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You really don't like that design? What's wrong with it? To my eye it doesn't contain any of the cliches of bad modern design.
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I recently overrode the admin widget for ArrayField to make it possible to add and delete entries individually rather than entering the whole array as a big comma-separated block. I got it working but it felt pretty hackish. Maybe there was
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9y ago
> It seems wrong to categorize the war in Iraq as part of The War on Terror(ism), since Iraq wasn't involved in 9/11. If that's the criterion then none of the current US military engagements are part of the "war on
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The Xtal Language
(tarray.magicsplat.com)
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The Red Scare, a classic American delusion.
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This document is often posted alongside this one about the CIA attempting to remote view the surface of Mars one million years back: https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00788... So is this
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I encountered "boustrophedon" a long time ago because it is one of the favorite words of the creator of the niche-but-awesome phrontistery.info http://phrontistery.info/favourite.html
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9y ago
And there are many countries where iPhones are popular but there are still no official Apple-sanctioned repair centers.
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What the United States Did in Indonesia
(theatlantic.com)
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Yes, that's the one! Those numbers refer to the number of papers in each torrent, so each one contains 100,000 papers giving a current total of 66+ million. The torrents of 100,000 are broken into 1000-paper zip archives that can be do
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9y ago
Yes, but it's huge. At one time you could torrent it piece by piece but now the link appears broken... http://libgen.io/scimag/repository_torrent_notforall/ Anyone have the current link? Good luck extracting
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9y ago
Open source is a huge part of what makes programming appealing to me. I like to build things that will last, and that I own completely. I don't think that Microsoft or Apple have a positive influence on society and prefer not to suppor
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Have you read through "Two Scoops of Django" yet? I am not really a fan of any Django learning resources (that I'm aware of) outside of that one, and the docs. It helped me because it explicitly lays out an opinionated but se
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Yes, killing people in fabricated wars is so dope.
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9y ago
Yep, I have no problems with the 600$ Asus I bought 3 years ago. I would literally quit programming and find something new if I had to use MacOS or Windows -- totally uninterested in developing on platforms that could fall out from under me
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Try selling pounds of it and tell me that it's only "technically" illegal. Or try being non-white, in which case your chances of being arrested for even personal-use amounts go way up. Or an ex-con failing their piss test on
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9y ago
> Node paired with Nginx has been the easiest to start new projects on, develop on, and it is more performant than the other two. Very true compared to what I've worked with before too. I come more from a background in backend pro
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I never liked the vocals all that much either actually, but I was singularly obsessed with death metal from about age 12 onward into my 20s. I don't keep up with it as rigorously anymore, but for anyone curious I would recommend bands
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> Despite the 90’s sucking for metal Not a death metal fan eh? 1990-1994 is generally considered a creative high point for death metal and starting about 10 years ago there was a huge trend toward reviving that 'old-school' s
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The correct answer to washing your butt is a "bum gun" or bidet. It's more sanitary, quicker, more environmentally friendly, cheaper in the long run, and less likely to cause irritation. I would never go back to paper.
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Huh, I have some notion of what you are referring to but I'm not even sure. That's ok, let's leave it at that. The only point of including these personal details was to prove that I was not just some guy who failed at debate
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I'm not sure anyone would remember me personally and I didn't say anything that I wouldn't want my friends seeing, or that my friends would mind me writing. Maybe it came off as negativity towards them, but that's defini
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You can also alias "rm -i" or "rm -I" to "rm" to avert major catastrophes. From man rm: -i prompt before every removal -I prompt once before removing more than three files, or when removing recursive
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This is an on-point critique of high school debate and hits on many of the reasons I didn't stick with it for more than a season. My best friend growing up is a near mystical figure in the insular LD debate community and has coached a
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The interrobang is real, but that's the only one I think.
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I can't think of a corresponding emoji for many of these, like sarcasm, certitude, snark (maybe the one with its tongue sticking out?), doubt, irony, etc.
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That chart is not a source for your claim. Not really interested in arguing the point further.
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They are also comparing it to the best outcomes for individuals in modern society. It's not like people don't still get raped, killed over resources, and finished off prematurely by disease and starvation. I'm not sure modern
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One of the things that was pointed out last time this topic came up (only a few weeks ago) is that most all of us who benefit from modern civilization enough so to be commenting about it on HN are enabled by massive amounts of cheap, wage-s
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9y ago
> They're not happier or healthier or longer-lived than the western world. In fact, the overall high-level trend appears to be that happiness is correlated with being sedentary. Source?
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