afcapel

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by afcapel 3y ago
Even discounting annual variance, the UK economy has been performing very poorly since, at least, 2010. > The UK economy is in the doldrums. The IMF has forecast it will be the worst-performing large advanced economy this year. But the p
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Elon Musk joins Twitter Engineer call 12/21/2022(youtube.com)
21 points by afcapel 4y ago|7 comments
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by afcapel 5y ago
In general European countries have bans on smoking in public places much stricter than the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_smoking_bans#Smoking_b...
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by afcapel 5y ago
In my experience, trying to push away these feelings of shame, jealousy and inadequacy won’t help at all. By sheer will, or by using “mental hacks” from pop psychology you might be able to push them out of consciousness for a while, but tha
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by afcapel 5y ago
"The dose makes the poison". Paracelsus already said it in the XVI century.
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Beyond Omicron: what’s next for Covid’s viral evolution(nature.com)
23 points by afcapel 5y ago|0 comments
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by afcapel 5y ago
I'm a Spanish person, living abroad and with a penchant for cooking, and I was too very gratefully surprised by Kenji's Spanish tortilla video. Also by his other Spanish recipes such as Gazpacho[1] or Paella[2]. It's not that
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by afcapel 5y ago
That's exactly the problem: assuming that the only valid reason to talk about an awkward situation is to convince the other person that they are wrong or change their behaviour. We can talk about about awkward things, nobody has to con
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by afcapel 5y ago
There's a common misconception that awkward conversations should be avoided because they are difficult and elicit drama. But that's just magical thinking. Believing that to make something go away you just need to stop thinking abo
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Hey.com vs. Fastmail. A Review(codepatterns.org)
40 points by afcapel 6y ago|9 comments
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by afcapel 6y ago
Hey uses turbolinks, so opening an email is an XHR call not a full page reload.
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by afcapel 7y ago
A context switch in a modern CPU takes only a few microseconds. A GB of RAM costs less than $10. So those concerns, although valid in theory, are usually irrelevant for most web applications. On the other hand, simplicity in a code base usu
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Instructions on How to Wind a Watch (1962)(writing.upenn.edu)
1 points by afcapel 7y ago|0 comments
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by afcapel 7y ago
ORMHate is nothing new under the sun. Martin Fowler wrote a more balanced article about the issue years ago https://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/OrmHate.html
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by afcapel 7y ago
The median annual household income worldwide is about 10k/year. 20k/year puts you in the 91st percentile globally for person income. So it's perfectly possible to live with that money, most people in the world do.
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by afcapel 13y ago
You can include your VAT number, or any other info you want, in the field for your company details.