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by L_226 7y ago
Here is a pretty good explanation of why tabs are superior: https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/c8drjo/nobody_t...
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by L_226 7y ago
Yes I agree. Also note the new in packaging yellow helmets etc, you'd think if they were actual protesters the protest accoutrements would at least be a little bit used (or knowing HK police, shall we say, thoroughly used)
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by L_226 7y ago
HK police have already uncovered a stash of TATP stockpiled by "protesters" - https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/20/asia/hong-kong-explosives...
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by L_226 7y ago
Wouldn't even be the first time the US has shot down a manned Iranian civilian aircraft, in Iranian airspace [0]. [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655
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by L_226 7y ago
Dolphins are pretty smart, I have always thought that they are merely limited in their evolutionary progression by the fact that it is difficult to generate and control fire underwater (and therefore difficult to cook food, smelt metal etc.
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by L_226 7y ago
Pretty sure as soon as there is permanent human habitation in space, any "Space Law" as determined by Earth lawyers is going to become wishful thinking really quickly. Good luck trying to enforce mining rights or even copyright on
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by L_226 7y ago
I think you are just describing jargon, which allows greater specificity when the audience is assumed to have a fundamental grounding in the topic being discussed.
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by L_226 7y ago
You can IIRC ping support and ask for a concurrency limit increase, but probably what I would do first is try to segregate lambda deployments and API endpoints (or whatever trigger) by region so that total load is distributed (you get 1000
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by L_226 7y ago
Is there something like this in Berlin?
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Wikipedia co-founder slams the ‘appalling’ internet(cnbc.com)
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by L_226 7y ago
I have done sessions on Focusmate [0] every day for about 3 weeks so far. I personally do other work, but a lot of people I match with use the sessions to meditate. I've found it to be a surprisingly effective anti-procrastination tool
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by L_226 7y ago
One of my neighbours when I was growing up in Australia had apparently chronic Lyme disease, however every doctor she went to told her that there was indisputably "no Lyme disease in Australia" [0]. This went on for years. Eventua
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by L_226 7y ago
Just like when you have a backpack slightly too big for purpose and you tend to add in useless junk, so too do people add useless software when available compute/memory is superfluous. Because you can.
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by L_226 7y ago
Here's Niels Provos (author of bcrypt) attempting to make Wootz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9j9vUGi0QA
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by L_226 7y ago
> occasionally on the roughest roads some drips of molten iron fell off the back of carts while being transported I agree. When I studied ancient history (and Pompeii) in school we were taught that the 'ruts' were a feature of
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by L_226 7y ago
> try to step out of the cocoon of your culture for a second I like to think that the cocoon of my culture values all human lives equally. Obviously it doesn't really (I'm Australian), but it feels nice to pretend anyway.
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by L_226 7y ago
Very possibly, it is not mine in any case.
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by L_226 7y ago
A better reply is: "Saying you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is the same as saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say."
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by L_226 7y ago
I read Jean M. Auel's prehistoric fiction series "Earth's Children" [0] when I was young. In it, Neanderthals are depicted as having a complex sign/gesture based language, with additional limited vocalisations for a
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by L_226 7y ago
AWS is opening a datacentre in SA next year: https://aws.amazon.com/local/africa/
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by L_226 7y ago
> A static ecosystem didn't exist without us and it certainly doesn't exist with us. It is possible that our species is creating a static ecosystem - one without biodiversity and blandly homogenous in its design to sustain ou
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by L_226 7y ago
I have heard that the US embassy in Canberra, Australia is made entirely out of US materials that were shipped there specifically, as well as the first meter or so of topsoil for the whole complex. Unsure if true, but wouldn't surprise
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by L_226 7y ago
These are valid points. I should also say that I rarely go to the gym anymore, as I far prefer swimming and running at the moment. I don't even have a current gym membership (first time in over ten years!).
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by L_226 7y ago
I have found this with myself - in uni ~7 years ago I was pretty into powerlifting (around 120kg squat, 120kg bench, 170kg deadlift at 184cm/81kg). Now as I go through on and off periods of training due to life etc. I find that it is r
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by L_226 7y ago
> This is like claiming that dripping drops of water on a circuit board, and observing that the electronics misbehave, somehow links it to the emergence of circuit design. Almost like claiming that smashing subatomic particles together m
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by L_226 7y ago
I've said it before, but in the context of solar system colonisation the value behind Tesla is not the cars - it is the gigafactory. Developing a serious Human presence off-Earth necessarily requires highly automated heavy industry and
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by L_226 7y ago
I acknowledge that this comment is probably low quality, but if you have ever taken magic mushrooms you realise that fungi are definitely linked to the emergence of consciousness.
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by L_226 7y ago
A cocktail that I quite enjoy is the gimlet [0], it apparently was possibly invented to encourage sailors to drink lime juice. [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimlet_(cocktail)#Etymology
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by L_226 7y ago
One of the first things I do post training is stick both my wrists/hands under cold running water. Works great
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by L_226 7y ago
Australian here. SMH is known for a generally poorer standard of English usage and editing compared to other news publications (e.g. The Australian).

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