desert_boi

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by desert_boi 7y ago
YAML has shorthand for objects. https://blog.daemonl.com/2016/02/yaml.html if you're repeating them, there's always this option.
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by desert_boi 7y ago
How much immigration in Canada is undocumented/illegal (depending on your political persuasion)?
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by desert_boi 7y ago
Interestingly when I was encountering this myself recently, I discovered that JS finally blocks can return after a function has nominally already returned. Consider the following closure. (() => { try { // f
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by desert_boi 7y ago
Living in Boise's Downtown, I live next five lanes of traffic drive 35 or 40 mph on an asphalt road fortunately not chip sealed, like many of Idaho's roads. The revving engines are bad, but tire noise is easily 50 dB 15 meters off
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by desert_boi 7y ago
I meant the age of the trains themselves. Boston's Orange Line is rolling stock from the '79-'81. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Line_(MBTA)#Rolling_sto... . Boston's T (1897) is just a year yo
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by desert_boi 7y ago
I was surprised Budapest had a nicer Metro than Boston/NYC. The Orange Line in Boston is probably older than any of the lines in Budapest.
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by desert_boi 7y ago
There's some Typescript type stuff that can probably get close. https://stackoverflow.com/a/47914631/1924257 https://stackoverflow.com/a/53229857/1924257
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by desert_boi 7y ago
Good counter examples. Etymonline will break roots down for you. https://www.etymonline.com/word/unbalanced#etymonline_v_2490... Like most things in linguistics, the 'rules' are more a rule of thumb than the
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by desert_boi 7y ago
Since enormous is from Latin, stems tend to be Latin. `ness` generally only is morphologically productive with Germanic roots, kindness, happiness, etc. When I visited Iceland, I remember a sign in English that said a cliff was insafe [sic]
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by desert_boi 7y ago
Tactical Nihilism sounds a lot like solipsism. "We can't ever not make generalizations, so we shouldn't even try to make statements."
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by desert_boi 7y ago
Cost disease, i.e. things cost as much as they do because they always have. https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost...
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by desert_boi 7y ago
Boise's tech scene is still very Mormon. Lots of people commute in from the outer burb of Meridian to downtown. I work in downtown Boise, and my tech lead, middle manager, and his boss are all Mormon. I'm the only guy on my team t