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by agency 2y ago
> It isn't the responsibility of the manufacturer to provide samples for analysis In a sane world it would be
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by agency 2y ago
What are they free-riding on? Do you believe consumers might be confused into thinking that Nintendo runs a Costa Rican supermarket?
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by agency 2y ago
When I think of smart TVs it's less about the kind of quality -of-life improvements you're describing and more about pushing users towards the in-TV apps and software to more effectively capture and sell usage data. Though I do ha
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by agency 2y ago
because children are undergoing a critical phase in their development that has no analogy for older populations? I'm not saying isolation among the elderly is not concerning, nor widespread phone/tech addiction among adults. But I
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by agency 2y ago
I suppose I'm lucky to live in the US where we have no problems with ultranationalist sentiment and racially motivated hate crimes. I wonder if any anti-Japanese sentiment has to do with the fact that, to this day, the ruling party&#x2
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by agency 2y ago
They're also the original and simplest persistent data structures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_data_structure
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by agency 2y ago
imagine enforcing invariants as part of the design of a software system
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by agency 2y ago
maybe not with financial derivatives with potentially unlimited downside
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by agency 2y ago
The "see also" section links to a similar changeover in Okinawa which mentions that a country having more than one traffic direction is in violation of the Geneva convention (on road traffic) https://en.m.wikipedia.org&
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by agency 2y ago
I was a Java apologist for a long time and I still think you can write fine software in it (and the JVM is an incredible piece of engineering). But the fact that the class is the _only_ unit of abstraction is just so frustrating to me now (
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by agency 3y ago
How do you steal $30 million dollars without the victim becoming aware they have been robbed?
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by agency 3y ago
Yeah it seems like a common pattern for custom protocols, like the proposed DataFrame interchange protocol[1] which uses a __dataframe__ method [1] https://data-apis.org/dataframe-protocol/latest/
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by agency 3y ago
Great point - flying a bomber plane over a country is protected speech.
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by agency 3y ago
> Conspiracy theorists love conspiracy theories because they allow them to feel smarter than the “sheeple” that believe the official story. [...] Sorry but couldn’t be me, I am not dumb enough to fall for that cognitive hazard. You'
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by agency 3y ago
Irrespective of this specific case, do you honestly believe it is inconceivable one of the largest defense contractors in the world with deep connections to the military and intelligence apparatus would be capable of having an individual mu
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by agency 3y ago
Ah to return to the days of William Randolph Hearst, when journalism was free of corporate influence
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by agency 3y ago
Foley Room is my #1. I don't mind some of his more recent stuff, even the bass-ey Two Fingers stuff, but I do prefer the early stuff too. Though it's not as much up my alley I'm kind of intrigued by the album he put out under
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by agency 3y ago
Not terribly surprising considering we are told we are still in a state of emergency declared after 9/11. By law these proclamations expire after a year and yet every year like clockwork, democrat or republican in the white house, the
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by agency 3y ago
By looking up the definition of the word "abuse" in the dictionary
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by agency 3y ago
"Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison. You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don't anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand
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by agency 3y ago
The Great Lakes contain a fifth of the world's surface fresh water.
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by agency 3y ago
Tangentially related but I embarrassingly recently made the off-by-two connection between the later English month names and their numbers ( Sept ember, Oct ober, Novem ber, Dec ember). I think the discrepancy is because of a calendar cha
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by agency 3y ago
I've been slowly building up a fresh emacs config and feel like I'm getting close to it being able to be my daily driver. I found Mastering Emacs to be a very useful resource though not a perfect fit for me for a couple of reasons
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by agency 3y ago
I'm as horrified as you are by the rate of mass shootings in the US but this is a basic misunderstanding of terminology on your part. Criminology distinguishes between mass killings (single event), spree killings (multiple separate kil
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by agency 3y ago
I would say the same for myself. It doesn't interfere with my work performance, and I tell myself it's better than if I were drinking or whatever, but it has definitely become a compulsion and I basically can't regulate my us
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by agency 3y ago
The rapidly collapsing biosphere presents a number of rapidly expanding business opportunities
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by agency 3y ago
Not trying to start a flame war but what can you do with these that can't be accomplished with React and e.g. https://styled-components.com ?
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by agency 3y ago
The proposal was recently bumped to stage 4 (the penultimate stage) with at least a couple of runtimes working on implementing (besides v8, which has supported it for quite awhile now) https://github.com/WebAssembly/pro
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by agency 3y ago
Never have I related less with a take. TypeScript has elevated a truly mediocre language to being the one I am most productive in because its type system strikes such a nice balance. Where is the joy in looking at a variable named `opts` an
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by agency 4y ago
Very exciting to see this continuing to progress and hats off to those who kept pushing on the proposal to get it here. I've been building a little compiler from a toy dialect of Lisp to WASM as a side project but let it fall by the wa

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