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www.liberation.fr www.liberation.fr
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Auch die liberation berichtet über die Studie zu den Möglichkeiten, die innereuropäische Luftfahrt auf grünem Wasserstoff umzustellen Punkt die Gesamtkosten würden bei 300 Milliarden Euro liegen, und mit der Umstellung müsste sofort begonnen werden, damit dieser Teil der Luftfahrt bis 2050 die karbonisiert ist. In jedem Fall muss die Luftfahrt deutlich reduziert werden damit genug Energie für eine co2-freibetriebene flotte zur Verfügung steht. https://www.liberation.fr/environnement/lavion-a-hydrogene-vert-une-solution-serieuse-mais-des-limites-nombreuses-20230529_UPDSTKKUABD5JMI5NIRICSWMQY/
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- May 2023
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www.repubblica.it www.repubblica.it
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Die Po-Ebene gehört zu zu den Regionen mit der schlechtesten Luft in Europa. Hauptursache sind fossile Brennstoffe. https://www.repubblica.it/green-and-blue/2023/04/28/news/smog_allarme_ue_bambini_pianura_padana_inquinamento-397995224/
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- Apr 2023
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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Die World Weather Attribution Group hat in einer Studie nachgewiesen, dass die große Dürre an Horn von Afrika ein Ergebnis der Erhitzung der Erde durch Treibhausgase ist. Von der Dürre sind 50 Millionen Menschen direkt und weitere 100 Millionen indirekt betroffen. Ohne die Erhöhung der Temperaturen hätten dieselben Regenverhältnisse nicht zu einer Dürre geführt. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/27/human-driven-climate-crisis-fuelling-horn-of-africa-drought-study
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- institution: Grantham Institute for climate change and the environment
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- institution: enya Meteorological Department
- institution: Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre,
- region: Horn of Africa
- institution: World Weather Attribution Group
- expert: Friederike Otto
- expert: Cheikh Kane
- expert: Joyce Kimutai
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Informationsreicher Artikel des Guardian über eine neue Anlage von #ExxonMobil zum chemischen Recycling von Plastik im texanischen Baytown-Komplex. Viele Basis-Informationen zu dieser umweltschädlichen Technik und ihrer Verwendung durch die Ölindustrie, um von der wachsenden Produktion von Single Use-Plastik abzulenken. Anlagen zum chemischen Recycling werden vor allem in räumlicher Nähe von Communities, die bereits extrem und der Verschmutzung durch Plastik und Abgase leiden Chemisches Recycling gehört auch zu den Geschäftsfeldern der #OMV-Tochter #Borealis. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/10/exxon-advanced-recycling-plastic-environment
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- expert: Taylor Uekert
- expert: Luke Metzger
- NGO: Minderoo Foundation
- expert: Veena Singla
- NGO: Unearthed
- institution: Natural Resources Defense Council
- institution: National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- actor: ExxonMobil
- process: plastic production
- expert: Phaedra Pezzullo.
- NGO: Environment Texas
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- Feb 2023
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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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Adaptations are designed to solve specific adaptive challenges that arose in ancestral environments.
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www.allthingsdistributed.com www.allthingsdistributed.com
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development host for debugging, to a staging environment for tests, and finally to production to release an update
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- Jan 2023
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hypothes.is hypothes.is假设1
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个人学习可能取决于他人行为的主张突出了将学习环境视为一个涉及多个互动参与者的系统的重要性
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www.cbc.ca www.cbc.ca
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Environmentalists say bulldozing the village to expand the Garzweiler mine would result in huge amounts of greenhouse gas emissions. The government and utility company RWE argue the coal is needed to ensure Germany's energy security.Police officers use water cannons on protesters in Luetzerath on Saturday. (Thilo Schmuelgen/Reuters)The regional and national governments, both of which include the environmentalist Green party, reached a deal with RWE last year allowing it to destroy the abandoned village in return for ending coal use by 2030, rather than 2038.Some speakers at Saturday's demonstration assailed the Greens, whose leaders argue that the deal fulfils many of the environmentalists' demands and saved five other villages from demolition.What on Earth?Why the reversal of a decades-old coal policy sparked controversy in Alberta"It's very weird to see the German government, including the Green party, make deals and compromise with companies like RWE, with fossil fuel companies, when they should rather be held accountable for all the damage and destruction they have caused," Thunberg said."My message to the German government is that they should stop what's happening here immediately, stop the destruction, and ensure climate justice for everyone."
Assuming the facts are correct and complete here, it's surprisingly naive of Thunberg to take this view. One unknown is whether the displaced villagers were suitably compensated for being evicted. Still, taking 8 years off the deadline to end coal use - that's a pretty massive win and could set the stage for even more in the future.
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- Dec 2022
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microblog.onemanandhisblog.com microblog.onemanandhisblog.com
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Started reading: Edge of Cymru by Julie Brominicks 📚
https://microblog.onemanandhisblog.com/2022/12/09/started-reading-edge.html
This looks fantastic. I had just bookmarked @richardcarter's On the Moor: Science, History and Nature on a Country Walk earlier this week. Apparently serendipity is pulling this genre of books to me this week.
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carnegieendowment.org carnegieendowment.org
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Information Environment
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I have about fourteen or sixteen weeks to do this, so I'm breaking the course into an "intro" section that covers some basic stuff like affordances, and other insights into how tech functions. There's a section on AI which is nothing but critical appraisals on AI from a variety of areas. And there's a section on Social Media, which is the most well formed section in terms of readings.
https://zirk.us/@shengokai/109440759945863989
If the individuals in an environment don't understand or perceive the affordances available to them, can the interactions between them and the environment make it seem as if the environment possesses agency?
cross reference: James J. Gibson book The Senses Considered as Perceptual Systems (1966)
People often indicate that social media "causes" outcomes among groups of people who use it. Eg: Social media (via algorithmic suggestions of fringe content) causes people to become radicalized.
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- Nov 2022
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stackoverflow.com stackoverflow.com
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Remember there are two kinds of variable. Internal Variables and Environment Variables. PATH should be an environment variable.
In my case, I was trying to debug
which asdfnot finding asdf, in a minimal shell.I had checked
bash-5.1$ echo $PATH|grep asdf /home/tyler/.asdf/binbut ```
The PATH environment variable
env | /bin/grep PATH
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All shells should tell you that your path is the same thing with BOTH of the two commands: # The PATH variable echo "$PATH" # The PATH environment variable env | /bin/grep PATH
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docs.google.com docs.google.com
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Devising ML Metrics
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nickjanetakis.com nickjanetakis.com
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That’s fine and dandy if you’re running in production and have a publicly accessible address such as your domain name but what about during development?You can’t just tell Stripe to access http://localhost because that address isn’t publicly accessible to the internet.
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- Oct 2022
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www.loom.com www.loom.com
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https://www.loom.com/share/a05f636661cb41628b9cb7061bd749ae
Synopsis: Maggie Delano looks at some of the affordances supplied by Tana (compared to Roam Research) in terms of providing better block-based user interface for note type creation, search, and filtering.
These sorts of tools and programmable note implementations remind me of Beatrice Webb's idea of scientific note taking or using her note cards like a database to sort and search for data to analyze it and create new results and insight.
It would seem that many of these note taking tools like Roam and Tana are using blocks and sub blocks as a means of defining atomic notes or database-like data in a way in which sub-blocks are linked to or "filed underneath" their parent blocks. In reality it would seem that they're still using a broadly defined index card type system as used in the late 1800s/early 1900s to implement a set up that otherwise would be a traditional database in the Microsoft Excel or MySQL sort of fashion, the major difference being that the user interface is cognitively easier to understand for most people.
These allow people to take a form of structured textual notes to which might be attached other smaller data or meta data chunks that can be easily searched, sorted, and filtered to allow for quicker or easier use.
Ostensibly from a mathematical (or set theoretic and even topological) point of view there should be a variety of one-to-one and onto relationships (some might even extend these to "links") between these sorts of notes and database representations such that one should be able to implement their note taking system in Excel or MySQL and do all of these sorts of things.
Cascading Idea Sheets or Cascading Idea Relationships
One might analogize these sorts of note taking interfaces to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). While there is the perennial question about whether or not CSS is a programming language, if we presume that it is (and it is), then we can apply the same sorts of class, id, and inheritance structures to our notes and their meta data. Thus one could have an incredibly atomic word, phrase, or even number(s) which inherits a set of semantic relationships to those ideas which it sits below. These links and relationships then more clearly define and contextualize them with respect to other similar ideas that may be situated outside of or adjacent to them. Once one has done this then there is a variety of Boolean operations which might be applied to various similar sets and classes of ideas.
If one wanted to go an additional level of abstraction further, then one could apply the ideas of category theory to one's notes to generate new ideas and structures. This may allow using abstractions in one field of academic research to others much further afield.
The user interface then becomes the key differentiator when bringing these ideas to the masses. Developers and designers should be endeavoring to allow the power of complex searches, sorts, and filtering while minimizing the sorts of advanced search queries that an average person would be expected to execute for themselves while also allowing some reasonable flexibility in the sorts of ways that users might (most easily for them) add data and meta data to their ideas.
Jupyter programmable notebooks are of this sort, but do they have the same sort of hierarchical "card" type (or atomic note type) implementation?
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www.flickr.com www.flickr.com
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In a recent paper published in Nature Climate Change, scientists found that major sea-level rise from the melting of the Greenland ice cap is now ‘inevitable’ even if the burning of fossil fuels were to halt overnight. Using satellite observations of Greenland ice loss and ice cap from 2000 to 2019, the team found the losses will lead to a minimum rise of 27 cm regardless of climate change.
A great example of the lag that large, complex systems exhibit when responding to significant input changes.
Lag is something that humans are woefully weak at recognizing and understanding. This, and other systems concepts are what we need to add to the curriculum at all levels of education, to change this very significant shortcoming of "common knowledge".
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- Sep 2022
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99percentinvisible.org 99percentinvisible.org
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The idea here isn’t to actually protect each grain of rice, or salmon, or squirrel, as if it’s a human being.
Then why is the rice itself "pressing the lawsuit?"
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The most obvious change would be to the local area — it would be a blow to the continued use of the Line 3 pipeline, which has been operational since October of last year.
What would be the potential effects to the surrounding area and the people living in it?
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by writing it into the law, you’re saying that you think nature’s personhood is just as valid as, say, tax law.
Nature is a physical thing. It does have a conscience, a psyche, or whatever you'd like to call it. It cannot argue for itself in a court of law. Why would the proceeds go to nature and not to the indigenous folk that land was stolen from?
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t might sound unusual, but we’ve used conceptual versions of what a person is in law for quite some time — corporations, schools and law firms, for example, are all technically allowed to enter into contracts as if they were singular human beings.
Corporations, schools, and law firms all have people in them affected by law. Rice is significantly different from a company.
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But can wild rice sue a state agency? The short answer is: yes. This is the story about what might happen if rice wins.
What does the rice win? Money? What's it going to do, spend it on jewelry?
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99percentinvisible.org 99percentinvisible.org
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“Colors are cultural creations and they’re kind of shifting all the time, sort of like tectonic plates. Color is not a precise thing. It’s changing, it’s living, it’s constantly being redefined and argued over and that’s part of the magic of it!”
Everything ever created has social rules and associations, even things as natural as color.
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The color blue became associated with Mary and rose in prominence.
When did blue start to be considered a "male" color?
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It was only with the rise of Christianity and the cult of the Virgin Mary that blue became fashionable in the West.
That's interesting. I've always though of blue as the universally loved color, for all of civilization.
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This green pigment was derived from a compound copper arsenite which is incredibly toxic — and that a piece of Scheele’s green wallpaper that was only a few inches long had enough arsenic to kill two adults.
Why use a pigment so toxic? It seems that the cons outweigh the pros in this situation.
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political turmoil in the Mediterranean where it was manufactured
Why was a color so politically controversial?
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When squeezed or prodded, this gland produces a single drop of clear garlic-smelling liquid that when exposed to sunlight, turns from green to blue, and then finally to a dark reddish purple.
I wonder how the sunlight affected a clear liquid this way?
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eams that wore red during matches statistically did better than they should have
This is a statistic I have heard for years and years as a soccer player. To extent it seems to be "true": for example, a team I used to play against called the Mustangs wore red, and they were consistently one of the top teams inn the league. However, another team called the Islanders who also wore red consistently ranked near the bottom. I believe this is a myth, somewhat of a placebo effect.
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99percentinvisible.org 99percentinvisible.org
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By some estimates, one-quarter of all power outages are squirrel-related.
Is there any way to prevent squirrels from chewing on wires or even having access to them at all?
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No one stopped to wonder if there could be such a thing as too many squirrels, which might have been a mistake.
Why wasn't overpopulation an original concern? A few dozen growing to 5000 in a few years seems to be a tipoff.
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People would hunt birds of prey because they were considered “mean.” Meanwhile, other animals like pigeons and squirrels were considered peaceful.
Predators vs. prey? Eliminating "threats"
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at least: certain kinds of animals.
Interesting how humans pick and choose which species are worth our protection.
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the idea of populating them with squirrels traveled, too.
It makes sense but somehow I never would have thought that squirrels were brought into the city by humans.
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you could walk through a place like Boston or Philadelphia or Manhattan and you would not see a single squirrel
How did they wind up in urban society?
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grey squirrels are so much a part of the urban fabric that for a long time, it never occurred to anyone to study urban squirrels at all
They are such a regular part of life that they go unquestioned. They become a part of the background and we grow accustomed to their behavior, so it doesn't occur to us to look closer in to it.
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- Aug 2022
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arxiv.org arxiv.org
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Livan, G., Pappalardo, G., & Mantegna, R. N. (2021). Quantifying the relationship between specialisation and reputation in an online platform. ArXiv:2111.07144 [Physics]. http://arxiv.org/abs/2111.07144
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restofworld.org restofworld.org
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actors in the motion capture suits, referred to as zhongzhiren in Chinese and naka no hito in Japanese
“Person in the Middle” name for virtual environment actors
It refers to the person at the center of the technology fulfilling the physical aspects of the virtual world — the person in the motion capture suit.
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- Jul 2022
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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Suzanne Njeri, from Kenya, vice-president of the African Women Fish Processors and Traders Network, which has members from 44 out of 54 African countries, said coastal fishing communities needed “a seat at the table” and were too often sidelined.“We want policymakers to talk with us, not for us,” said Njeri. “We see the damage to the fish breeding grounds. We are the ones who fight malnutrition. We need more practitioners here to tell their stories.”
I have read and heard so many times about the exclusion of the actual players and citizens of this world that climate crisis is affecting the most. Their concerns and their issues that reflect the knowledge of the environment and how the natural system is changing as a result of over-fishing and over production.
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- May 2022
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www.usmcu.edu www.usmcu.edu
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climate and environment change (CEC) hyperthreat
climate and environment change (CEC)
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- Mar 2022
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www.thehindu.com www.thehindu.com
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two-thirds of common large moth species have declined over the last 40 years in some parts of world. One of main reasons for the decline is light pollution (an increase in artificial light in moth habitats).
Artificial Light pollution endangering moth species
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I am going to use 2 packages and each has its own approach.Using viper → here we use viper to read from configuration file config.yml and also from environment variables.Using godotenv and os package from GO together → here we use godotenv to read from .env file and os to read from environment variables.** I prefer the first approach of using viper, since it is more professional way of handling configuration files and environment variables together than having 2 separate packages for either of the tasks as in the 2nd approach.
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- Feb 2022
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www.mercurynews.com www.mercurynews.com
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Living with COVID-19: How the virus could turn into the common cold, or something far worse. (2022, January 9). The Mercury News. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/01/09/living-with-covid-19-how-the-virus-could-turn-into-the-common-cold-or-something-far-worse
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Horita, Y., & Yamazaki, M. (2022). Generalized and behavioral trust: Correlation with nominating close friends in a social network. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/xu8k3
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Pauer, S., Rutjens, B., & Harreveld, F. van. (2022). Trust is good, control is better: The role of trust and personal control in response to risk. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dvb5x
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ohsonline.com ohsonline.com
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Nursing professionals are facing with severe sleep problems during the covid 19 pandemic time. Nurses were asked to work in an environment that had a more increased level of risk than ever before. Depression and anxiety from the workplace could affect the confidence of healthcare workers in themselves as well as general trust in the healthcare system. This will lead to their turnover intention which may undermine the efforts of the governments to control the COVID-19 pandemic. The rising concern may change the working schedules of healthcare workers, offering more occupational healthcare support.
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Grüning, D. J., Panizza, F., & Lorenz-Spreen, P. (2022). The importance of informative interventions in a wicked environment. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/azsbn
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Arogbodo, M. (2022). Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Online Security Behavior within the UK Educational Industry. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/h5qgk
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- Jan 2022
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royalsociety.org royalsociety.org
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The online information environment | Royal Society. (n.d.). Retrieved January 21, 2022, from https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/online-information-environment/
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- online platform
- academic
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- technology
- search engine
- public trust
- climate change
- provenance enhancing technology
- behavioral science
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github.com github.com
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Node is entirely at liberty to limit the design the same way we crash the process on errors (which browsers do not).
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www.grandin.com www.grandin.com
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environment
"Environment means that aggregate of surrounding things, conditions, or influences."
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Krueger, P., Callaway, F., Gul, S., Griffiths, T., & Lieder, F. (2022). Discovering Rational Heuristics for Risky Choice. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/mg7dn
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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What Alexander had found is that we’ve fundamentally misunderstood what addiction is. It isn’t a moral failing. It isn’t a disease. Addiction is an adaptation to your environment. It’s not you; it’s the cage you live in.”
This is a fascinating thesis to follow up on. How about digital distractions and addictions to the internet and social media?
We'll need some harder science to follow up on it than this piece.
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- Nov 2021
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hyperlink.academy hyperlink.academy
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collaboration within a community of people: diverse perspectives, active engagement
Similar ideas here: Stephen Downes (2015). Design Elements in a Personal Learning Environment. Invited talk, Guadalajara, Mexico. https://www.slideshare.net/Downes/design-elements-in-a-personal-learning-environment-52303224
What makes an 'online course' different to an 'online learning community'?
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a system that lets people compose structure
We all think in different ways, so a good system for learning should enable every learner to structure their learning environment uniquely.
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www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/evangelical-trump-christians-politics/620469/
Evangelical Christians have been held together more by political orientation and sociology than they have by a common theology. This has set them up for a schism which has been exacerbated by Donald J. Trump, COVID-19, and social changes.
Similar to Kurt's quote, "We go to church to see and be seen", too many churches are focused on entertainment and being an ongoing institution that they aren't focusing on their core mission. This is causing problems in their overall identity.
Time at church and in religious study is limited, but cable news, social media, and other distractions are always on and end up winning out.
People are more likely to change their church because of politics than to change their politics because of church.
The dichotomy of maleness and femaleness compound the cultural issues of the evangelical church.
Southernization of the Church
Pastors leaving the profession due to issues with a hostile work environment. Some leaving because parishioners are organizing and demanding they be fired.
Peter Wehner looks at the rifts that are appearing in the Christian evangelical movement in America, some are issues that have been building for a while, while others are exaggerated by Donald J. Trump, the coronavirus, the culture wars, political news, political beliefs, and and hypocrisy.
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drive.google.com drive.google.com
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studentsreporting having a quiet place to study
PISA 2018 students reporting having a quiet place to study at home
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- Oct 2021
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link.springer.com link.springer.com
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Knight, K. R., Duke, M. R., Carey, C. A., Pruss, G., Garcia, C. M., Lightfoot, M., Imbert, E., & Kushel, M. (2021). COVID-19 Testing and Vaccine Acceptability Among Homeless-Experienced Adults: Qualitative Data from Two Samples. Journal of General Internal Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-021-07161-1
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Nigg, C., Petersen, E., & MacIntyre, T. (2021). Natural Environments, Psychosocial Health, and Health Behaviors during COVID-19 – A Scoping Review. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/a9unf
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covid19scenariomodelinghub.org covid19scenariomodelinghub.org
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Home - COVID 19 scenario model hub. (n.d.). Retrieved July 5, 2021, from https://covid19scenariomodelinghub.org/
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- Sep 2021
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inst-fs-iad-prod.inscloudgate.net inst-fs-iad-prod.inscloudgate.net
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I had seen other residents at the Y.M.C.A. do
Blending in to belong to the new place, Copying actions, behaviour
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The Student Guide to North America,"
Going to America, the narrator immediately starts to inform himself on the new country and culture. His descriptions change as well. He notices cultural differences etc. of the US.
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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Continual engagement with the mental rigors of modern life coincided in many parts of the world with improving nutrition, rising living conditions and reduced exposure to pathogens. These factors produced a century-long climb in average I.Q. scores — a phenomenon known as the Flynn effect, after James Flynn, the political philosopher who identified it.
The Flynn effect is the substantial and sustained increase in intelligence test scores over most of the twentieth century.
Research seems to indicate that the effect is environmentally caused: https://www.pnas.org/content/115/26/6674
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Prouzeau, A., Besançon, L., & Mihelcic, J. (2021). Working from home is the new black: Into the private world of remote collaboration in COVID-19 lockdowns. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/6cu3t
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github.com github.com
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the bug is actually in webpack, related to fs in the web target.
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blog.sindresorhus.com blog.sindresorhus.com
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You can help make Node.js and browsers more unified. For example, Node.js has util.promisify, which is commonly used. I don’t understand why such an essential method is not also available in browsers. In turn, browsers have APIs that Node.js should have. For example, fetch, Web Streams (The Node.js stream module is awful), Web Crypto (I’ve heard rumors this one is coming), Websockets, etc.
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The main reason I love Node.js is that I don’t have to deal with the awfulness that is JS front-end tooling.
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www.wsj.com www.wsj.com
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“There is a shrinking pool of candidates to own stock in public coal companies,” said Mr. Stetson, whose company is publicly traded.
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Meanwhile, the value of an exchange-traded fund of global coal companies has lost nearly 40% of its value since Mr. Trump’s inauguration, as the value of the S&P 500 index increased by about half.
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Meanwhile the rise of “ESG” or environmental, social and governance investing is constricting the industry’s ability to obtain capital, current and former executives say. As major investors such as JPMorgan Chase & Co. and BlackRock Inc., the world’s largest asset manager, turn away from coal over concerns about climate change, coal companies are struggling to secure the insurance they need to operate. That hurts not only companies that mine the thermal coal used to generate electricity, but also those that mine metallurgical coal to make steel. Contura Energy Inc., one of the nation’s largest producers of coal for steelmaking, has seen insurers and bonding providers flee the industry over the past two years. “If they can cut off your financing, they cut off your ability to function as a company,” said David Stetson, the Tennessee-based company’s chief executive. He and other executives expect to see more American coal companies go private in coming years. Firms such as Westmoreland Coal Co. and Cloud Peak that were publicly traded before filing for bankruptcy are emerging as private entities or selling assets to private firms.
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- Aug 2021
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www.frontiersin.org www.frontiersin.org
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Wang, C.-Y., Zhang, Y.-Y., & Chen, S.-C. (2021). The Empirical Study of College Students’ E-Learning Effectiveness and Its Antecedents Toward the COVID-19 Epidemic Environment. Frontiers in Psychology, 0. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.573590
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davidbrin.blogspot.com davidbrin.blogspot.com
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Amazing that the role of the catalytic converter is overlooked here. Those were added to reduce pollution - but mainly from unburned hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide, which created visible pollution that people could readily see and understand. NOT because of popular demand to "get the lead out". So they were mandated.And it happened that they couldn't be used with leaded gas - they stopped being effective and gave off a rotten egg stench if you did. So they were made mandatory - again, not in order to eliminate lead, but to reduce visible pollution. Yes, of course, reduced lead was recognized as a side benefit, but was not the primary motivator for public acceptance.
Interesting remark: Lead-reduction in fuel was a by-product of catalytic converters.
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- Jul 2021
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www.washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com
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Why crowded meetings and conference rooms make you so, so tired—The Washington Post. (n.d.). Retrieved July 19, 2021, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/06/06/why-crowded-meetings-conference-rooms-make-you-so-so-tired/
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wskg.org wskg.org
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Geocaching is built upon the idea of bringing people to places where they wouldn’t be otherwise.
I hadn't thought about this, but it's worth contemplating.
What other activities cause this?
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- Jun 2021
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www.outsideonline.com www.outsideonline.com
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Environmental: Care for Your Space
- your space should aid desires
- clean it up, design your world
- move if you need to
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journals.plos.org journals.plos.org
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Chen, Y.-H., Glymour, M., Riley, A., Balmes, J., Duchowny, K., Harrison, R., Matthay, E., & Bibbins-Domingo, K. (2021). Excess mortality associated with the COVID-19 pandemic among Californians 18–65 years of age, by occupational sector and occupation: March through November 2020. PLOS ONE, 16(6), e0252454. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0252454
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naildrivin5.com naildrivin5.com
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It’s easy to create bugs because the environment is a somewhat degenerate settings database.
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developer.mozilla.org developer.mozilla.org
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The globalThis property provides a standard way of accessing the global this value (and hence the global object itself) across environments. Unlike similar properties such as window and self, it's guaranteed to work in window and non-window contexts. In this way, you can access the global object in a consistent manner without having to know which environment the code is being run in.
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github.com github.com
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Unlike browsers, you can access raw Set-Cookie headers manually using Headers.raw(). This is a node-fetch only API.
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- May 2021
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www.mpic.de www.mpic.de
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Risk calculator. (n.d.). Retrieved 22 May 2021, from https://www.mpic.de/4851094/risk-calculator
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www.researchgate.net www.researchgate.net
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Ali, A., Kamraju, M., & Wani, M. (2020). AN ANALYSIS OF COVID-19 LOCKDOWN 5.0 UNLOCK 1.0, INDIA. 04.
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www.thelancet.com www.thelancet.com
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Burki, T. (2020). The origin of SARS-CoV-2. The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 20(9), 1018–1019. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30641-1
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www.medrxiv.org www.medrxiv.org
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Peccia, J., Zulli, A., Brackney, D. E., Grubaugh, N. D., Kaplan, E. H., Casanovas-Massana, A., Ko, A. I., Malik, A. A., Wang, D., Wang, M., Weinberger, D. M., & Omer, S. B. (2020). SARS-CoV-2 RNA concentrations in primary municipal sewage sludge as a leading indicator of COVID-19 outbreak dynamics. MedRxiv, 2020.05.19.20105999. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.19.20105999
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www.nature.com www.nature.com
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Cichocka, A. (2020). To counter conspiracy theories, boost well-being. Nature, 587(7833), 177–177. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03130-6
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- Apr 2021
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www.activestate.com www.activestate.com
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Work with the open source languages you love without the hassles of runtime management.
What is runtime management?
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- Mar 2021
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www.scientificamerican.com www.scientificamerican.com
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Wallis, C. (n.d.). Why Some People Get Terribly Sick from COVID-19. Scientific American. Retrieved August 24, 2020, from https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-some-people-get-terribly-sick-from-covid-19/
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The post-pandemic future for city centre office space. (n.d.). CEBM. Retrieved July 9, 2020, from https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/the-post-pandemic-future-for-city-centre-office-space/
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Monks, Michael. ‘The Importance Of Public Space Under The Pandemic And Protests’. Accessed 14 February 2021. https://www.wvxu.org/post/importance-public-space-under-pandemic-and-protests.
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Pinilla, A., Garcia, J., Raffe, W., Voigt-Antons, J.-N., & Möller, S. (2021). Visual representation of emotions in Virtual Reality. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/9jguh
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www.theverge.com www.theverge.com
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“There is very little incentive for Microsoft to make a significant change to features that are used extremely widely by the rest of the massive community of Excel users.”
Microsoft did the right thing here. Most users are not geneticists and they rely on automatic date conversion.
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www.sitepoint.com www.sitepoint.com
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If JavaScript were detached from the client and server platforms, the pressure of being a monoculture would be lifted — the next iteration of the JavaScript language or run-time would no longer have to please every developer in the world, but instead could focus on pleasing a much smaller audience of developers who love JavaScript and thrive with it, while enabling others to move to alternative languages or run-times.
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As to opinions about the shortcomings of the language itself, or the standard run-times, it’s important to realize that every developer has a different background, different experience, different needs, temperament, values, and a slew of other cultural motivations and concerns — individual opinions will always be largely personal and, to some degree, non-technical in nature.
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- avoid giving partiality/advantage/bias to any specific option
- software freedom
- everyone has different background/culture/experience
- software project created to address shortcomings in another project
- everyone has different preferences
- JavaScript
- competition in open-source software
- JavaScript: as a process VM
- programming languages
- software preferences are personal
- programming languages: choosing the best language for the job
- annotation meta: may need new tag
- what is important/necessary for one person may not be for another
- good point
- separation of concerns
- +0.9
- reaction / reacting to
- non-technical reasons
- runtime environment
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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As a simple example of a basic runtime system, the runtime system of the C language is a particular set of instructions inserted into the executable image by the compiler. Among other things, these instructions manage the process stack, create space for local variables, and copy function-call parameters onto the top of the stack. There are often no clear criteria for deciding which language behavior is considered inside the runtime system versus which behavior is part of the source program. For C, the setup of the stack is part of the runtime system, as opposed to part of the semantics of an individual program, because it maintains a global invariant that holds over all executions. This systematic behavior implements the execution model of the language
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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github.com github.comd3/d31
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No d3 global is exported if AMD or CommonJS is detected.
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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The ECMAScript standard does not include any input/output (I/O), such as networking, storage, or graphics facilities. In practice, the web browser or other runtime system provides JavaScript APIs for I/O.
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code.visualstudio.com code.visualstudio.com
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runtimes (such as .NET and Unity)
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twitter.com twitter.com
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ReconfigBehSci. (2020, November 5). In 4 days: SciBeh workshop ‘Building an online information environment for policy relevant science’ Join us! Topics: Crisis open science, interfacing to policy, online discourse, tools for research curation talks, panels, hackathons https://t.co/SPeD5BVgj3… I https://t.co/kQClhpHKx5 [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1324286406764744704
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www.nature.com www.nature.com
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Goodhill, G. (2020). Spare a thought for longitudinal diversity. Nature, 587(7833), 320–320. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03017-6
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www.albany.edu www.albany.edu
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List of Health Practices
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- Feb 2021
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How science can put the Sustainable Development Goals back on track. (2021). Nature, 589(7842), 329–330. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00104-0
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advances.sciencemag.org advances.sciencemag.org
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Stewart, A. J., McCarty, N., & Bryson, J. J. (2020). Polarization under rising inequality and economic decline. Science Advances, 6(50), eabd4201. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abd4201
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Singh, G. (2020, December 17). Changes in work culture and workplace due to COVID19 crisis. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/htjx5
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docs.travis-ci.com docs.travis-ci.com
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CI=true
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github.com github.com
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STATSD_SAMPLE_RATE: (default: 1.0)
It's recommended to configure this library by setting environment variables.
The thing I don't like about configuration via environment variables is that everything is limited/reduced to the string type. You can't even use simple numeric types, let alone nice rich value objects like you could if configuration were done in the native language (Ruby).
If you try to, you get:
ENV['STATSD_SAMPLE_RATE'] = 1 config/initializers/statsd.rb:8:in `[]=': no implicit conversion of Integer into String (TypeError)
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dry-rb.org dry-rb.org
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Another solution is using the Safe Navigation Operator &. introduced in Ruby 2.3 which is a bit better because this is a language feature rather than an opinionated runtime environment pollution
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www.scientificamerican.com www.scientificamerican.com
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Iwasaki, A. (n.d.). Another Way to Protect against COVID beyond Masking and Social Distancing. Scientific American. Retrieved 19 February 2021, from https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/another-way-to-protect-against-covid-beyond-masking-and-social-distancing/
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Safra, L., Chevallier, C., & Sijilmassi, A. (2021). Poverty and Threat Reactivity. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/fp35r
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canvas.umd.umich.edu canvas.umd.umich.edu
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Here we begin the argument
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- Jan 2021
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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Investors also remain sceptical as to whether Rio has committed to the cultural change needed after it destroyed 46,000-year-old rock shelters at Juukan Gorge in the Pilbara
Investors aren't the only ones.
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forums.theregister.com forums.theregister.com
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The past few years seems to have be a race between Microsoft and various players in the Linux world to see who can produce the worst abomination of a UI. It's as if there's been a ritualistic burning of the UI design rule book that led to many years of largely stable and consistent user experience across all platforms
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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www.npmjs.com www.npmjs.com
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Think first: why do you want to use it in the browser? Remember, servers must never trust browsers. You can't sanitize HTML for saving on the server anywhere else but on the server.
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- Dec 2020
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sapper.svelte.dev sapper.svelte.dev
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Note that preload will run both on the server side and on the client side. It may therefore not reference any APIs only present in the browser.
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