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by wbazant 2y ago
Something interesting about your three pictures, there's very little concrete or asphalt in them, just poor old plants that we did not spend enough effort protecting from other plants. Myth of wilderness? A typical knotweed patch that
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by wbazant 2y ago
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by wbazant 2y ago
A property claim is a bundle of rights, and people democratically decide what is in the bundles. What something being (your) property means is up to all your neighbours to decide. Fortunately someone with more exclusionary view can move to
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by wbazant 2y ago
If the teacher says 'okay I' m confiscating the phone' and stretches out his hand but the kid just puts the phone back in their pocket, what do you want the teacher to do?
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by wbazant 2y ago
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Primitive Reflexes(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by wbazant 3y ago|0 comments
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by wbazant 3y ago
I asked my optometrist about the best setting for viewing comfort, and she said black letters on white background. So I have that, except with a bit of tint, also following a theory that looking at certain colors affects moods.
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by wbazant 3y ago
Sure, these conflicts are caused by people, but 'there' s just too many of us' isn't a suppressed thought, just a bad one that we have since moved on from. Overpopulation was a trendy idea in the 70s that inspired many u
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by wbazant 3y ago
Improving an ontology over time! A use case I've seen is to maintain a consistent tree-like display across different pages of a science website, microbiomedb.org. You'd load up an ontology as an .xml, use the UI to browse the node
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by wbazant 4y ago
Still a pianist, no?
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by wbazant 4y ago
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by wbazant 4y ago
Really cool to see that the libraries have preserved this book. It's out of print for so long that the copies on Amazon are 400$ upwards, but I was able to fetch a pdf from LibGen - someone has digitised a copy from a Turkish universit
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by wbazant 4y ago
The person who's getting the welfare typically paid taxes too. Having good public services like an unemployment benefit - essentially a form of state-provided insurance - is in the interest of almost everyone, and especially those work
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by wbazant 4y ago
I was really puzzled by the comments under the video - people acting as if Doreen really set himself on fire somehow - while to me he seems to have set himself up quite well. He walks dogs for a few hours a day, and it lets him do other stu
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by wbazant 4y ago
Well, sometimes your identity is referenced in a group setting while you're part of the group, say when a manager praises your work in a standup: "MikePlacid did a really good job with this feature, you should all be like _".
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by wbazant 4y ago
In English, do you prefer he or she? And do you prefer that one to 'they'?
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by wbazant 4y ago
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by wbazant 4y ago
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by wbazant 4y ago
SEEKING WORK | Glasgow, UK | Remote Data engineer skilled in pipeline design, process modelling, and scripting. Broad academic and commercial experience, software professional since 2014. Top skills: Python, Database Design, Unix. CV: http
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by wbazant 4y ago
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by wbazant 4y ago
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by wbazant 4y ago
SEEKING WORK | Glasgow, Scotland/UK, remote I am a software engineer skilled in cloud, processes, data and workflows. I have eight years of experience in a range of settings. I can help small to mid-sized companies streamline business
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by wbazant 4y ago
Location: Glasgow, Scotland/UK Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: within Scotland Technologies: Perl, Unix, Bash, Python, Java, GNU Make, Nextflow, Snakemake, R, JavaScript, TypeScript, React.js, AWS Lambda, Serverless, OpenS
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by wbazant 4y ago
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by wbazant 4y ago
SEEKING WORK | Glasgow, Scotland/UK | Remote I am a bioinformatician with eight years of experience in academic and commercial settings. I take projects in the areas of data science, big data engineering, and machine learning - for exa
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by wbazant 5y ago
I've not tried it because the site is down, but a requirement for paired users to have something in common - like being a hn reader - works really well for these things! Omegle's main chat is really spammy, but if you add "ga
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by wbazant 5y ago
The big thing about trees is that they absorb CO2 - of which there is too much in the atmosphere - not that they produce oxygen, which we are at no risk of running out of.
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by wbazant 5y ago
I think the word "hacking" has been used to describe computer crime for a while now. Too bad for the other kinds of hackers I guess!
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by wbazant 5y ago
I like comparing how different birds interact with each other in the park. Some flock in little groups, but the ducks swim around the park pond.
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Clean Water from a Roof Rainwater System(mixmix.gitlab.io)
2 points by wbazant 5y ago|0 comments

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