involans

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by involans 5y ago
You don't have to eat during the flight, or you can delay eating to be out of phase. I've done that and so far it's been effective over a number of transatlantic flights.
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by involans 5y ago
According to the article, the process is basically about removing the lignin from the wood, not adding chemicals. The knife was coated in "food grade oil" to seal it, so I suspect there are no chemicals to worry about here.
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by involans 5y ago
The Greek for sky (ουρανός/Uranus) is etymologically related to words for rain (see: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%BF%E1%BD%90%CF%81%CE%B1... ). Greece isn't known for its abundant rainfall. It is actua
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by involans 5y ago
Three West Coast Main Line operates speeds up to 125mph/200kmph, so very much high speed rail in US terms - faster than the Acela if I recall correctly.
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by involans 6y ago
Eta had the value of a long mid front vowel (long "e"). German "See" is very close, but for English, the closest approximation is probably "say", which is a diphthong. This refers to Ancient classical pronuncia
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by involans 6y ago
This is pattern matching. Support for this exists in Haskell, Scala, and now even Ruby and soon Python.
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by involans 6y ago
The article argues that being fired (or ideally resigning) is preferable to appearing to be happy with unacceptable circumstances. If his influence was minimal, the article argues there was little point being at the table The main criticism
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by involans 6y ago
Flatpak refuses to respect the hosts value for XDG_CONFIG and HOME, making it impossible for some applications to share your configuration.
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by involans 6y ago
So specter is lens and meander is syb/generics. Nice
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by involans 6y ago
Well, μέθοδος is derived from μετ᾽ (met᾽: towards,after) +‎ ὁδός (hodós: road,way). So 'way' is a synonym in both senses.
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by involans 6y ago
Agreed, but the best combination is type-safe and non-turing complete, ideally with restricted effects. [Dhall]( https://github.com/dhall-lang/dhall-lang ) gets this so right that I'm increasingly shocked that peopl
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by involans 8y ago
You do realise that the two platforms are being merged, with .org projects being migrated to .com?
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Travis CI acquired by Idera(blog.travis-ci.com)
452 points by involans 8y ago|131 comments
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by involans 8y ago
It is useful to be able to speak of Lens and Traversal to distinguish intent. All lenses are Traversals, but not vice versa. What you have here is of course the Traversal system without the other optics.
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by involans 8y ago
I've never understood why that structure isn't more famous. It is a mind-bendingly enormous structure.
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by involans 8y ago
How do you preserve the secrecy of the ballot with a blockchain? Wanting to verify that an elector has voted but obscuring who for seems like a challenge.
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by involans 8y ago
The only way reading the Iliad made any sense to me was as history told by and for mob bosses. The primary concerns are honour and 'face', stealing stuff and killing people with maximum brutality. I think it is hard for a modern r
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by involans 8y ago
If anything ideology was more pervasive than now. People back then did not see themselves as playthings of chance, or subject to random chance - they, like now, actively debated courses of action and took charge of their life. Read the Phil
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by involans 8y ago
This is literally an essay topic for every high-school Latin program. It is hard not to see the contrast between Vergil's pathos for the costs of war and the Iliad's celebration of aggressive machismo. And yet the Aeneid is ideolo
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by involans 10y ago
Trying to explain glottal stops with English examples is pointless - "Apple" doesn't begin with a glottal stop in English; "fear" and "ear" differ only in the absence of /f/. German does introduc
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by involans 10y ago
The less inflammatory way of putting that is that the costs of employing someone in most European countries are rather high; up to 100% of salary in many cases.
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by involans 10y ago
Ironically, [join]( http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.9.0.0/docs/Control... ) is a function on `Monad`, not `Monoid` - so `Joinable` wouldn't have been a great choice.
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by involans 11y ago
For local variables within the body of a method it doesn't really matter. As long as the method signature is expressed in interfaces, you should be able to use whatever implementations you want within the method body.
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by involans 11y ago
The C-FFI is significantly changed. Which means lxml can now be supported.
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by involans 11y ago
it is striking how quickly the hyperlinks twitter uses have rotted; the links are now useless with no way to recover the content, stripping this article of much of its value. All within a year.
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by involans 11y ago
It was going so well until "Fifteen languages were developed from cuneiform" - no languages were developed from cuneiform, since it is a script. Old Persian and Akkadian aren't even in the same language family (the former is
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by involans 12y ago
So you are saying that sarcasm is a vaccine against stupidity?
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by involans 12y ago
InterMine - Cambridge, UK or remote. --------------------------------------- http://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/jobs/software-developer-intermine InterMine ( http://www.intermine.org ) is the leading open-source data-w
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by involans 13y ago
In my view, even if the driver must remain alert and vigilant and gains no leisure time, as long as these systems dramatically reduce road casualties, there can be no talk of "waste". Saving tens of thousands of purple a year from
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by involans 13y ago
Because it is an enjoyable pursuit. I would agree that it is not the most practical thing to do; but not everything need be practical. Incidentally - this course seems to be one of the better ones I've seen; it actually uses modern pho

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