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pablobaz

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    Comment #48801932

    The bear case being set at 40% of employee costs is still quite wild.

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    Comment #47707361

    Sorry to hear about your aunt. My condolences. I think your misinterpreted my intent, I would dearly love a good diagnostic test for ME/CFS and agree research has been hugely under…

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    Comment #47672061

    I think I would need to see testing on a control group of housebound patients with other conditions to believe this. It's easy for ME testing to pick up markers for being houseboun…

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    Comment #47437641

    which bits of this do you think llm based agents can't do?

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    Comment #45183329

    Or: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gareth_Anscombe :-)

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    Comment #44761631

    That could work. 15 managers doing 10 1:1 meetings each isn't so hard. It can get tricky with people being on vacation etc. But very possible and normal.

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    Comment #43342875

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pit0OkNp7s8 This Irish Sheep farmer is my favorite example of a hard to understand Irish accent. I've lived nearby to this location and can attest t…

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    Comment #43342788

    Some of the west of Ireland accent also reflects pronunciation prior to the Great Vowel Shift . For example pronouncing "tea" as "tay" and "meat" as "mate" https://en.wikipedia.org…

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    Comment #42708604

    If the child had practiced on a balance bike for balance and a tricycle for pedalling it all comes together quite easily.

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    Comment #42628861

    In my experience with very large codebases, a common problem is devs trying to improve random things. This is well intentioned. But in a large old codebase finding things to improv…

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    Comment #42152571

    What you are seeing is probably cold induced vasodilation https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4843861/ Incidentally there are some studies that show you get better at it with …

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    Comment #42111049

    As the article discusses you don't need to ban alcohol you can just make it more awkward: - tax it - restrict the sales by age, location and time(see Nordic countries for a really …

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    Comment #42110324

    It goes deeper than that. Fundamental forces have chirality. This was a little controversial when first discovered.

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    Comment #41515996

    That's nice! Another one is remembering the phrase: Can I have a large container of coffee please sir.

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    Comment #39878989

    As a kid we didn't have duvets. It was all sheets and blankets. Duvets were a bit new-fangled so it's not surprising the knowledge wasn't passed down.

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    Comment #39878408

    IME lots of people just try stuff the duvet in and then shake it to get it in the right place.

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    Comment #39878203

    My preferred technique is to also start with the cover inside out. Then put your hands inside the cyber into its corners. Then grasp two corners of the duvet through the fabric. A …

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    Comment #38803938

    Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building This is a great book for larger team sizes. https://amzn.eu/d/hnEQvsV

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    Comment #38547091

    > "Using the power of Google Tensor G3, Video Boost on Pixel 8 Pro uploads your videos to the cloud where our computational photography models adjust color, lighting, stabilization…

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    Comment #38142688

    So many words but so little actual information as to how the increased consumption is now possible.

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    Comment #37025730

    >The difference between the rushed 10mins you get with the NHS and the considered 30mins you get private is amazing. You leave feeling like you’ve been taken care of and all your q…

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    Comment #36067546

    A friend once explained his philosophy to me, that I find helpful: "Once you've written it, it's just code. Someone can always find a better way or improvements and that's fine" I …

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    Comment #36035701

    Living there you are also beside a great river wave - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_67_(standing_wave)

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