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by fnord123 6y ago
This will break other tests because there is no logic here for reverting SomeClass back to it's previous behaviour. Use the patch function as a decorator or as a context.
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by fnord123 6y ago
> To answer your reductio ad absurdum more directly, if you’re doing something that doesn’t work, it doesn’t make sense to keep doing it. Getting into your car doesn't get you to work in the morning. Why do it? Because it's a p
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by fnord123 6y ago
> This comment is based on an assumption that the regulation actually achieved beneficial privacy outcomes. followed by > [list of benefits to privacy and one that maybe needs more work] stay salty.
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by fnord123 6y ago
Requirements that data must be handled in a certain way is akin to requirements that electronics have no lead in them and that cars emit only a certain amount of toxic fumes and that cattle aren't addled with too much HGH. If you see n
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by fnord123 6y ago
AIUI, Huey was murdered by someone in a crack gang. The CIA was fuelling the crack epidemic. I don't know how much tin foil it involves, but it seems plausible that the CIA used black on black crime to make sure no one cared about the
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by fnord123 6y ago
Peruse the incomplete list here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assassinations >but we’d really see a true shift in power when the mafia does it in broad daylight similar to the Khashoggi situation. Why is th
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by fnord123 6y ago
RAII is a delight when it comes to local heap memory. However, if you want to pair fclose with a fopen call then you need to wrap fopen in a type and make the destructor call fclose. This is totally fine and I like it a lot in C++ and Rust,
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by fnord123 6y ago
So. Farewell Then Codemasters - Inventor of Colin McRae Rally - For a time You kept Colin's Spirit alive. - Alas under EA No studio Shall survive. - please don't hurt me, EJ Thribb
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by fnord123 6y ago
Those stats also do not indicate how much the agricultural land is being used to grow animal feed. In fact if a crop is grown but inadequate quality for selling for humans, it is sold at a massive discount as animal feed. Reducing the varia
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by fnord123 6y ago
There's also the mobile phone effect. The dopamine treadmill has stopped people from going out and murdering.
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by fnord123 6y ago
You forgot "and everyone clapped".
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by fnord123 6y ago
But it comes from observing what the Linux community did and giving it a name. It wasn't an ivory tower meditation but a field observation. I don't know how one can then turn around and say that it is not how the model works. Was
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by fnord123 6y ago
The US also has concentration camps.
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by fnord123 6y ago
China also has concentration camps.
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by fnord123 6y ago
Statutory Maternity/Paternal/Parental leave. No 'fire for no reason' laws (i.e. laws against the Orwellian double speak "at will" employment). Anti-no-compete laws (this exists in California).
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by fnord123 6y ago
>I think unpaid internship is unquestionably a good thing. Unpaid internships are definitely questioned. You're very much incorrect here.
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by fnord123 6y ago
> However, the "bazaar" is also a bit of a myth in this regard. I'm not really aware of any open source projects where I can go submit a PR without talking to anybody and have the expectation that it'll be merged with
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by fnord123 6y ago
I'm not the boss of you. If you want to spend 60 USD on a program that is mostly built into Finder and Nautilus, fill your boots.
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by fnord123 6y ago
Works on non-Windows. ripgrep is notoriously fast. Command line interface. Not comically priced at 59.95 USD.
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by fnord123 6y ago
Forest City, North Carolina; Altoona, Iowa; Fort Worth, Texas; Los Lunas, New Mexico; Clonee, Ireland; Lulea, Sweden; and Odense, Denmark
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by fnord123 6y ago
> Murica. Everything has sugar in it. > That's super reductionist... [list of American foods (or foods that aren't american but are extremely popular there, as in ketchup) with sugar added to it] You didn't do much to d
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by fnord123 6y ago
They also don't brine the fries in sugar afaik.
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by fnord123 6y ago
It was written (or, published) in May. The zeitgeist was very much Corona without the fatigue we have now.
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by fnord123 6y ago
There are a lot of interesting parts of economics and a lot of important measurements but indeed the story telling surrounding it is too loose. I think the relationship between astrology and astronomy is appropriate: Tycho Brahe and Johanne
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by fnord123 6y ago
This essays comes across as a kind of trap that is oft seen regarding people who support changing a system: 1. If you benefit from the system, you are accused of being an idiot and/or hypocrite to support changing the system. 2. If you
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by fnord123 6y ago
They do advocate wealth redistribution: redistributing it to the wealthy.
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by fnord123 6y ago
Looks awesome. Jira's shit performance is a real killer.
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by fnord123 6y ago
Do you use some tooling to make it work efficiently? Every time I use ansible I'm stuck in the mud for days.
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by fnord123 6y ago
Skija (the graphics library in TFA) is in the JetBrains organiation... https://github.com/JetBrains/skija/
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by fnord123 6y ago
afaics a write behind strategy means you will report a write as being complete before it has actually been written. This can result in terrific performance because your batching window is larger and you can amortize more (fewer?) iops. But

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