oboes

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by oboes 4y ago
Interestingly, there is a similar French expression: "avaler des couleuvres" ("swallowing snakes"). It also means "doing things against your will", although it has the additional sense of doing them because you
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by oboes 4y ago
Another project from the same university is TRAPPIST. Named after Trappist beers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRAPPIST https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trappist_beer
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by oboes 4y ago
I've had Wikipedia random page as a browser starting page for years, and pages about sport (events or teams) and popular media are among the most common occurences. I believe those are just low hanging fruits for most Wikipedia contrib
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by oboes 4y ago
Interestingly, that Dijkstra article was originally published/circulated in handwritten form. It helps showcase the author's handwriting skills. https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd08xx/EWD831.PDF
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Have Scholars Finally Deciphered a Mysterious Ancient Script?(smithsonianmag.com)
3 points by oboes 4y ago|0 comments
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by oboes 4y ago
I don't know about Arnell's case, but it's actually possible to turn orange by eating orange things. Although I think it's more common with carrots and young children. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C
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by oboes 4y ago
The French newspaper "Le Monde diplomatique" made a very interesting family tree for media ownership in France: https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/cartes/PPA
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by oboes 4y ago
I thought it was going to be the website whose hosting location is at the highest altitude. I wonder what that one would be now.
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by oboes 4y ago
Although I know Katherine Johnson was African-American, by looking at pictures of her [1] she actually looks white-skinned to me. Was she considered of black ancestry because of the "one-drop rule" in the USA at the time? Or maybe
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by oboes 4y ago
In my opinion doctors underestimate the danger of benzos. They also often don't know that there is a black market for benzos (like there is for any other drug). Patients will be able to find benzos if they look for them even if they do
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Chukudu(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by oboes 4y ago|0 comments
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by oboes 4y ago
In many countries (at least in Europe) there are harm reduction associations that can test the product for you at no cost and anonymously. In some cases you can even ask for a GC-MS, which is accurate enough to distinguish even between clos
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by oboes 5y ago
The website of the team excavating the archeological site where this object was found contain more information and fascinating pictures: http://www.griffinwarrior.org/
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China Hawks Don't Understand How Science Advances(theatlantic.com)
7 points by oboes 5y ago|1 comments
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by oboes 5y ago
Or Ferdinand Cheval's "Palais idéal": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Cheval
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by oboes 5y ago
Math tutoring to get some money on the side when I was a student. I was mostly doing it for friends and friends of friends, many of them from poor background, so never got much money out of it since I was often ending not asking to be paid
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by oboes 5y ago
In that case the objections seem reasonable. Here in Belgium there is a growing controversy surrounding a chemical plant in Antwerp leaking PFOS [1] in the environment. Due to this, scientists from the University of Antwerp now advise local
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by oboes 5y ago
Problem is that it might be the case that this culture pass will only be spendable on government-subsidized venues. In my country there already exists culture pass programs for young/poor people, but you can only use them in big/s
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The Source of Solar Energy, ca. 1840-1910(arxiv.org)
2 points by oboes 5y ago|0 comments
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by oboes 5y ago
No, don't know if it was because of this test (I did complain when they asked me for my opinion of the test). I found something else some time later and I think I dodged a bullet. I think the blame for this test might lie on government
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by oboes 5y ago
While going through the interview process for a government-owned agency tasked with developing IT products for my city, I was told that as per regulation I had to pass some kind of test organized by a third-party HR company. The interviewer
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by oboes 6y ago
Location: Belgium Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Not at the moment (maybe after COVID?) Technologies: C++ (Boost, CGAL), C, Python (numpy, pandas), R (Bioconductor), Linux (Bash, Debian, Arch), some C# for Unity, mathematics (PhD dropout)
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by oboes 6y ago
Interestingly, there is also some research suggesting that Vikings might have brought back Native American people to Iceland from their travels to Vinland. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajpa.
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Curiosities of Biological Nomenclature(curioustaxonomy.net)
8 points by oboes 7y ago|1 comments