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by agent327 3y ago
I never heard that story before, but you are indeed correct. I stand corrected.
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by agent327 3y ago
The painter is named "Mondriaan", with two a's.
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by agent327 3y ago
Why would you dispose of such a useful material by attempting to shoot it into the sun? Sure, there is some danger associated with storing it, but it's not as if nuclear material is the only hazardous substance on the planet, and with
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by agent327 3y ago
The only thing that needs to live in the kernel is fast message interchange. And that could also be used as the base mechanism to move all(!) of the drivers out of the kernel.
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by agent327 3y ago
You want to avoid condensation (and other depositions) on the mirror surface. That is most easily avoided if the mirror is slightly warmer than the environment. Of course the container is sealed as well, but there's always some moistur
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by agent327 3y ago
How will you know which laws apply?
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by agent327 3y ago
They are taking literally HALF THE LIFE of every working person, and you are sufficiently brainwashed to think that that's perfectly normal. Or perhaps you know full well what's happening, but prefer the status quo because you are
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by agent327 3y ago
Taxes may build the foundation of a productive society, but reproduction builds the actual society. And in both taxes and coerced reproduction, something is taken by force from someone who has not consented to that. In the case of reproduct
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by agent327 3y ago
Nothing, but if your only goal is to frustrate people, maybe that's a level of 'service' you should not be offering in the first place.
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by agent327 3y ago
Great rant. Now explain why it is different with taxes.
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by agent327 3y ago
Replying to scarface, who has no reply button... It would help to know that profiles are not likely to be a Chinese scammer, and it would help in that the app wouldn't be actively _hiding_ profiles of people that have expressed an inte
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by agent327 3y ago
There appears to be quite a large contingent of women that are upset with so-called 'passport bros', as well as women that have hit the wall and haven't yet come to terms with the fact that it's too late to establish a f
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by agent327 3y ago
I was staying in the Holiday Inn Express at Dubai airport the other day, which is less than 400m from the entrance to Terminal 3 at that same airport (and the metro station located there), making it a convenient hotel for my few days in Dub
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by agent327 3y ago
As far as I can tell it's the women that are complaining about the lack of available men, not the reverse.
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by agent327 3y ago
Those formulas are not reversible. You can compute load bearing capacity of a design, and you can compute cost of a design, but you cannot start with load bearing capacity and cost, run those through a formula, and get a bridge. Or even a s
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by agent327 3y ago
This is just horrendous. So instead of writing this trivial piece of code yourself you get an AI to write it for you. Then instead of reading and understanding the code you just run it to see what happens. Is there a problem? Just try again
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by agent327 3y ago
How do you prove that a bridge is the 'best' design? What does 'best' mean, for a bridge?
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by agent327 3y ago
As someone who has worked with windows, mice, menu bars, etc. all his life, I hope the way we design software WILL NOT change as I age. I am _happy_ with old-fashioned menu bars listing all the options that are available to me, using words
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by agent327 3y ago
Aren't you being overly optimistic about the engineering disciplines' ability to compute things? How does engineering work: do you sit down with a spec (say, "create a wing that can lift a passenger plane"), and then run
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by agent327 3y ago
I don't like where they put the new message button (it's weirdly floating over the list of folders now, but what's the relation with that list?). There's also a mostly empty bar _above_ the menu bar (I'm old-school,
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by agent327 3y ago
This completely overlooks the psychological aspect, which is that the 1% is perfectly happy to fly to Davos every year in their hundreds of private jets, where they all sit together in a large room and tell us to stop flying, damnit, becaus
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by agent327 3y ago
Will the third reason it's good surprise us?
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by agent327 3y ago
Must it? What if you use the seed as an offset into pi, and then just return digits of pi from that point onwards? (of course that will eventually run into a problem with the state of the RNG exceeding available memory, so it will ultimatel
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by agent327 3y ago
Could be, but I'm an extremely minimal user. Surely volume counts for such a thing? I check the site once or twice a week, and look at some holiday pics of friends for a few minutes, for crying out loud...
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by agent327 3y ago
Instagram has a frustration loop. I know that, because it is triggered on my account: for every action I take, no matter how minor, it makes me log in again. Every link I click, everything I do, I get to make a detour through the login scre
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by agent327 3y ago
Also event dispatchers. I've written switch statements for various event systems that need to handle 60-100 events. You can easily get to hundreds of lines without things getting unreadable.
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by agent327 3y ago
I've always thought that being cast out of Eden was not so much a punishment, as merely an unavoidable consequence: having eaten from the tree of knowledge, we now also have the ability to appreciate suffering, and thus no longer exper
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by agent327 3y ago
I had the same experience with the Garden of Earthly Delights: it leaves a lasting impression. It's so incredibly weird; parts of it look like a seventies comic (or perhaps older sci-fi book cover art) instead of a half a millennium ol
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by agent327 3y ago
Gadaffi threatened to sell oil in a currency other than the US dollar. That particular threat to the hegemon could not go unpunished. Without the dollar as the world reserve currency, a position firmly backed by the US army, there is no way
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by agent327 3y ago
Anything consisting primarily of a switch statement with a great many cases.

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