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by vram22 5y ago
Then any other equally acidic food on pewter plates should have caused lead poisoning too? E.g. if they ate salads in those days, with a squeeze of lemon juice?
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by vram22 5y ago
Thanks, that makes sense. IIRC, I read about this either in Bertrand Meyer's book Object-oriented Software Contruction, or in the Eiffel language's docs, some years back, though I may not have known about it as an application of t
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by vram22 5y ago
In India, people in a hurry, and some restaurants, add baking soda to chickpea dishes, like chana masala, to reduce that gassy effect, I've heard. Don't like to do it myself. Soaking the chickpeas in warm water for a few hours b
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by vram22 5y ago
Pemmican. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pemmican
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by vram22 5y ago
>The distinguishing feature of Contract Programming is how it handles inheritance. How does it handle it?
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by vram22 5y ago
Good to know, thanks :)
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by vram22 5y ago
I love cheese too. I don't currently make it (yet), but out of the same interest as you, I had searched on YouTube earlier. There are some videos there about home cheese-making. One guy I came across, in particular, maybe Australian, h
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by vram22 5y ago
- Bjarne Stroustrup. I agree with him. His book "The Design and Evolution of C++" was a fascinating read. His site has an overview of it.
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by vram22 5y ago
pinch.take(salt) Friend: I saw this interesting tech article ... Me: Site? Friend: mumble corp IT site mumble Me: Bye
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by vram22 5y ago
I'm not Irish, but Irish friends tell me that tons of air grows there too. In fact, that may be while it is called Eire.
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by vram22 5y ago
And cheese and garlic are used with bread too.
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by vram22 5y ago
I saw that others, including he, replied, but, fun fact, this snippet has been on his site for years: "Note to recruiters: Please don't offer me a job. I already have the best job in the world at the best company in the world. Not
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by vram22 5y ago
That is only the external life/rituals (as in, mainly outside the house and office) and I guess, a fairly small part (importance-wise) of their daily life, though. A lot of the rest of it may be quite different from Western, going by b
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by vram22 5y ago
>looking for an "engineer" Are you a software developer or the other (traditional engineering, like civil, mechanical, ...) kind of engineer? >because there are no similarly well compensated IC positions in the Netherlands &
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by vram22 5y ago
May not be relevant for all beginners to vim, but this StackOverflow answer is really like (for lack of a better term) the Zen of vim (for beginners): "Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi.": It is the top answer t
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by vram22 5y ago
I enjoyed LJ for a few years (my first blog, 2005-2008). Wrote a good deal about startups that I explored as a user in that period (this was the APG era, where APG stands for After Paul Graham, meaning after he wrote his early influential
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by vram22 5y ago
>There is also the stdlib. JS doesn't have simple things built in like left trim a string, Or left pad. https://www.google.com/search?q=left+pad+js left-pad as a service https://news.ycombinator.com/
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by vram22 6y ago
Cool. Asked because 1) I'm into file formats myself, and 2) am a long time C and Unix guy (among other things, for both 1 and 2). Also because I had read that O'Reilly book, Open Source: Voices from the Open Source Revolution, and
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by vram22 6y ago
Google the company, runs on an algorithm of arbitrary complexity.
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by vram22 6y ago
Bjarne Stroustrup, C++ creator, disagrees, IIRC. Think I read it on his site. Edit: https://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#C-is-subset >Please note that "C" in the paragraphs above refers to Classic C and C89.
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by vram22 6y ago
1. 20s are still kids. 2. Be proud you have a superkid. 3. How's your other kid (from Cygnus days), the BFD library, doing nowadays? Heh. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_File_Descriptor_libra...
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by vram22 6y ago
You answered your own question above, gumby. Kids are more natural than adults, that's how. Less conditioning.
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by vram22 6y ago
The stranger the better. The better the stranger.
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by vram22 6y ago
>a belief you don’t actually understand Also, get your logic and wording straight, before you fart in public. One does not understand or not understand a belief. One believes a belief. One understands facts. Ta ta, bye bye, for ever.
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by vram22 6y ago
Likely. Thanks. I'm not taking it hard, though. Thoroughly enjoyed blasting that troll and donkey, the HN (mis)user called lolthishuman, though I only do it if someone else starts such petty nonsense, as anyone can see from my HN comme
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by vram22 6y ago
Har de har har. Pot calling the kettle black, you jingoistic freak. I notice you did not address even a single one of the points in my comment that you replied to just above. Typical age-old cowardly attention-diverting rabble-rousing t
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by vram22 6y ago
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2020/04/trump-fired-pand...
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by vram22 6y ago
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/0...
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by vram22 6y ago
Thereby probably contributing to / enabling many more tens of thousands of US COVID deaths and the same for suffering, than there need have ever been.
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by vram22 6y ago
The prep of setting up a pandemic task force that the previous US admin did was axed by Bumf.

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