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by twic 2y ago
You mean your budgie smugglers?
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by twic 2y ago
And for fine and trace logging, you've got bananana, banananana, etc.
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by twic 2y ago
I use the strings "XXX" and "999" for this (the latter because you sometimes need a dummy value in a numeric context), and have a global git hook which stops me committing a changeset which includes them. I occasionally
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by twic 2y ago
Malmsteen bias?
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by twic 2y ago
Rather than relying on the bop spotter timestamp, you could play thirty-second snatches of different extremely obscure songs, on a schedule. When one of them turns up on the bop spotter, you know when you were passing it, to thirty seconds
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by twic 2y ago
Is any of this experimentally falsifiable? Or rather, where downstream of this does something experimentally falsifiable pop out?
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by twic 2y ago
Follow the guidance of your Planetary Protection Officer: https://sma.nasa.gov/sma-disciplines/planetary-protection#pl...
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by twic 2y ago
> Kyoto Cabinet Now, that's a name I've not heard in a long time. Are people still using Kyoto Cabinet in new projects? Are people still using DBM-style storage generally? I thought that whole branch of the evolutionary tree ha
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by twic 2y ago
A completely different kind of avoidance map: https://meristemhorticulture.com/planted/2017/01/12/the-avoi...
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by twic 2y ago
There's an independent (ish) department store near me, Selby's, that's just about still going, somehow: https://www.elyswimbledon.co.uk/pages/james-selby And another that is no longer so near me, Boswell
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by twic 2y ago
True: https://www.rhs.org.uk/vegetables/chilli-pepper/grow-your-ow...
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by twic 2y ago
That concept of velocity is in the original Extreme Programming practice, which predates Pivotal, and it was indeed done with racks of index cards. It's explained pretty clearly in the first edition of Extreme Programming Explained, bu
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by twic 2y ago
I remember starting at Pivotal and being shocked by the two mice, two keyboards (and two displays, mirrored) setup. At the previous XP shops i had worked at, we had one mouse, one keyboard, and one display (comprising two monitors) - sharin
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by twic 2y ago
60% yes, but 40% no, because there was nothing after "accepted" - so no way to track "in production" and "validated with users", which are the most important states. You could abuse the earlier states to do tha
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by twic 2y ago
Is it? How would anyone make money or fame out of it? The way our scientific establishment works now is that you are rewarded for discovering things which fit into and shed new light on our existing web of understanding, not for things whic
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by twic 2y ago
Although, as it happens, the thymus was known at least as far back as the ancient Greeks: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29858845/
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by twic 2y ago
I thought the Nasreddin stories were more about him being a bit of an idiot or a scoundrel, but bluffing his way out of it?
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by twic 2y ago
I'd tentatively suggest The Concrete Island. It's not at all science-fictional, but it manages to wring a lot of weirdness out of a completely pedestrian (if you will) setting. It was written in 1974, but I think it works just as
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by twic 2y ago
I liked the film as a film. You're right that it's not a faithful adaptation.
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by twic 2y ago
I think you're thinking of Brian Aldiss's term "cosy catastrophe": https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/cosy_catastrophe
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by twic 2y ago
It's an improvement until someone wants to copy and paste a negative number, then suddenly the closest heavy object to the user is travelling rapidly towards your head.
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by twic 2y ago
That's hyphen-minus, which is both a hyphen AND a minus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyphen-minus
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by twic 2y ago
I like tabular numerals. But you really need a small set of other glyphs to be tabular to really make them work. In particular, you need the plus and minus signs to be the same width, so that in a table like: gold +1.2% oil -6.4% c
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by twic 2y ago
People buy whole machines to run memcached!
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by twic 2y ago
Center Parcs is a place you take a family. It wouldn't even occur to me to go there with an all-adult group. Also, you can tell it's aimed at children, because the price doubles in the school holidays!
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by twic 2y ago
I once read that the Paris metro drives on the right, specifically so that it can't interoperate with the mainline railways. I wonder how true that is, though. The metro is sort of a glorified tramway, and trams have to operate the sam
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by twic 2y ago
And if you're really willing to DIY, easier to make in your body than in your garage.
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by twic 2y ago
Companies like Tesla are why i'm increasingly interested in ETFs tracking alternatively weighted indexes like RAFI: https://www.rafi.com/index-strategies/rafi-fundamental-indic...
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by twic 2y ago
> Partly this broad range of uses for the heavy presses came from expanding the range of materials used in them. Originally the presses were designed to make parts from aluminum and magnesium, but by the 1960s they were not only pressing
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by twic 2y ago
Electrolytic refining of iron, all the way from ore. Gets rid of blast furnaces, allows far more precise control over metallurgy.

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