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  1. Apr 2024
    1. Many games have seen less than 1,000 fans in stadiums

      What happened to Arab's love for the sport? There was a lot of that sentiment going around for the Quatar WC.

  2. Mar 2024
  3. Feb 2024
    1. Recently as yesterday, we had a fire prevention talk from the fire service but unfortunately this happened today so definitely we need to review all of our facilities’ fire prevention techniques,

      🤣🤣🤣

    2. fire of unknown origin

      Why is this filed under crime?

  4. Jan 2024
    1. Very interested to know what Kennedy's instructions were, and what thet CIA was doing, exactly. I wish I could read the actual documents.

    2. Cold War concerns about another Communist Cuba in Latin America drove President John F. Kennedy to approve a covert CIA political campaign to rig national elections in British Guiana, then a British colony but soon to be independent, according to declassified documents posted today by the National Security Archive

      Link??

    1. The documents should have been released. Were they?

    2. In June the Clinton Administration prepared to send a new Ambassador to the little country -- apparently unaware that the prospective nominee had helped to undermine the restored leader

      Is Weiner allergic to citations, and sources?

    3. But State Department and C.I.A. officials refuse to release them, saying it is not worth the embarrassment

      Then there should be some record of them saying so, no?

    4. President Kennedy ordered the Central Intelligence Agency to subvert the country's leader

      Need a source.

  5. Dec 2023
    1. Feeling frustrated or upset is a natural response that occurs when the outcome of a situation turns out differently than expected.

      Expectation are resentments waiting to happen, remember?

    1. Why did we decide on our SQL table having this schema?
    2. Markdown is an excellent language to use for doc files stored next to code

      There are markdown documentation frameworks, but I still want to try sphinx.

    3. I didn’t mention tl;dr here, because it’s the opposite of what is desired. tl;dr is what journalists would call “burying the lede” when the important parts appear at the end of a document

      Implying that a tl;dr only appears at the end?

    4. Define the Audience

      See the quadrants of diataxis as a good example of what kind of documentation to write, depending on who is meant to read it, and when they are meant to read it.

    1. program, project, or product level

      Interesting delineation

    2. Digital transformation

      Ved's literal title

    3. times you've had to manage, extend, support, or maintain brittle and undocumented systems

      I am currently going through this

  6. Nov 2023
    1. he's Elite at getting the ball into the box from set pieces same as James brous 00:03:00 Kevin De bruyne Alexander Arnold

      Why don't we run Trent on the right of a midfield 4?

    1. he believed that people didn't ever want to do the wrong thing instead when people did the wrong thing it was simply out of ignorance

      I agree to a point: I think people do the wrong thing when it's the easier thing.

    2. could you consistently day in and day out overcome the monster of Temptation

      I don't know. Maybe. I did it for 20 days, and felt I could definitely have done more. Maybe I should.

    1. The response contains just a status code of 201 Created, which indicates that Salesforce successfully received the job data.

      What happens if I hit the endpoint multiple times?

    1. always true)

      Then what's the point of having this in a field? Should I do a boolean field, with a default value of true?

    1. He discovered that patients would often try to avoid pain—but that that avoidance would lead to deeper distress

      Reminds me of me trying to avoid stress, and regret, only to be met with stress and regret. Do not avoid pain -- accept it, identify it, and... push through it?

    1. 3. When do you feel most like yourself?

      How do I know this if I don't even know who I am?

    2. 1. Who do you admire?

      Rowen comes to mind. Steve Simpson.

    1. Maybe the PPP aligns itself with the Petty Bourgeoisie because they were the working class people that the PPP "championed" in the past. That would be classic corruption, viewed over time.

    1. Try to choose something that you find soothing and enjoyable

      I can think of nothing I do that I find soothing. I guess gaming is enjoyable, though. I have this nagging feeling that escapism is bad, though.

    1. certain neuron populations in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) exhibit coordinated reactivations during awake ripple events

      Is the PFC in the hippocampus? The neocortex? Neither? What are awake-ripple-events?

    1. Wonder if it's possible to have inline DQL in the properties of a file. If so, I wonder if it's possible to query for/against those properties.

    1. the text or other graphics you are editing or viewing

      So emacs can display non-textual graphics -- I know it can display images, but they are just rendered in the text line, and the line is expanded to fit the image, which isn't great.

    1. You can tweak Tasks' Todo status so that it toggles to 'In Progress', which then toggles to 'Done'.

      Workflow sequences!

    1. dataview allows you to treat your Vault your brain your collection of linked tagged markdown files

      Also makes me consider switching...

    2. this plugin shows 00:08:56 tags like folders

      THIS makes me want to switch.

    3. I used to use emacs org mode and actually for a certain kind of delicate nerd I recommend it more 00:00:35 highly than obsidian

      What kind of "delicate nerd", sir?

  7. Oct 2023
  8. Sep 2023
    1. Lack of empathy on the other person’s part is often unintentional and may stem from their problems, traumas, or experiences.

      Maybe because of school?

    1. ExxonMobil Guyana Limited, previously known as Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL)

      When was the name changed? Why?

    2. we have to have a policy where people, at the technical level particularly, who engage with the oil and gas companies and executives, that they must seek the explicit clearance from the ministry and they must report back on the nature of every engagement

      So exxon mobile spent 214 million USD on the word of a random technician/engineer?

  9. Aug 2023