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by defen 2y ago
Would you rather have had this guy around you / your loved ones, or one of the people in the other groups I named?
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by defen 2y ago
I recognize a distinction between a premeditated direct intent to kill someone, and whatever it was this guy did. If you have different values then you might not.
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by defen 2y ago
> this guy is also about the most unsympathizable man in the country. There's no way that is true. It's only remotely possibly true if you're only talking about people who at least nominally obey the rules and laws of soci
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by defen 2y ago
I think the question is, how do you know C-reduce isn't going to mutate your test case into calling `remove("/path/to/my/important/file");`
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by defen 2y ago
Yeah, everyone knows that the real worst liquor ever is Ng Ka Py. Either they made it differently back then or John Steinbeck never actually drank it.
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by defen 2y ago
> Malort, White Monster, and C4 preworkout What do they call this cocktail? I suggest "Malörtal Kombat".
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by defen 2y ago
> See also the famous example of how a predictions market for when public figures will die is just an assassination market with extra steps. Why not just write it so that non-natural causes of death don't pay out? More generally, ma
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by defen 2y ago
It's Zig's equivalent of the newtype idiom: https://doc.rust-lang.org/rust-by-example/generics/new_types... for integers. The underscores mean that it's a non-exhaustive enum. An exhaustive enum is
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by defen 2y ago
> What are you even paying for? I have no idea! High-deductible plans give you access to HSAs, which are the "don't pay taxes" cheat code (you put in pre-tax money, it gets invested in the market and grows tax-free, and yo
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by defen 2y ago
My employer pays $3,575.49 per month for my HDHP ($12,000 deductible). Family of 3. It's Aetna, through one of the large small-business payroll providers. Are we getting ripped off?
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by defen 2y ago
Even with the misspellings it's obvious what words you meant. If someone forgets how to write "嚔" are they just missing a few strokes but it's obvious what they actually meant? Or do they have zero clue what it's su
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by defen 2y ago
They can make their own newspaper, or go on X or something, if they want to make their opinions known. He's not saying they can't voice their opinions, he's saying they can't use HIS platform to do it.
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by defen 2y ago
Maybe he's afraid Kamala Harris will champion an unrealized capital gains tax.
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by defen 2y ago
> The certainty of being caught is a vastly more powerful deterrent than the punishment That seems prima facie absurd, or in need of heavy qualification. Even if the probability of being caught is 100%, a sufficiently low punishment migh
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by defen 2y ago
The battery wasn't actually for sale; they just created fake product pages for it so that if anyone looked up the part number, it wouldn't be immediately obvious that it was fake.
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by defen 2y ago
One thing that's not clear from the article (perhaps it's explained in the book) is why the school had his marriage certificate on file. Since it listed his SS rank and the fact that he worked at a concentration camp, I'm ass
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by defen 2y ago
Just imagine if you'd invested that money in Domino's Pizza instead (the hungry investor strategy). You'd have like $350,000.
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by defen 2y ago
It's being reported on the AP's site at the bottom of this entry https://apnews.com/live/lebanon-syria-pagers-hezbollah-updat...
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by defen 2y ago
A completely separate domain is more secure because it's impossible to mess up. From the browser's point of view githubusercontent.com is completely unrelated to github.com, so there's literally nothing github could accidenta
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by defen 2y ago
Incidentally, this is why I don't use any Google products other than search. It's never clear to me which ones are real products that are trying to win and make money, and which ones are just fun side projects that a multibillion
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by defen 2y ago
Louis CK was talking about this in 2011 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la4VsJ4XZBk
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by defen 2y ago
> Except the boat's keel was found to be raised Can you explain what that means? Like...I vaguely know what a keel is, but what does it mean for it to be raised? Who raises it, and how, or what could have caused it to be raised? Wha
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by defen 2y ago
> Promotion is primarily seniority-based, and the company rewarded loyalty as much as, err, value creation. Because truckers don't "create value" the same way that software engineers do. If you had a company of 100 of the
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by defen 2y ago
> “what is your golf handicap” was one I got. Did you say you were going to the US to play golf or is this a reference to the debate?
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by defen 2y ago
Very little of the backend appears to be implemented currently.
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by defen 2y ago
System header search paths are only implemented on Linux currently. You should be able to parse sqlite3.c on Linux with arocc -fsyntax-only -Wno-unknown-attributes sqlite3.c
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by defen 2y ago
The Zig self-hosted x86 backend is nearly complete (and is already capable of building the Zig compiler itself). So it's part of the path toward not needing LLVM or clang at all.
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by defen 2y ago
To be fair, I've also seen actual NFL teams win way too many Super Bowls after drafting Tom Brady in the sixth round.
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by defen 2y ago
I can't help but think of this classic Arrested Development scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idqG3thKtpU
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by defen 2y ago
> It seems from the article that odds of survival approximately double in the cited data. What are the actual numbers for the 2 different odds of survival you're comparing here?

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