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by sten 8y ago
Rule of thumb in these cases is to use natural vanilla for items that do not get baked. Such as ice creams or cake frosting. And use the artificial vanilla for baked goods. And even then I lean towards the natural stuff when I bake. Real va
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by sten 8y ago
Two ways I'm aware of. If your time at the coffee shop is regular (arrive at 3:15 because that's when your break is from work) they can place you with other regulars (you go there with your wife every day after work, you get dark
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by sten 8y ago
Dev in finance here, VBA gets used more than I care to think about.
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by sten 8y ago
Could be sea food. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiocarbon_dating#Reservoir_e...
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by sten 8y ago
I believe his point is that these methods are contentious for various reasons (religious objection being an example) so they have been heavily scrutinized and where exceptions have been found so have explanations. While most engineering doe
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by sten 9y ago
Can you PM me the names of the books. My wife does a lot of that stuff and she'd either be very interested or insulted that I gave her more work to look at.
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by sten 9y ago
There's nothing wrong, but little good either.
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by sten 9y ago
You can't escape the rocket equation.
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by sten 9y ago
Symbolically destroying small amounts of resources and depriving yourself and family of a clean environment to essentially complain. Hmm maybe scorched earth is the better description of whats going on here? Salting the earth is done by the
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by sten 9y ago
Not without precedent. Salting the earth?
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by sten 9y ago
Thank you for writing all this out. It is very exciting!
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by sten 9y ago
Hey Matthew, hey Rachael, you should open an office back here in Halifax!
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by sten 9y ago
Is this really free? Doesn't it just lower the efficiency of the AC unit?
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by sten 9y ago
The parent seems to be suggesting that a vegan diet didn't work for them for health reasons. But countered objections to this by saying that it's difficult. (Which it is. Stupidly difficult to eat meat, gluten and soy free in my e
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by sten 9y ago
Bit late to the party but this is a valid question. There's a lot of focus on writing the code, but the system includes the non code components. Can the developer keep the code relevant to the organisation.
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by sten 9y ago
That's for stocks. You can always short and potentially have no limits for your loss.
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by sten 10y ago
How do you figure? If they can produce anything with automation what do they care if there's no one to purchase it? Value will be expressed in other ways. I could easily imagine the 1% or whoever completely controlling production and a
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by sten 10y ago
That the maximum is a loss doesn't negate it's place as the maximum. They could do worse for themselves. A house could burn down faster.
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by sten 10y ago
Don't just go throwing around exponentials like that. That would be more fruit flies than could fit in all volumn of the visible universe. Most die, thank god. Little jerks after my fruit.
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by sten 10y ago
What a silly set of arguments. Exercise is literally empty time for you with no other benefit? Lets put aside the fact that you receive endorphin from almost any exercise you do. You can't go to the beach, rock climb, play with your ki
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by sten 10y ago
It must be coupled with processes that guard against errors though. Defense in depth. I'd imagine the pilot has a tick sheet to go over before takeoff and fuel is an item on that sheet.
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by sten 10y ago
I see this quoted all the time and I wonder if it takes into account the total economic benifit of the individual. I'll conceed that an individual who lives longer will (on average) cost more in health care. I also believe it when I he
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by sten 10y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but was Dijkstra not known for never actually using a computer. He wrote code with pencil and paper. There's a gulf between academic code and the needs of the day to day programmer. That said, I agree with
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by sten 10y ago
That's incredible.
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by sten 10y ago
"A user with absolutely no Linux or terminal experience" I can speak to this. Both my wife and roommate use ubuntu referbished laptops I supplied. Neither knows what a terminal is or how to use it. It just works(tm).
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by sten 10y ago
Retired folk are (or can be) still an economic benefit as long as they live. Consider the trivial case of a grandparent watching children so the parents can have time to recover. But obesity and smoking do not kill people the day they leave
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by sten 10y ago
Good point.
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by sten 10y ago
Well either I suppose. For the subset problem as you say a filter critera can be applied while looping through the collection. And that should be it. Now if the question was multiple criteria I could see the solution diverging rapidly. If t
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by sten 10y ago
I'm hard pressed to imagine how this couldn't be done efficiently. Do you have an example which correctly solves the problem but takes too long? The only thing I can think of is something like the output rewriting an array on upda
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by sten 10y ago
If you read the article a little more closely you can see that the author is showing that the issues arose from attempting to prolong the status quo instead of fixing the root cause. I'm not certain how you reached the collectivist app

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