throwawaywrench

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by throwawaywrench 5y ago
Tea of any kind doesn't have more caffeine than Coffee. And green tea has less caffeine than black tea. https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-h...
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by throwawaywrench 5y ago
Even pet non-feral cats are cute little murder machines. "Oh but not my darling cat." yeah right. I found this link interesting. The cat tracker images showing where a cat has actually gone in the course of a week are amazing. ht
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by throwawaywrench 5y ago
>the usual rule is that if your cabbie starts talking about it, it's time to get out of the market. >If your cabbie understands BTC you might have a point. We aren't even close to there yet The point is that the cabbie likel
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by throwawaywrench 6y ago
Have you participated in any bug bounty, responsible disclosure type stuff? >a gift card phone bot that calls gift card phone lines, bypasses captcha, and transcribes balance. It probably doesn't but does that company have a mechani
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by throwawaywrench 6y ago
Definitely. You just need to keep an eye out for people removing failing tests because they think they are irrelevant :|
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by throwawaywrench 6y ago
>because they only solve the problem that the PR submitter needs solved right now. This is something that can lead to angry interactions between maintainers and pull request raisers. Never mind adding technical debt, pull requests can ou
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by throwawaywrench 6y ago
Possibly although at some point someone had to be the first humans in an area
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by throwawaywrench 6y ago
The rule of thumb I've picked up somewhere is that for hard cheese you can just cut mouldy bits off. For soft cheese you should throw it out. This is of course talking about the kind of mould that grows on it while its in your fridge.
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by throwawaywrench 6y ago
>I feel like we would have a hindsight to design it better, faster, and cheaper. Maybe I'm just pessimistic but I suspect the opposite would occur. It would be buggier, slower and more expensive once you started trying to operate at
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by throwawaywrench 6y ago
any idea why that is the case?
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by throwawaywrench 6y ago
>It's nearly the end of the workday here in Australia. Very insensitive of them It's nearly the end of the workday on the east coast of Australia. Very insensitive of you. Sincerely, Western Australia The above is a joke just i
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by throwawaywrench 6y ago
>Nightlife is horrible, bars pretty much close at 1am Serious question. Are there many night clubs and any day clubs? I was last out so late/early quite a few years ago but in most (possibly all?) Australian cities there are night c
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by throwawaywrench 6y ago
The problem is that the risk is borne by honest business owners and honest customers. Scammers exist in both directions and the scammers typically bear none of the risk. Regarding businesses specially, someone operating one or more scam onl
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by throwawaywrench 6y ago
>with all the registration, taxation, regulation etc headache this implies! >It's not if you are in the US. Its also not if you are in Australia. I'd suggest that the number of developers and designers who at least occasiona
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by throwawaywrench 6y ago
I have heard of someone trying and pass off repos forked into their github account as their own work. A quick google or even just looking at the commit history in their fork made it obvious it wasnt true. Manipulating one or more git repos
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by throwawaywrench 6y ago
I was recently surprised to discover that Foxtel still exists. Even living in Australia it had been years since I had heard or seen anything to do with the company. Personally, I dont feel like Foxtel is a problem so much as the business mo
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by throwawaywrench 6y ago
Are checks still a thing in the US?
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by throwawaywrench 6y ago
>if you want to become a founder Why do you need to work up to being a founder? Any bozo can start something new especially given that the vast majority of start ups either never go anywhere or flame out somewhere in the first year or tw
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by throwawaywrench 6y ago
A random bag of advice based on my personal experience. 1) If you are recruiting and if you are attracting new recruits with phrases like green fields projects, bleeding edge tech etc stop doing that at least some of the time. The problem y
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by throwawaywrench 6y ago
as I read the above PayPal wasnt a button on eBay yet. Just based on the above comments it sounds like initially PayPal staff were doing a bunch of buying and selling on eBay and insisting they they be paid via this thing called 'PayPa
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by throwawaywrench 6y ago
I doubt it was a solution anyone liked.
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by throwawaywrench 6y ago
>A business could easily say "if you're feeling a bit under the weather and not sure, you are instructed for the good of the people around you to work from home those days just in case". In my personal experience companies
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by throwawaywrench 7y ago
>Attack into the now empty space, the opponent Parries "into" the attack, but their body is out of the way I've never done any sort of theater but have done some boxing and kickboxing type stuff. Newbies will often instinc
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by throwawaywrench 7y ago
I wouldnt assume that "quality protein" has any correlation with being healthy. >Owners can also feed their pets lower-quality proteins, as dogs and cats can happily chow on meat byproducts, such as marrow, kidneys and spleen,
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by throwawaywrench 7y ago
That seems to be the blocker for a lot of sports stuff. Is there a freely available API?
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by throwawaywrench 7y ago
>Many own a war weapon at home Although its worth noting that since 2007 the vast majority aren't allowed to keep ammunition for their weapons at home. https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/soldiers-can-keep-guns-at-home