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by bregma 1y ago
It depends on your medium. A good wool has little hooks along the shaft of its staple so once knit the yarn will cling. Cutting a single stitch will not cause a loss of coherency. In fact, a classic knitting technique for crafting something
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by bregma 1y ago
Let me guess... if we need you you'll be in your bunk?
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Perhaps encrapification would be more acceptable amongst the erudite classes? Or maybe endoodycated ? encacapated ?
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At least that would have greater perceived value.
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> A monarch provides this living symbol without giving them any apparent democratic legitimacy - it's obvious that the King wasn't chosen by the people, he's just luck of the draw and so if he tried to seize power that&#x2
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> a hypothetical Trump 2028 term Would it be a new term if elections are suspended, or would it just be his second term continued?
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I live just over an hour north of this place. Until recently I heated my log cabin exclusively with wood. It takes somewhere between 7 and 9 cubic metres of wood a year to heat about 800 square feet of house. It costs about CAD 1500 for a t
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It's far more impressive to express gravity in units of stone furlong per fortnight squared. It's 7.14 x 10^10. Makes gravity on Jupiter look puny.
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> In everyday life, the metric system offers no big benefit That's not entirely true. An American driving across the Canadian border on an interstate can automatically go from 55 to 100. That's almost twice as much.
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Gone are the days when everyone was spammed with Monty Python references. The Gen-Zs in my office haven't even heard of, let alone viewed, the Holy Grail so half the references our boss lays out are lost on them. At least it's not
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by bregma 1y ago
Can you identify a compiler released in the last, say, 20 years that does not give a warning (or error, if the compiler is instructed to turn warnings into errors) for uninitialized variables when warnings are enabled?
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01970 is not a valid octal number. Perhaps you meant 0x7B2?
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Zoom. Enhance.
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That kind of punishment is currently only considered appropriate for perpetrators of lese majeste .
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Not white people, no. But people have been living there for at least 20,000 years so more than likely multiple generations.
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Most Catholics are Christian.
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Borellia bergdorfii does not taste like chicken.
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I heard a wealthy man is looking to buy Greenland. Maybe it's for the birds?
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Alex: My pig has no nose. Anna: How does he smell? Alex: Terrible.
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> Perfect Paul would end up being a model emulating how Klatt talked in his younger days. Anyone who started life as a drunken Swedish sailor then went on to invent something like DECTalk has done well. I worked on a shipping product tha
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How to become a millionaire: 1. Start with $10,000,000 2. Invest right before an economic downturn.
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> How would you convince people that they aren't gambling when investing in stocks? Same way you convince them betting on the ponies is not gambling. If you pick a sure thing you're guaranteed to make money. All you need is a s
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It's because intelligent people understand the truth: the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent and in the long run we're all dead. There are no guarantees (other than maybe death and taxes). There's onl
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A few smaller guns used judiciously will achieve that purpose. You don't need everyone using a tank in a Mexican standoff just to have peace.
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Like a globe, but flat, and make sure angles stay accurate so you can still use a compass effectively.
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It's a widely observed phenomenon that as a country start to go south it moves to the right. This explains much of the current global political situation.
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by bregma 1y ago
Well, we use Linux dev machines but IT has loaded them up with enough panopticon software that several times a week for an hour or so I can not get enough CPU or resident RAM to do productive work. But at least there are no forced system re
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It's clear in the AST that there is undefined behaviour and it is malformed code. It is not valid C code, so what the compiler chooses to do with it is not defined by the language.
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That would only work if the phone system in El Salvador is operating.
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Not a single one of those images depict a single trash panda eating garbage, having babies in an attic, or defecating all over the house.

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