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by alterom 2y ago
I want to apologize on behalf of the person whom you're responding to, as they misunderstood your point to an extent that makes it seem very unlikely that they'll be able to contribute to the discussion of where to draw that line.
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by alterom 2y ago
>There's a certain irony in your outrage at his failure to control his emotions, even as your own rage leads you to dream of hurting his family. Wow, what bad take. Are you willfully misinterpreting the parent commenter, or would
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by alterom 2y ago
>That’s grounds for termination to me. Seriously. I would put this man out of a job and endanger the livelihood of him and his family for this kind of shit. Agreeing with you as a former instructor (who left academia for greener fields
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by alterom 2y ago
To add: if the goal is to make a system where the yes/no answer is irrelevant, then it's a system when very horrible UX: the pop-up shouldn't be there in the first place! This also doesn't address the obvious solution: s
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by alterom 2y ago
>But I don't think you can limit people's wealth and not call it communism I'll have "Everything I don't like is communism" for 500, Alex. Ever heard of this little-known thing called taxes ? Particularly
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by alterom 2y ago
Facebook is routinely suggesting me contacts that I have met and interacted with offline, the only link to them being an entry in my phone book. Which, I'm guessing, I allowed Messenger to have access to at some point. Other than that,
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by alterom 2y ago
The entire point of the comment I was responding to was that Lip-Bu Tan doesn't have the experience in the industry, hence the snideness. Whether he'd be a good chairman given his experience in the industry is a discussion tha
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by alterom 2y ago
Pardon me, I wanted to make an analogy between EDA and CAD by drawing a parallel to the CAD world.
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by alterom 2y ago
>What does he bring over Pat or Michelle? Understanding everything it takes to design a chip, after spending 15 years leading the company that makes software tools for chip design, perhaps. Cadence Design Systems, that is. I worked t
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by alterom 2y ago
>he was CEO/Chairman of Cadence for 15 years, but other than that Oh, so he's only been leading one of the handful of companies making the full software suite for all stages of silicon design and simulation for 15 years, no b
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by alterom 2y ago
What? He's led Cadence for many years. You know, making tools to design silicone. As a former Cadence employee, I really don't have any complains about his leadership, looking back at my time there. He's been on Intel's
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by alterom 2y ago
>hopefully this leads to a surge in polite programming But not too polite. The compiler wouldn't like that.
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by alterom 2y ago
Is that a proprietary HTML extension? Are we back to the IE-era mess then? If so, let's bring <marquee> back.
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by alterom 2y ago
> From my understanding, the easiest way is to use the <video> tag with mp4. The easiest way for everyone involved is... using GIFs as GIFs. The 19% in savings (when converting to lossless WebP) aren't worth it. Not even 60%
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by alterom 2y ago
Yeah, I really missed ubiquitous C preprocessor macros in C++, so let's bring them back, but now inside string literals. Sweet. Seriously, I just keep being amazed that people are running with the idea of having a full-blown untyped an
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by alterom 2y ago
Same in Russian and Ukrainian in that regard.
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by alterom 2y ago
Be careful. That could be a violation of the DMCA, unless you do that one chapter at a time.
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by alterom 2y ago
You have an error there (bad copy-paste?). Should be "Stały 4 książki na półce". Anyway, to make sense of the second one: treat "5 książek" as "5 of books", or "a 5-set of books" — Four books were s
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by alterom 2y ago
Interesting. It's the opposite in Russian — it'd be "100½ książek" there (сто c половиной книжек), even though it's "½ książki" (половина книжки). "½ książek" (половина книжек) is also valid, and
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by alterom 2y ago
Yeah. It's definitely a fail rather than a win. insert angry react
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by alterom 2y ago
What's there to be sorry about? It was fun for me to dig in and find out just how long boy as an interjection has been around for (which is, by far, not an obvious thing regardless of whether one speaks English natively or not). Same
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by alterom 2y ago
>And nouns as interjections. Nouns? "Boy" as an interjection, used for emphasis, has been used for over a century. From Oxford English Dictionary[1]: > boy : interjection (colloquial, originally U.S.). 1894– >Expressing
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by alterom 2y ago
>and it’s definitely an annoy . You didn't have to do it to drive the point home, but boy did this do the job.
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by alterom 2y ago
You might be interested to learn that bicycles initially didn't have pedals or a drivetrain[1]. They were ridden exactly the way you're teaching your kid. Adding pedals later is just following the history of bicycle tech developme
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by alterom 2y ago
>That being said, many gladiators didn't really have the skills to pursue a different career after retirement. Same applies to many, many soldiers — and it's not just about the skills. It's just that things don't matt
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by alterom 2y ago
Or, you can take a photo through a mosquito screen (with the focus on the screen or slightly behind it)[1]. No fancy lens needed :) (Think of the mosquito screen as a pinhole lens array) [1] See e.g. https://www.istockphoto.com&#
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by alterom 2y ago
>The fact that this whole discussion happens in english, partially explains why there is a discussion at all. The whole problem could have been avoided if the development of computers had been a more international effort. Your comment
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by alterom 2y ago
To their defense, Nikke reads much closer to the original Greek name than Nike .
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by alterom 2y ago
>They got to experience grief but no living thing was actually harmed. Except for the kids, that is, who've got hit by unneeded and unexpected grief. Yay.
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by alterom 2y ago
Sure, but space is an ASCII character.

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