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by pacaro 4y ago
There's a two edged sword here, both for the university student and the independent learner Learning in a structured environment provides access to the orthodox in the field of study. This can be very valuable to limit unnecessary expl
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by pacaro 4y ago
Yes. I suspect that nobody involved in this kind of thought process would argue with that. While the liver is outside the human body it is no longer being a liver for a human body. It is in some other state If we took a human kidney and use
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by pacaro 4y ago
In hindsight we worked on some very cool and very crazy things. The emailer (of course), the brother geobook (the first thing I worked on was an ill-fated color port), web libraries for the psion5 browser (a whole different tail of woe), a
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by pacaro 4y ago
Apparently we did have OTA updates, but I definitely recall that the first batch all had to be reflashed, so the version on the hardware must have had a fairly critical bug. The article mentions that people would buy the emailer and not use
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by pacaro 4y ago
Ha! I worked on this at a small company called STNC, who were acquired by Microsoft in July 1999. We provided the software. Random recollections. The codename at Atari was BSI which IIRC stood for Bob's Stupid Idea The screen was a dis
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by pacaro 4y ago
AFAICT recommended max daily dose of molybdenum is 2mg per day. Above that it starts to get pretty nasty
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by pacaro 4y ago
This was the example that came to mind for me. An MD friend, who was a medical student in the mid 90s was absolutely convinced for this, because it had been conveyed with a sense of great authority in a lecture at medical school.
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by pacaro 4y ago
Iron isn't as easily available from vegetables as it is from meat. So in general no. Spinach is also a contender (along with rhubarb) for being one of the most concentrated sources of oxelate, which those of us who have had kidney ston
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by pacaro 4y ago
My personal favorite are the prescient directions "turn right about a mile before the creek"
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by pacaro 4y ago
I've seen more than one team find that reimplementing an OpenCV capability that they use gain them both in quality and performance. This isn't necessarily a criticism of OpenCV, often the OpenCV implementation is, of necessity, qu
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by pacaro 4y ago
To build in the brewing part, before it was replaced by hops, it was the plant that gave its name "Bilsenkraut" to the city of Pilsen. So not just occasionally used, but significant enough that places where named for it
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by pacaro 4y ago
Maybe ... if answers.get('I exist'): print('a') Which is why you should always explicitly check for None if that is your intent.
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by pacaro 4y ago
The variant in question is autosomal recessive, so my sibling has two copies of the genes and I got lucky and have one
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by pacaro 4y ago
One of my siblings has hereditary hemochromatosis, so their body retains far more iron than it should. This is not fun. Careful diet helps slow the buildup, but the only effective treatment is blood letting
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by pacaro 4y ago
It can be bad. My partner has fairly severe chronic iron deficiency anemia, an infection landed them in an ICU followed by a month of hospitalization
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by pacaro 4y ago
Prolog uses /\ and \/ for bitwise AND and OR respectively, which certainly tips a hat to one system of logic notation—of course for conjunction and disjunction between clauses it uses , (comma) and ; (semi-colon)
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by pacaro 4y ago
Ageism is a weird one from a discrimination standpoint. My understanding is that it's specifically defined (in the US) to prevent discrimination against those over 40 As an engineer in my 50s I've never personally been on the rece
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by pacaro 4y ago
This is an important perspective. We all have to find our own peace with how the food we eat is produced. Temple Grandin discusses this in "Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals" [1]. She discusses the distress
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by pacaro 4y ago
The hoover free flights promotion is a good cautionary tale https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_free_flights_promotio...
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by pacaro 4y ago
I think that you correctly identify this as a privilege. This points to another deeper problem that drives this. Americans expect to be able to eat meat, even when eating cheap food. Historically the food of poverty has either not included
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by pacaro 4y ago
While this isn't relevant to my line of work, so looking at it isn't going to be problematic, I don't think that posting direct links to patents is a good idea. Just one employee reading a patent can have implications on a bu
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by pacaro 4y ago
a.k.a. Vantucky
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by pacaro 4y ago
Heelys are fun — I got a pair when my kid got a pair — but they have a couple of drawbacks, they are very fussy about surface quality, not great with slopes, and impose a significant heel, which impacts posture and walking geometry (almost
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by pacaro 4y ago
OS/2 Warp was 40 or so floppies, and sold at such a discount that buying a copy was the cheapest way I knew to get high quality floppies when I was in college
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by pacaro 4y ago
Yes, sadly finding people who are willing to admit to knowing ASN.1 and who are willing to work on ASN.1 isn't so easy
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by pacaro 4y ago
Which means Americans have homophones that are not homophones in other variants of English. Leading to, for example, confusion over whether someone should "make do" or "make due". In British English, there is no ambiguit
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by pacaro 4y ago
Also scheme and prolog The problem you can then run into is that a mathematical operation can OOM
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by pacaro 4y ago
Aah, that makes more sense
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by pacaro 4y ago
https://i.imgur.com/YnHiRTG.png 20px looks good to me, but maybe it's subjective.
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by pacaro 4y ago
They're not using 30⁰ though, but rather 1:2 (approx 26.5⁰) So this is 16 × √2 ≈ 22.6 or 23px, which seems over tall to me

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