Tharkun

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by Tharkun 7y ago
I agree. Sadly not every manager got that memo. My brief time at $megacorp taught me to recognize when a meeting turns into unproductive bullshitting, at which point I just walk away and go back to work. YMMV.
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Maybe the headline should reflect this gem: > That boon was thanks in part, Microsoft said, to meetings capped at 30 minutes and an increase in remote conferences. From my past experiences in megacorps, there are so many meetings it some
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by Tharkun 7y ago
I've gone down this route several times. I've moved Esc, Ctrl and Win (or whatever you call it, Meta?) to the CapsLock position. But for some reason my left pinky just doesn't like that spot. It's a slightly awkward angl
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by Tharkun 7y ago
I use Zettlr + git to keep my personal log/lab notes/daily journal. It's just a fancy markdown editor, to it should be trivial to write some shell foo to pull in data from whatever source you like.
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by Tharkun 7y ago
The news here is that ubrogepant is a tablet taken as an abortive, while emgality etc are injections taken as a preventative.
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Diclofenac is an NSAID painkiller. It comes with all the usual risks and contraindications of any other NSAID. Migraine abortives like triptans and migraine inhibitors like these CGRP antagonists (erenumab and now ubrogepant) are not painki
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Sadly it doesn't seem to work that way. BE/AZERTY keyboards, for instance, have a physical key that US/QWERTY keyboards do not (<>\). The OS will ignore that key unless it's set up to use a layout that includes the
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by Tharkun 7y ago
There are many, many keyboard layouts out there. Maybe it's time for an input standard that acknowledges this fact, instead of endlessly putting the onus on OS developers and users. Maybe keyboards should output UTF8 instead of messy k
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Drug development is incredibly costly. It's also something of a long term gamble. It can take 10-20 years to develop a new drug. A lot of that time is spent testing safety and waiting for approval. As a drug company, you need to have s
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Thanks for linking to that. I had this done a while back but didn't know what it was called or how it worked. If only all imaging techniques were as fast and pleasant this one. It was over in seconds. Although I suppose the small size
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Don't have access to the full paper, but it seems like this study was based on asking patients whether they were taking supplements, as opposed to administering placebo/supplements and measuring the outcome. I would imagine that t
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Not lying about what you're selling seems like it ought to the norm without requiring legal intervention?
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by Tharkun 7y ago
I like Mattermost. My only gripe with it is that it's a bit of a pain to upgrade. Would be nice if they were to automate the upgrade procedure.
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by Tharkun 7y ago
If you're at all into custom keyboard making, and you haven't already, check out the QMK firmware: https://qmk.fm/ It makes it a lot easier to deal with the non-standard layouts that you'll probably want to u
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Thinking that haircuts will defeat facial recognition is cute but wrong. This is a political/legal problem and has to be solved by political means. Haircuts and LEDs just won't cut it. If anything, they will draw more attention to
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Sure, but the people doing the surveilling are also the people who will fine or arrest you for covering your face. Not sure I understand what you're trying to say?
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Considering they're putting a rod up your urethra which will be burning you from within, and another device up your rectum, while you're in the uncomfortable confines of an MRI scanner, I suspect local might not be something most
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Are you referring to those infrared headlights? Those don't work. Quite the opposite, they only highlight your face.
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Hiding your face is illegal in Belgium at least. This includes masks, helmets etc. I don't know the exact wording, but I would suspect that it's broad enough to include umbrellas and makeup and anything else that effectively makes
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by Tharkun 7y ago
What is the clinical significance of the plaque being calcified? Is that worse (or better?) than "regular" cholesterol plaque? Or is that just another term for the same thing?
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by Tharkun 7y ago
When I was first taught fractions in primary school, the teacher had a bunch of rods of equal length. Each rod was divided into segments of different colours. Each segment could be "fractured" off the rod because they were attache
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Might not be a bad standard feature. We used to think seatbelts were stupid...
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Addiction is hard. And some people hide it really well. There are many high functioning alcoholics out there, and you can be sure that many of their friends don't know how bad the situation really is. Letting a visibly drunk person get
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by Tharkun 7y ago
So...how much does it cost to run gTLD these days? Perhaps the time is right to set up a non-profit to run one at actually affordable prices, instead of the current ripoff and the future .org price increases.
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by Tharkun 7y ago
That's because there's no need for change. DNS works pretty well. There are various options to secure DNS, so that part of the DoH is also moot. Browsers should respect the OS instead of trying to circumvent it. Lastly, DNS is pro
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Original article in Dutch: https://www.knack.be/nieuws/belgie/fiscus-mag-uw-data-kopier... The gist of it: Belgian court of appeals rules that tax inspectors are allowed to copy any and all of your data without yo
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Belgian court: IRS allowed to copy your data(translate.googleusercontent.com)
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by Tharkun 7y ago
That's something I'm finding almost as hard as mealprepping. There are very few places in my area that offer healthy options, especially for lunch. Junk food is everywhere, in all price ranges, but my healthy options are limited t
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Errr.....no? Human waste in water is a major cause of disease. Sure, a turd or two won't be a problem. And sure, it'll decompose. But all kinds of pathogens remain. There are billions of people, and as the eponymous book says: eve
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by Tharkun 7y ago
How much are the drugs? Probably not free. And they may have to be taken for the rest of the patient's life. That could add up.

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