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by maratc 3y ago
> Swarm’s of Jenkins is what most are used to in the enterprise. Thanks, I thought we were one of the last places with that setup, nice to know this unholy contraption is actually somewhat standard.
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by maratc 3y ago
Airlines mostly dislike 20,000 mAh power banks that can self-ignite in the checked-in luggage. If they detect something like that in your luggage, they will kindly ask you to take it in the cabin. They never cared about CR2032 cells.
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by maratc 3y ago
No, that's not my phone's operating system. (But it also hints to why.)
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by maratc 3y ago
All correct, I like it very much although rarely use it, and needless to say mine is not likely to produce any famous images :)
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by maratc 3y ago
The Afghan Girl was shot with Nikkor 105mm Ai-S f/2.5 Gauss design, not with 10.5 Sonar. I know it only because by some chance I own one :)
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by maratc 3y ago
> the most famous photograph in the world Which one you're talking about?
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by maratc 3y ago
If being exact to the extreme is your thing, you may look into either high-frequency quartz (these are exact to within seconds a year), or any bluetooth-adjusted Casio (these will quietly sync with your phone several times a day, and your p
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by maratc 3y ago
Bulova Precisionist, a quartz watch with 16 ticks a second, looks very much like spring drive.
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by maratc 3y ago
const never really worked with other C++ features[0], so in any big pile of code you're better off not using const. [0] The compiler will gladly pass a non-const pointer to a non-const object to a function that expects a const pointer
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by maratc 3y ago
Man ... the mouse gestures blew my mind immediately.
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by maratc 3y ago
There's a song about it, it's called "Ctrl up-arrow Q".
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by maratc 3y ago
But then, if you mostly watch videos (or take a video call in your browser), the ads — both video and non-video — can fall to 1% of the actual data transferred. As each person's internet usage is different, the percentage of requests b
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by maratc 3y ago
> The black bar is a simple gesture of respect. The black bar is not "a simple gesture of respect" — if it was, it would never disappear. It's a sign of mourning over the passing of someone whose contributions were extreme
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by maratc 3y ago
The word you're looking for is "QALY".
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by maratc 3y ago
“Out of 100,000 living people, x will die from solid tumors in one year; out of 100,000 nuclear workers we believe x+2y will. This differs from the x+1y figure that was the previous estimation.” QALY would be best in any case.
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by maratc 3y ago
The relevant measurement is called QALY, or quality adjusted life years. It is meant to be a meaningful representation of a disease burden. As an example, thyroid cancer is hardly curable, but a common remedy is to remove the thyroid and to
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by maratc 3y ago
Note: that is about chances of getting cancer, not dying from cancer. Many people beat cancer. Many cancer types have good survival rates. Thyroid cancer (Chernobyl had much of these) sucks, but many people who got it had their thyroid
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by maratc 3y ago
These special studies are good for a scientific consumption, but they don't do much to make the results comprehensible to the general public. In this specific case, what's missing is the bigger perspective, like this: "If we
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by maratc 3y ago
> My mother was a flight attendant for 35 years and she developed breast cancer later in life. From what I recall from the Chernobyl studies, the risk of being ill with cancer during the lifetime is 39% for females and 41% for males. The
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by maratc 3y ago
That was (and still is) a great technology, but in the last couple of years Casio has bluetooth-enabled watches that can sync with your phone (that is syncing with the base station, which syncs with GPS). Bluetooth adds about $10-20 on top,
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by maratc 3y ago
Or "stop renting your main office from WeWork, just get an office, and when you need short-term expansions, then use WeWork".
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by maratc 3y ago
Teams is pretty useless as a standalone product anyway.
563.
by maratc 3y ago
Teams is a lot like herpes: no one chose it, but everyone has it.
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by maratc 3y ago
Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can. —-jwz
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by maratc 3y ago
I really like my "`" in the convenient corner of the keyboard (and even more so with Markdown getting much use in GitHub and Slack), so for me the ISO layout can go to the trash pile of history :)
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by maratc 3y ago
You don't even need to use Option — by long-pressing a letter, you have a menu opened with all the different options conveniently numbered. As an example for the letter "a": a1 is à, a2 is á ... a8 is ā.
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by maratc 3y ago
If somebody converts their CV into a vector image, would it measure better or worse?
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by maratc 3y ago
> Israel used to have norms where the opposition had some balancing power. Israel is a parliamentary democracy, and the power is vested with the majority of the parliament. As it is with any other parliamentary democracy, which is the
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by maratc 3y ago
> The reality is that Israeli parliament is weak and nearly wholly controlled by the government. You have it exactly backwards: the government is selected from the MPs and is supported by the parliament. The most popular way to change a
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by maratc 3y ago
Israel has Basic Laws in lieu of Constitution, and Barak has declared the body of Basic Laws to be a Constitution. UK, notably, also has no constitution — it however wouldn't be reasonable to argue that "the only democracy keeper

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