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by nojs 6y ago
On the other hand it’s really convenient not to have to think about time zones whatsoever when travelling and working in China. I reckon the economic benefits must be huge. In the far west though I guess it’s an issue, eg [1] 1. https:&#x2
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by nojs 6y ago
I have perfect pitch. For me it’s much easier to identify tones on piano (which I play) than other instruments or sine waves. So I feel like there is some part of it that’s “tuneable”.
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by nojs 6y ago
“Transfer the domain to us” seems like a surprising and weird demand, is that normal?
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by nojs 6y ago
That’s an interesting claim. I guess it implies that although we’ve reduced childhood mortality, the people we’ve saved go on to live shorter than average lives?
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by nojs 6y ago
I think side projects have become a casualty of Goodhart's law, they stopped being a very good metric for hiring as people started gaming the recruitment system and building side projects that were really showpieces. But a genuine curi
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I don’t get it, is it some kind of SEO hack? It’s clearly branded as DDG.
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by nojs 6y ago
And the Amazon reviews are still live from the early 2000s! https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/reviews/B00001U0AJ/ > If you have a slow computer (less then 200mhz) the pictures will be a bit fuzzy and the l
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by nojs 6y ago
It’s actually “lede” [1] > A lede is the introductory section in journalism and thus to bury the lede refers to hiding the most important and relevant pieces of a story within other distracting information. The spelling of lede is allege
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by nojs 6y ago
I’ve been with Up for around 6 months and have been really impressed. The experience is an order of magnitude better than any of the big 4 and the direction they are going looks really promising (particularly the API). Their monthly email n
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by nojs 6y ago
Ha, your comment reminded me of this gem [1] > Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled trials > Results: We were unable to identify any randomised
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by nojs 6y ago
> if only people stepped out of their darkened homes and artificially lit offices for a few moments every day, and embraced all of that free, natural, nature-given sunlight... The article is about implanting a device deep deep in the bra
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by nojs 6y ago
If you’re willing to put in a medium amount of effort and be consistent over the course of a few years, few things have better ROI at the moment than learning Chinese I’d say.
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Professor suspended for saying 那个 nà ge(languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)
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Mystery seeds: Amazon bans foreign plant sales in US(bbc.com)
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by nojs 6y ago
You probably know this, but that’s not what that table means. > Table 3 shows the types of health conditions and contributing causes mentioned in conjunction with deaths involving coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). For 6% of the deaths
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by nojs 6y ago
How dangerous are untested vaccines and what would be the worst case scenario?
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by nojs 6y ago
Do you have a source with more info about Tinder pricing based on gender and sexual orientation?
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by nojs 6y ago
> Online casual gameplay changes a lot Short time controls and live streaming of blitz games by GMs is fun. Maybe this is less “pure” but it’s great entertainment, and doesn’t seem like engine use is a huge problem when the stakes are l
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by nojs 6y ago
Right, until the app needs to access a file, change a setting or do any number of other things.
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by nojs 6y ago
I fear that macOS is going this way. The amount of hoops to jump through to run third party apps seems to grow with every release.
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by nojs 6y ago
> It would not be hard for WhatsApp to prevent people from spreading bogus videos The problem is there’s no agreed upon definition for what’s “bogus”. A while ago someone commented here with a list of statements ranging from obviously fa
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by nojs 6y ago
It’s interesting to think how fundamentally impossible it is to parse a sentence without a background corpus of knowledge about the world: > I dropped the hammer on the table and it smashed > I dropped the vase on the table and it sma
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by nojs 6y ago
Thanks!
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by nojs 6y ago
If you can remember the title of the book I’d love to read it.
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by nojs 6y ago
Thank you, that explains the willingness to entirely ditch the migrations framework in favour of raw sql!
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What are you building?
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by nojs 6y ago
Can you give some examples where a relational schema isn’t suitable?
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by nojs 6y ago
I can’t find the video I followed originally but what I do is pretty simple. I lie on the floor with one hand on my chest and one hand on my belly (just below the sternum). Then I breathe paying attention that only the lower hand moves, ie
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by nojs 6y ago
I have found breathing exercises to strengthen my diaphragm hugely helpful for acid reflux. I lie down with weights on my abdomen and breathe from the diaphragm for about 10 minutes a day. I’ve been able to stop PPIs completely by doing thi
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by nojs 6y ago
(Genuinely curious) in what sense do you mean that it’s considered cool? I don’t think most of these people are treated with admiration and respect in popular culture in the way normally associated with the word “cool”.

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