cheerlessbog

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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
I assume that budget restaurants with large menus make heavy use of freezer and microwave. So a short menu is usually a good sign.
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
I understand that NTFS has its own case folding table which is written once when the volume is formatted. This does seem to have stood the test of time and enormous usage so maybe it is not such a poor idea.
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
That paper is a beautiful thing: 86 pages full of hand stippled line drawings.
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
How does even N2 not crack and warp the packages and boards? If I plunged my TV into liquid nitrogen I would expect it to not work - in a violent way.
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
Someone who only eats when the telescope is observing FRB121102
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
That's true but most people would pay that once or twice, which puts potentially small beans if it increases your productivity. Plus it's fun
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
That game is a labor of love by someone - I spent weeks playing it. So much fun solving puzzles and learning at the same time. If I had a criticism is that I'm not sure much has stuck with me. I still use the same 10-15 commands and a
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
It doesn't say whther the intervention was assigned randomly (and those assigned all stuck with it). Home environment and parental support has a huge influence and also those who get tuition (or stick with assignment to the tuition gro
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
It's unclear they even exist..or work..our could even theoretically work now we have digital. Their true enforcement strategy is to harass the small minority who don't pay the license fee.
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
This is part of the reason we still use plurality voting.
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
Is it conceivable that the clock signal could supply the power in a CPU?
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
Doing stuff outdoors or by other means staying apart
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
What if your employer did the same as Twitter etc and declared working from home was allowed forever. Could you imagine moving somewhere you’d love to be - with excellent internet - finding new friends there and being happier than other sit
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
I have a couple single friends in your position who were getting dangerously lonely. They got a cat in one case dog in the other and it hasn’t fixed anything but it’s given them a reason to get outside and a bit more of something alive in t
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
That’s an over simplification. My job is owning part of an open source stack. There’s countless fun projects in that which aren’t a necessary part of my job but are fun to do out of hours and and still happen to contribute to my employer’s
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
There’s an ad when you return to the app. Since you’re expecting a full screen video to auto play, they often aren’t out of place. You can skip them immediately as well. Besides ads, one would think there’s endless ways to monetize a strong
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
With all the energy drained from job +commute it can be hard to have much left to care about the planet and our community. It’s easier to be angry and isolated and fall back on tribal stereotypes and assume someone else will fix climate cha
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
Barely related, but if you haven’t learned how to tie shoelaces instantly, you should: https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ianknot.htm I’ve been doing this for nearly 20 years.
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
What makes it truly hard (speaking from US location) is having a team in both directions. If you’re an Eastward team, or Westward team, but not attempting both, there is enough overlap that with some flexibility you can have meetings when e
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
It’s worked better for me in teams that work on open source. Such projects tend to be intrinsically asynchronous and conducted via email, chat etc which is what you need to make a distributed team work well.
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
Is this a negative result of mono repo? There’s no natural boundary physics.
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
And not so good if you want to do O(1) indexing
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
Or use modified randomized response technique [1] Roll a die and multiply (salary - 100k) by the spots on the die. Share that value publicly. Sum all such values and average them then divide by 21/6 and add 100k. Choose the 100k value
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
If you know who is senior, who is junior etc you can identify their values
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
When you shower are you aware whether the water was heated an hour ago or a day ago?
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
If you lead a tough life of crime or had an abusive childhood that led you to crime, etc - I would expect it to be hard on your body - and looks. Whenever I see correlation assumed to be causation I like to wonder why they excluded causatio
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
I assume you mean “non legal residents” as typically universal healthcare covers legal residents. Do you have evidence that it makes financial sense to leave unauthorized residents (likely) untreated? One might imagine they’re disproportion
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
The appeal of horoscopes?
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
Their recent blog post gives a flavor of some of the performance work in the platform: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/performance-improvemen...
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
English has a relatively idiosyncratic relationship between letters and sounds. Does phonics work even better in languages that have regularized spelling, so "sounding out" always works perfectly? I could imagine that a native spe

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