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by nwatson 5y ago
This works well only if you're supporting a linear evolution of releases, no branching or LTS or back-porting.
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by nwatson 5y ago
I love Tempe, though, might hope to move back, have several siblings and surviving parent in the area. My wife's family is in North Carolina (moved here 8 years ago after 21 years in Silicon Valley) but some day ... might head back.
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by nwatson 5y ago
The "thejuicemedia" channel has a great series of "Honest Government" ads on Australian coal and energy policy ... expect a stream of expletives. Sample ad: https://youtu.be/OL8a1YEhk_o They have plenty
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by nwatson 5y ago
George Orwell dealt with this in the second half, the "London" part, of "Down and Out in Paris and London.". Good read.
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In the sterile style of Le Corbusier. I'm suddenly back in Brasília.
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by nwatson 5y ago
My wife also misses Mr Shields greatly, I do too.
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by nwatson 5y ago
We watch the full PBS NewsHour most nights, simulcast/streamed live on YouTube (also available on all/most PBS affiliates) ... and it's available for later viewing as well. Some would say it leans a bit left but I think it&#
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by nwatson 5y ago
A cult with huge pockets would love the Apple spaceship. Perhaps one could timeshare to multiple cults.
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by nwatson 5y ago
The author also wrote an excellent perspective on management/worker relationships and other corporate shenanigans called "The Gervais Principle" [0], set against the series "The Office.". It's definitely opinio
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by nwatson 5y ago
This scheme leaves out "-0" aka "negative zero" which apparently might be important in some contexts. Incomplete view : https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/2806...
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by nwatson 5y ago
In dealing with methylation one doesn't add to or remove the "code" to synthesize any particular protein from the cell(s) of the organism, the DNA/genes per se remains intact. The process inhibits / allows synthesi
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by nwatson 5y ago
What's the cost burden to Israel of the Kibbutzen vs the cost of supporting the ultra-conservative religious groups that don't serve in the military and rely (presumably) more heavily on welfare and other social subsidies?
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by nwatson 5y ago
The "edit Confluence in 'markdown'" looks like a good case, I see interest on Confluence site for importing markdown into Confluence (a no-go since the goal might be to keep content as markdown) [0] and support for a kee
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by nwatson 5y ago
I think Confluence and SourceTree both are great products. Jira is no pleasure but does the job especially at large scale. But Confluence especially, a great wiki, requires discipline to avoid a mess but all wikis do.
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by nwatson 5y ago
Azure, Windows Server, SQL Server, Exchange, MS office, Dynamics, anything else in the enterprise suite where C# is a good integrator.
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by nwatson 5y ago
Or work remotely. One can make way above prevailing local salaries working remotely for SF Bay Area companies.
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by nwatson 5y ago
The poem reminds me of the Coen Brothers movie "Ballad of Buster Scruggs", released on Netflix a few years ago, which presents four (or five) vignettes. In one of these Harry Melling plays a handicapped performer of poems in the &
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by nwatson 5y ago
In the USA the US Army Corp of Engineers is heavily involved in public/civilian infrastructure. For example, see this article on their involvement and attendant controversy in Hurricane Katrina (2000s New Orleans): https://e
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by nwatson 5y ago
For words ending in "L" as well ... "som" (sound), "Brasil" (Brazil), the last consonants are dropped. Words ending in R like "lar" (home) often get a gutteralized or dropped R.
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by nwatson 5y ago
The very unparallel difference between prostitution and labor though (pre-modern-technology) is that the former often left a permanent, enduring, and very personal reminder of the activity ... a child. That's the genesis of almost all
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by nwatson 5y ago
Many/most Christians take the Bible as a partial historical record of God's action in past times, and I'd hope that big chunks come across as eyewitness accounts of what real people saw and experienced ... see e.g. Gospel of
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by nwatson 5y ago
I use JetBrains PyCharm with type annotations in my code. I run the type-checker/linter ("Inspect Code") every 10 minutes or so, it's muscle-memory at this point. It covers most cases, problem resolved.
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This software phenomenon has led me to feel the "reverse" of this in real life, and to start assuming some wild things, e.g., (a) I know someone was recently in the room with me; (b) they have not left through the doors or the w
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by nwatson 5y ago
In which Pat Metheny tries to replace his whole band with guitar-triggered control of real, non-guitar instruments (keyboards, drums, etc) ... "Orchestrion" ... https://youtu.be/KsYEOUKS4Yk
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by nwatson 5y ago
In Brazil and probably many other places a "hotel" is a reputable place of lodging to which you might take your family, a "motel" is where you go for whatever you might consider "illicit amorous encounters." I
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by nwatson 6y ago
Probably a reference to how JPA-Hibernate lets you fatten up your creatures (in memory) and then put them to sleep (in the RDBMS) until they're ready to play again.
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by nwatson 6y ago
I like SourceTree from Atlassian, I dip into the command-line from time to time but it meets many needs. Only problem is, no Linux version, only macOS and Windows. But that's now solved with WSL2 ... code in Linux/Docker/PyC
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by nwatson 6y ago
It kind of works in Python 3.9 and perhaps earlier, unfortunately need extra parentheses ... >>> print((v1 := 2 * 3) * (v2 := 7)) 42 >>> print(v1) 6 >>> print(v2) 7 edit: formatting
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by nwatson 6y ago
How about also the legacy of a large number of fabs and of electronics design, manufacturing, and education in Arizona? Intel, Honeywell, Motorola, ASU ..., the list is large. Arizona has a wealth of semiconductor know-how. EDIT: not the
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Cats are an evolutionary pressure on marsupials to make them "more fit" over generations and withstand future cats. Some want to let COVID run rampant so that likewise future human generations will be immune to it -- those people

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