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by GlennS 5y ago
Well, that's what Truman said.
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by GlennS 5y ago
Depends what you mean by "the outcome" here. If you mean developing the bomb, then fine. If you mean dropping the bomb, then that seems pretty controversial. I thought it was pretty well established that the USA knew Japan was wil
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by GlennS 5y ago
Brazilians speak Portuguese.
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by GlennS 5y ago
> Google ... reached the end of the growth line. I think they still have some things set in motion during their old culture that have a chance grow up big. But it does seem like their best bet would be to move all the good parts of Alpha
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by GlennS 5y ago
You forgot about Oracle.
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by GlennS 5y ago
Apologies, thanks for the correction.
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by GlennS 5y ago
This is a dialects of English thing. In Britain: pancakes don't use baking powder. They're flat like a slighly thicker crepe. I would describe a thick fluffy pancake made with baking powder as a "Scotch pancake", but in
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by GlennS 5y ago
17% market share for MacOS? That seems high?
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by GlennS 5y ago
I think tech culture is just very segregated. By contrast I'd never seen a developer use a Mac until a few years ago except maybe a few people at conferences. Then the past few jobs I've had have all been Mac-dominant.
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by GlennS 5y ago
I don't know how Microsoft could possibly make pivot tables easier. You can easily learn the basics in half an hour's experimental clicking. But, I've had a client explicitly request that a report in Excel shouldn't incl
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by GlennS 5y ago
I mean I don't know about you, but I do like to whinge a bit if I have to use PHP or JavaScript or some framework of misery for a job. Pretty sure I'm not the only one. I still do the job though.
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by GlennS 5y ago
The simplest way to do that is to input an inflation adjusted rate of return. So, if your expected rate of return is 7%, and your expected inflation rate is 2%, then input 5% and you will get an inflation-adjusted version.
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by GlennS 5y ago
"Secular witch burnings" is a term I haven't heard before. Religiously motivated, but conducted by laypeople, yes?
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by GlennS 5y ago
Good question. I guess my answer is not really. I'm not sure why I haven't sought out more of this kind of thing. Still, a couple of random things I can think of: The Spatialite Cookbook is no longer maintained, but I think still
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by GlennS 5y ago
Their use is technically the correct/original one: middle-class means the middle section of a pyramid. In the USA, an alternative definition has become popular, where middle-class is like the middle section of a bell curve.
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by GlennS 5y ago
Have you considered trying books filled with structured exercises? I worked through The Little Lisper when I was at university and I got a lot out of it, for example.
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by GlennS 5y ago
I'm not sure if they count as widely available yet, but here you go: https://octopus.energy/works-with-octopus/ (Disclosure: I work for this company, although not on these products.)
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by GlennS 5y ago
Interesting bias there - I would have said it was a bit US specific? Maybe it's just a bit English-speaking specific?
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by GlennS 5y ago
It's interesting, I wouldn't have guessed the SQL dialect differences to be the main reason to pick one database over another. Other comments on this suggest it's very important to them, which is a surprise to me. Rather, I w
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by GlennS 5y ago
> that to the left hard He's talking about stopping funding for the British Monarchy, not nationalising the means of production. It's not a majority position, but it's hardly hard left.
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by GlennS 5y ago
> You’re competing with a lot of addictive content out there, and educational content generally doesn’t fare well in that regard. Remember all of those educational video games in the past? Math blasters? They sucked. There’s no way they
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by GlennS 5y ago
Why would I use magit over the git CLI? 1. Discoverability. It'll display the contextually relevant options and commands at most points. By using magit, you're learning the git CLI commands at the same time, including commands tha
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by GlennS 5y ago
Oh yes! I had forgotten the tiresome collection of labelled boot disks, and the trial and error to create a combination which would work for a particular game. Do I skipping loading the CD-ROM drivers for this one, or the sound card drivers
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by GlennS 5y ago
Our ideas are incompatible, as you have quickly identified. I wish you well, and I hope that your ambitions to defend traditional buddhist culture will help people. I hope you will take some solace that I hope to reduce others' sufferi
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by GlennS 5y ago
> That's a nice looking dead end, because your subjectivity biases you. Instead, step outside your own consciousness. Don't understand, sorry. > You claim to experience your existence, but what evidence do you have? Others
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by GlennS 5y ago
Have you considered that maybe the only path to victory for Buddhism is by being flexible enough to rise above the bollucks? I'm not a Buddhist, but in its atheist forms (which aren't only Western) it seems like it's close en
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by GlennS 5y ago
Obviously: in the insect that wriggles its legs in pain. Earlier, in the cell that avoids the chemical.
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by GlennS 5y ago
I think the opposite problem - or rather the assumed explanation - is harder. Start with empiricism: conciousness appears when we add other mental capacities, so probably it is built upon them. The idea that conciousness (or abstraction) is
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by GlennS 5y ago
Can you expand on this? My experience with Go has just been making small changes to small programs. So, I don't know what the normal experience is. My experience with logging varies from: print (works fine I guess) import logging (this
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by GlennS 5y ago
Ill-informed opinion: I asked a colleague from the magical land of Canadia whether I should take a flight to London from Edmonton or Calgary after travelling through the Canadian Rockies. She said Edmonton was shit, so Calgary. As of 2019,

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