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by overlordalex 5y ago
> The amount of those popups elements I have hidden using ublock with right click, it's staggering. I have a bookmarklet saved that simply deletes fixed elements, making it faster and easier to get rid of those[0]. However I have no
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by overlordalex 5y ago
What is your opinion of the analysis from LastPass themselves?[0] It seems to have been some internal alerting that went wrong, which does happen from time to time. > Our initial findings led us to believe that these alerts were trigger
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by overlordalex 5y ago
It's actually worse than that in the US. NO mandated vacation time (not even public holidays), no paid maternity leave, at-will employment, minimal labour laws, minimal consumer protections, etc.
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by overlordalex 5y ago
You can go one further - last year I tried to solve every problem in a different language! I first heard of people doing this for codejam, and it works just as well for AoC My 2c from the experience, * I hated Go for this style of programmi
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by overlordalex 5y ago
It's just something every interviewer starts off with and frankly, is a waste of time. It may be a waste of time for you, but as an interviewer it seriously helps nervous candidates find their footing by starting something th
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by overlordalex 5y ago
To throw my suggestion in there, the FitOn app[1,2] is free and separates exercises into categories and intensities, and you can even sort by time if want. The instructors are pretty good, and if you just want to try out Yoga for a week or
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by overlordalex 5y ago
As a night owl, I abandoned the consistent bedtime approach and went with a pure consistent waketime. The approach that worked for me was having the same wake time, irrespective of time of year, light levels, or tiredness. There are some da
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by overlordalex 5y ago
I've always thought a _very_ effective strategy would be to get a crop-duster and spray a prion-contaminated mist over a major city, basically contaminating every public surface in a large area I'm also not sure how you would begi
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by overlordalex 5y ago
Warning: The site has some funky scrolling, but if you keep going there is more information that eventually shows up. $scrolljackingRant
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by overlordalex 5y ago
Scary Bitches is a good one - my favourites are "Lesbian Vampyres From Outer Space", "Birds and Bees", and of course, "Bad Hair Day"
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by overlordalex 5y ago
Something that we're trialling is first asking several questions similar to what we would ask in an interview[1], and only if the answers make sense then asking for a candidates CV. This means that by the time we see the CV we're
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by overlordalex 5y ago
There is also the famous one starting in Stockholm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_Solar_System
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by overlordalex 5y ago
You can always look at the size dimension instead - you can relatively easily have the planets to scale next to each other (As long as you exclude the sun, of course). Ever since I found out that the planets would fit neatly into the gap be
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by overlordalex 5y ago
In South Africa voting is always on a Wednesday, and I've always been told the logic is: Avoid Monday and Friday so that workers won't take a 3 day weekend. Similarly, avoid Tuesday and Thursday so that workers don't take a v
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by overlordalex 5y ago
In this case it seems to specifically be the contractor, whereas Facebook allows it. I agree it's not a good reason for this article, but explains why some might choose this type of work over working the grill at maccas > Isabella c
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by overlordalex 5y ago
Off the top of my head: - This can be done from home. - It can be done by individuals with mobility issues, or other conditions preventing them from leaving home - Ability to have a flexible schedule (not sure how FB handles this, but I can
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by overlordalex 6y ago
Drug smuggling submarines are much closer to pre-world-war-2 submarines than the nuclear military submarines you may be thinking of. These submarines are essentially boats that sit with almost all of their profile under water, and often may
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by overlordalex 6y ago
Saudi Arabia only consists of about 6% of the USA's petroleum imports [2019]: https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php "Nice PR" is always going to be a side effect of any policy, depending on your vi
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by overlordalex 6y ago
This reminds of the third party Reddit app that started life as "Reddit is Fun", which had to be re-branded to "RiF" once Reddit itself started developing its own app. However apparently that was still unacceptable and i
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by overlordalex 6y ago
JPL produced a video titled "7 minutes of terror" that detailed the landing procedure they used for Curiosity, and it's worth a watch. It goes into detail on everything you see in the articles landing video: https:/&#x2
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by overlordalex 6y ago
Pregnancy and abortion is mentioned in the first two sentences. From there the article wanders a bit, but I would say it's a pretty strong introduction. Unless I misunderstood the point of the article
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by overlordalex 6y ago
My go-to example is "awful". The original meaning is literally to be full of awe. I think you would be hard-pressed to find a speaker today that adheres to that meaning over simply meaning "very bad", which is almost an
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by overlordalex 6y ago
Spoiler: Is it the number of letters? That is, only an even-length string is permitted?
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by overlordalex 6y ago
I've used the same before, I believe also inspired by a similar HN comment. I was delighted to find that it's actually been developed into a complete game as well[1] However to add my 2c to the conversation how I introduced progra
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by overlordalex 6y ago
Interestingly their uptime for the quarter is still 100% despite a full-red dashboard. I wonder if that's something that is calculated only after an outage is resolved
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by overlordalex 6y ago
For anyone who is interested, the article is available to read online https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima Here is the most recent time it was posted (5 months ago) https://
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by overlordalex 6y ago
This excerpt from a JFK speech[1] is rather relevant: > But even if we act to erase material poverty, there is another greater task, it is to confront the poverty of satisfaction - purpose and dignity - that afflicts us all. Too much an
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by overlordalex 6y ago
I'm on Android and I get this popup in Instagram every few months (I'm assuming because I decline every time), so I doubt it's iOS related
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by overlordalex 6y ago
From https://lichess.org/source > Lichess is written in Scala 2.13, and relies on the Play 2.8 framework. scalatags is used for templating. Pure chess logic is contained in the scalachess submodule. The server is fully a
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by overlordalex 6y ago
Then I think you'd be excited to know that there is a major content update coming on the 8th of October that adds logic, wires, and some other new components to make the late game more interesting. That being said, I thoroughly enjoyed

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