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I remember a documentary item that said that worrying about detrimental effects from your food is far worse for you than the actual detrimental effects in the food!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I can think of various plants which are not really considered food that can terminate your life ASAP. No radio active activity required whatsoever. In my father's "ornamental" garden I know of at least three species ( I will not mention their names ) which will kill you in a very short timespan.
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And this statement of yours is supposed to prove . . . what?
That things besides radiation can kill you? Is that, somehow, supposed to assuage the problem of radiation in the environment?
I'd say their are radio-active nuclides of most elements. If one wanted to be paranoid, remember that we're a carbon-base life form and C14 is radioactive.
Basically, worrying about bananas may be silly but ridiculing background radiation and/or contamination is just plain stupid. As people who found out they've too much radon in their home and now have lung cancer. Or people who got sheet-rock from china containing Sr90. Or the same isotope in European cheeses after Chernobyl. Mmmmm. Yummmy !
I worked with radioactive materials for years - and one thing we all had was a healthy respect because you can't see it, smell it, feel it or, to a degree, get rid of it. You don't even have to close your eyes to pretend it's not there. That, however, doesn't make it go away.
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People really like to treat floating-point quantities as boolean: present or not. Easier to think about, even if it's wrong.
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If that scares you, consider this; oxygen is a poison, and causes cancer. The reason we age, is due to DNA copying errors caused by oxygen.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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As I put elsewhere in the thread:
Your body (and all know life on earth) is carbon-based and a tiny fraction of all carbon is radioactive C14 isotope. That is probably awaiting the next release of these exposes.
And perhaps underscores my peeve that almost all persons leave school scientifically "illiterate"
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Quote: that almost all persons leave school scientifically "illiterate"
Not always totally illiterate. Some of them know just enough to be dangerous!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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How else are you meant to eat a banana in the dark if it isn't glowing? Sheesh.
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Chris Maunder
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In the dark I find my bananas with my geiger counter. Surely you do have a geiger counter? 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I'm in Canada. I just head towards the nearest warm thing.
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Chris Maunder
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Shhhh - California will require a Prop 65 label on every banana sold.
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A Probable Look At the Day Ahead[^]
What good be more purrfect?
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I'm not a cat.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Well, actually, as a parallel to a similar question (Schrodinger), you both are a cat and are not a cat - until we can prove otherwise.
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...and you may not exist until we see you.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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yup - had it happen to me.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I used to have two "guest" ( my brother's ) cats come to laze in my veranda regularly because they really enjoyed the very warm environment. They never rolled around on my keyboard but I did like them a lot. Oh well, once a cat person, always a cat person.
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My cat. Every zoom meeting.
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Chris Maunder
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Huh. I close my home office door when I'm having a meeting. My two dogs sleep in my office during the day.
Two words: greyhound flatulence  .
Software Zen: delete this;
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So we have two bits of work that are both pretty urgent, I'll call them Foo and Bar for simplicity.
Foo is a re-write of a component. No one will notice it in itself but it makes writing other stuff easier. This a months work.
Bar uses Foo. We can get it working with the old Foo in about a month, but with the rewritten Foo would only take about two weeks. If we do it before the re-write it will still need to be redone afterwards.
In the happy fluffy World of Dev we do Foo then Bar and that's six weeks of good work.
In the nasty spit ball World of Sales a customer needs Bar and won't wait 6 weeks, even 4 is too long!
Now for my question. How long do I leave it before Bob the Sales has an unfortunate accident? 
veni bibi saltavi
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Clearly a rhetorical question as we "they" have been checking the hospitals already.
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I have Agent 47's mobile number, if that's any help?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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discussion with another programmer just yesterday. All Deadlines are arbitrary and can be moved. Even if the salesman says they cannot. so salesmen must go away. Especially in this instance.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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When this happens, you have to wonder if it means a big commission or bonus for the salesman. In which case, if you meet the ridiculous schedule, you should get some of it. After all, he was just a yes-man, but you had the stress of delivering. I'd be tempted to discuss this directly with the salesman. And if he doesn't agree, you don't bust your butt.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: Foo is a re-write of a component. No one will notice it in itself but it makes writing other stuff easier. This a months work.
Will also save work if other stuff depending on Foo. Making stuff available sooner, so should have priority.
Nagy Vilmos wrote: In the nasty spit ball World of Sales a customer needs Bar and won't wait 6 weeks, even 4 is too long!
What sales promises, is the problem of sales, and should not affect your planning.
Don't sell the bear until it is shot.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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