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Comment #48432981
You think it’s funny but it taint.
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Comment #48261069
Ruby is a great utility language target for LLM-generated tools.
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Comment #48144450
Trekkies are experiencing a major regression from Deep Space Nine.
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Comment #47972625
Going on your Slavic username: as an American who moved to a country without forced-air HVAC, it’s been quite a revelation to discover how backwards forced air really is.
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Comment #47912520
I fully agree that this was a big miss on the human operators’ part. But it’s a small business and I have repeatedly seen so much worse than this. Vendors charging money to allow c…
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Comment #47821895
That “but..” is a big key to the difference between Russia and the US in this conversation. The US has a severe cultural propensity for rule-following and reporting things, but in …
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Comment #47821849
1) Russia is generally very safe, and 2) I agree that the violence amongst children is crazy. It’s a great place to homeschool and free-range and I have not found a way to send chi…
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Comment #47821826
Good morning from Russia, where I moved my large free-range family (from the US) with the topic of free-ranging children very high on the list of reasons why. My children cross tow…
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Comment #47808334
I’m interested in what may exist for Byzantine notation.
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Comment #47660155
So test it separately.
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Comment #47552687
Yes, the factors to consider include: - cost of the effort - probability of success - trade-offs in the case of success or of failure - the possibility of only partial success crea…
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Comment #47139247
She should have sent it! The first person to disrespect a child is the loser, and shouldn’t be the child’s parent.
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Comment #47018191
I understand your point and have a long list of bitter grievances against Apple, but OS X triggered a large influx of geeks to the Mac world. It was a Unix that just worked, and th…
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Comment #46992353
Why not? I kinda like the idea of PGP signing parties among humans.
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Comment #42552511
For a very long time now, homeopathic remedies have been regulated by specific US law, called HPUS, and are labeled accordingly. They’re actually required to include examples of wh…
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Comment #42448626
What we don’t understand yet is what that means. We have never had such a thing before and it’s not clear what the patterns are that will make the best use of its known attributes …
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Comment #41964375
The idea is that the crops are more profitable per unit of time spent. The pasture operations are very low labor.
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Comment #41964366
I have never seen a permaculture designer, or anyone, make such a claim. We aim to reduce maintenance by design, using methods that overlap with Lean Manufacturing and other proces…
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Comment #41952837
Permaculture designer here. That’s a pretty good take. Biggest aspect missing is that once you abandon the “parking lot” approach to farming, you get many niches where you can prof…
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Comment #41817044
I’m a permaculture designer and have run a small vegetable farm. I have visited Polyface twice and spoken personally with Joel Salatin both times. I’ve read several of his books. I…
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Comment #40031906
You’d probably enjoy the book Turn the Ship Around about a Navy submarine captain who transformed a low-performing crew into a strong, cohesive, autonomous crew.
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Comment #39334237
Yes, it’s a mistake to design your company’s output in a way that results in shipping a defective product.
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Comment #39038272
Looks like an Orthodox Christian family? If so I will write your baptism names down at church if you are willing to share them.
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Comment #29057092
Right, don’t use that, but there are well-implemented timeouts in network libraries, etc.
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Comment #27537577
Hopefully people speaking up will change that equation so that everyone is served.