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Many people seem to be misinformed about basic facts relating to COVID-19 vaccines. I would know very little myself, if a friend of mine didn’t occasionally post links to articles. I suspect there are two main reasons for this: We’re all quite tired of this pandemic. There was a time when I kept up to date by reading articles, but nowadays it’s uncommon to have a conversation which doesn’t involve this virus, or an email that doesn’t begin with “health” or “difficult times”....

Having a deep understanding of your tools and their shortcuts is super useful – so, I’m going to record some of the more obscure things I learn in this blog post! The idea is that, these tips can be linked to, so I don’t keep typing out the same explanations to different people unlike “write a program to automate X” and “learn vim”, these tips are all small enough to learn in a minute you come to check up on one tip, and accidentally discover something else that you didn’t think to search for these tips all relate to specific tools, not abstract concepts I will not change a heading once it has been published, so you can link here for short explanations without worrying that they will break!...

Depending on how your brain works, one of the following explanations will make sense to you: It often happens that while working on one project, you need to use another project from within it. Perhaps it’s a library that a third party developed or that you’re developing separately and using in multiple parent projects. A common issue arises in these scenarios: you want to be able to treat the two projects as separate yet still be able to use one from within the other - Git-scm documentation...

Okay, slightly clickbaity title - not every report, and it doesn’t have to be a whole chapter. Moving on… I think that a chapter titled “constraints”, “personal factors”, “context” or something to that effect should be normalized in report writing. The idea is that, in contrast to the other chapters, there would be a dedicated place to capture all the non-scientific reasons why certain decisions are made You might mention that,...

This is my check-list of sorts for beginner gardeners (like me!). It’s not meant to be intimidating or exhaustively followed - more “some things to consider that you may not have thought or heard about”. Hopefully, with a little planning, you won’t have to deal with the heartbreak of a plant that dies Onwards: What soil do you have, and what type does your plant need? Some types of soil hold water for a long time (causing roots to rot, or disease to spread), while others harden like a rock afterwards....