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by simtel20 6y ago
Yes, this resonates. I am living in Brazil, but have fewer direct relatives because I am not brazilian, and my wife is. We buy a couple of dozen cestas básicas and give them away to a friend to feed families in a neighborhood nearby. We are
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by simtel20 6y ago
I chose this account name because if how fondly I remember getting shareware and freeware from simtel20.wsmr.army.mil.gov (iirc) in my first years on the internet. I once ran into someone in a game who said "hey, I used to put backup t
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by simtel20 6y ago
Agnesi seems ok and is available here in out-of-the-way Brazil. De Cecco seems fine but is typically more expensive for reasons unknown to me. Barilla is also sometimes present here. Most brazilian brands don't or won't use hard
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by simtel20 6y ago
I had old gold touches but gave them to my cousin when his arm and wrist pain became far worse than my own. I bought more, but their newer designs (circa 2005 or so, I think) resulted in the ball joint breaking on 3 keyboards before I stopp
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by simtel20 6y ago
> It’s 1/2 + 1 isn’t it? The parent post is talking about the number that can go down while maintaining quorum, and you're talking about the number that need to remain up to maintain quorum. So you're both correct. However
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by simtel20 6y ago
Orange carrots do not have a relatively long history as part of our cuisine. Reading the wikipedia article may satisfy your curiosity - it's more than I can condense at this hour. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carr
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by simtel20 6y ago
Just wrt Madoff, a lot of people who were smart enough to make real money in their lives were taken by him. Some may not be too bright, but that would be a long tail and there were surely some at the other end of the curved too. I asked a b
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by simtel20 6y ago
Any fortune 500 company that's been around for more than a decade probably has one of every enterprise software product running somewhere. When I worked at a big bank, when we acquired any company, large or small, the software stack th
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by simtel20 6y ago
That's probably totally separate, or will be soon: https://www.channelpartnerinsight.com/news/4018768/everythin...
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by simtel20 6y ago
> I don't know what you're getting at by this statement. Saying "Maybe his teams were all India based?" sounds dismissive or pejorative, as though you were saying that he must have been somewhere that was not doing pr
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by simtel20 6y ago
I believe the open systems db2 team was mainly based out of Canada, but I don't think you were really honestly asking that question. However, in case I can share a bit that I may know some small amount about is that the area that the a
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by simtel20 6y ago
Since you mention IBS in the context of fructose, are you aware of the the phenomena of fructose malabsorption? My wife has this combination of issues at times, strongly related to eating or drinking of apples or apple juice and other simil
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by simtel20 6y ago
You don't seem to be understanding that it is clearly not about one clerk. It's about the local consensus results in that clerk feeling entitled to dismiss the GPs wife and family as non-persons, as being lesser than someone born
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by simtel20 6y ago
Not specifically spreadsheets, but the org table code is also used in the feature-mode for writing gherkin tests. One of the powerful aspects of cucumber tests is the tables, and having the org tables code in the editor means that the featu
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by simtel20 6y ago
Or computer science grad who worked at a quant hedge fund and who probably wouldn't have been hired if he couldn't program, who went on to found an intensely computer-focused behemoth.
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by simtel20 6y ago
What makes you think he'd get penalized by his work for this. What makes you think he'd want to stay if this was a threat to his job?
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by simtel20 6y ago
Clearly the thrust of the story was that the beings don't interact with flesh and blood creatures and I treat instead with more ethereal things. The humor is based on our human notion of some arbitrary superiority over other beings on
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by simtel20 6y ago
From prior reading I've done, grapefruit was cultivated by crossing pomelo with smaller, more bitter citrus. Here, the wikipedia says it was with a sweet orange [1] 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapefruit
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by simtel20 6y ago
Unfortunately "luxury" doesn't seem like the likely outcome here. Luxury items are created via artificial scarcity (e.g. diamonds) or just by high cost of expertise and goods (e.g. a luxury car). In order for food to become a
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by simtel20 6y ago
Coffee grows best in outdoor elevated tropical climates. Similar to cacao, putting a roof over an entire hillside is simply not feasible for even the wealthiest farmers. One of the foundations of most farming is that given a large are, you
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by simtel20 6y ago
The statement you were responding to is only referring to the Intel mkl, though. There are many other blas libraries. Where you making a more general statement about some set kf blas implementations? Or the blas interface in general perhaps
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by simtel20 6y ago
Gobe was independent of the beos and had a windows and linux offering, but only had a small team out of portland in the late 90s and never had the success it deserved.
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by simtel20 6y ago
Trying it out today, and the existing features work. It could use some polish, And a lot more modules. But so far my experience here is similar to my experience with envoy. The maintainers are engaged, helpful and very nice. Questions are a
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by simtel20 6y ago
About 7 years ago, the brooklyn brewsers, a beer brewing club, got the tour of the brooklyn brewery. On that tour, the brewmaster, Garrett Oliver, told the story of how Glaser designed the logo for the brewery. He said he drew the bold B [1
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by simtel20 6y ago
If you haven't done -Xmx=<all memory> before, you may not be aware that you're giving a bum steer here.
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by simtel20 6y ago
Here in Brazil, for whatever reason, the president has been talking up chloroquine, while Trumps talking point is hydroxychloroquine. I don't know how people who have no medical training or experience who are actively trying to undermi
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by simtel20 6y ago
Considering that all of the reports for the past year have been about how Intel hasn't been able to improve their process, how would they be able to sell or spin off their fabs? Who would want it?
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by simtel20 6y ago
Is there a powerful resistance to approving elisp packages that aren't default? Could you lay the groundwork with whoever maintains the list of approved packages by asking about approving certain versions of emacs packages that you use
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by simtel20 6y ago
Most of the cases in New York are concentrated in and around NYC, which is an international travel hub with 3 very busy international airports in the area. I don't think there are many places in the world which are going to have had th
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by simtel20 6y ago
I can only see this being the case if you exist in a community which is a zero-sum competition for resources. This is not the world as I understand it, and I can't understand why you thinks this helps.

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