AndrewNCarr
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Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
Here is a project that maintains a list of homoglyphs and has some Java and Javascript code for detecting them.
https://github.com/codebox/homoglyph
The list itself in sorted text format, each line a list of similar glyphs:
https://github.com/codebox/homoglyph/blob/master/raw_data/ch...
Comment · 9 years ago
Some brief searching ("cooking rice with seawater") indicates that at a minimum you can use seawater diluted with fresh water for cooking if your survival depends on it. Seawater is around 3.5% salt. For perspective, that is something on the order of a soup spoon of salt per soda can volume of water (12fl oz/355mL).
Undiluted seawater suitability seems to vary by food[1][2], my cursory search didn't provide any factual specifics for rice, oatmeal, and vegetables. Some comments indicate you can boil fish in straight seawater.
That's all without considering pollution and natural toxins from algae blooms. The sources I skimmed mentioned commercially sourced culinary "sea water", I would expect some amount of filtering and heat treatment.
[1]https://www.chowhound.com/post/cooking-seawater-785862
[2]https://www.quora.com/Could-seawater-be-used-for-cooking-e-g...
https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/51729/can-i-use-...
Comment · 9 years ago
The next worst is when there are only a handful of search results and the top one is a forum post with replies saying the answer is easily available, and the OP should have used Google first.
The remaining results being archives of that first one.
Comment · 9 years ago
Varasano also rejects the "special water" claim. I think the historically poor quality of pizza in rural areas is due to the "trade secret" recipe factors (which Varasano identifies) not being widely shared.
I've been to small towns with a "House of Pizza" that made an awful flavorless and bready crust, and the locals loved it because they had no reference for anything better.
Comment · 9 years ago
className is a small inconvenience when porting over an existing app to react (e.g. pasting in existing html), as is the requirement for style parameters to be objects. className is a quick find replace, but style is a more lengthy transpose process.
These are small frictions, but in the same way that every ounce/gram counts to a hiker, minimizing process frictions makes a big difference in productivity during times you already have a high cognitive load.
Comment · 9 years ago
You basically just described Cat Programming 101.
Comment · 9 years ago
Consider Phlebas is one of the few books I have read more than once. The Culture series is unparalleled. Surface Detail is probably my pick for #1, as Consider Phlebas isn't really set within the Culture proper, so stands in its own category in a sense.
Comment · 9 years ago
Apple could shrink the touchbar enough to have space for the esc key. They could have also included a single classic USB type A receptacle and kept the magsafe power connector... so who knows.
Comment · 9 years ago
Agreed, "mayonnaise man" sounds like an internet legend in the making. To claim it is not beautiful without a link, but give such a fascinating description...
Comment · 10 years ago
I would like to find a laptop with a touchpad as good as a 2010 MacBook Pro.
I'm not aware of any, and this article seems to confirm it: http://www.businessinsider.com/macbook-touchpad-better-than-...
Comment · 10 years ago
If you like AvE, check out This Old Tony. He is more machining focused, but he did do a clever multimeter 4/1 video.
Comment · 10 years ago
He is referring to traditional chaining of programs through STDOUT and STDIN. For example, a "program" that counts number of occurrences of foo in a file:
cat file.txt | grep "foo" | wc -w
Comment · 12 years ago
The missing link between the new Pepsi logo and TimeCube!
Saddest thing is I can see a board room eating this up. Remember when Marissa Mayer redesigned the Yahoo logo with a small team over a weekend? "no straight lines in nature" she said. Sounds good, except it is wrong.
"With Christa McAuliffe set to be the first teacher in space, NASA had arranged a satellite broadcast of the full mission into television sets in many schools, but the general public did not have access to this unless they were one of the then-few people with satellite dishes. What most people recall as a "live broadcast" was actually the taped replay broadcast soon after the event." http://www.nbcnews.com/id/11031097/