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by mattficke 4y ago
There’s not really any way to say universally what supplements people should take since it depends on the specifics of your diet, lifestyle, age, genetics, etc. Vitamin D is probably the most broadly useful supplement (it’s also the only su
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by mattficke 4y ago
Take a break. I’m in the US, so these examples might not be an option if you can’t come here, but replace them with your local equivalent. Some suggestions: do something like Recurse[0] if you want to continue focusing on programming in a n
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by mattficke 4y ago
Humidity affects the final equilibrium moisture content [0] of wood, but even at 100% relative humidity it’ll eventually stabilize at around 25-30% MC (green wood is usually >60% MC, for reference). Humidity averages around 65% in the ar
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Fake Tags Are a Real Problem(tomlee.wtf)
2 points by mattficke 4y ago|0 comments
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by mattficke 4y ago
I don’t know but the behavior seems consistent across services. When there are multiple pages of results for something (running ECS services, whatever) if you filter the results it doesn’t coalesce the results, you have to just keep clickin
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by mattficke 4y ago
> Has complained about the AWS UI at a party? Good to know it’s not just me (but seriously, the way they’ve implemented search in paginated results is the most actively hostile UX decision I’ve ever encountered. It’s so bad it almost mak
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by mattficke 4y ago
The older “Docker without Docker” blogpost linked from there goes into that, it’s one of the best deep dives into containers (and honestly one of the best pieces of technical writing full stop) I’ve come across. https://fly.io&#x
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by mattficke 4y ago
It’s not enforced at runtime, but otherwise I feel like typing is in a pretty good place in Python right now. If you’re diligent about using Pyright or MyPy as linters it makes life a lot easier.
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by mattficke 4y ago
The short version is that overlapping maritime borders are resolved by drawing the various buffer zones out from the shoreline of all coastal land of each country, and where they conflict take the approximate midpoint of the overlapping are
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by mattficke 4y ago
If it’s within 200 miles of land, there’s established protocol under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea[0] to demarcate maritime boundaries based on land borders. If the border went through the island there would need to be some sort o
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by mattficke 4y ago
I’m referring to the employment agreements that are in practice signed by basically everyone who works for a tech company (among other industries). Commonly includes provisions such as intellectual property assignment, non-solicitation, non
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by mattficke 4y ago
> Although it seems like a real contract would fix most of the issues without unions. It’s hard to disentangle these, unions are effectively the only way for non-executive[0] employees (in the US) to get an employment contract that isn’t
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How God of War Ragnarok Handles the Effects of Alcoholism in a Family(gamerant.com)
9 points by mattficke 4y ago|13 comments
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by mattficke 4y ago
> The author assumes that humans can't feel the difference between 100 and 200 ms latency The author does not believe that, the section you’re referring to is titled “counter-arguments to common arguments that latency doesn’t matter
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by mattficke 4y ago
The (unconvincing) argument is that boycotting Israel is discriminating on the basis of religion and ethnicity, and is therefore not protected under the 1st Amendment (for the same reason laws banning racial discrimination don’t violate the
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by mattficke 4y ago
These are all state laws, not federal.
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by mattficke 4y ago
That’s just a straightforward description of changes in the DSM. “Alcoholism” was split into “alcohol abuse” and “alcohol dependence” back in the 80’s, but in the intervening years the consensus view settled on treating these as separate sy
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by mattficke 4y ago
The substantive issue the judge is interested in is whether they made false statements in their court filings. The attorneys seem to be misleading the court about the true owner of the patents, and who the attorneys actually represent.
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by mattficke 4y ago
“Twitter plans to lay off…” would probably be a more precise headline, yes. It’s more than speculation, though, but you do have to trust the reporters on that.
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by mattficke 4y ago
It’s reporting on information the authors received from sources who would not speak on the record. It’s entirely possible that the four anonymous sources are the four people in the meeting (Musk et al) and they’re speaking on background bec
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by mattficke 4y ago
Ah that’s interesting to know about Europe, I should have specified the US context of what I said. That kind of arrangement is not common here, typically an involuntary termination will take effect immediately.
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by mattficke 4y ago
You can find the details of executive severance plans in the SEC filings of public companies, they make for fascinating reading. Typically accelerated vesting of all equity, 12-ish months salary, extension of other benefits like health insu
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by mattficke 4y ago
Unionize your workplace. I’m serious, this is the only realistic way for non-executive workers to get anything like this guaranteed in an employment contract. Severance is completely discretionary otherwise.
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by mattficke 4y ago
> Quartz watches are superior in almost every metric: they cost less, tell better time […] This is true to a certain extent, in that an equivalent level of accuracy is generally cheaper with a quartz watch than a mechanical watch, but
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by mattficke 4y ago
The top light is a helmet-mounted light. They mention this in the full paper but it’s not clear from the abstract.
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by mattficke 4y ago
Take a look at Tippecanoe, which is under active development again[0]. The original developer, Erica Fischer (who is wonderful to work with), has a fork[1] where new work is happening. [0] https://felt.com/blog/erica-fi
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by mattficke 4y ago
SawStop’s patents started expiring in 2021, so I imagine this is in part to get ahead of future lower-end competition. Until now most of their saws started between $2000-$3000, and their cheapest portable saw was ~$1600.
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SawStop now has a sub-$1000 table saw(sawstop.com)
3 points by mattficke 4y ago|1 comments
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by mattficke 4y ago
Yes, it is a crime to conceal your financial transactions from the government.
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by mattficke 4y ago
To your last question, this is why financial institutions are required to report cash transactions over $10,000. There are a number of constraints on how untraceable cash is.

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