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by rtsil 5y ago
Developers realize how bad the visual experience is, how the tracking scripts, the megapixel images and the huge videos are ruining their perfect pagespeed insights score, slowing down everything, eating the visitor's mobile plan and a
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> Here in Wisconsin, a vital supply for fixing flats while on a ride is mosquito repellent. Where I am, in the south of France, as well. And they are of the really aggressive species!
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> I carry a spare tube and a patch kit, but typically patch the punctured tube at home. Paranoid me always carry two spare tubes, a patch kit and a puncture repair spray (it's supposed to inject a product that reinflates the tyre im
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It's terrifying, to be honest.
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The "it was incredibly common" part is the theory. I don't know if anyone else besides Roger Ekirch supports it, which doesn't mean it's false of course. Our ignorance of things past is gigantic and not helped by th
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I like its boolean method wellHasItThen(). It pretty much describes the mood of the developer at the time of writing.
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But people are already gaming the system, and on any search from product reviews to code snippets, I see SEO-optimized spams populating the top results. Good content creator don't have the time or the technical inclination to reverse-e
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> if a doctor suggests that you have surgery and it's not an immediate need, you should seek the opinion of several other professionals to see if you really need the surgery or if the doctor just likes doing that one. In France too,
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> children were largely unaffected by covid The issue is not with that, it's with your second claim re: large risk with the vaccine. That's the claim that needs to be substantiated.
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JWST was (re)launched in 2005, the very idea of cheap spaceflight didn't exist back then, so you'd have ended up with three expensive flights. Also consider that the expected cost back then was $4.5 billion.
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Thanks for the recommendation, this is exactly the type of things I need. It suspect it will even be useful for my music theory learning!
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It depends on the type of activity for me. For maths or computing, I prefer a text by far, video is too slow and doesn't allow me to go to the essential. For jazz guitar and bike repairs, video is where I learn the most.
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That's what I always tell myself, except by the time I need to redo a similar task, months have passed and I have to re-read the documentation again.
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OLGA was the Eldorado for my teen self. Its demise was a disaster. I still have a full copy of its archives somewhere collecting dust in my old hard drives.
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In addition to that, the same set of notes can represent different chords depending on the context and the chord's function, so instead of just picking up notes and recognizing them, the software has to actually understand the chord pr
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> I can assume that if you are taking those measures, you also avoid crowds of any sort. Correct. Being a software developer helps immensely.
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Try the Amazon Music app (the non-unlimited version) and you'll find Shopify a masterwork of user-friendliness.
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> I remember the start when folks wiped down delivered groceries. Even isolated them for a few days. I still isolate groceries for at least 6 hours, delivered or not. Still clean my hands or wear a glove when I touch something outside. I
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Anybody can make a video. A rocket, let alone a reusable one, appears to be harder.
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When Google don't work, then I go to the documentation, the manual or the book. To use the article's analogy, these are the equivalent of going to the supermarket. If the knowledge is already in the documentation or a book, why sh
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I am a really mediocre player. But one can be a mediocre cook and understand and appreciate fine cuisine, or a couch athlete and understand the subtleties of football strategies. It's the difference between passive analysis and action.
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Not if "too much" is relative to their physiology. How much is too much varies for each person.
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First Chick Corea, now Pat Martino. This has been a sad year for jazz lovers.
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I am ashamed to say that, having been trained in classical music, I used to think exactly the same thing about jazz. Jazz for me was either elevator music or random noises mixed together. Until I finally listened to it seriously and studied
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That doesn't address the problem of these bots discarding many potentially good resumes because they don't include enough keywords. If the position is only open to people who worked at a FAANG, then make that clear in the job post
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Wealthy is like AI, always the next step, never the current circumstances. Even with 1 million in the bank, the only risk you may face is a slightly worse lifestyle and the possibility of having to relocate to a cheaper area. In a world whe
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Why do you expect machines to not enter the domain of design and algorithms as well? Is there something specifically human about them? I expect most human intellectual activities of today (from coding to scriptwriting to medicine) can be pe
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> they aren't preventing the spread. > less likely to infect their close contacts than are unvaccinated people with Delta I don't see these as contradictory. Vaccines are more effective against transmissions, yet vaccines d
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Facebook removing images of Courbet's painting L'Origine du Monde, the Venus of Willendorf, or Youtube restricting a videoclip from Brassens' Les Passantes to 18+ viewers. All perfect examples of nonsense puritanical values t
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This is exactly what I'm aiming to do with my guitar playing. To internalize the instrument so much that I can only focus on the music and not have to think about where and how I should use my fingers. I practice hard to be able to ach

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