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by mrslave 4y ago
I recall reading that this is true, but the narrow eating window is believed to contribute to ease of adherence. (No citations on hand, sorry.) My dieting successes have come from both a narrow eating window and lower carb (basically less s
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by mrslave 4y ago
I really like my applications to at least try to reestablish dropped connections though. But I do appreciate the minimization mindset with respect to secrets. The last time I was responsible for the scaffolding of a new software service it
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by mrslave 4y ago
If the only thing driving your GDP is new people (and mostly immigration) you don't have a very productive economy. I think this has been the case in a lot of places for a long time, but that statistic just has to go up by the tiniest
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by mrslave 4y ago
> Many WGU students HATE these types of articles, because they undermine the legitimacy of WGU. New headline incoming: > WGU graduates HATE this! Learn their SECRET, how YOU TOO could GRADUATE IN LESS THAN 3 MONTHS FOR ONLY $5,000
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by mrslave 4y ago
I would just apply for intermediate roles where skills align and hope for a 2-hour in person, or 6-hour take home, demonstration task.
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by mrslave 4y ago
> Let me know when there’s a mainstream non-scam MiltonCoin or KeynesCoin that isn’t deflationary and automatically models semi-optimal central bank policy. Freicoin is the closest I can think of
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by mrslave 4y ago
XPS 13 usually has good Linux compatibility. But XPS with 15" screen can be a bit of trouble to get all the hardware working under Linux.
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by mrslave 4y ago
I'm off Lenovo X-s due to poor keyboards and poor warranty support. I was told (around the Gen5 era) that they often have slightly less powerful CPUs than similar competition though I have no idea if this is still true. They were also
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by mrslave 4y ago
Remember how mad everyone got when George W. Bush said, "You are either with us, or with the terrorists"?
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by mrslave 5y ago
But perhaps there is a middle way. Many of us care too much, and each subsequent difficult - or bad - decision drives us deeper into burnout. It's not healthy. In which case GP's attitude is the right one.
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by mrslave 5y ago
Snow Crash is funny and short. I didn't like it at first but after forcing through the first 30 pages the anarcho-libertarianism ad absurdum took hold and I was laughing my socks off. I have yet to read another Stephenson novel. Neurom
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by mrslave 5y ago
> not hack the various biomarkers higher or lower until the numbers look good Goodhart's law is an adage often stated as "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure". (Wikipedia)
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by mrslave 5y ago
I like the ticketing system for tracking issues, especially with a distributed team. But especially with bigger corporations it gets so damn tiresome. I crave a Kanban-only system and software leaders who just talk to their developers to in
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by mrslave 5y ago
In journalism there is the concept of the inverted pyramid. An article's structure should be in order of importance. This way readers can assess the incremental gains of persisting with the article against their interest in the subject
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by mrslave 5y ago
OK there's a lot of good points on both sides of this. For one: pushing meaningful code change on day 1 may be unrealistic. For another: at least we've initiated the new team member into the full process of contributing to the pro
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by mrslave 5y ago
We have devs on MacOS with Nix working, but we do encounter inconsistencies. Production & other devs are on Linux and they are having a much better time.
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by mrslave 5y ago
Jerry Drake Varnell needed the assistance of 3 FBI agents: one to seduce him online, another to pose as a bomb expert, and a third to teach him to drive a car.
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by mrslave 5y ago
How to do this in mpv? Then we'll automate it with a short shell script!
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by mrslave 5y ago
Haskell for Imperative Programmers [0] is the best material I've come across recently for Haskell beginners. [0] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLe7Ei6viL6jGp1Rfu0dil...
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by mrslave 5y ago
How does right of first refusal work with respect to price? Could you fulfill this obligation by offering them the option at a very high price? I'm guessing price isn't a negotiable parameter.
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by mrslave 5y ago
My 2 oils of choice are EVOO - fresh, for salad - and rice bran oil for frying. When researching smoke points and other oil related health issues I found bran and grapeseed to be the best for high heat cooking, with bran winning the tie bre
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by mrslave 5y ago
Is not OpenStack the best way to get cloud without using another Cloud Service(TM)?
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by mrslave 5y ago
Censorship is cool when cool new tech companies are doing it.
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by mrslave 5y ago
It's 2004 so they're not using Git, but they are using patch (applies the output generated by diff). Actually at the time I believe the Linux kernel team were using a proprietary product that was a significant improvement upon CVS
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by mrslave 5y ago
We'd love to know what happened??
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by mrslave 5y ago
And now let's be intellectually dishonest and pretend like they meant it literally. On Reddit.
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by mrslave 5y ago
Yes, this would involve getting your doctor (general practitioner or specialist) to write and sign a one-sentence letter confirming you suffer the condition -- with your approval of course. It would not involve exposing every medical detail
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by mrslave 5y ago
>> Didn't this happen during Obama's presidency, when Hillary and Trump were running? > Yes. And those accusations were true. What's the rundown on this scandal? A link or TL;DR is fine -- not trying to derail.
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by mrslave 5y ago
Where can I do a (respectable) on-line degree in this structure? While I'm fantasizing, the second unrealistic requirement is affordable. ;-)
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by mrslave 5y ago
Agree. I've been hoping for a PostgreSQL extension with in-built sharding (think Netezza or Teradata). I know this is ambiguous so a low-effort definition is in order: a tightly bound cluster (nodes are aware of each other and share da

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