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931.
by bregma 4y ago
No. The few who had their accounts frozen had them unfrozen within days. The freezing was done by the banks without instruction from the government other than the existing "supporting terrorism" laws on the books (it was done by t
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by bregma 4y ago
Suburbs are the places where what used to be productive farms are paved over with asphalt. Few cities rely on them for anything except maybe cheap labour.
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by bregma 4y ago
"BS" is the simplified American initialism for Baccalaureate Scientate. In most other English-speaking countries the acronym "B.Sc." is used. It's like the way they misspell "colour" and "labour"
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by bregma 4y ago
All my classes mattered. A few of them were even relevant to my later employment. Also, a lot of non-class activities mattered and some were even relevant to my later employment. I am not a job, I am a well-rounded human being with interest
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by bregma 4y ago
Weird that undefined behaviour is undefined. Undefined behaviour is no joke.
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by bregma 4y ago
The wants of the few outweigh the needs of the many. The most important want is that of the executive who can open the door of his office and gaze out at the sea of reportees and down-levels assigned under him in the corporate org chart. Af
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by bregma 4y ago
> Those rules are dumb, don't really reduce risk Yes, they reduce risk. They do not eliminate risk. If you're gambling on a "sure thing" or "have a system" it doesn't mean you're always going to be
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by bregma 4y ago
A witch! Burn her! Burn her!
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by bregma 4y ago
Maybe because ASCII is from the early 1960s and 7-segment displays didn't become widespread until 15 years or so later.
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by bregma 4y ago
Ah, Fred Brooks' Second System Syndrome.
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by bregma 4y ago
Something like std::nested_exception [0]? [0] https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/error/nested_exception
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by bregma 4y ago
A plane, like the Earth, with the sun appearing and disappearing over the edge.
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by bregma 4y ago
Mac OS is not at this time a POSIX operating system [0]. [0] http://get.posixcertified.ieee.org/register.html
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by bregma 4y ago
Big advantage for DWARF2 over frame pointers is that it actually works for unwinding on aarch64.
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by bregma 4y ago
> If C++ doesn’t come up with a good story real soon to deal with memory safety at the language level and deal with the mess of language complexity, it will be relegated to a legacy language. That's exactly the purpose of WG21 SG23,
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by bregma 4y ago
None of the popular C++ vendors implement C++ exceptions using setjmp/longjmp on any of the more (and very few of the less) common targets. Maintaining C++ language runtimes is a part of my day job and I am thankful they don't.
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by bregma 4y ago
Specifically, The C++ Programming Language standard ISO/IEC 14882:2011 18.10/4 [support.runtime] says this. > A setjmp/longjmp call pair has undefined behavior if replacing the setjmp and longjmp by catch and throw would i
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by bregma 4y ago
No, because they'll just rewrite them in the latest Rust.
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by bregma 4y ago
Since HIV infects T-cells, ramping up the T-cells to kill the T-cells will result in a higher viral load leading to an out-of-control spiral, and certain death. That's how HIV kills in the first place.
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by bregma 4y ago
There is nothing wrong with selling selling some portion or all of your flesh for profit. It's morally repugnant and unambiguously reprehensible to buy any of the flesh of another person. A market with only sellers and no buyers is ine
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by bregma 4y ago
It was dozens of Canadians, it was a transaction freeze by certain banks for a few days, and it was because there was a suspicion of contributing to terrorist organizations. It was not an action by the government and the freeze was lifted q
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by bregma 4y ago
Mostly what other people say about online recipes is that they made something else by substituting one or all ingredients and altering the method.
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by bregma 4y ago
That one hasn't been the same since newer editions took out the illustrated how-to-skin-a-squirrel entry.
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by bregma 4y ago
> I've just started a new job for an enterprise company. It is proving insanely hard getting in contact with folk. Myself having to introduce myself every-time. Trying to find someone to give me basic mentoring, even trying to under
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by bregma 4y ago
My mother has a bible from 1607 in a shoebox. Maybe the shoe box is kept in a plastic bag. The previous owner, her uncle, kept it on a bookshelf. They sure don't make them like they used to.
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by bregma 4y ago
It wasn't until I had to teach knots to Cub Scouts that I realized my life was a lie, at least when it came to tying shoes. I was the object of ridicule for 50 years but now I walk with confidence, and always-tied shoes.
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by bregma 4y ago
"Slamming" might be an exaggeration. The instructions were to hold it 3 inches above the desk and let it drop.
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by bregma 4y ago
The proprietary port was actually SCSI in a non-standard format. There were readily-available conversion boards. I had a self-build external hard drive case with a (20 MB?) SCSI hard drive that let me boot up my ST to MiNT and run the GNU d
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by bregma 4y ago
My only conclusion that wealthy Europeans enjoy watching their intimate friends and family eliminate personal waste. I have never encountered these odd bathrooms in North America or in less expensive accommodation anywhere.
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by bregma 4y ago
A recession is defined as three consecutive quarters of negative growth. A single quarter of negative growth doe not meet that definition. Even technically.

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