narag

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by narag 5y ago
The author seems insufferable at cocktail parties. Those cocktail parties seem insufferable.
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by narag 5y ago
I used to live next to an urban intersection. I have no experience designing intersections, but after five minutes looking from my fourth floor apartment down to the intersection, I concluded that it had been designed by either a moron or a
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by narag 5y ago
Another ressemblance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dR1tKo1n5I
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by narag 5y ago
I noticed a similar thing with regular Coca Cola years ago. Some PET 2 l bottles went stale and tasted terribly, like mold. Other people thought that it wasn't so bad, but did detect the bad taste after being told about it. I suspected
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by narag 5y ago
BDSM content they advertise on my screen share-prone work computer. Excuse me if I stray a little from the main point but have you considered the possibility that someone is using computers in your workplace (maybe even yours) to listen&#
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by narag 5y ago
I bet this objectively can't be helped. Actually it can be helped when everybody agrees that some information must be known by everybody. Communication campaigns, making it a subject in schools... So the problem uses to be that there
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by narag 5y ago
I was well paid in the 90's to program a desktop application that saved some Telefonica contractors from using its web application. I guess it's what they call "scrapper" now. The web was incredibly slow and unreliable
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by narag 5y ago
When they are just dishonest, saying that it's updated today or recently using a script is just as easy. They just lie. I was trying to find out why VLC stopped working for me a few months ago [0] and landed in a terrible site where th
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by narag 5y ago
Some of the videos are impressive. This guys are really small and filmed at very high velocity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXeSnWY6DNc
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by narag 5y ago
I'm lazy. I'll wait for this guy's video. https://www.youtube.com/c/AntLab
851.
by narag 5y ago
what about a laser?
852.
by narag 5y ago
As a child, I loved when we visited our family there: fruit as an appetizer and cheese for dessert was much more natural to me... "put a piece of cheese in the ground and you'll find out"
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by narag 5y ago
I also strongly disagree with the entry barrier thing. But it's a false dicotomy. Simple solutions aren't inherently more difficult to master than complex ones. Actually, it's often the opposite.
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by narag 5y ago
But the explicit purpose is to conceal what you actually mean to avoid criticism. Criticism is OK, lynching is not. Attacking the censorship makes obvious that there is a problem with free speech. If you just defend the specific topic, yo
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by narag 5y ago
Paul Graham's essay What You Can't Say contains a great piece of advice: One way to do this is to ratchet the debate up one level of abstraction. If you argue against censorship in general, you can avoid being accused of whatev
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by narag 5y ago
Now you can use it in all kind of improper situations and laugh out loud isomorphically.
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by narag 5y ago
I interviewed for a position in a bank central. Everybody with shirt and tie, but the bad thing is that it was an open plan with more than a hundred screaming programmers. Why was everybody so loud I can't understand. The idiot that I
858.
by narag 5y ago
I see a lot of people predicting the decline of democracy. It's funny. A few years ago, when the Arab Spring, the sentiment was the opposite.
859.
by narag 5y ago
I've watched it many times. I still LOL every time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZJhF-eT0MI&t=63s
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by narag 5y ago
IIRC it was just one metal pointy piece. It's no mistery how it pulled the cork: the S shape. Probably driving it in the cork is more difficult... anyway it was just a second.
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by narag 5y ago
Burrowing into minutia: "The Rabbit"-type cork pullers are far easier and faster. I've seen faster. In a luxury restaurant. It was just a long curved awl with a T handle. No idea how difficult it is to master or how good it
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by narag 5y ago
The effect on the brain is that.. it's an anesthetic, not sure I follow you. Trying to guess what you mean: it isn't used as a local anesthetic, but always on the central nervous system, causing disociation in big dosis. For depre
863.
by narag 5y ago
It's been used in emergency care for decades. It's one of the most used drugs and part of the basic kit in an ambulance or ER. It's safer than other anesthetics because it doesn't affect respiration so much.
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by narag 5y ago
"Arrow" was the teacher's translation from the text, that could be Gallic Wars by Julius Caesar, the book that we followed most of the year. It's been a very long time... not sure if the word was (aprox.) missile o pro
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by narag 5y ago
Actually something similar happened to me in Latin class. The teacher was puzzled with the word tragula that was described as an arrow that was thrown with a string. How can you throw an arrow without a bow? Next day I brought one and we
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by narag 5y ago
So in case you don't want to send email, just receive for you, there's not much problem... ???
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by narag 5y ago
I explicitly qualified my comment, as you can see in the fragment you quote. Not every single country is the USA. There are countries where Amazon is rejected and the reason, not the immediate reason (unions), but the ultimate reason that
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by narag 5y ago
[deleted] Honestly, I'm just tired of this. People gets attached to some pet theory and just downvote factual comments. I should know better that some topics are just out of limits for rational discussions.
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by narag 5y ago
The Anubis Gates , extremely entertaining time travel story by Tim Powers. It's not very "sci" sci-fi, actually there's magic in the mix, but totally recommended anyway.
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by narag 5y ago
I expected this to be a version of the underpromise overdeliver thing, but it seems more like oversleep under a rock. It was sad to see the epic 10x programmer die, now it's the time for the hillarious 0.1x pretender.

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