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by Grue3 7y ago
>"There should be one — and preferably only one — obvious way to do it." Which Python manages to break all the time. How many ways are there to format a string again?
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Raku is a good name (can be abbreviated to 楽 as a bonus). Camelia is too long and is already the name of the mascot. Ofun is terrible (nothing like a product implying it's "fun" by literally including "fun" in the n
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There are tons of plants that are not healthy to eat at all. Or can be processed in a way that makes them unhealthy, or even dangerous to eat. See: tobacco.
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Chinese didn't always have pinyin... and Japanese didn't always have kana (it used to be spelled exclusively with Chinese characters, though some characters were used phonetically, and kana resulted from the simplification of thes
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This election is already a sham since some opposition candidates were illegally prevented from participating in it.
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>I'll give hg the benefit of the doubt that it eventually got better It did not. We had a giant hg monorepo at Yandex, and even mere "hg id" took ages (and required net access to source repository for some reason). The pla
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At least if Nazis implement Nazi laws themselves, all the blame's on them. If the supposed non-Nazis implement Nazi laws that Nazis don't even have to change, that just shows that your law system was already fascist.
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Made me think, what roads would actually be suitable for this? They have to be: 1) cleaned often 2) have very little traffic 3) have a very large surface And one of the solutions that pops up is: airport runways! They have a huge area, way
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Do you really not understand the difference between calling a man these words, and a woman? This is literally how you sound: "I'm not racist, I call white people N-word all the time too!"
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This is why I created an Anki deck that contains both kanji and common words that use those kanji [1]. It even includes statistics on how much each reading is used, so you can estimate if it's worth learning this reading or treat it as
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by Grue3 7y ago
Why is the word "gun" listed as a "bad thing"? That seems biased just to make mass shootings seem worse than other disasters/loss of life.
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>how you know that he dismissed her ideas because of her gender? If Sarah Palin was a "he", he wouldn't have called her a "cunt" and a "whore".
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Biodegrading is a bad thing. It releases carbon back into atmosphere. Basically it's the opposite of carbon sequestration. Converting carbon into stable, non-degrading plastic instead of making it burn/degrade is actually good for
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Regular buses aren't that convenient, but BRT/guided buses are great. The intervals between buses can be very short, and there's flexibility in the areas outside the busway.
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>You are ruining all the efforts that communities have made github stars a valuable indicator. Nope, stars are a stupid popularity contest that shouldn't have been a feature of Github in the first place. Leave that sort of stuff to
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by Grue3 7y ago
SBCL. Works everywhere, super fast, has an advanced compiler with helpful warning messages. You get a fully featured Common Lisp implementation with all the goodies like CLOS, threads, C interoperability, and so on. And of course no Java re
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>That does not seem realistic at all. That does seem realistic considering how often the topic pf flat-earthers comes up in discussions on social media, despite it being an extremely niche view.
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Funny because one of the current trending topics on Russian twitter is forest fires in Siberia, how it's impossible to breathe in Siberian cities and how nobody seems to care (with Russian TV Channels ignoring this topic).
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Even in business context this can be weaponised. For example two executives in a company discuss some sort of business strategy and mention the competitor's CEO by name (also the competitor's company happens to be named after its
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>I was able to ask my PhD college, and several other institutions, to see all emails in which my name appeared in either the subject line or the body of the email. The scariest part is that this is apparently possible in countries under
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by Grue3 7y ago
>Iraq and Libya are broken states right now because the US intervened overtly. That's like saying Germany was a broken state after US intervened in WW2. I mean, it was literally broken up, but it didn't have an insane dictator
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When I have a list of stuff that is likely to change often, I put the closing parens on their own line. Sure it's against the style guide but I don't care. Most commonly this affects list of slots in a defclass, long lists of loca
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That's true. I once attended Comiket on day 2 and it was quite shocking that at least 90% of attendees on that specific day were women. This would never happen at any western comic convention.
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> If these infringe, where is the similarity? It would be quite interesting to compare the generated images with the dataset using a tineye-style image matcher. I wouldn't be surprised if large segments of the generated pictures are
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Why do you think Korean companies are so powerful? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaebol
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>You aren't going to get a good review by being useless but really good at small talk in the kitcken. You probably would if you talk to the right people. When performance criteria are not objective, it's easy to fire or retain
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Apple is openly collaborating with Chinese regime, including allowing the government to snoop on all Chinese traffic, yet they still have a high reputation for privacy. This just doesn't work, people don't give a shit about other
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I don't expect logging.warning to change in future versions of Python (currently it substitutes extra args as % operator, so you'd have to write logging.warning('Unusual situation foo=%s, bar=%s', foo, bar)) since it wou
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>What I said is a common critique of content coming out in the past few years. It's only common in certain circles and we all know exactly which ones.
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Not an American here. Propaganda of what exactly?

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