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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
Donald Horn put it best in The Lucky Country: > Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck. It lives on other people's ideas, and, although its ordinary people are adaptable, most of its leaders
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
> JSON doesn’t have support for fixed point math Plain text doesn't have support for numbers at all, which isn't much of a solution.
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
Back when I used to work in hospitality, we'd defrost fish (both vac sealed and loose) in cold running water. Defrosting vac sealed fish in cold water over 20 minutes and immediately cooking it carries roughly zero risk of botulism, fo
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
> The story is that if you were being chased up the stairs your attacker would trip over onto the roof and you could easily dispatch him Wouldn't it be equally as likely that while running away in panic, you'd trip on the top s
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
Going by the flow chart, that's a planet.
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
A big difference between the rubygems and npm ecosystems is that most gems tend to have a lot less dependencies themselves that JS packages do. Looking at a Rails project I've got open, it has ~100 gems in the Gemfile, and 200 gem depe
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
It actually has 2 dependencies, `is-odd` depends on `is-number`
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
Send an email under the guise of the FBI to the president, asking for immunity for yourself?
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
It was also fictionalised in a Frederick Forsyth's espionage thriller, The Fist of God [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fist_of_God
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
There's a few options out there, the most common method is solvent absorption [1]. There's also a YC backed startup, Prometheus Fuels, that's trying to commercialise a process using carbon nanotube membranes for CO2 separatio
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
The US Navy uses SIPRNet [1] for secure communication. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIPRNet
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
> Do we know how many experienced which specific "serious adverse event"? From the topline data [1]: - 3 Suicidal behaviour - 5 Self-injury - 4 Suicidal ideation - 1 Drug withdrawal (from codeine?) - 1 Adjustment disorder with
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
Drugs are not legalised in Portugal, they're decriminalised. Trafficking is still a criminal offence, and personal possession is still punishable with a fine.
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
Regarding sugar and fat, it's two sides of the same coin. Food companies just released a bunch of low-fat products alongside their regular products.
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
First thing that comes to mind is the alcohol industry, with the regular "drinking moderate amounts is actually good for you" headlines I keep reading.
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
I'm not sure that the new "valueless" hash syntax is an improvement. From my experience with Typescript, it's a common source of bugs. But I'm sure that people had similar complaints when compact hash syntax was int
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
That's been slowly happening [1]. For instance, with Ruby 3.0, net-telnet and xmlrpc were removed from the stdlib and now have to be installed as standalone gems. [1] https://stdgems.org/removed/
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
> backup codes but where are you going to store those On a flash drive/SD card, or even printed out, and then stashed somewhere safe/secure (i.e. not in an unlocked drawer next to your desk)
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
If it was a referendum or a plebiscite where only 1% of people actually voted, I'd agree, but a poll is hardly the same as an election.
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
> why is PagerDuty of all companies promoting this? To drive traffic and increase sales of PagerDuty. It reads like pretty standard content marketing to me.
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
Why not both? Vaccination isn't a silver bullet.
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
Since 1990, when the number of people living in extreme poverty peaked at 1.9 billion, we have been on the steady march towards eradicating extreme poverty. Despite the fact that there are almost 6 billion more people alive today than at th
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
All my mates who are builders, or work in related trades, start work at 7 AM. They most certainly don't get paid a million bucks to do so.
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
Reminds me a lot of the Martin Jetpack, which received tonnes of media hype when it was first unveiled at Oshkosh 2008, and despite being "almost ready" for the next decade, nothing was ever built and the company went bust. Incide
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
Or blinking out "torture", as one POW did during the Vietnam War: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rufnWLVQcKg
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
Ugh no thanks, I'll just send them a screenshot and say "it's broken, please fix this!" If it's good enough for my colleagues to submit tickets like this, it's good enough for me!
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
Interestingly, my go-to hangover/nausea remedy has always been Coca Cola. I had no idea that OTC anti-nausea medication also contains phosphoric acid, or that it was even an antiemetic (or not, as it seems). I've always put it dow
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
If I drank a can of Coke every day, that would equate to 21 g of phosphorus. Grain fields get fertilised with around 250 kg/ha of superphosphate, which contains 20 kg of phosphorus.
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
They might have to switch to some new up-and-coming buzzwords, such as "supply chain", or "graph". Here's a great example I found after a quick search [1]: > Why TigerGraph, a Native Parallel Graph Database for S
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
I'm not sure how you got the idea that "former President Trump" is incorrect. It's pretty standard style. Reuters uses the exact same terminology for Obama [1] too. Same goes for the AP [2] and the BBC [3]. Even the U.S.

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