Flankk

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by Flankk 5y ago
How so?
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by Flankk 5y ago
I think a socially conservative Christian's definition of evil is almost the same as that of a secular progressive. Moral relativism is about using a small grey area as an example for how the massive overlap is wrong.
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by Flankk 5y ago
Using the window as the application launcher is genius. Tabbed windows at the OS level is also great. I'm honestly blown away by this.
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by Flankk 5y ago
The fact that mothers use a singsong voice is actually very interesting. Mothers also sing to their babies. I didn't really understand the argument that speech isn't musical. It's very musical, hence why talking in a monotone
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by Flankk 5y ago
Living robot is a terrible term. If I understand correctly, Xenobots are bits of organic matter that use little spaghetti legs to swim around. So the computer made one that looks like a cheese puff and somehow clumping them together is defi
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by Flankk 5y ago
I'm not a lawyer but isn't this what lawyers are for?
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by Flankk 5y ago
Walmart is doing a terrible job. Progressive degradation has largely been forgotten because just about everyone is using a full-featured browser. Most web developers stopped caring and I'm one of them. Chrome won the browser wars. If y
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by Flankk 5y ago
Birds don't need 150,000 litres of jet fuel to fly across the ocean. Given that the development of airplanes was made by studying birds I'm not sure I see your point. The 1889 book "Birdflight as the Basis of Aviation" i
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by Flankk 5y ago
65 years of research and our cutting-edge AI doesn't have a memory? Excuse me if I'm not excited. It's likely that most of the functions of the human brain were selected for intelligence. Such a focus on learning when problem
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by Flankk 5y ago
Your error is in comparing a single theft between small and large business. In reality, big business will face much more theft due to their high volume. The difference is marginal when you account for relative value. Your second example doe
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by Flankk 5y ago
That's the same logic a thief uses when they shoplift from Walmart. As an indie myself, the biggest threat to my livelihood is actually piracy.
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by Flankk 5y ago
Gen Z is using TikTok to teleport to Hogwarts? Is this parody?
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by Flankk 5y ago
Status page is also down and is returning a false positive. If you check the status page status page it shows the status page is down.
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by Flankk 5y ago
The EPA uses bogus studies funded by the pesticide industry. Independent studies have found links to cancer, birth defects, and more. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/epa-atrazine-herb... There is a trove of
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by Flankk 5y ago
Atrazine and glyphosate were also believed to be safe to use. We now know that Atrazine causes Parkinson's and glyphosate causes cancer. Fruits and vegetables now have half the nutrition they did 20 years ago. This is due to herbicides
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by Flankk 5y ago
Possibly related? In both usages it is seen as elitist and unnecessary. I personally use them in JS because the code is aesthetically gross without them.
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by Flankk 5y ago
I'd blame obesity on diet before I'd blame it on television. Six of one, half dozen of the other though. The entire food chain is GMO and soaked in poison.
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by Flankk 5y ago
People hate XML. Mostly because its association with SOAP. It's also not a great data format. Why would you want a data format that is hard for both computers and humans to read?
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by Flankk 5y ago
It's not practical. That's why all the arguments for it involve overstating and hyperbole. The results speak for themselves. It's shit.
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by Flankk 6y ago
Thanks, I hate it. Poor use of proportion, spacing, and visual weight.
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by Flankk 6y ago
> For example, the web industry approach that front-end development should go through JSON, where the server side is just responsible for generating an API and then the API returns a JSON, is a bad detour. We should go back to embracing
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by Flankk 6y ago
> Asymptomatic cases (truly asymptomatic or not yet symptomatic) caused the most infections, which explains the ease with which SARS-CoV-19 is spreading across the world. The WHO initially made a statement warning of asymptomatic transmi
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by Flankk 6y ago
> Which information should be highlighted to make sure artworks get as much clicks as possible? s/artworks/artwork s/much/many Poor grammar makes users lose confidence in a product. Also, one of the questions is wrong
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by Flankk 6y ago
That's just one of several things I said. Course credits are key here.
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by Flankk 6y ago
Well that definitely killed my appetite.
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by Flankk 6y ago
Online only. $10/month for unlimited access to lectures. No schedule, monitored testing, fully accredited. The ivory tower would come crashing down.
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by Flankk 6y ago
Sounds like shit.
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by Flankk 6y ago
It has to be better for people to want to switch. Right now they're offering a monthly subscription for latency and unreliability.
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by Flankk 6y ago
I don't get it. Why is it called an OS? It looks like a web app platform.
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by Flankk 6y ago
I don't get eye strain anymore but I used to. I think it goes away with time. I have bad eyesight and posture though so I guess I shouldn't give advice.

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