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by firstlink 3y ago
It's always confused me why Wikipedia calls its UK language version "simple English".
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by firstlink 3y ago
And pills are like $0 per 100-200mg, so we know why the hospital didn't just use those.
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by firstlink 3y ago
This cop is either ignorant of history, or suicidal. Likewise his lawyer who recommended a 1A approach to litigation is an idiot. Writing tickets is not private speech.
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by firstlink 3y ago
> How are people getting their email address wrong so often? Invalid generalization from the process of signing up for email itself. When I sign up for Gmail, I choose an identifier I don't control (and computer says no if I get i
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by firstlink 3y ago
An aperiodic tile (a) admits a tiling (b) does not admit a periodic tiling.
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by firstlink 3y ago
I don't see the point of fail2ban on a server without password login, except to keep the log file tidy. That isn't worth risk of locking out legitimate users due to misconfiguration or user error. CMV.
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by firstlink 3y ago
You can buy and download audiobooks on audible. Stripping the drm (for personal archival purposes) is so easy I can only imagine it was made intentionally weak to capture a certain segment of the market.
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by firstlink 3y ago
https://archive.ph/aEDVt
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by firstlink 3y ago
> Daimler Trucks said the trench plate does not represent real-world driving. Holy shit, any automaker who says that needs to have all their vehicles banned from US roads immediately.
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by firstlink 3y ago
As some of us predicted, the government is aiming at making it illegal for too-rich individuals to withdraw from failing banks, thereby preventing runs. It's what every other country does.
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by firstlink 3y ago
Context: Ashley Williams has publicly stated a desire to "kill all men", and explicitly refused to walk that back, or clarify it as hyperbole, or apologize for the sentiment, when asked to do so. Acknowledging this historical fact
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by firstlink 3y ago
I wish the crablang people would make it a lot more clear how to contribute to crablang itself. Were I to make any future bugfixes etc. I'd prefer to submit them to crablang rather than deal with the other folks. As it's open sour
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by firstlink 3y ago
The author is engaging in severe self-delusion.
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by firstlink 3y ago
I wonder if the authors anticipated this result when publishing their first paper, or if they were primarily motivated by "complaints" that their hat tile (and other tiles in the associated spectrum) required reflection. Certainly
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by firstlink 3y ago
Why would a lisp gc need to be conservative, anyways? Unless we're talking about ffi or something.
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by firstlink 3y ago
If you had taken 2 seconds to look up the history of this, you would find that the person who was going to give the keynote already brought up these concerns with rust leadership and was cleared to talk on the topic anyways.
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by firstlink 3y ago
> Or are you mainly worried that the kind of natural vendorization that Nix provides will lead developers to only test their software on narrower and narrower ranges of version combinations? I guess, but I would not characterize it as a
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by firstlink 3y ago
> which was several times the mass of Earth's moon It strains intuition that this would even be observable, it's such a tiny fraction of the total mass of the star.
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by firstlink 3y ago
Looks like this was controller error, but I guess the Narrative doesn't permit news sites to report that any more after last year's incidents.
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by firstlink 3y ago
Okay, but what do the politicos say? Their opinion is the one which will drive decisions.
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by firstlink 3y ago
Every single one of your paragraphs only makes sense in the context of ignoring my reference to portage.
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by firstlink 3y ago
This made me realize I have two completely different emotional responses to criticism, even though both can be described as "upset": If I agree with the criticism, it makes me sad-upset because I let myself and others down; if I d
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by firstlink 3y ago
Because then men with guns come and politely explain why they don't like that. But, seriously, for the same reason as you can't stand up to absolute power in any other way.
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by firstlink 3y ago
Nix is solving the wrong problems, and I'm dismayed that it is being adopted more and more to solve those wrong problems. The very concept of a "development environment" is indicative of broken build systems. Ecosystems like
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by firstlink 3y ago
That's totally different, rock doesn't typify the outgroup.
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by firstlink 3y ago
> associated with the subpoenas received in March and April 2023. Oddly specific wording there. It would seem they have received additional subpoenas outside that timeframe which do have gag orders, and someone slipped up and failed to
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by firstlink 3y ago
> Rough guess based on the price of regular, high-end "in-the-ear-canal" hearing aids. This guess completely missed the point. Cochlear implants are not audio amplifiers like hearing aids are. They must convert sound into elect
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by firstlink 3y ago
> Google could try to hard-code their DNS servers in Chrome More relevantly, there's no reason they couldn't do the same before HTTP/3. Even with DNS traffic hijacking, they could just as well do DNS-over-TLS. Infiltrating
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by firstlink 3y ago
The article barely touches on it but the real threat isn't from the manufacturers producing newer and better processors, but rather from insurers/single payers not covering the cost of new processors. I deliberately use the word &
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by firstlink 3y ago
> families spend money (a lot of it - upwards $50,000 per ear iirc), only to be told later that they have to go through it all again You make it sound like the surgery is the expensive bit, but as you pointed out, the implant is very ba

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