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by faut_reflechir 1y ago
The potential source of error is the assumption that the president has the authority to stop a prosecution (short of the pardon power). I say "potential" because a "unitary executive" advocate would claim this is true, a
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by faut_reflechir 1y ago
it's two different languages
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by faut_reflechir 2y ago
Thanks for posting this. Decision with the dissent is here: https://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/rod/docs/pdf/0/2024/2024-O... I don't ever recall reading such an angry dissent, even in more polit
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by faut_reflechir 2y ago
It's a deliciously insulting amount because it's not quite enough for a meal on Uber Eats.
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by faut_reflechir 2y ago
having `git bisect run` do the thinking for you is incredible when it works
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by faut_reflechir 3y ago
yes, it seems clear to me that there is much less dialect variation in the US, outside very rural areas, than there was 30 years ago. Even then, the adults had much more variation than the kids.
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Google Search erroneously showing safe air quality in areas with low air quality
2 points by faut_reflechir 3y ago|3 comments
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by faut_reflechir 4y ago
I appreciate the polemical framing -- not many people are comfortable taking the "wrong" side of this issue publicly and it's easy to preach purity when you have a nine-to-five. I think, though, that even if you grant that sp
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by faut_reflechir 4y ago
Factoid: "snuck" and "drug" have in common that the irregular conjugation is the non-standard one, but are different in that "snuck" is a neologism of the 19th century whereas "drug" is in fact the ol
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by faut_reflechir 4y ago
Conferences are good because travel can be fun in any job, and because it means you are talking to other specialists in your subfield instead of your normal colleagues. Sabbaticals are good because time off from the tedious parts of work is
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by faut_reflechir 4y ago
I dev on a System76 Pangolin running Pop! OS. My only complaint is that there's no Ubuntu terminal that I like as much as iTerm.
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by faut_reflechir 4y ago
> If you agree with an idea X that Bob said, say “I agree with the idea X”, don’t say “I agree with Bob”. The former states your advocacy; the latter is dividing the group into teams. Not sure I agree with this one. The problem with the
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by faut_reflechir 5y ago
This is a well-known bit of bridge strategic folklore: if your opponents never make doubled contracts, you don't double enough.
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by faut_reflechir 5y ago
I don't love how Black doesn't let you put some clarificatory parentheses -- for instance, they get wiped from `eq_balanced = (left_hand_side == right_hand_side)` But the benefits of never wasting time on discussing inanity outwei
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by faut_reflechir 5y ago
Initially voted Google based on a hunch: Google Search is the most likely flagship product of a FAANG to get displaced by a competitor. Unlike, say, Amazon as a hub for products or Facebook as a social network, Google Search is not a natura
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by faut_reflechir 5y ago
I use it for computing integrals / solving ODEs when I don't have access to one of the CAS's I know how to use. It's nice to get a quick answer and not have to remember syntax, since I only have this problem about once e
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by faut_reflechir 5y ago
I did the tax forms myself when living abroad, precisely because I didn't earn enough income to afford the $1000 cost (in fact, it was perhaps twice this, in Switzerland, based on my cursory Googling at the time). It routinely took ove
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by faut_reflechir 5y ago
It's not his most artful turn of phrase, but if you read the context of the remarks, I think Safai is saying "we can't continue to let them close" as in "we can't continue to allow these conditions which are fo
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by faut_reflechir 5y ago
it is standard french pronunciation and he is providing a useful english guide