Tao3300

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541.
by Tao3300 3y ago
I see the red rings in the front, but if I close one eye, they look flat. That was confusing, but the paper explains it nicely.
542.
by Tao3300 3y ago
That's hilariously evil. You should leave a logic bomb of anonymous hate speech to disclose as belonging to them in case they ever want to enforce it.
543.
by Tao3300 3y ago
Yeesh. Once again glad to be a 1X who doesn't work for a FAANG and has non-tech hobbies. I would argue those are exceptional cases. Outside of these prestige brands, you get a lot more leeway.
544.
by Tao3300 3y ago
You should have kept going. Spoiler alert: It turns out they were fulfilling a Babylonian prophecy the whole time. The whole development cycle was a complicated sacrifice to Marduk.
545.
by Tao3300 3y ago
Starring Excel as the pig.
546.
by Tao3300 3y ago
Because no programmer is going to sign that. They'll go somewhere else. Musicians and writers don't usually have as many options, if any.
547.
by Tao3300 3y ago
Yeah, there's a visual example here of how it helps the 'e' stay legible at low res: https://intactile.com/projets/ameliorer-la-lisibilite-et-la-... Without that "pixel trap" (?) the intersecti
548.
by Tao3300 3y ago
Ok, everyone but this square.
549.
by Tao3300 3y ago
It's like the fall of Rome. Historians will debate, when did it really start? When did it finally fall? Did it ever fall at all? It always has been September, always will be, and never was at all; everywhere and nowhere.
550.
by Tao3300 3y ago
You only need to look up.
551.
by Tao3300 3y ago
Hmm... virality isn't dying, the idea of measuring it from a single, centralized authority like Twitter is.
552.
by Tao3300 3y ago
I was indeed surprised to see it go by in the mix during one of my wife's c-sections. I'd always thought it was a completely useless thing, but there it was keeping her blood pressure stable under the anesthetics.
553.
by Tao3300 3y ago
Interesting that it's like the inverse of block printing. Never thought about that.
554.
by Tao3300 3y ago
Though it looks and acts like that, and can be used in such a way with no problem, in a sense, you've got it inside out. From the GNU Emacs homepage: At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming lang
555.
by Tao3300 3y ago
Slow CI is a perk. https://xkcd.com/303
556.
by Tao3300 3y ago
> knowledge of the geography and political dynamics of ancient Mesopotamia How much was the average ancient Mesopotamian aware of those things?
557.
by Tao3300 3y ago
I like this analogy. To all intents and purposes, that's a diamond. To all intents and purposes, this is pop music.
558.
by Tao3300 3y ago
My favorite VB6 moment was as an intern. I opened a project that lived on a shared drive that wasn't in source control. Visual Studio popped up a dialog warning that I didn't have the proper license on my PC for the parts of the a
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by Tao3300 3y ago
Jesus Christ, not FoxPro. I briefly worked for a company whose main product had been a FoxPro application that they rewrote piece by piece in C#, reimplementing various FoxPro idioms as they went. It was a nightmare and no one knew what any
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by Tao3300 3y ago
People got mad at Facebook when they were blocking ultra crunchy rightwing news outlets. Then they got mad when Facebook relented and the site got flooded with junk info. Then people got mad when too much COVID misinformation was spreading
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by Tao3300 3y ago
It also wards off vampires. Which cause fatigue. Of course I'm joking, but also wondering if there isn't a fragmented memory of a folk remedy buried in that bit of lore, alongside the "people with <disease> hated the
562.
by Tao3300 3y ago
Have your partner eat two as well. Problem solved!
563.
by Tao3300 3y ago
I only do this if it's under $.50 and I found everything I was looking for. Something about donating to the food bank seemed off in the early pandemic when I was picking over the last scrawny beef knuckles when I was supposed to buy gr
564.
by Tao3300 3y ago
"Yes we would like to be responsible for it."
565.
by Tao3300 3y ago
Verily I say unto you, that this poor commentator hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury.
566.
by Tao3300 3y ago
> The real question is why are you picking up random things Probably seemed like a good idea at the time. My wife was in car accident once where the airbag deployed. For some reason her immediate reaction was to roll down the window. Peo
567.
by Tao3300 3y ago
There probably even a conspiracy theory that you did it!
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by Tao3300 3y ago
That doesn't sound like Socrates at all. https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/39843/are-socra... Sounds like it could be from just about anywhere. The answer is probably something really unsexy like P
569.
by Tao3300 3y ago
My son was crazy about that game when he was four, and he was devastatingly good at it. Him and his daycare buds would huddle up around The Matching Game like it was an underground '00s poker tournament.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
Maroon 5 lyrics in Latin and Unicode Ghost Kanjis. Midlife crisis, here I come!

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