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the-peter

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    Comment #47859249

    I make it a point to use the office bathrooms only to excrete food I ate from the work cafeteria. Personal food I ate at home I excrete in my personal bathroom.

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    Comment #47859177

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    Comment #36979620

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    Comment #23682814

    Can Foam store the data in files in a local folder using a file sharing tool like Dropbox, SyncThing or Resilien? I don't want private notes going on Github.

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    Comment #23680367

    I agree that git is a nightmare with a user-hostile interface. Keep backups outside of git and just bite the bullet and learn it. There is no middle-ground, you are either flounder…

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    Comment #23633560

    You shouldn't write an article telling people not to use Python if you don't really understand Python in the first place. Lists are called Lists in Python because they are just tha…

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    Comment #23633475

    What a bad article. C++ shouldn't be taught either because C++-98 (1998) isn't compatible with C++-20 (2020).

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    Comment #23553265

    Unless I'm behind the news, I think the incident people are referring to is: Triplebyte added a new feature to have a public profile highlighting your skills for your job-hunt. The…

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    Comment #23461130

    Try Spacemacs. Vim keybindings, logical well documented help/menus, plus emacs goodies like org-mode. It's the best of Vim and Emacs.

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    Comment #23461114

    Call me when it has org-mode.

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    Comment #23460934

    This is wonderful! I hope you wrote up how you put all this together somewhere? Link to a blog post or something?

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    Comment #23460904

    This isn't the website dad is always on. Son will find that one when he hits puberty.

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    Comment #23460183

    Interestingly there is a Japanese phrase 'kuchi sabishii' that translates to 'lonely mouth' which means you aren't hungry but want to snack.

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    Comment #22640129

    5K IU/day over the long term is the upper limit of safe D3 supplementation.

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    Comment #22548878

    I am having a hard time understanding the benefit of taking thousands of students who have been mixing in close contact all month and mostly likely are already infected and forcing…

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    Comment #22537928

    There never was any hope that it could be stopped. The goal is to slow down the spread so the medical system isn't overwhelmed and people can be helped.

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    Comment #22467637

    Is this integrated with the shell? Can I write shell scripts and python scripts to eg. grab today's entries from my gmail calendar, etc

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    Comment #22369223

    In the very early days of the Internet I was running a small ISP and I ran a fancier version of this: for word in `cat /usr/share/dict`; do whois "$word.com"; done and shortly got …

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    Comment #22360321

    Same here, can't find your email. I am also a 'jack of all trades' and I'm ready to wrap up my third business and find something new. I'd love to talk to you, maybe do something to…

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    Comment #21847251

    "Keyser Söze detected with 98% confidence"

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    Comment #21847232

    It's almost as if doing anything in excess isn't good for you.

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    Comment #21631500

    I have a great way StavrosK can offer his image hosting for free, forever. pmoriarty if you would just pay all of StavrosK's hosting bills going forward we can all live in the prom…

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    Comment #21587382

    The EMTs didn't try very hard when I was flipped by a drunk driver. I crawled out of my window and told the EMTs I just wanted to go home and they said 'ok'.

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    Comment #20709958

    I used and loved Unison for years, but I found myself wanting something that just worked invisibly with no admin effort so I switched to Resilio (Bittorrent Sync). Both work for my…

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    Comment #20708813

    "It's not really a measure of mental health to be well-adjusted in a society that's very sick." -The OA