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541.
by Cpoll 5y ago
Isn't xantham gum just a product of sugar fermentation? I'm all for fewer ingredients, but cheese is still as much a "chemical" product if the stabilizers and mold extractors are removed.
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by Cpoll 5y ago
I suspect that most multilingual Americans are immigrants or a child of immigrants. By your definition, they would not be considered to speak a foreign language. I for one don't know the intent of the question. Is there a reason the po
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by Cpoll 5y ago
Those felt more high-stakes than end-game raiding for me, for some reason. Probably because you only had one shot a week. I remember being the first to turn in the fishes, getting right up to the vendor, and having my hands tremble from the
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by Cpoll 5y ago
https://github.com/nmrugg/stockfish.js/search?q=goto Five occurrences of goto, for anyone that's curious. The code is pretty easy to read, good variable names, some explanatory comments. The gotos don't
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by Cpoll 5y ago
According to wiki, though: > Shotwell is married to Robert Shotwell, an engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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by Cpoll 5y ago
> and it further makes it a lot easier to hide which data is extracted from a computer from the user. I don't understand this argument. If the world was "HTTPS-optional" like it was 10 years ago, anything that wants to hid
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by Cpoll 5y ago
I had this explained to me as Sega selling their remaining shares in Genda Inc/their joint venture. Genda was already the majority owner/maintainer of the arcades. Now no longer having an affiliation with Sega, Genda's rebran
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by Cpoll 5y ago
I remember watching his rendition of the "Aristocrats" bit and thinking the same thing. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Aristocrats for anyone that's not familiar with the setup)
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by Cpoll 5y ago
Only if you generate infinite tests, then your coverage approaches 0%. But 100% covered code + 0% covered tests = ~50% total coverage. Also, the obvious solution is self-testing code. (Jokes aside, structures like code contracts attempt s
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by Cpoll 5y ago
> The world does not operate on a "might is right" model. I'd hate to be the cynic in the room, but the actions of various powerful countries has show the opposite. In general, it seems like if the truth does surface, it&#
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by Cpoll 5y ago
Ironically, it seems to have parsed the challenge out from an article about the dangers of such a challenge: https://ourcommunitynow.com/news-national/watch-out-parentst... .
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by Cpoll 5y ago
I think they meant that the same advice is presented in a different context as self-help/better worker advice. I can see what they're saying, a lot of this also gets mentioned as productivity advice: - Anti-Mimetic Scheduling: tak
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by Cpoll 5y ago
I know a few people who like doing that when they decide they don't like a movie they're watching but still want to finish it. I've watched Man on Fire this way and found it very comedic at 1.75x speed.
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by Cpoll 5y ago
> you could hack around that by using Disqus But that's not actually solving the problem, it's just offloading it. Not to mention that you're selling your community to yet another tracking company, and jacking up user page
555.
by Cpoll 5y ago
Semi-related question: Does anyone have a workflow for version pinning Chrome extensions? GSuite Admin lets you allowlist extensions, but I haven't seen a way to fix an extension to a trusted version.
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by Cpoll 5y ago
I've researched a lot about this since I've had to do hiring, but I haven't been lucky enough to find anything collectively definitive or comprehensive enough to describe as "the literature." Most of it leans toward
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by Cpoll 5y ago
Fair point, and I don't have a good counter-argument. I think my problem, if anything, isn't that there's an excess of freedom of thought and expression so much as there's not enough counter-thought and counter-expressio
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by Cpoll 5y ago
I really had Atlas Shrugged in mind, which is convincing enough to regularly show up on Republican booklists (and AFAIR at least one Supreme Court judge) and has all sorts of (my opinion) problematic views on ethical egoism and the like. &g
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by Cpoll 5y ago
I'm completely in agreement. I think I danced around this in my post. The main things that bother me, in general: 1. Undiscerning student (i.e. young, impressionable, hasn't been taught critical thinking, doesn't have suffici
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by Cpoll 5y ago
> I am not a fan of Ayn Rand's philosophy I've been thinking about this lately, and I'm not sure where I stand. I'm against book burning, but I feel like there are also problems with unchecked dissemination of ideas.
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by Cpoll 5y ago
> Often, the most interesting insights come from experience and reflecting upon it. You know, old fashioned thinking. That _sounds_ nice, but the Ancient Greeks (and others, but I've got to pick on someone) tried it and didn't
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by Cpoll 5y ago
> RUs I've also run into a situation with obtuse/unexpected/excessive pricing. We were spiking a Mongo -> Cosmos migration and with our Cosmos configuration we were getting charged separately for each (empty) collection
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by Cpoll 5y ago
I think you're romanticizing stunt-people with "some people really love doing crazy shit and making wild art." Most professionals don't want to take risks with their lives, they just do it because they need to get paid.
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by Cpoll 5y ago
My take: I don't think folding an origami cat in this fashion translates into the dexterity required to be a vehicle artisan. However, it's a very reasonable promotion test for its other qualities: The ability to make a training
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by Cpoll 5y ago
Sure, I don't mind that the hook, and controversial posts often create the most educational discussion. I only take exception to the idea that we shouldn't debate it because it's "not the point." (specifically for t
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by Cpoll 5y ago
I don't buy it. If the only point was managing rookie errors, etc., the blog post shouldn't have been 15~ paragraphs of technical discussion and 2 paragraphs at the bottom of "my point is ..." You can't advocate tha
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by Cpoll 5y ago
What's the worst-case scenario here? What would have happened if they met you in court? What would have happened if they won?
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by Cpoll 5y ago
> ~2k Twitter followers I think you read this wrong. She's follow ing ~2k people, but she has 185.7K follow ers (and 1.46M subscribers on Youtube). > There may be some information that I'm missing here. Other posters have
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by Cpoll 5y ago
> What I never understood though is why did Microsoft (or anybody else) invest in all this activation bullshit anyway. I relate this to the adage "locks are to keep honest people honest." Similarly, bypassing a valid license ha
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by Cpoll 5y ago
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24925306

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