Wald76

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by Wald76 5y ago
Sorry to be pedantic, but the wonderful “planning” quote is actually from Dwight Eisenhower ( https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower#From_the_... ).
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China razed thousands of Xinjiang mosques(wsj.com)
7 points by Wald76 6y ago|2 comments
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by Wald76 6y ago
Belarus’s human rights abuses and crimes against humanity (as defined by the ICC) are highly relevant no matter whether its government signed the statute or not, or whether its government trolls consider it a “toy court”.
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by Wald76 6y ago
It’s interesting that (a) a military grade nerve agent was used, (b) the dosage given was sub-lethal, and (c) Putin had no qualms about releasing Navalny to German care. Makes you wonder if this was all about sending a message.
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by Wald76 6y ago
I’m so sorry people have to suffer from such awful behavior. Last year a troll at my company Slacked his friend a horribly misogynistic remark about a women’s mentorship group meeting. But by mistake, he sent it on the general channel. With
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by Wald76 6y ago
That’s what I understand too. (I worked on the Quartz Core team for a couple years at BAML.)
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by Wald76 6y ago
I bet he just aliased commands for expository reasons: “uniq” aliased to “unique”, and “tr A-Z a-z” to “lowercase”.
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by Wald76 6y ago
This is also a great way to keep several squadrons of reasonably capable fighters maintained and in operation. In a time of national emergency they (and their pilots) could be drawn on.
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by Wald76 7y ago
That’s correct, the US population density correlates fairly closely with the average annual rainfall: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_rainfall_climato...
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by Wald76 7y ago
It’s there: > Chemical effects are especially problematic at the decomposition stage. Additives such as phthalates and Bisphenol A (widely known as BPA) leach out of plastic particles. These additives are known for their hormonal effects
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by Wald76 7y ago
Safari on iOS would not render Nikita’s article until I killed and restarted it, nicely illustrating one of his key points.
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Acetaminophen exposure in pregnancy linked to higher risk of ADHD, autism: study(nih.gov)
100 points by Wald76 7y ago|39 comments
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Dual-Function Virus Engineered to Kill Tumor Cells and Support Immune Cells(cancer.gov)
3 points by Wald76 7y ago|0 comments
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by Wald76 7y ago
No but he wins 10 times more often.
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Is Reddit the Most Influential Site on the Internet?(knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu)
1 points by Wald76 8y ago|0 comments
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by Wald76 8y ago
You are so right, thank you!
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by Wald76 8y ago
Awk is named after its authors at Bell Labs: Aho, Williams, and Kernighan.
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by Wald76 8y ago
Generally you generate a random UUID which is quite difficult to enumerate.
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by Wald76 9y ago
VoiceXML uses SSML to mark up text to be spoken to the user, and in fact the two standards were developed in parallel by the W3C’s Voice Browser Working Group.