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by FriedrichN 5y ago
Please be aware that people who say this is unfair (in sports) aren't saying trans people aren't allowed to be who they are. I am against trans women competing in women's sports, especially those who transitioned late in thei
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One of the better arguments I've heard is that if you look at Hubbard's numbers when she was competing as a man and compare them when competing as a women you'll see a drop in performance, but not an enormous drop. She went f
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by FriedrichN 5y ago
I've found that this new wave of 'smart' search systems are actually making search results progressively worse. People complain that they can't find anything on Google alternatives, my experience is that search results a
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by FriedrichN 5y ago
One thing to note is that Berlin does not consider the fox as all around better than the hedgehog. Usually you'll see that people have a preference for the fox but Berlin considers some great people as hedgehogs such as Plato, Nietzsch
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by FriedrichN 5y ago
I have no idea why people are downvoting you. From what I know all you said is correct. The money will be given to the Namibian government and not to the descendants of the genocide (the Nama and Herero) who don't have a large represen
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by FriedrichN 5y ago
I remember using week numbers in MariaDB, I found out I had to provide a second argument to specify what kind of week numbers I wanted. Just like that I was introduced to the strange world of week numbers. https://mariadb.com&#x2
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by FriedrichN 5y ago
What about disgruntled? Have you ever been gruntled?
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by FriedrichN 5y ago
I usually say 'upcoming Friday', that usually takes care of most ambiguity. But if it's anything slightly serious I'll still name the date.
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by FriedrichN 5y ago
I have stopped supporting IE a long time ago. Haven't heard any complaints. Granted I write business software and we simply tell them we don't support IE or Safari and people are fine with that. Most people use either Chrome, Fire
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>Highly recommend Bregman's book I second this. It challenged a lot of my beliefs and busted a lot of myths (Stanley Milgram, the Stanford prison experiment, etc.). I didn't agree with everything but I rarely ever do, nonethele
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by FriedrichN 5y ago
Especially those driving their Honda Civics with the special BRAAAAP exhausts when they accelerate in my street just after the speed bump only to then jump on the squeaky brakes for the stop sign a few meters further. That really annoys m
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by FriedrichN 5y ago
Disclaimer: I did not listen to the podcast, I merely skimmed the transcript. Is 'addiction' to social media the same as an addiction to heroin? No of course not. But it is evident that some people have great trouble to not have i
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>to think these ads have no influence on you. Yes, it has an influence, it influences me to avoid their shitty products. My assumption is that if you have to sink 80% of your budget into ads, I assume it sucks and I'll end up paying
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>if only advertisements were more relevant Has anyone ever bought anything because they saw an ad? If anything ads cause me to not want to buy the product. I have stopped buying certain products because whenever I see them in the store I
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by FriedrichN 5y ago
I have always done that. I don't like to read stuff that's too intellectually intense or stimulating in bed, so I opt for some sort of fiction or history. During the day I might read something like philosophy or technical/sci
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by FriedrichN 5y ago
WordPress is awful, I have had the misfortune of having to write plugins and themes for it and having to immerse myself in the arcane knowledge of WP plugin writing (their docs are seriously crap, I have no idea if I did things 'the ri
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by FriedrichN 5y ago
It is shady. I expect Amazon, Netflix and their like to do this. Mozilla is supposed to have more integrity, after all their mission is to "build a better internet" and "empower" people. Just because something is industr
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I wasn't totally against this until I discovered the A/B testing thing with the subscription costs. Something about that stinks. Just name your price and I'll think about it, don't be shady about it.
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I don't know why some people are so sure that it couldn't be from a lab. People research viruses in labs and it's not impossible that a virus could escape from such a lab. And China doesn't like bad press and likes to su
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by FriedrichN 5y ago
True, only <button> (if type is not "button") and <input type="button"> function within a <form> context as a button.
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by FriedrichN 5y ago
>On this case, one way is to make a past_ or deleted_$tablename where you insert the deleted row before deleting it from production table. The problem with this that it gets really cumbersome if you have a complex system of tables that d
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by FriedrichN 5y ago
Something I notice as a nonnative speaker is that my fellow nonnative speakers often try really hard to sound British. They put more effort into sounding the right way than actually trying to use the language correctly and increasing thei
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I have seen so many people argue against soft deletes over the years. But I have also had so many instances where users 'accidentally' deleted a bunch of items and then call support to ask if there are any backups. And then I&#x27
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Time and dates are awful enough without having to deal with hardware feeding you bogus data. I could imagine that if you were unaware of this that you could really drive yourself insane thinking your code isn't right.
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>oldest sports/events in history That has to be some form of running, right?
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Something I recommend to all is to install uMatrix and only allow first party CSS and images by default and only increase permissions if necessary. Because I block all cookies by default, I never run into this problem.
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A more distant but very wealthy family member once said that people wouldn't be so poor if they just saved up money. That perfectly illustrated the difficulty rich people have understanding poor people to me. I was really young, but th
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I have set up PHP on Apache (both php-fpm and mod_php) and Nginx countless times on different Linux distros and never ran into problems. It might have to do with the fact that I have so much experience with web servers but it takes me only
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by FriedrichN 5y ago
> The guy who was interviewing me was sitting their shaking his head like that wasn't a valid answer. I wonder what would be the proper answer. Also if there is a proper answer, they shouldn't ask what your favourite feature
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> Old oil is processed and re-used (as cheaper oil, or for heating) Or illegally dumped if we follow OPs cynical reasoning. > it's usually one of the electronic parts I didn't know tubes, gaskets, seals, clutches, oil filter

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