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> We'll try everything, it seems, other than holding parents accountable for what their children consume. The way to keep kids from eating (yummy) lead-based paint chips was not holding parents accountable to what their kids ate, bu
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I've always found TDD frustrating, especially in its Red/Green expression. I find that my tests become too low-level, as I build up component by component. This hinders large-scale refactorings because my mental planning wants to
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The best case is a syllabary with how the word was pronounced a few years previous. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_syllabary > Around 1809, ... Sequoyah began work to create a writing system for the Cherokee
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Calling it a false positive is entirely in line with the historical use. Back in the 1980s or earlier it was called a "false drop". Knuth, for example, talks about it in "The Art of Computer programming", v3, section 6.5
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The "humans are fish" idea comes from cladistics. "Fish", if taken as a monophyletic term, includes land mammals because tetrapods are osteichthyans -- bony fish. In common use, "fish" is, however a paraphyleti
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From the article: > For example, the AI searches [purportedly related to DEI] flagged .... a film examining how the game of baseball was “instrumental in healing wounds caused by World War I and the 1980s economic standoff between the US
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Sounds like blockchain hype from 5 - 10 years ago. Eg, from 2021, "New Zealand businesses need to up their game and adopt a plan to embrace de-centralised technology or are at risk being left behind according to some leading Blockchain
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Another way to interpret it is they think it's secure against the British Government, and were asking for the same back door the US has.
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I assumed when you wrote "war being declared" you meant in Constitutional sense which reserves to Congress the power to declare war. Not in the metaphorical "war on poverty" sort of way. FWIW, examples in addition to Mad
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The US hasn't declared war since World War II. I suspect Mexicans would view it as another Pancho Villa Expedition, which was also event where neither side declared war.
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Do you have a reference for that account? I hadn't heard it before, and it doesn't sounds quite right. They certainly knew the Earth and Moon had craters, so proximity to the asteroid belt isn't required. I suspect they thoug
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The 20th century was a period of wild change. Someone born before the first powered airplane flight in their lifetime could have flown on a jet plane to Europe and watched the first moon landing live on TV. Vaccines put an end to endemic di
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Your interpretation of 18 U.S.C. § 2331(5) has drifted so much that you should be in a Fast&Furious movie. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer would be proud of you.
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The definition of terrorism is broad. > The definition in 18 U.S.C. § 2331(5) is broad: acts dangerous to human life that violate criminal law, with apparent intent to intimidate civilians or influence government policy, occurring primar
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It says "Those wishing to learn more about the Rust Coreutils efforts at the start of 2026 and their successes over 2025 can find the FOSDEM 2026 presentation assets -- the slide deck as well as the video recordings -- at FOSDEM.org&qu
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"Creator". Huh. Interesting word. If I have "Ajax" brand leather shoes sown by an East Asian sweatshop worker, who is the "creator" of the shoes, for purposes of benefiting from this system? We are agreed that
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Yes. That's why I don't think lokar's first point is relevant to 2b3a51's question.
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Do you think the statement 'Public universities are always underfunded' is relevant when asking how it is that Yale, a private university in the US, requires fees for photocopies of class materials, while in UK universities that a
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Except, Yale is a private university, not public, while very few universities in the UK are private ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Private_universities_... lists 8 and https://studying-in-uk.org&#x2
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How come you didn't hear about the protests that did occur when Bush, Obama, and Biden all worked to advance the war on immigrants? I did. I remember quite well when my primary news source, Democracy Now, referred to Obama as the &quot
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Zond 5, Zond 6, and Artemis I were lunar flybys. They were not in lunar orbit but rather were on a free return back to Earth, where at least part of the craft were recovered on the Earth with usable mission data. By your definition, they di
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I think an important outside revenue source they haven't tapped is sovereign wealth funds from countries that want to ensure there's a way for its citizens to use domestic web sites without depending on an opaque binary blob. Of c
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By that interpretation, I believe you also mean Mariner 10 did not go to Mercury and New Horizons did not go to Pluto, correct? Those were flybys. NASA uses to in that context: "The mission [by Mariner 10] was the last visit to Mercury
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_reserve > A strategic reserve can be ... A commodity, such as intervention stocks of food or petrol ... > Examples of commodity reserves: Global strategic petroleum reserve
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> used the family TV as a monitor (so no evening computing) I was allowed to program during ad breaks, typing in code I wrote out while the family was watching a show. :) I too remember the manual as being very well written. As I recall,
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My 40 year old memories are indeed faulty. Thanks for the correction! FWIW, I probably confused it with Commodore Basic, since part of me wanted to put a ",1" at the end of the load command.
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To save you either needed a cassette recorder, plugged into the machine with a special cable, then "SAVE CS1" and follow the instructions. (Start recording, the TI plays sound to the output port, which gets stored on tape. Use &qu
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My Dad was convinced by the marketing that its 16-bit CPU was the wave of the future, unlike those old-fashioned 8-bit CPUs. It had a smidge more than 4 games. I broke several joysticks playing TI Invaders, and my favorite was Parsec, which
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Agreed. Like "Just when it got cold and people needed it!" when I've never owned a car with remote start and somehow survived cold and snowy winters.
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Then there's James Watson who was given a Nobel prize medal twice. First by the Nobel Committee, and second by Alisher Usmanov, who had purchased the medal at an auction in order to give it back to Watson, who had put it up for auction

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