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by splittingTimes 4y ago
Going to my doctor just to get the certificate for sick leave, I will prescribed with antibiotics even for the simplest of colds. This is in Germany.
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by splittingTimes 4y ago
From the abstract: "The closeness of the host star to the Sun makes [it possible] for their atmosphere to be studied via high-contrast high-resolution spectroscopy." Hopefully they can follow-up soon with those measurements. That
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by splittingTimes 4y ago
Where do the customers leave to? We are currently giving up our self hosted Redmine instance as nobody is willing to take ownership on maintenance. We switch to Jira cloud.
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by splittingTimes 4y ago
Maybe Apple pays licensing fees or has permissions from 3M...
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by splittingTimes 4y ago
Does anybody know of plugins for code editors like Eclipse, Intellij ect where I could type in latex eq into function comments and it gets rendered into a proper math form? If not directly in the editor windows, but Let's say on mouse
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by splittingTimes 4y ago
There are those presentations where you can just zoom in or out continuously. It's on Prezi.com. It can be quite engaging.
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by splittingTimes 4y ago
> The way you describe using Microsoft's tools in your company is pretty much how things worked at Microsoft That is mind boggling. How on earth can MS have an efficient knowledge management with this setup? How frustrating was it t
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by splittingTimes 4y ago
Is there any way to achieve this within Microsoft's suite? Sadly we adopted Microsoft O365, SharePoint, Teams. How can you organize the org effectively is beyond me, how does MS do it? Are they actually using their own tools they sell
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by splittingTimes 4y ago
I always marvel at gitlabs handbook and would love to introduce it to our company. Are there any tutorials how to set it up? (I don't mean how to set up gitlab, but rather which tools you need and how to set up the render pipeline, ser
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by splittingTimes 4y ago
> rainbow palette for use in my data visualisations. Indeed for her kind of data the rainbow palette works okay. But if you have to visualize more complex / denser data, beware of the pitfalls of the rainbow color palette. It is not
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by splittingTimes 4y ago
What does "disruption of circadian rhythm" really mean in layman's terms? "influence our biological clock, including night shift work, extended light exposure, changes in sleep/wake cycles and altered feeding behavi
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by splittingTimes 4y ago
I found Peter Zeihans argument convincing that the largest generation ever, the baby boomers, are starting retiring now. From a purely demographics standpoint this leads to an increasing labor shortage of some 400k per year in 2022 to almos
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by splittingTimes 4y ago
My take on this is that those people lack fundamental understanding of science and how it works [1]. Their math is of the level of a sixth grader. If you do not understand something, it is easier to mistrust it and they are easier manipulat
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by splittingTimes 4y ago
Isn't exactly the cult aspect that prevents you from making real improvements and grow? You get no critical feedback, no worthwhile reflection on what works and what does not. So you do less adjustments and cannot reach the optimum as
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by splittingTimes 4y ago
Thank you for your reply. I really like your framing of the "what it a strategy" definition problem and the examples. That's what I was and still an missing. You also describe very much the struggles that can be seen at compa
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by splittingTimes 4y ago
I am always missing good, positive examples of what are and _are not_ "Goals", "Stratgies", "Missions", "Visions", "Key Results" etc in those articles. And where to start from and where to g
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by splittingTimes 4y ago
Humanities supposedly most brilliant minds work on the next e-billing system, AI on how to sell more crap that nobody really needs, keep a glorified message board afloat or enable the cancer that is advertisment. They should work on how to
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by splittingTimes 4y ago
For years, i just want to be able to easily search through my "favorite submissions" which I use as a kind of bookmark. Guess we will never see that. Not on the website nor in an app.
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by splittingTimes 4y ago
Amazon on that book: "Many of the experiments contained in the book are now considered highly dangerous for unsupervised children, and would not appear in a modern children's chemistry book. OCLC lists only 126 copies of this book
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by splittingTimes 4y ago
I do not understand your remark. > do the computation faster than anyone can stream the data into the chip. The more interesting problem is data movement, as usual. Is that not the selling point of integrated photonic circuits? You got p
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by splittingTimes 4y ago
They sure are nice, but how do you collect that data in an automated fashion?
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by splittingTimes 4y ago
What is a good approach to enable workers on the ground to "willing difficult project into existence in a bigger corp? Typically, ground workers (devs) plate is overflowing with work, coming from product management which are just incre
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by splittingTimes 4y ago
What do you do with repos that have to version control (a) source code / txt files but also (b) large quantities of binary data /resources (single digit GBs)?
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by splittingTimes 4y ago
That sounds like a dream. We do medical systems as well, but depend heavily on manual testing. We use digital scans of a patients mouth to design a restoration in our CAD application. So we have a 3D scene where the user interacts with&#x2F
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by splittingTimes 4y ago
Inkscape for schematics and to pimp the gnuplot output was enough to generate beautiful graphics. Then using Apple Pages for the actual poster layout was perfect.
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by splittingTimes 4y ago
When saying "using the build in DWM" he does not refer to the suckless DWM, right? I would be surprised when the buildin WSL would include suckless DWM and actually power the tilting. How an operating system named and based on win
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by splittingTimes 5y ago
Our company sells HW and SW for the dental sector. Our desktop scanners for dental labs and our intra-oral scanners for dentists generate 3D meshes of the patients oral situation. The UI of the intra-oral scanner is done with javaFX tool ki
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by splittingTimes 5y ago
Depending on where you are you need different plans. When you are in an urban setting / high density population center in eastern or central Europe ATM, do not prepare to shelter in place, better plan out your escape: where to, with wh
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by splittingTimes 5y ago
This. DeMarco's Peopleware is a bit more hands on compared to the man month.
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by splittingTimes 5y ago
I like the idea of aligning on properties. Does not exclude to value certain principles as well. However, like with all abstract "code quality" properties (modularity, predictability, robustness, encapsulation, etc) how can you qu

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