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IMO, breaking an established API with no reliable way to work around it is very bad. I have been bitten by this, and only now understand why. I will probably switch to Firefox.
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> It just allows the instruments to mimic the movements of your hands So it's more of a waldo[1] than a robot. [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_manipulator
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I use privacy.com to generate merchant or burner cards. Funds come out your bank a/c, and Chrome integration makes it seconds to generate a card and fill out the details in the web page. And the card is locked to the merchant if it&#x2
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Nitpick: my word was "corrupt", not "corrupted".
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Why not call it an audition? Until we have established a name (track record) for ourselves, and/or have a number of respected people vouch for us, we are called on to demonstrate our skills, just as musicians and actors are. In princip
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> these clauses preventing class action lawsuits seem baseless to me. I'd go even further and say corrupt and evil. Yet these baseless clauses have been around long before the modern GOP, so while I agree with your sentiment, I&#x27
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> Today, it is hard to open up a checking account, rent a car, get cable service or check a loved one into a nursing home without agreeing to mandatory arbitration. This is the part that gives me ulcers, and it's no exaggeration. So
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> The only really satisfactory conclusion is that we’re the first or only civilization to approach a BvN launch. Not the only one. There may well be an armada of these probes on their way, but so far away in one of the billions of galaxi
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Something to consider is that the universe is 13-odd billion years old, and from our perspective, the edge of the observable universe is about 46 billion light years away. At interstellar distances, it is very difficult to detect something
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I may have missed seeing a mention of the work done by Dr. Michael Merzenich[1], professor emeritus at UCSF and an expert on neuroplasticity, who has been showing for many years that mental (and physical) exercises can and do remap parts of
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Sorry, but this article has nothing to do with AWK other than mentioning its name. AWK is a pattern-action, implied-loop text processing scripting language that supports user-defined functions and interaction with the OS via pipes and syste
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> I'll write these articles in an authoritative voice, because a text that constantly moderates and qualifies its assertions easily becomes unreadable. Don't consider the tone an indication that I'm certain that I'm r
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I use tmux regularly, especially on headless servers to which I am SSHing over an unreliable channel (meaning any given SSH app on my iPad that is likely to time out if I switch away from it for too long, or the Doctor's assistant call
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This has to be one of the most vile, appalling stories about the widespread abuse of power on the weak and helpless for monetary gain. The perpetrators have as much mercy and empathy for their victims as animal predators have for their prey
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Some people criticized Holocaust survivors for not resisting (I am not equating you with such critics, btw). They didn't realize that initially, the victims were hoodwinked into thinking they were being relocated, and when they learned
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You make your points persuasively and elegantly, and I agree with you for the most part. I think much of what is diagnosed as depression in recent times may be a synonym for despair at these times (echoing Cicero : "O tempora! O mores!
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Although this is interesting, we should perhaps not hold a high degree of confidence in the results, because the methodology relies on the content of commit messages and the number of commits (if I read this correctly). - The content of com
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Scientists Just Made the First Quantum-Encrypted International Video Call(sciencealert.com)
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So you are hoping there will be an ELE for the human species? Because that's the only way your prescription is going to cure the problem on a global basis for the foreseeable future.
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I don't know. Depression has been recorded for thousands of years, so either society has always been insane (quite likely), in which case it's not likely to turn around any time soon, or there are other causes of depression. Some
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> But is this something you can tell people that are seriously depressed or is it just another useless bit of advice? From my point of view, it's not useful advice, partly because severe depression utterly saps the motivation to do
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This would be an entertaining comment when read by a C programmer: // Overly clever way of saying: increment `currentChunk` then use the incremented value this.chunks[++currentChunk] = [] Pre- and post-increment opera
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Supported on virtually every OS and embedded platform in existence.
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> - Never buy a new car. They're for chumps. > - Never lease a new car. That's for the biggest chumps. Disagree on the leasing if you have your own company. The lease payments are all interest and deductible from your income
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This. Seen the same thing in 3 startups. Add me to the anecdata. It would be awesome if we could get statistically significant numbers of people to report on this effect, although how to avoid selection bias etc. is beyond me atm.
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> but before that you have to go through several iterations of failure with a bunch of costly entitled developers before you get something which sort of approximates what you wanted and is so internally broken its almost impossible to ex
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It's the only advancement where making a million copies of an item takes a few minutes and no raw material. Try that with tools, livestock and machines. Or anything physical.
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This is what I'm finding too. I'm suffering from what I suppose one could call "issue fatigue" (or perhaps "drama fatigue"). This characterization is not pejorative[0], it's just that inarguably real and s
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Not to mention that many remote server environments may not even have X installed, or graphics cards, for that matter. I started using vi for much the same reason you did, having to troubleshoot via ssh (and telnet before that) in many vari
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UPDATE: I was helped out by a very nice person from PyPI, so kudos to them.

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