expensive pee. Well, that's one thing you don't need to worry about. Vitamin D is fat-soluble, so any excess isn't excreted in urine (hence the arguments over effective vs. excessive dosage
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by makeset 6y ago
> allowed any number of letters in a variable name... but only the first two were recognised as unique. That was a well-known Microsoft BASIC feature that got passed down licensed descendants like TRS-80 and Commodore BASIC, and lasted t
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by makeset 6y ago
She can make those packs go a LONG way, given enough rising time, with superior flavor to boot. E.g. the pizza dough with poolish in Ken Forkish's book "Flour Water Salt Yeast" uses 0.4g dry yeast per 1kg of flour.
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by makeset 7y ago
Can firewall punching work without proxying all traffic over the server?
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by makeset 7y ago
Reminds me of a seemingly smart and reasonable doctor I once saw for an annual check. Upon hearing that I'd been taking 3,000 IU, the guy completely Lost. His. Shit. I got a lecture about not going against FDA recommendations, which is
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by makeset 7y ago
At one job (porting a colossal legacy UI to Windows), I deleted thousands of LOC every day for months. Coworkers called me "the decoder." 25 years later I'm probably still net negative.
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by makeset 7y ago
> Trivium: WJR is the author of "Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo". You're off by a couple of buffalo :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffal...
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by makeset 7y ago
It made me discover that you can select a range in Chrome history by Shift-clicking the end.
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by makeset 7y ago
I was no particular fan of children or parenting before, but eventually I decided that raising children is such a significant part of the human experience, I'd be opting out on a huge chunk of what this life has to offer. Sure, it has
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by makeset 7y ago
Wow, she managed to type "^Zkill %1"?
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by makeset 7y ago
And powerlifters lift more weight than weightlifters.
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by makeset 8y ago
Not to defend the system, the incentives are clearly not well-aligned, but I also just went through this process had an unexpectedly great experience with my buyer's agent, whom I found through a referral. He was professional, ethical,
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by makeset 8y ago
Same thing with F-2 holders (spouses of F-1 student visas). In contrast, J-2 holders (spouses of J-1 exchange students) are allowed to work.
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by makeset 8y ago
I am a scientist/engineer/mathematician who studied the hell out of abstract mathematics at an extremely rigorous undergrad program. In the 20 years since, not once has that knowledge been useful in my academic or industrial work,
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by makeset 8y ago
You are conflating two separate things. Stalls in the aerodynamic sense (angle-of-attack above critical) have nothing to do with the engine "stalling" (engine-out) which is a mechanical failure.
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by makeset 8y ago
It's easy to fool the audience, but for the pianist it's still night and day. And I don't mean just emulating the control input, though that's not easy either, but more the subtle haptic feedback from the entire instrume
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by makeset 8y ago
C. Elegans can develop tumors, but only in the germ line (gamete-producing) cells, which are the only stem cells. There are no adult somatic stem cells, i.e. no ability for repair, so no mechanism for cancer growth in the body. That said, m
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by makeset 8y ago
Not unless the program happens to use the common subset between the two BASIC dialects, which probably rules out any graphics and sound. A text adventure game, maybe.
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by makeset 9y ago
> The Berklee "Jazz Improvisation" class taught by Gary Burton. [...] On the down side, skill levels of the students varied widely, so peer review was more miss than hit. 100% miss for me. The main thing I learned from that cou
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by makeset 9y ago
Nice, and apparently you're not the only one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor "The bus factor is a measurement of the risk resulting from information and capabilities not being shared among team me
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by makeset 9y ago
The article is about the Middle Ages in Europe, and points out that syphilis didn't appear in Europe until the very end of the 15th century.
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by makeset 9y ago
Crimean Tatar national dish, through the diaspora in Turkey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chebureki
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by makeset 9y ago
> I'm a third-year Computer Science student Make sure you take, as soon as possible, all the AI & ML courses your department offers. If prerequisites are holding you back, try to negotiate or audit. (Some of my key insights date
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by makeset 9y ago
Use seq_len(n) instead of 1:n to get an empty vector for n=0. There's also seq_along(x) instead of 1:length(x).
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by makeset 9y ago
Some years ago I spent a few weeks trying to develop absolute pitch, and I made enough progress to see that it was possible, but that it would also take a lot of time and effort better spent improving other aspects of musicianship. To hav
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by makeset 9y ago
FWIW, I've been very satisfied with mine for three years now. It's a much firmer foam than memory foam, and gives me just the right amount of support for side sleeping.
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by makeset 9y ago
Back in my day, people met their partners in the course of normal social interaction. Weird, right? Like, you'd meet a friend of a friend, or be someplace fun and meet other people having fun. Super weird. Sure, online dating casts a m
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by makeset 9y ago
Ha! I remember discovering this as a teenager, that I didn't have to actually tidy up my room/desk to avoid getting yelled at, as long as I aligned everything in place at right angles. It's always good to put a name on the ph
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by makeset 9y ago
Wow. How is that possible with non-local bandwidth and latency?
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by makeset 9y ago
Code Complete by Steve McConnell https://www.amazon.com/dp/0735619670

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