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by pacaro 6y ago
FWIW, it's "make do", not "make due", due and do are not homophones in British English
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by pacaro 6y ago
I've always been a fan of Heavens-Above for this kind of thing... https://www.heavens-above.com/SkyChart.aspx?lat=47.6&lng=-12... https://www.heavens-above.com/comet.aspx?cid=C%2F2020%20F3&l...
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by pacaro 6y ago
In my day job I'm frequently chasing down older code, looking through blame/annotate etc. Commit messages with links to bugs and docs are often the fastest answer to the fundamental questions "Why is this thus? What is the
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by pacaro 6y ago
I wasn't quite as unimpressed with ratio as you seem to have been, but I do think that there is really enough information there for a pamphlet not a complete book. Being able to think of doughs and batters as a state-space of flour&#
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by pacaro 6y ago
FWIW very few hanzi/kanji/hanja are ideographic, some are, but in general they are considered logographic.
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by pacaro 6y ago
This is the original inspiration for Philly handstyle
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by pacaro 6y ago
A biased representation makes a lot of sense in this case because the feed mechanism is (by default) moving the fabric through at a consistent rate per needle cycle
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by pacaro 6y ago
I've pulled keycaps - I lost use of my left arm for half a year about 20 years ago, so I switched to one of the single handled layouts that is available out of the box on windows, I switched the key caps on an old IBM PS/2 keyboar
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by pacaro 6y ago
I remember using strings in the early 90s on DOS boxen, no recollection of where I got it from though, maybe a coverdisk, I could have implemented it myself, it's relatively trivial. It's also worth remembering that DOS came wit
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by pacaro 6y ago
Also known as raddle not every Ram or Tup will tolerate a harness, so sometimes powdered raddle is mixed with vegetable oil and smeared over his chest. It gives the farmer quite a lot of information, by changing the color every 17 days (
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by pacaro 7y ago
No. TFA makes clear that they are not looking for a SNP, but rather a deletion. In a comment further up, they suggest a deletion on the order of several hundred base pairs
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by pacaro 7y ago
I suspect that you'd need to get lenses made for a vintage frame. I don't think that pince nez has been a commercially viable option for about 100 years
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Amazon Employee in Seattle Tests Positive for Coronavirus(geekwire.com)
47 points by pacaro 7y ago|4 comments
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by pacaro 7y ago
That looks so much better to me. The cognitive load is significantly reduced
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by pacaro 7y ago
The article title is rather more informative Helping businesses and schools stay connected in response to Coronavirus
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by pacaro 7y ago
Feels like this could be a case where DRY could fix a bug in one place
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by pacaro 7y ago
Good question, and I don't know that easy/hard is the correct dimension here. They do seem to be been caught off guard by some combination of how quickly the electric car market has taken off, and what is possible to build. There
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by pacaro 7y ago
It's interesting that the Wikipedia article on "fagging" — as the practice was known — paints a much rosier picture of the practice. When I grew up it was definitely presented as being demeaning and having no particular merit
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by pacaro 7y ago
It feels to me like there is a symmetry of arrogance here. Traditional car companies are finding that making an electric car is hard (emphasis on electric) Tesla is finding that making an electric car is hard (emphasis on car)
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by pacaro 7y ago
I think that this is a change that is due to modern diapers. IIRC Dr Spock, writing in the 40's, advised that if they are left to their own devices most children will potty train themselves by age 2
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by pacaro 7y ago
I used to own a three bedroom suburban townhouse that had 3½ baths. Each bedroom had a walk-in closet and en-suite bathroom. It definitely made the properties (this was a 10 unit condominium) attractive for people who wanted roommates
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by pacaro 7y ago
The phrase "free at the point of service" is sometimes used to describe this
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by pacaro 7y ago
It might not be worth the effort but... https://sciencing.com/make-phosphorus-4524329.html
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by pacaro 7y ago
Which makes eucalyptus problematic. Its introduction to California has done an incredible amount of damage, especially because the ecosystem can't process it, the bugs etc that can eat eucalyptus leaves and wood don't exist outsid
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by pacaro 7y ago
Okay, I guess I'm talking about the culture on the team as I experienced it, and culture definitely comes from the top in this case. I'm sure that some individuals behaved differently in other environments.
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by pacaro 7y ago
I'm certainly not saying that there was no ego on the team, but rather that (in comparison to the rest of MS over the 14 years I was there) engineers weren't as ego involved in technical decision making I definitely recall seeing
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by pacaro 7y ago
I was on the Midori team for just a year, and this is certainly true for me. I think that it's a combination of things, the project itself was very cool from a pure technical perspective, and the team was made up of brilliant engineers
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by pacaro 7y ago
I'm assuming that as populations become larger (more successful?) that the selection process becomes more diffuse. It's clear that sub-populations have evolved or acquired useful traits (particularly dietary adaptations) in relati
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by pacaro 7y ago
It's also interesting to look at the series from 1950 and see that regardless of "corrections" that there is a gradual upward trend, so even if a high value is predictive of a bubble we don't necessarily know what the th
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by pacaro 7y ago
I have fond memories from the mid nineties of a compiled xBase language that did this, their dominant version was Clipper Summer'87 — their last year numbered version, their next version was 5.0 and was so bad they lost most of their

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