Karellen

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by Karellen 2y ago
Do you think people who have NDEs only have "classic" NDE symptoms because they've read about them and that's what they expect to experience?
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by Karellen 2y ago
In my example, the "them" isn't referring to the recipients of the letters. It's referring to the letters themselves. Mallory: "The mill received a series of letters. Those letters are evidence. Now, we're not
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by Karellen 2y ago
"I wrote them" doesn't sound completely wrong to a British ear - it just gets misunderstood! I thought it sounded like exactly the correct way to say "I wrote the letters", until I got to the last couple of words in
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by Karellen 2y ago
Surely that's only the case if realloc() actually resizes and copies on every call? Which it normally doesn't? I thought that most implementations of realloc() would often "round up" internally to a larger size allocatio
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by Karellen 2y ago
Looking at the images in the article, I think c), d) and e) in the first group, and the close-up image a couple of paragraphs later, are all the same item. So. e) looks like d) with a top covering taken off. And, from the curved "handl
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by Karellen 2y ago
The light-grey text on white background really enhances the vibe of the piece, too
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by Karellen 2y ago
There is no evidence of a company using the fact that you've said "yes" at a random point in the conversation as confirmation that you've agreed to their (maybe unheard) pitch, despite variations on that urban legend doi
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by Karellen 2y ago
I don't think the threshhold is that significant. The main difference I'd like to see is that we apply the change to timezones, not to the underlying "count number of seconds" clock. But I think timezones aren't abl
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by Karellen 2y ago
Only one of the purposes of DRM is to prevent piracy. There are others. One of which is to prevent mainstream media player manufacturers from making a hardware or software player which can skip region coding/studio tags/anti-pirac
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by Karellen 2y ago
A thought I've had is we should ignore leap seconds until the difference between UTC and timezone reference times (e.g. mean midnight at the Greenwich meridian) reaches some significant threshold, e.g. 5 minutes. At this point, all tim
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by Karellen 2y ago
> And because every Linux distro uses a different theme and one of a dozen UI libraries/DEs/etc. the downloaded GUI application will look bad because it won’t fit in. Most apps/DEs/etc. use either GTK or Qt. If your a
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by Karellen 2y ago
I think that most of the people arguing the position do so in bad faith. They know it's an oversimplification to the point of absurdity, but they want to bog their opponents down in explaining why it's an absurdity, and/or
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by Karellen 2y ago
People like you are the reason we can't have nice things.
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by Karellen 2y ago
Worth noting that - mostly - punters weren't having real interactions with the models anyway. As the article points out, they'd previously reported (and I think HN had linked to the story) that a large number of models had been ou
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by Karellen 2y ago
* bagder
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by Karellen 2y ago
Do you think that amongst regular people, there exists a liar who always lies?
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by Karellen 2y ago
> Also on the banned list are products such as chickpea or lentil-based crisps, seaweed-based snacks and Bombay mix as well as energy drinks, hamburgers and chicken nuggets. The foods mentioned in the article are not an exhaustive list
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by Karellen 2y ago
> When you look at how “IP” is used by firms, a very precise – albeit colloquial – meaning emerges: > “IP is any law that I can invoke that allows me to control the conduct of my competitors, critics, and customers.” > That is
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by Karellen 2y ago
I switched to Reader Mode in the hope of getting something more usable, but the screenshots of the Nat Friedman and Tailwind websites take up a bunch of space between every paragraph of content, making even Reader Mode awkward to navigate.
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by Karellen 2y ago
Although the HN title says (2015), at the top of the article is: > June 16th, 2003 (updated September 26th, 2015) so when it was originally written signalfd(2) would not be available on Linux until 2.6.22 was released in July 2007, 4 yea
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by Karellen 2y ago
I thought part of the beauty of homoiconicity, which doesn't seem to be mentioned here, is not just that it's natural to interpret tokens as code, but that it's possible to interpret the code of the program that's curre
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by Karellen 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server-side_scripting#Server-s...
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by Karellen 2y ago
OK, I can see I've been talking somewhat at cross-purposes to some other people in the thread. When the G*P commenter said: > The killer feature of Excel for financial modelling, over 'proper' software, databases etc is p
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by Karellen 2y ago
My main problems with checking spreadsheet code are: 1) Code formatting - spreadsheet formulae are generally presented all on one line with minimal spacing and no syntax highlighting. Any mildly complex formula should ideally be presented a
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by Karellen 2y ago
> Because there are so many spreadsheets? The studies show the percentage of spreadsheets with errors in. Unless you have a reason to suspect this is not independent of the number of spreadsheets, I'm not sure what your point is?
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by Karellen 2y ago
My point is that if Excel spreadsheets can be audited, practically speaking, why are these major errors going unnoticed all the time ? Edit: My contention is that spreadsheets are in fact, very opaque, and it is incredibly difficult to che
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by Karellen 2y ago
Excel spreadsheets are auditable? If that's the case, why do studies show that so many Excel spreadsheets have major errors in them? https://theconversation.com/spreadsheet-errors-can-have-disa... https://ph
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by Karellen 2y ago
(2005)
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by Karellen 2y ago
Or just anyone who uses `more` or `less` or almost any other pager.
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by Karellen 2y ago
It's entirely a different kind of flying

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