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This is incorrect. The solvent is boiled, not burned.
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I don't know the business considerations for this little niche Jeff has carved out for himself, so I'll just trust that he knows what he's talking about. The art really does look bad though. I wonder if what he needs is actua
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Unlike in C++, Zig makes it easy to do compile time type introspection to see what the types passed as parameters are capable of, and then emit useful error messages if it doesn't satisfy the necessary contract. It's less streamli
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I think you've stumbled upon one of the most important and difficult cultural questions of our generation. I don't claim to have a robust theory, but I'll throw out an idea: 4chan becomes a place to say edgy racist things in
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The lack of built-in window management is a major feature of kakoune for me. I try to delegate all window management to my window manager, including such things as browser tabs, so I like that kakoune is designed to be used like that. The b
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Eh, the language makes a bit more sense than that. It's a bit too euphemistic for my taste, but it's reasonable. "Meets expectations" — which expectations? The expectations for the role of for the employee? If we're
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It's unethical, but only to the customer, not the deliveryperson. Except to whatever extent market wages are unethical.
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Ikea sells desk legs that can be adjusted to the right height when you install them, but don't have all the machinery needed to adjust it's height while using it. If all you want is a desk that suits you body, grab a set of Olov l
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Speakers tend to prefer either a high considerateness or high involvement style of conversation. Considerate speakers prefer conversations where parties wait for each other to finish and take turns speaking, while involved speakers prefer t
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Does anyone who follows this more closely know what mapping support there will be? I worry that it will be hard to match the quality of Google/Apple Maps with free software. I've tried using OsmAnd, but it's just a terrible e
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No, people are worth whatever is the most any company is willing to pay them.
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I've heard that the process for contesting charges is simple and high-trust.
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Perl programmers read "$_" as "it". So you could read the expression above as "fetch url, then await it, then get its json then await it, then get its ID" Although I don't know why a syntax needs to be ver
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Worth drawing attention to: many users are familiar and comfortable with the way that Twitter handles embedded content, which is more-or-less the solution that you said would be "less of a concern for you". I think this could prov
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Answers here focus on purely functional type systems, but more generally, this type of error can be caught by effect systems https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect_system
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That's relevant in some scripts, where unnecessary forks might actually add up to some meaningful resource usage. Not relevant when typed at a tty.
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This is a common misconception about the Griggs ruling. See https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/07/26/dont-blame-griggs/ The Griggs decision explicitly places the same restrictions on college degrees that i
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I like both the Firefox and Firefox Browser icons. For myself, I'd be OK with the abstract Firefox icon becoming the browser's icon, but I worry that it wouldn't be as recognizable to someone scrolling through the app store.
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I don't think people are making decisions about their UI colorschemes based on ergonomics. As a rule, people who say they use white-on-black or black-on-white for reasons of comfort or health are just rationalizing an aesthetic prefere
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Apple's trackpads are still in a class above the rest, but trackpads from other manufacturers have seen great improvements over the last 2–3 years. The choice between Thinkpads and Macbooks is one between best-in-class keyboard with a
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With sway (Wayland port of i3) you can set "workspace_layout tabbed" to have the default container be tabbed, and also top level splits that are created by moving a window out of a tabbed container be tabbed. I think i3 works like
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Not only advances in hardware affect what computers can do. Advances in software let computers do more things, but we can't count those when considering automating all software development, it wouldn't make sense. But there are ad
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The article doesn't get to the reason that it's doomed to fail. Software developers translate between what humans want and what computers can do. The second part — what computers can do — is a well understood domain that can be mo
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There are two different questions: "do all paths lead to returning a value?" and "will the function return a value?" Answering the second in the general case is equivalent to solving the halting problem. But answering th
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Or, you know, never worked an hourly job.
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Rent-seeking doesn't refer to specifically real estate, but renting out a piece of property that you own is rent seeking, as you are using your existing wealth to acquire new wealth without creating any wealth.
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The costs are different in the internet. At a bar, a human looks at your ID, then gives it back to you. On the internet, there's no way your ID doesn't get recorded in a log somewhere, in a central store where all ID checks you ev
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I want completely different things from the configuration format, depending on the software I'm configuring. JSON is great if I'm going to want to generate configs programmatically much of the time but still want to be able to vie
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Judging by the surrounding context, they were probably referring to jq[1], the delightful command line DSL for manipulating JSON, not to jQuery. [1] https://stedolan.github.io/jq/
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Historically, information was more likely to be saved by accident. If something was published in print, that means that copies of it were distributed nationally or globally, found in hundreds of homes or libraries. If the publisher went out

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