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by gsej 2y ago
https://archive.ph/fZIB8
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by gsej 2y ago
Also, the book these are actually all named after, The Varieties of Religious Experience, by William James. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Varieties_of_Religious_Exp...
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by gsej 2y ago
I lost a little faith when I saw the article referred to Neanderthals as "our ancestors"... Intrigued by the throwaway comment that we know handedness is genetically determined. Is that true? I was under the impression it was a de
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by gsej 2y ago
I've developed an app for my own use (which doesn't look anywhere near as good visually!). My biggest pain points were cleaning the account data, to make it suitable for import, and getting the appropriate prices so I can see the
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by gsej 2y ago
This is just premixed and shaped dough brought into stores and then cooked there surely. There's no guy at the back of your co-op carefully nurturing his bread-mother.
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by gsej 2y ago
I'm in the UK and would prefer to buy non-Chorleywood bread, but my local corner shops only sell what looks like versions of the regular supermarket stuff, and the only genuinely artisan bakery is a distance away. Our local (medium siz
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by gsej 3y ago
I use a home video appliance called camect which is accessed through a web interface which explicitly only works in chromium browsers. Oddly, I often find that the bbc news page doesn't load images on the first attempt in Firefox, but
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by gsej 3y ago
Yes they do, and people would ask for their change if they didn't. I don't know why.
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by gsej 4y ago
I confess, I read the guardian website regularly, click through the annoying links which tell me I should really donate. I also buy the newspaper, so I think I've already paid. Never heard of gu.com though. Guardian UK I guess?
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by gsej 4y ago
There are some odd things here. How can someone be a "scam prevention expert" and not be aware that caller id can be spoofed, and therefore should never be trusted for anything important? How can someone be a "scam prevention
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by gsej 4y ago
Off by one error. Not uncommon.
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by gsej 5y ago
I used to pull the code and run it for each PR, as I believed it just wasn't possible to read code adequately. Then I worked with one guy who clearly could read code very well - he found quite subtle issues just by reading it, and havi
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by gsej 5y ago
I've also gone for fastmail. I looked at tutanota, but they don't have import of external mails. The pricing plans for protonmail were strange. Not enough storage or custom domains on the plus and personal plans and I recall you c
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by gsej 5y ago
In the UK some people still use them. My elderly parents still occasionally send them to us. We don't take them to a bank or ATM though - bank apps will accept a photo of one and make the transfer instantly.
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by gsej 6y ago
git - compared with previous source control systems.
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by gsej 6y ago
I've always been curious about the pit of venomous snakes. We only have one venomous snake in the UK - the common adder. It's bite is nasty, but very rarely fatal. I wonder if the story is made up, based on foreign tales of poison
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by gsej 6y ago
Hmmm. Once Fred is solely responsible for all of the good engineering practises, we should probably rename him Brent ( http://allengeer.com/how-to-handle-brent-in-the-phoenix-proj... )
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by gsej 6y ago
Absolutely. This has been discussed here quite a bit (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=120614530 ). In real life it's often visible when you have methods that take one or more flags to tell them how to behave.
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by gsej 6y ago
I don't think I've ever seen this combination of "very much cares about code quality" and "slow coder". Most of the clean code fanatics I've seen (and I include myself), are also very quick to deliver feat
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by gsej 6y ago
I've been using kubuntu for a while and while I like it a lot, it seems very "chatty" to me - way too many notifications which I have to disable one at a time. I only discovered the snap situation when Chromium started prompt
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by gsej 7y ago
Read "the long and short of it" by John Kay which deals with a lot of the basics around investing for yourself. It's a truly useful book, and I've given quite a few copies of it to people. It is quite UK-centric, but I t