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by almostnormal 3y ago
The article mentions family-friedliness. That indicates a non-vanishing number of women at the events have kids and are likley in a relationship. Would men in other societies accept their significant other rooting for other men with corny p
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by almostnormal 3y ago
Access to feeds is not considered in the number of subscribers for the content creator, isn't it?
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by almostnormal 3y ago
Support has been removed from Firefox, but it still exists in Thunderbird. It's not surprising. It seems that many understand RSS more as a form of news (like a newsgroup or mailing list) than as a form of discovery for web content.
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by almostnormal 3y ago
> In astronomy and cosmology, 1 and 5 are the same number. Only the orders of magnitude matter when talking about large things. At atomic scales and in photon length the precise numbers do matter. "I am not interested in a more accu
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by almostnormal 3y ago
It seems to accept multiple GET parameters, e.g., https://avatars.tzador.com/face?age=26-35&ethnicity=hispanic...
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by almostnormal 3y ago
Devices sold should work to a certain expected level. Regulators could define (or even just judges decide in a specific case that can be applied more generally) what that level is. Losing bits randomly isn't within the range of what is
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by almostnormal 3y ago
> It’s not like this is some kind of graphics board that needs to sit a short distance from my monitor. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the buyers would consider it as gaming rig with maximum bragging rights.
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by almostnormal 3y ago
Ask the users to return their broken phones, demand a full refund, and buy an android instead.
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by almostnormal 3y ago
> Users trust that pornhub.com won’t be allowed to read data entered into irs.gov. Likely, most are worried about the other direction.
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by almostnormal 3y ago
> Jira is brilliant. It is team-led. Different teams have different approaches, [...] That doesn't sound real. There's supposed to be some central department(s) that collect ideas from the process framework of the season or req
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by almostnormal 3y ago
Why isn't applyWithEmployeeReferral() an overload of apply() with a parameter for the linkedin referral(s)?
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by almostnormal 3y ago
Even the sorting by color would be useful if Van Halen was still touring. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_IxqdAgNJck
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by almostnormal 3y ago
The former "Diplom" and "Diplom (FH)" were not identical. When those still existed the distinction of "Universität" and "Fachhochschule" was meaningful. The rebranding is a consequence of the old kind
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by almostnormal 3y ago
> Specifically given a common pattern is to use a large switch/case to map from instructions which usually compiles to a jump table [...] Work-around: Implement the jump table directly, e.g., array of function pointers or whatever w
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by almostnormal 3y ago
Lured into a physical shop by a voucher they are likely to by things they would have bought elsewhere, the effort to visit another shop not being justified.
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by almostnormal 3y ago
Don't almost all instruments provide some kind of control? If they didn't they could be replaced by pre-recorded samples. Music would be dead.
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by almostnormal 3y ago
The scientific instruments need to be mass-produced, too, of course. A 7-digit number of rovers would be extremly cheap per piece. Shipping would become a problem though.
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by almostnormal 3y ago
Maybe acquiring a necessity is less rewarding than acquiring something pursued for fun? The point I was trying to make is that a dollar is not a neutral reward, and may cause a different response, that might otherwise be the same in all gro
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by almostnormal 3y ago
A dollar is not a dollar. A dollar is something different for kids than it is for their parents. A dollar for a kid of rich patents is not the same as a dollar for a kid of poorer parents. Poorer parents likely try to keep worries about mon
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by almostnormal 3y ago
If I remember correctly Borland claimed compliance with some standard for the TUI toolkit provided as part of Turbo Pascal. I cannot remeber which ISO it may have been, or if details like checkboxes were covered by it. Does the current ISO
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by almostnormal 3y ago
The use of that mixture of rocket science and brain surgery predates that book from 2009 by at least 15 years.
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by almostnormal 3y ago
In that one balls seem to be able to punch through (and flip) squares (when going almost vertical) instead of bouncing on every square they hit.
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by almostnormal 3y ago
A GTA reference. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38371361
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by almostnormal 3y ago
Cable lacing keeps them together without any twisting.
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by almostnormal 3y ago
CI does not seem to provide a convincing solution for reviews (in the text mainly mentioned as problem when not applying CI, and for CI only covered as an FAQ entry). With everyone pushing their changes to main (even if tested...) before ge
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by almostnormal 3y ago
East Germany Stasi documents. https://www.stasi-unterlagen-archiv.de/archiv/rekonstruktion...
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by almostnormal 3y ago
The server provides data to the phone/tablet, that's service, too, and needs to be paid.
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by almostnormal 3y ago
> The power off button on the monitor does not work. Seeing that CRT my first urge was to push the degauss button. Not working either.
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by almostnormal 3y ago
If browsers can load content from a different place than what they display someone is going to use that.
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by almostnormal 3y ago
An alternative to boredom is something else more important even less desirable that needs to be done, that drives progress on what is being procastrinated. Unfortunately, it only shifts the problem elsewhere.

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