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by nwatson 6y ago
Not my position but per some, feral-cat:marsupial :: COVID:human .
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by nwatson 6y ago
I run VcXsrv X-Window on Windows (Multiple windows mode) and then from WSL2 Ubuntu I've run e.g. "terminator" and Jetbrains CLion C++/Rust GUI, Linux Version "~/bin/clion.sh &". It works very wel
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by nwatson 6y ago
WOF == you understand your software while you're writing/developing it but give it a rest for a Trump's "two weeks" and you'll have no clue what you did.
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by nwatson 6y ago
I hope to understand the ecosystem better ... and imagine that at some point the greener operation and greater utility of Ethereum ETH 2.0 will beat out Bitcoin. Will this lead to better returns for Ethereum over Bitcoin medium- or long-ter
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by nwatson 6y ago
I remember joining a couple waves on day one, quickly devolved to chaos. The collaborative editing was cool and I'm sure Google cannibalized that for Google Docs et al
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by nwatson 6y ago
For a fun dive into "competitive glass-blowing" take a look at Blown Away, two seasons on Netflix. One of my daughter's favorites. It's a good look at artists, technicians, creativity, and personalities. https:/&#
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by nwatson 6y ago
Sensage/Addamark was too early to the columnar storage game in 2001-2003 ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensage .
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Why all the world's coronavirus would fit in a can of cola(bbc.com)
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by nwatson 6y ago
Type annotations in recent 3.x releases though have made Python a much better language, and in practice the Jetbrains- (Pycharm-)-bundled type-checkers work very well. I'm much more comfortable recently working with larger codebases i
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by nwatson 6y ago
"/pc" == "per piece" == apiece
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by nwatson 6y ago
Arizona has a long tradition in and worker base for semiconductor manufacturing.
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by nwatson 6y ago
Why does a software engineer keep old git-repo branches around, including their history? The engineer can compare the before-and-after especially as they relate to experiments, successful, and failed approaches. A plastic surgeon might wan
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by nwatson 6y ago
Yep, in dealing with a fair-sized Python 3.8 codebase, type annotations with "Optional [...]" (nullable) and "Tuple[..]" (multivalue) coupled with a static type checker (in PyCharm) has been enough to mitigate the worst
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by nwatson 6y ago
You can buy cashew-fruit concentrate in most U.S. grocery stores with a large Latin American selection. Even in Winston-Salem, NC where I live at "Compare Foods" supermarket. It's called "Jugo de Marañón" (juice o
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by nwatson 6y ago
The damage from nuclear bombs in Japan was marginal or on par compared to the damage from massive firebombing in a typical Japanese city in 1945. The effects of atomic bombs on Pacific Theatre outcome in WW2 is overrated.
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by nwatson 6y ago
North Carolina is decent. Made the move in 2013, been working for SF Bay Area companies since. Cost of living is very low, kids' education is decent (impacted by COVID-19 currently, of course).
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by nwatson 6y ago
QAnon/mark-of-the-beast folks will run hard with this one.
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by nwatson 6y ago
The "Cleaning Services" people in the U.S. and I suspect Europe are either independent contractors or wage workers for an independent contractor. They don't do 8-plus hour shifts in your home, or even live in your own home i
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by nwatson 6y ago
For one more Brazilian country classic, "Asa Branca" (White Wing) ... Luiz Gonzaga - Asa Branca ft. Fagner, Sivuca, Guadalupe ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsFSHg2hxbc ... https://www.youtube.com&#
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by nwatson 6y ago
You can trace a lineage from that German (?) cheese to Brazilian música sertaneja (country music), as in "Rumo À Goiânia" (Road to Goiânia), this rendition by Leonardo and Zezé di Camargo: https://www.youtube.com/
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by nwatson 6y ago
Looking good, might try using them for a project!
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by nwatson 6y ago
I've so often needed to understand what a library does when I call a function or use native or third-party class. In PyCharm or IntelliJ I can easily set a breakpoint at the call and dive into that third-party implementation. Intelli
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by nwatson 6y ago
Hmmm, lawyers, they will be involved. Add astronomical insurance and liability costs when things do go wrong in less-constrained and less-controlled environments.
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by nwatson 6y ago
Brasília was built in the middle of nowhere in the 1950s/1960s. It took the mandate of federal government relocation to bring in the middle- and upper-classes who could afford life in the Plano Piloto (the Pilot Plan, the main part of
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by nwatson 6y ago
I think the fallout in certain religious communities, especially American Protestant Evangelicalism, will be very interesting. Before you dismiss the group as irrelevant to mainstream American life and the current COVID-19 pandemic and the
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by nwatson 6y ago
Diezmo (Spanish) and Dizmo (Portuguese) also mean "tithe", an obligatory offering of a tenth of income to churches or religious or charitable organizations. (Growing up in South America in a religious family, I heard both these w
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by nwatson 6y ago
Hmm, I think (Atlassian) Confluence is quite awesome. While you can still replicate the mess you'd naturally have in Google-Docs or OneNote or other places, at least with Confluence if you have a coherent vision for how your organize
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Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro tests positive for coronavirus(theguardian.com)
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While not an API with multiple translations, there are sophisticated desktop software packages like "Accordance Bible" ( https://www.accordancebible.com/ ) that will let one view any chosen, supported, English trans
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by nwatson 6y ago
Kind of sounds when pronounced in Portuguese like Kibbeh ( https://www.oliviascuisine.com/kibbeh-lebanese-beef-croquett... ), Lebanese "beef croquettes" (I never was a big fan). Usually spelled "kibe" in

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