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by nhebb 8y ago
Considering the current state of recycling, it may be better to just throw our plastics away instead of putting them in recycling bins. With China turning away our recycling, some cities have started burning them (according to recent headli
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by nhebb 8y ago
Let's just say that Reuters got more value out of the click than I did.
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by nhebb 8y ago
Agreed, but they got both of us to click, didn't they?
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by nhebb 8y ago
She came off as strident, and he came off as vague. It was a terrible interview on both sides and not worth reading.
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by nhebb 8y ago
Mode Analytics tutorial is well laid out: https://mode.com/sql-tutorial/
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by nhebb 8y ago
This made me laugh. It wasn't the Dark Ages. They thought of code as code. I'm in my 50's, and I took my first programming class in high school in 1980. When I entered college a few years later, most of my engineering classma
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by nhebb 8y ago
Same. The header and footer give me visual claustrophobia. If the article is something I really want to read, I right-click on each and do Inspect > Delete.
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by nhebb 8y ago
See chapter 0, section 0.5 - "Purchasing This Book."
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by nhebb 8y ago
I'm impressed that the MLB, with ~2X the number of games, manages to travel less than the NBA. I wonder if it's a venue availability issue or a better traveling salesman algorithm.
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Things I Don’t Know as of 2018(overreacted.io)
753 points by nhebb 8y ago|211 comments
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by nhebb 8y ago
I never understood why that movie bombed. 1993 was a huge year for blockbuster movies, so I think it just got lost in the shuffle. Anyway, underrated flick.
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by nhebb 8y ago
caniuse.com is a quick way to look up compatibility issues, e.g. https://caniuse.com/#search=flexbox
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by nhebb 8y ago
I search config for "autoplay" and disable everything related. It's not a privacy issue - just annoyance avoidance.
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by nhebb 8y ago
> What was the effectiveness of these forts? James Burke covered this a bit in episode 9 of Connections (about 4 minutes in): https://archive.org/details/james-burke-connections_s01e09
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by nhebb 8y ago
A pint is what British people drink in pubs while chastising the US for not adopting the metric system.
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by nhebb 8y ago
> You're not really describing Shareware These days, yeah, but the term shareware started out as OP described. It later became synonymous with trialware. https://asp-software.org/www/history/the-origin-of-s
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by nhebb 8y ago
I can confirm what others said about air drag. I've done this in the past, assuming I needed the filter on the input side. I had to use two filters, some cardboard, and plenty of duct tape to create a triangular input in order to get a
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by nhebb 8y ago
For comparison, an MRI machine is about 3 Teslas. If you have an ad blocker, you may need to turn it off for the video to load. N.B. [@dang]: The original title "This Super-Strong Magnet Literally Blew the Doors Off a Tokyo Laboratory&
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Japanese scientists have created 1200 Tesla electromagnet(space.com)
1 points by nhebb 8y ago|1 comments
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by nhebb 8y ago
Not really. In my area, the school day is 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM. Teachers typically arrive by 7:30 AM and leave around 3:30 PM - and then do grading and other work activities in their evenings. Where do you cut 25% from that? Who watches the k
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by nhebb 8y ago
What about truckers? Should they transport 25% less miles per day? Should elementary schooldays be shortened by 25%? Should companies cut their customer service hours by 25%? Should manufacturing companies drop their daily output by 25%? It
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by nhebb 8y ago
In the US, enrollment has been declining at smaller liberal arts colleges. These are private schools that rely primarily on high tuition costs and alumni donations to operate. Public universities have had steady enrollment, receive governme
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by nhebb 8y ago
This is the perfect response. I assume you're being sarcastic, but I can't tell for certain. Even most humans have trouble detecting sarcasm in print - would a sarcasm detector? Since sarcasm is the biggest weakness of sentiment a
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by nhebb 8y ago
For anyone interested, Scott Hanselman wrote about the open diabetes ecosystem (including OpenAPS) a few years ago: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/ThePromisingStateOfDiabetesTe...
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by nhebb 8y ago
It's sad to see (judging by up / down votes) that this community supports the endorsement of a racist (Jeong) and down votes who questions that. She said some seriously awful things, and the NYT's decision to hire her should
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by nhebb 8y ago
Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately, I searched the settings and can't find anything that seems related that isn't already set to ON. I'm the only user (Super Admin).
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by nhebb 8y ago
I got to step 5 > You have no services enabled for which data can be exported. What? I've had this (paid) GSuite account for years. That's a bit discouraging.
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by nhebb 8y ago
Having watched plenty of programming videos, I've come to the conclusion that many programmers are terrible at typing. As a terrible typist myself, I take great comfort in this.
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by nhebb 8y ago
To anyone who thinks this is ridiculous, try browsing the search results from the Google News tab: https://www.google.com/search?q=hacker&tbm=nws In the US, it would be unusual to find someone outside of tech circles wh
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by nhebb 8y ago
FWIW, I think you're asking a legitimate question that should be thoughtfully answered instead of downvoted. I don't know what to call it other than "internet cause fatigue" but it does happen, and I believe that there a

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