My commute is about 50 mins door to door - 10 min drive, 30 on train and 10 minute walk. Mind you even pre-coronavirus I was only going into the office 2 or 3 days a week, working from home the rest of the time. The train trip is actually quite nice as you go along the coast then across the Forth Bridge.
Property is much cheaper in Fife than a comparable property in Edinburgh. We got a nice 5 bedroom house in a rural area with a large garden and fantastic views for about a third less than a 4 bedroom flat in Edinburgh.
The Congress has directed the Fed to conduct the nation's monetary policy to support three specific goals:
* maximum sustainable employment,
* stable prices, and
* moderate long-term interest rates.
These goals are sometimes referred to as the Fed's "mandate." [hn formatting added]
and REALLY took off after the Rockets GM publicly tweeted out against China earlier this year, while the rest of the league ripped into him including LeBron (despite LeBron trying to play up the more than an athlete idea about himself).
Yes, they were advertising for "AOL Keywords" to simplify discovery of content, along with other value-add services like "homework help" Perhaps "AOL Keywords" were the precursor to hashtags.
> To facilitate quick note taking I wrote a FUSE driver for it
I didn't understand this part. Why can't you just write the file and then either manually/automatically trigger an import of the text into the SQLiteDB?
The fuse FS (which, fuse not at all difficult to use, there are many implementations of SQLite-backed fs) implements the trigger that automatically imports it.
I understand what you meant, and would love to read that thread too! However, i don’t think it will come
And I Also don’t think holding in that pain/disgust/anger is healthy.
This is cool! Has anyone here taken a computer science course in another language?
I have wondered if non-English-speaking universities have to teach their CS courses in 25-50% English, just due to the syntax of the programming languages generally being in English
I have! I actually really enjoy taking computer classes to learn computer languages that I already know in languages that I am studying, e.g. I took a Java class "Initiation à la programmation (en Java)" at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne on Coursera. It is a great way to learn new words and build up your vocabulary. I am looking for more German courses now.
> > the character chose alternative therapies before finally trying conventional medicine, but it was too late & she lost her life.
> Isn't this the same story as Steve Jobs?
While much of the news media characterized Jobs' death as partly due to conventional cancer treatment coming too late, such a view is reductive given the nature of Jobs' "rare form of pancreatic cancer, called an islet cell tumor or gasteroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumor (GEP-NET)" [0].
Not much conventional medical literature exists regarding the treatment of GEP-NETs (presumably due to their rarity) and Jobs and his care providers had to make choices without much evidence to guide them. Quoting from the above-cited article:
> [W]hat many journalists failed to note is that the evidence supporting any specific conventional treatment approach (surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy) for GEP-NETs comprises a slim literature, and the evidence base for use of CAM [complementary and alternative medical] therapeutic approaches for GEP-NETs is virtually non-existent. After a delay of nine months after diagnosis, in 2004, Jobs opted for surgery. He died 7 years later. [0]
It may be that Jobs shortened his life with his rejection of mainstream treatments, but pancreatic cancer also has relatively poor prognosis even with optimal treatment. Good thing it's rare.
> In October 2003, Jobs was diagnosed with cancer. In mid-2004, he announced to his employees that he had a cancerous tumor in his pancreas.[158] The prognosis for pancreatic cancer is usually very poor;[159] Jobs stated that he had a rare, much less aggressive type, known as islet cell neuroendocrine tumor.[158]
Despite his diagnosis, Jobs resisted his doctors' recommendations for medical intervention for nine months,[160] instead relying on alternative medicine to thwart the disease. According to Harvard researcher Ramzi Amri, his choice of alternative treatment "led to an unnecessarily early death". Other doctors agree that Jobs's diet was insufficient to address his disease. However, cancer researcher and alternative medicine critic David Gorski wrote that "it's impossible to know whether and by how much he might have decreased his chances of surviving his cancer through his flirtation with woo. My best guess was that Jobs probably only modestly decreased his chances of survival, if that."[161] Barrie R. Cassileth, the chief of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center's integrative medicine department,[162] said, "Jobs's faith in alternative medicine likely cost him his life.... He had the only kind of pancreatic cancer that is treatable and curable.... He essentially committed suicide."
By 'insufficient diet' they mean that he decided to eat only fruit. High sugar intake combined with the pancreatic cancer likely did him no favors and may have taxed his pancreas even more. Such a shame, I'd have liked to see him grow older and wiser.
