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by dghf 10y ago
Describing high-functioning autism as a "fad" which excuses those with it from having to "improve themselves" is both unpleasant and ignorant. Some autistic people have perfectly normal intelligence and language skills,
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by dghf 10y ago
"If you've met one person with autism, you've met one person with autism." -- Stephen Shore, professor of special education at Adelphi University and person with autism.
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by dghf 11y ago
> Regular maintenance work (maybe just sweeping dust off everything or fixing minor leaks etc.) might require complete shutdowns, as the magnetic fields and temperatures around the accelerator might be dangerous. Confirmed by http:&#x2F
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by dghf 11y ago
> So if you've made it to 150, you're "over the hump" (a long time ago), and then there's simply no limit to how long you can live. Even if we accept that life-extending and rejuvenating technologies will progres
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by dghf 11y ago
But wherein does that meaning lie? If the two strings represent the same text, you can't tell the difference between them, because there is none. (I guess technically you can't tell the difference between an ASCII string and a str
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by dghf 11y ago
Can you explain? UTF-8 was deliberately designed to be "backwards compatible" (for want of a better phrase) with ASCII. Absent a BOM mark, there is no way to tell the difference between a piece of ASCII text on the one hand and, o
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by dghf 11y ago
s/meaningful// Any ASCII text is ipso facto UTF-8 text.
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by dghf 11y ago
> note that the UK does not have (and never had) land-based nuclear weapons It did used to have US nuclear artillery under a dual-key arrangement, but admittedly those didn't have silos.
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by dghf 11y ago
But the reason why people don't want to see them affects the outcome. If it's (at least partly) from compassion for people reduced to such circumstances, hopefully the solution will go some way to improving their lot. But if it&
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by dghf 11y ago
Indeed. The men known to history as Julius Caesar, Octavian and Caligula all had the name Gaius Julius Caesar.
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by dghf 11y ago
Be wary of those "minor edits": one recruiter took it upon themselves to add to my CV the "fact" that I was an experienced Java programmer (I'm not a programmer of any sort, at least not professionally).
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by dghf 11y ago
I can't remember where, but I read there is a theory that English originated as a creole of Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse. The two languages had similar vocabulary (e.g. AS scirt -- modern English shirt -- vs ON skirt , both originall
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by dghf 11y ago
> The government owns all land until it is transferred/sold to a private owner. But surely the state government, rather than the federal government?
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by dghf 11y ago
Is it effective? What are the criteria by which one could judge? I lived half my life in England while the IRA was active, I have a friend who was in a building in London when the IRA threatened to blow it up (it wasn't an empty threa
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by dghf 11y ago
Well, that kind of depends on how you define merit. One could argue that someone who gets reasonable but not stellar grades in spite of bad parents, a deprived background, etc. displays more merit than someone from a privileged background w
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by dghf 11y ago
> The article claims minority (presumably non-Asian) enrollment drops 23% when AA is banned. The converse of this is that 23% of non-Asian minorities are only there due to affirmative action, and would not be there under a meritocratic s
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by dghf 11y ago
> Marriage is a strictly defined cultural phenomenon meaning a relationship between a man and a woman with the original intention to continue the family by having kids. So are you saying that when people marry in old age, it's not r
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by dghf 11y ago
> Most men in Britain got voting right at the same time as women. Not true: immediately before the Representation of the People Act 1918, approximately 60% of adult British men had the vote.
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by dghf 11y ago
> 1. Searching for literal text. Is there a way to avoid having to manually escape special characters? Put "set nomagic" in your .vimrc. This makes e.g. "." match a literal period/full-stop rather than any charac
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by dghf 11y ago
I have the opposite problem. When I'm writing stuff in MS Word at work, I'll often see a ":w" appear in the text when I automatically try to save the file Vim-style. Cream[0] is a configuration for Vim that makes it work
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by dghf 11y ago
Pressing `` (backtick twice) will jump you back to the place of your last edit -- unless you've explicitly set another mark in the meantime, in which case it'll send you there instead.
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by dghf 11y ago
I still don't fully understand how folds work (e.g., how can I get them in my JavaScript files by default?), and thus I find them difficult to work with, but when I can get them to work, I'm very glad of them. They make navigating
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by dghf 11y ago
I'm not 100% sure, but I believe formal American English is meant to be rigorous in treating organisations as singular rather than plural. Hence if the title was meant to refer to the present, it should have read "How the FBI Pre-
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by dghf 11y ago
"Shut up and calculate." -- Richard Feynman (attrib.)
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by dghf 11y ago
> Finally, I realized not even students were too invested. When my best friend visited my campus to give a talk, he observed one of my lectures. I've got many shortcomings as an academic, but lecturing isn't one of them. I&#x27
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by dghf 11y ago
[Replying to myself r/than frozbozz as I seem to have hit some kind of nesting limit.] > just that you seemed to be rebutting the wrong point It's more that I'm questioning the interpretation you've put on angdis&#x27
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by dghf 11y ago
In that case, and assuming (1) the correctness of angdis' contention that criminals are found not guilty more often than justice is served and (2) a conviction rate of at least two-thirds in the court system he/she is talking abou
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by dghf 11y ago
If your interpretation of angdis' comment is correct, I'm even more at a loss. What is wrong with people being found not guilty of one offence even though they've previously been convicted of others? In what way is it an exam
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by dghf 11y ago
Can you tell us how you know that some people found not guilty really were guilty? Was it a case of the jury thinking that the accused was more likely guilty than not, but there was still reasonable doubt? Or did the accused admit to an act
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by dghf 11y ago
Micro , his last novel, was utterly, truly dreadful. But it was posthumously completed by another author (Richard Preston, who wrote The Hot Zone, which I really enjoyed, in a freaked-out way), so I don't know where the blame should

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