frenchyatwork

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by frenchyatwork 5y ago
Decades are a better unit, but new decades only come once every 10 years. Units less than a year are problematic because of seasons. For example, you could say that July was the hottest month on record this year, and that wouldn't real
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by frenchyatwork 5y ago
Isn't victim culture (somewhat legitimately) a core part of the modern Chinese national spirit? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_of_humiliation
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by frenchyatwork 5y ago
As long as it's not clearly hateful, universities typically allow greater freedom of expression than you normally get in a commercial organization, because the ability to criticize the zeitgeist and common sense belief is critical to t
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by frenchyatwork 5y ago
I'm pretty sure it was a silly joke. "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche" (brioche is a light pastry bread) is unlikely to have actually been said by Mme Antoinette anyways.
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by frenchyatwork 6y ago
> Europe was home to the most horrific religious violence in human history. I'm not sure this is true. There has been a lot of horrific religious violence in human history, most of it hasn't been well documented. Even if it is
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by frenchyatwork 6y ago
> Also, somewhat ironic, but my willingness to "go to battle" for my family is far greater than my willingness to "go to battle" for anything before having a family I'd bet the "for my family" part is c
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by frenchyatwork 6y ago
> I think it's safe to fear unchecked power and those who are loyal to people instead of loyal to ideas For all its many failings, I think this is one of the benefits that religion (an particularly the form of religion popular in Eu
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by frenchyatwork 6y ago
I'm pretty sure this is intentional. Note how the article "a" is missing before "Medium", and the capitalization has been changed to sentence casing while retaining the upper-case on Medium.
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by frenchyatwork 6y ago
> It's more naive to treat the CCP like some kind of horrible boogeyman This is a valid point some of the time, but I don't think it really applies here. First off, the Wikipedia has had problems with censorship by various sta
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by frenchyatwork 6y ago
Having used both a fair bit, I don't know what you're talking about. If anything my experience has been the opposite. Gitlab had the second mover advantage on a few things, while Github's interface has some weird oddities tha
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by frenchyatwork 6y ago
It's naive to believe that Microsoft would stand up to the CPP and not the US government.
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by frenchyatwork 6y ago
> regulating this space of tech will only lead to less innovation You might be ultimately right about this, but you certainly haven't proved it. A common theme is a large company will use its leverage to make a product that is bette
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by frenchyatwork 6y ago
This is also interesting, because people (mostly my friends) also use Facebook as a tool to share pictures and other PII about me without my consent. In that regard, I don't know if there's a clear difference between Facebook and
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by frenchyatwork 6y ago
That's really over-selling it. WSL is okay. It's better than the previous monstrosities, but that's not saying much. You can't run VS Code in WSL, it literally has code to prevent you from doing that, even if you have a
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by frenchyatwork 6y ago
I think that calling ad-sharing "click-fraud" is a little ridiculous. I can understand why someone would call an extension like AdNauseam click-fraud, but this would presumably be people legitimately clicking on the ad.
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by frenchyatwork 6y ago
Not studies, but the geothermal active areas I've been to have stories of geysers/springs either coming out of nowhere, or disappearing. It's very rare, and mostly happens during earthquakes. I would imagine the same would ap
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by frenchyatwork 6y ago
This is a lot more complicated than renewables/unrenewables. For example, hydroelectric power is almost the exact opposite of this. Geothermal, on the other hand, gives you a stable energy source, until it doesn't. Also, the grid
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by frenchyatwork 6y ago
Another big problem with the App Store is that there are so many requirements (can't be too much like something Apple made, can't be too much like a web app) and these rules are inconsistently and arbitrarily applied.
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by frenchyatwork 6y ago
I think what the GP was getting at was that having a sizable population of people living within the de-facto boundaries of a state who are unable to vote (in this case, because they lack citizenship) makes it less democratic. That's a
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by frenchyatwork 6y ago
> Nowadays with the internet one does not need to be lonely even if they are away from society. How are you going to pay for the internet? If you want to operate with state currency, you need to abide by the rules of the state. Render un
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by frenchyatwork 6y ago
You're not entirely wrong, but looking at things this way will take you down the wrong path. The big question here is who decides what is right and wrong? Is it the author of JSHint? Is the the random dev tasked with adding a lintier t
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by frenchyatwork 6y ago
For what it's worth, I prefer Pelican, largely because I can write a plugin if I need, without incurring significant brain damage. I've written code in PHP, Ruby, and JavaScript before, it's just not my first choice.
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by frenchyatwork 6y ago
You're probably mostly concerned with the American experience, so this might be tangential to you. I grew up as a white ex-pat in a Philippines. While I don't think I ever tried to abuse it, but I could definitely get away with a
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by frenchyatwork 6y ago
> It's more selfish IMO to make yourself the arbiter of your unborn childrens' future This is a pretty bizarre statement. If you had a pet dog, would you consider it immoral to not provide that dog with a mate, so they could fl
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by frenchyatwork 6y ago
Timestamps are damn trivial. When people use dates, that's all they want 90% of the time. The remaining 10% is where all the hard problems are. For example, lets say I have a store that opens from 8:00-17:00 every day, and it's cu
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by frenchyatwork 6y ago
You would with a SPA as well. Edit: incidentally, a common way for this to work is that the documentation just comes with the software itself, so it's just sitting there on you computer. If the software updates, the documentation updat
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by frenchyatwork 6y ago
Oh, that was very much planned.
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by frenchyatwork 6y ago
> Honestly, I don't understand how can people be so severely misguided. Sounds like a good description of school administration to me. Creativity is critical to a good education, but it's also difficult to measure. Educators wa
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by frenchyatwork 6y ago
Sure, and it probably helps sell those things, but there are several differences between those to that makes them extremely different in practice. 1. There's limited space at the front of a brick and mortar store. It's not practic
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by frenchyatwork 6y ago
Peer reviewing is mostly orthogonal to journal publishing. Publishing in a journal generally requires a peer review, but there's no reason why you need a journal publication to get a peer review. Journals largely exist to manage presti

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