pumpkinhead

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The Musk Industrial Complex(reuters.com)
3 points by pumpkinhead 2y ago|0 comments
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The great toilet battle – Does Bill Gates have a solution? (YouTube vid)(youtube.com)
2 points by pumpkinhead 4y ago|1 comments
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by pumpkinhead 4y ago
This isn't a far-fetched as you might think. This damned virus seems to mutate at an alarmingly fast rate.
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by pumpkinhead 4y ago
Something very important that I didn't mention in my post - the virus mutates very quickly and each of the major variants seems to evade the vaccine of the last major variant. Here in Australia I will be going to get my 4th shot in a f
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by pumpkinhead 4y ago
People pushing extreme and divisive politics and religious beliefs are more likely to get votes when people are frightened and under stress. Unfortunate but true.
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by pumpkinhead 4y ago
Gain of function research is very important in that you get to see how a pathogen behaves. From this you can formulate a plan/vaccines/treatment etc. It is too difficult to infer from what is already known. You just gotta be caref
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by pumpkinhead 4y ago
That COVID-19 is new in humans, is incredibly fast spreading, evades both vaccines and tests worries me. Now it just needs to pick up some genes that can cause it to be more deadly and we are in a lot more trouble. Did a postgrad degree in
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by pumpkinhead 5y ago
"Interesting tidbit, the mongol empire had a significant but indirect part in the "discovery" of the americas by columbus." So did the Ottomans. Their monopoly of the eastern routes caused the Western kingdoms to go the
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Trivago should be fined $90m for misleading Australian consumers(theguardian.com)
3 points by pumpkinhead 5y ago|0 comments
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by pumpkinhead 5y ago
"However, there’s a version of GNAT released by AdaCore called “GNAT Community Edition” which is similar to FSF GNAT but does not provide the runtime exception." Ok, so if I download the GNAT Community Edition from Adacore, how I
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I’ve had the same supper for 10 years(theguardian.com)
888 points by pumpkinhead 5y ago|749 comments
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by pumpkinhead 5y ago
That is what exactly I think the Wuhan labs was studying, given that SARS did jump from another animal to human very recently. What would happen if these things mutate naturally and infect humans? They add gain-of-function genes to a near r
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More flushed wipes are clogging pipes, sending sewage into homes(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by pumpkinhead 5y ago|0 comments
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by pumpkinhead 5y ago
I want one of these to custom-make shoes for me and my family. Son has in-turning soles and the podiatrist has recommended specialist shoes. Imagine that - the podiatrist can just write configs/settings that you could load into the sho
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Tiger Worm Toilets(oxfamwash.org)
2 points by pumpkinhead 5y ago|0 comments
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Software firm Canva valued at $15B after latest investment(reuters.com)
3 points by pumpkinhead 5y ago|0 comments
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by pumpkinhead 6y ago
Brexit in general. I have been following what looks like an absolute clusterfuck: From the exporters at the border who didn't know they had to have the right paperwork to the Northern Ireland protocol. It looks too awful to be true.
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by pumpkinhead 6y ago
This Brexit thing - it's almost as if the British people didn't know anything at all when they voted for it. So many of them are genuinely surprised at what is happening. What happened?
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by pumpkinhead 6y ago
Thanks again for your work. I very much appreciate chisel.
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by pumpkinhead 6y ago
We already have something that serves the purpose. It is called a test suite. Unit and functional tests usually. Keep them updated and run them for every build.
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by pumpkinhead 6y ago
The people in a country that has outsized influence in the country I live in came to their senses and voted out their leader. Other than politics my 11-year old son understanding the Roblox API, and 8-year old daughter topping her class in
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by pumpkinhead 6y ago
Pharo Smalltalk. For web apps there is Seaside and small restful stuff like Teapot. But I use plain Zinc. Anyways, the famous Smalltalk interactive development makes for the fastest and intuitive experience ever (for me at least). Dolphin S
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by pumpkinhead 6y ago
Windows Terminal with PowerShell. With Terminal I run git, psql, hg, vim, sqlite. With PS I slice and dice text, csv, xml, mock up web services and clients, curl, ssh, write helper scripts, etc. Better than any unix shell I have ever used.