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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.

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 …

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 a…

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.

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 …

This is pattern matching. Support for this exists in Haskell, Scala, and now even Ruby and soon Python.

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 …

Flatpak refuses to respect the hosts value for XDG_CONFIG and HOME, making it impossible for some applications to share your configuration.

So specter is lens and meander is syb/generics. Nice

Well, μέθοδος is derived from μετ᾽ (met᾽: towards,after) +‎ ὁδός (hodós: road,way). So 'way' is a synonym in both senses.

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 …

You do realise that the two platforms are being merged, with .org projects being migrated to .com?

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 wi…

I've never understood why that structure isn't more famous. It is a mind-bendingly enormous structure.

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.

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 ma…

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 co…

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…

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/. Germa…

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.

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.

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 implementat…

The C-FFI is significantly changed. Which means lxml can now be supported.

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 w…