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by _zagj 11mo ago
> When applied, the gel creates a thin and robust layer that impregnates teeth, filling holes and cracks in them. Having an option other than crowning to treat cracks would be a game-changer, especially since the AAE not long ago put out
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by _zagj 1y ago
> House of Dynamite This is easily the best, inadvertent advertisement ever for boosting the nation's missile defense capabilities, and it's ironic that it came out of progressive Netflix studios, given that progressives have i
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by _zagj 1y ago
After 2000, the practice of calling states (even noncompetitive ones) before polls closed was abandoned, and the Voter News Service (VNS) consortium (who provided the flawed exit polling data that informed the erroneous, premature call) was
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by _zagj 1y ago
Of the ten counties where Bush performed best, five were in the panhandle, where polls closed in the Central timezone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_United_States_presidentia...
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CNN calls Florida for Al Gore an hour before polls close in the panhandle (2000) [video](youtube.com)
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> But seriously. Rewriting C utilities that have been battle-tested for decades in Rust might be a good idea in the long term, but anyone could have predicted short-term hiccups. How "long term" are we talking about that rewrit
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by _zagj 1y ago
This reminds me of when Rossman was accused of transphobia and other prejudices because he created a KF account solely to respond to things said about him in his own dedicated thread on that site, without posting anywhere else. Pure guilt
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Eric Schmidt ex-mistress sues over alleged stalking, abuse, digital surveillance(nypost.com)
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by _zagj 1y ago
> lazy Why? What are the advantages, in practice, of lazy evaluation as the default?
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by _zagj 1y ago
You do know that the Democratic governor of NY sent the National Guard into the NYC subways, don't you?
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by _zagj 1y ago
You could argue that if not crypto, it would have been something else eventually, and that the heightened vigilance it has necessitated has made it more difficult for other motivated attackers (like state actors) to backdoor or compromise O
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by _zagj 1y ago
As soon as I saw the headline, I assumed something of this sort. Maybe it's naive, but I miss the days when you could just trust (however unfounded) open source software. I never had to hesitate before downloading a distro or a package
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by _zagj 1y ago
Given the overlap between reddit and HN ("Orange Reddit"), using cuckolding as a negative point of comparison probably wasn't the best choice.
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by _zagj 1y ago
I don't use Amazon often, but as a fan of puzzle games, I really appreciate the UX (which regularly changes, so as to not get stale) of trying to buy something without inadvertently signing up for Prime.
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> The return type of fgetc() is `int` and not `char`. This example will not differentiate between end-of-file in input versus reading 0xff Be aware that character literals in c, e.g., 'f' or 'A', have type int for pro
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by _zagj 1y ago
> No idea about the effect on speed in general; I was trying to save a few bytes of storage in a place where that mattered. I had a decent sized C library that I could conditionally compile (via macros and ifdefs) to use pointers (64-bit
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by _zagj 1y ago
I remember considering to move there for a while 12 years ago, with cost of living being a major motivation. Now the rentals are almost on par pricewise with what you'd see in SF or NYC.
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by _zagj 1y ago
Maybe the left should have offered genuine concessions on immigration and border security when they had the chance. E.g., support the construction of a wall without expecting anything like "comprehensive immigration reform" (read:
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by _zagj 1y ago
So does every other open source XSLT implementation, along with XPath/XQuery 3x. Most of them at best support 2x or 1x with some 2x-compatible extensions, but I'm not aware of any that fully support the 3x variants, besides Xidel
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Yes, as it's a front-end to both LibXML2 and LibXSLT.
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> Canadian officials acknowledged these concerns — “We know that in some places in our country, it’s easier to access MAID than it is to get a wheelchair,” Let alone a wheelchair ramp, apparently, even if you're a veteran: https:&
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by _zagj 1y ago
Richard Miller's Intervention Testing Program should really be your go-to for this: https://www.nia.nih.gov/research/dab/interventions-testing-p... He has no conflicts of interests, works for the NIA, and he&
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by _zagj 1y ago
My point was that student loan debtors are some of the least deserving of forgiveness, given that you have actual poor people struggling to make ends meet. At best you could make a case for the ones who never graduated or whose degree dem
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> each citizen Go lookup the lifetime earnings of college grads vs. HS-only. Then go lookup the demographics (especially economic) of student loan borrowers. Then go lookup home ownership rates of college grads vs. HS-only.
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by _zagj 1y ago
> I don't know yet what I think, but my latest side project I decided to create privately on github. You're concerned about LLMs stealing your code, yet you're still using Github in any form? You should be careful even u
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> but it is common for crates to be released under MIT Something that isn't brought up enough in the "rewrite everything in Rust" discussions is that the API guidelines explicitly recommend MIT/Apache to "maximiz
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Russia's Secret War and the Plot to Kill a German CEO(bloomberg.com)
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https://archive.is/qWHwC > A few months later, CNN revealed that US intelligence agencies had warned Germany earlier in the year that Russia was preparing to kill Papperger, the most advanced of a series of plans to kill
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> Does China today qualify as dictatorship? It has many of the aspects of one, like authoritarianism and centralized control, which arguably could, in the right hands, yield superior outcomes. For example, being able to undertake and com
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by _zagj 1y ago
Lee Kuan Yew (whom the late polymath and Berkshire vice chairman Charlie Munger greatly admired) and Park Chung Hee are two examples that quickly come to mind. I distrust technocrats and dislike dictators, but pretending every dictatorship

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