Ma8ee

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by Ma8ee 5y ago
They probably could, but it would be worse. I worked for a few years with the opposite, replacing spreadsheets with systems with custom interfaces, backed with databases, access control, real backups etc. The savings (in form of reduced nee
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by Ma8ee 5y ago
Your examples are actually supporting the argument. White lies are innocent, not so bad lies, much better than black lies. White washing is making something look better than it actually is, that is: make it look white = make it look better.
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by Ma8ee 5y ago
> I think the big problem with Mendel is that the odds of him obtaining the results he reported are vanishingly low Why do you think so?
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by Ma8ee 5y ago
> If you need a flat audio profile where the mids and highs and bass are all at the same level you have to pick up a pair of studio monitors. Which is what many of us do.
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by Ma8ee 5y ago
Electricity is tricky in that way. Most of the time the only effect of being shocked by 110V or even 230V is cussing. But sometimes your heart stops. (A 17 years old cousin of mine died after picking up an old corded drill that had been lef
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by Ma8ee 5y ago
At least in Sweden those stickers only stop the unaddressed leaflets or catalogs they put in the mailbox. If someone printed your name and address on it, the junk will still be delivered.
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by Ma8ee 5y ago
But none of them are in Scandinavia.
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by Ma8ee 5y ago
Like what? What town would you classify as an important regional centre that has less than 5000 inhabitants?
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by Ma8ee 5y ago
The price of obviously stolen goods is usually significantly lower, sometimes a magnitude lower, than not stolen goods.
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by Ma8ee 5y ago
Who says they can’t take algebra early?
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by Ma8ee 5y ago
Why do you feel that the Democrats are deeply corrupt?
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by Ma8ee 5y ago
Some behaviours are more immediately rewarding than other. It’s rare to find anyone eating too much broccoli or having problems stop rehearsing German irregular verbs.
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by Ma8ee 5y ago
And I think it is a valid concern even today. It’s not that there’s anything inherently bad or dangerous with books, videos or computer games. But too much of anything steal time that is needed for other parts of a well rounded upbringing.
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by Ma8ee 5y ago
And make it clear from the start to any potential buyers that it is a stolen bike?
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by Ma8ee 5y ago
I really can’t tell how serious you are. I’m too aware that what you describe often is exactly how it works in practice. It’s just that very few admit it in public. :)
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by Ma8ee 5y ago
You need both. If you don't have unit tests your feed back loop becomes way too slow, but then you of course have to test the "real" running of the program properly before shipping. And you need at least one person who didn&#
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by Ma8ee 5y ago
I just resize the window when I start reading. And when I close the tab to read something else I resize the window again to fit that content. Now when I've made aware of it, I realise I do it all the time without thinking.
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by Ma8ee 5y ago
The advantage is that I can easily choose how long lines I want, while the window doesn't take up any unnecessary real estate.
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by Ma8ee 5y ago
I knew him as the founder and director of Wikileaks, and that Wikileaks collaborates with a number of publications to get the content of some classified information known to the general public. I didn't know that Julian Assange wrote m
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by Ma8ee 5y ago
Just to nitpick on your logic a little. Your first two statements might be true without the statement that he is a world famous journalist is. Trump is world famous, and he's a golfer. But he's not a world famous golfer, at least
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by Ma8ee 5y ago
I agree. Maybe it's a cultural thing, but if someone talked about a big multiyear project only in terms of I, I would see that as a red flag. Either they actually did all the work themselves in isolation, but that must be because they
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by Ma8ee 5y ago
Now I had to try. I can make Firefox to open my Startpage whenever I open a new window, but not for each new tab. Chrome only as the first window after I start the browser. (MacOS)
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by Ma8ee 5y ago
I'm using a local html file as a start page in Safari right now, and used the same file on Windows (Firefox) just a few months ago.
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by Ma8ee 5y ago
The only thing I was arguing was that Gravity has a much more solid basis than Dark Matter. I certainly don't think I made it sound like I think MOND is more likely than Dark Matter (even though I confess that I still think the issue i
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by Ma8ee 5y ago
I didn’t manage to hit the small cross I the window that asked if I wanted to download the app, so I was redirected to the App Store, which was extra useless since the app isn’t available in my market. The text is too small to read and it’
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by Ma8ee 5y ago
No, they are still not the same. If I understand you correctly, you are saying that Dark Matter would correspond to Gravitons. But that would just prove my point, because Gravitons is just a hypothetical explanation of gravity, in the same
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by Ma8ee 5y ago
It’s a rather novel and very strange to say that something hasn’t been detected because you haven’t found a particle responsible for it, even though our whole existence and all our everyday experiences are grounded in it. Gravity is the eff
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by Ma8ee 5y ago
Is that an attempt to appeal to authority?
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The thing with gravity is that it is kind of easy to detect, even for a layperson, while dark energy and dark matter haven't been detected at all, by anyone, but only used as mathematical devices to make indirect measurements of large
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by Ma8ee 5y ago
> But making the current state the primary thing is a huge step backwards Yeah, who could need to know exactly how many items of a particular product they have in stock currently, or how much money a customer has in her account at the p

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