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by sidpatil 7y ago
Green coffee doesn't really go stale—it can be kept in storage for long periods of time without loss of quality. Once you roast it, it's a different story—it's recommended to consume coffee ideally within two weeks of roastin
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by sidpatil 7y ago
> Does it follow that a job that does not provide income is not useful to society even if you consider the thing being worked on to be worthwhile? No, it does not follow. The most prominent example: parenting.
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by sidpatil 7y ago
> I was just discussing with a colleague how technology accretes and how no one reevaluates high-level design decisions even after every single factor leading to those decisions has changed. Like a Ship of Theseus...
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by sidpatil 7y ago
I love websites like this—online museums which catalog relatively-mundane items. It reminds me that these "mundane" items actually have a lot of history, and I'm sure a lot of interesting stories from those who worked on th
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by sidpatil 7y ago
https://photo.stackexchange.com/a/112702
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by sidpatil 7y ago
Slight correction: The Computer History Museum is located in Mountain View.
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by sidpatil 7y ago
> Browsers still can't justify text properly. Even with hyphenation (which iirc is still a problem in Chrome), the greedy algorithm used for splitting text across lines still results in too much space between words when justified. &
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by sidpatil 7y ago
I'm still not too familiar with the differences between subtree and submodule. When should I use either?
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by sidpatil 7y ago
Yeah you can. It's called a hammer. ;-)
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by sidpatil 7y ago
> when the glycaemic spike would hit (often just from a bit of salad, but with lots of olive oil) Hmm, what other ingredients did you have in your salad? I would think the relatively low-carb (mostly leaves) and high-fat (olive oil) meal
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by sidpatil 7y ago
I really enjoy using Magit, since it makes partial commits a breeze. Unfortunately, it's notoriously slow on Windows, so I ended up migrating to Git's interactive-mode commit utility.
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by sidpatil 7y ago
> It's an alternative 'UI' to Git Also known as a porcelain , as opposed to the low-level commands known as the plumbing .
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by sidpatil 7y ago
There's also http://wiby.me , a search engine for finding lightweight pages and sites.
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Long Distance Tele-Robotic-Assisted Percutaneous Coronary Intervention(doi.org)
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by sidpatil 7y ago
A Markov chain would have been able to produce a text like that.
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by sidpatil 7y ago
If you like the way this website is presented, you may like http://wiby.me . It's a search engine for simple (i.e. minimal CSS/JS, fast to load) websites.
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by sidpatil 7y ago
> among Hiroshima bomb survivors the incidence of birth defects was about 0.9%, or about 500 children in total From what I understand, this is because the blast spread the radioactive material very far and thin, reducing its concentratio
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by sidpatil 7y ago
https://xkcd.com/978/
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by sidpatil 7y ago
> I wouldn't be surprised if you could generate signatures from the timing patterns of text input events in javascript, too. If I remember correctly, some MOOCs make their users type out an honor statement in lieu of a handwritten s
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by sidpatil 7y ago
What if you are visually impaired?
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by sidpatil 8y ago
"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch you must first invent the universe". --Carl Sagan