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by pacaro 9y ago
I remember writing code for Psion (later Symbian) Epoc32 in the late 90s and early thousands. It was a big deal that Cygnus had done the work to make gcc support ARM because the vendor compiler was (IIRC) some weird combiniation of expensiv
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by pacaro 9y ago
It’s probably most effective to identify the software and font that produced the original, exact positioning of text is complex: you’d need to identify kerning pairs, spacing rules within lines, sub pixel positioning (where appropriate), et
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by pacaro 9y ago
All participants lived in a society with socialized healthcare built around a “free at the point of service” model. That’s not to say that socioeconomic status doesn’t play a part (as other commenters have noted) but the difference in acces
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by pacaro 9y ago
A pharmaceutical formulation lab needs to know which documents have been authorized, so I’m assuming that this is still a thing, with or without a secretarial pool. We also all had day books with numbered pages for all working notes. Signed
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by pacaro 9y ago
Having professional minutes was amazing, maybe we’ll be able to automate it at some point. I would assume that an automated transcript isn’t so far away.
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by pacaro 9y ago
In 1989 I worked at a pharmaceutical firm that still had a secretarial pool. As a lab technician if I was writing a document (typically a Standard Opening Procedure or SOP) I was expected to write it by hand and leave a copy in my outbox (l
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by pacaro 9y ago
The normal consensus in the free diving community is that meditation is more effective that hyperventilating, there is more to gain by reducing your heart rate than by increasing the amount of oxygen in your blood, hyperventilating tends to
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by pacaro 9y ago
Yeah, revolution is definitely hyperbole, but from experience it does change the way you think about “popping into a store” because it really can take so little time. This can be both good and bad; you can pick up lunch in a hurry without
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by pacaro 9y ago
The revolution is in how you spend your time. On an ordinary day when you know what you want for lunch, it can take under a minute to pop in and get it, under 10 seconds if you’re in a hurry.
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by pacaro 9y ago
We had a homebirth in San Francisco, it was all on the up and up. The Midwife was notionally under the supervision of an Obstetrician, but the reality was that my wife’s obstetrician simply recommended a midwifery practice when we asked abo
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by pacaro 9y ago
Here’s an example: while in college, I was in a building that was on fire. A passerby ran into the entrance and asked us if we knew the building was in fire (we didn’t). When the fire was reported by the student newspaper, the only details
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by pacaro 9y ago
The usual advice w.r.t. patents is to not read them. This may seem odd, but it can be the difference between knowing and unknowing infringement. Knowing infringement results in triple damages. IANAL — just repeating consistent advice I ha
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by pacaro 9y ago
An Armenian friend of mine marinades chicken in onion juice (obtained by crushing halved onions with his bare hands), salt, and black pepper, before grilling. Delicious
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by pacaro 9y ago
This is a great example of how limiting ASCII is. It doesn’t even contain the full set of punctuation that correct (!) English requires. It supposes that you are satisfied using ' for both ‘ and ’, and " for both “ and ”, and elim
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by pacaro 9y ago
The theory that I’ve heard is that reliable heating lead to the general decline in hat wearing. Not sure what to think. If you look at pictures taken in public places as late as the 1950s then almost everyone is wearing a hat.
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by pacaro 9y ago
Be careful, the coding in free time is an interesting signal to be sure, but considering one engineer to be better than another purely on the basis that they code in their free time is anti-diverse
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by pacaro 9y ago
I’m not an archeologist, and you raise an interesting question, but from what I can find, the Neolithic paddles that we know about have much more efficient shapes. As a recreational kayaker and paddler for 35 years, I can certainly attest t
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by pacaro 9y ago
English grammar and orthography are weird and funky, but given that the title is summarized anyway, can we change “has plead” to “has pleaded” or “pleads”
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by pacaro 9y ago
Seconded. It got my hair color wrong (I have light mousey brown hair, with a sprinkle of gray, the app creates an avatar with dark brown hair), and it got my eye color wrong (it chose brown over my blue) While the idea is admirable, there i
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by pacaro 9y ago
I was always taught... "It's the volts wot jolts, its the mills wot kills."
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by pacaro 9y ago
Wow. Goes to show how things can go unnoticed. I just went the the fridge to fact check your comment (!) and discovered cashewmilk, coconutmilk, and soymilk. I had never noticed the disappearing space
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by pacaro 9y ago
And currently the dairy industry in Europe is litigating to ensure that only mammalian milk is allowed to be sold as milk, this would appear to going in the face of hundreds of years of history of calling other things milk. I wonder what Mi
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The Big Vitamin D Mistake(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
756 points by pacaro 9y ago|441 comments
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by pacaro 9y ago
Shogi is a fun game, it always feels a little sad that it doesn't get more exposure outside of Japan (and my understanding is that, by and large, in Japan it is considered an "old persons" game) Because captured pieces change
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by pacaro 9y ago
Have you checked out https://moxboardinghouse.com they have an events calendar and a very friendly atmosphere.
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by pacaro 9y ago
Yeah, by 1535 Dürer has published Applied Geometry which contains a detailed geometric description of how to for capital letters. I’ve been down this rabbit hole in the past! http://pollrobots.blogspot.com/2013/10&#x2
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by pacaro 9y ago
I would see it as less a false dichotomy than just recognizing that these issues are not always orthogonal.
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by pacaro 9y ago
Agree for sure. Especially management enthusiasm
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by pacaro 9y ago
When a refactor cannot be done in an iterative fashion — there are some changes that are just too fundamental to be done in small pieces — then one approach is to write a review guide, document what has changed and why, indicate to reviewer
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by pacaro 9y ago
I can’t speak for anyone else, but the move to use shell builtins rather than spawning processes for say `true` (as the most extreme example) could easily be considered an example of Unix having started with brute force and having become mo

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