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by globular-toast 5d ago
I'm not defending anyone or engaging in this discussion any further. I'm merely pointing out that Stallman did not say what the commenter above said.
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by globular-toast 5d ago
Stallman ate his toenail once . It must have been 20 years ago at this point, get over it. And he did not say anyone was totally willing. He said the victims probably presented themselves as willing. Learn to read and stop attributing wo
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by globular-toast 5d ago
Never heard of this game. Looking it up on Wikipedia it seems to have decent but not outstanding reviews. Does it have some kind of cult following? Or this notable for some other reason?
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by globular-toast 5d ago
What problem is this trying to solve?
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by globular-toast 6d ago
How do you stop people speaking to you in your native language?
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by globular-toast 6d ago
Isn't DHH just not being nice?
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by globular-toast 6d ago
Where's the list for people who would compile and publish a list of people who believe things they don't believe and call them "weird little guys"?
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by globular-toast 6d ago
Yeah, these are different for me as a southern Englishman. Languages generally try to avoid glottal stops. French has a lovely system called liaison where a consonant sound will appear to separate two consecutive vowels. In English we lik
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by globular-toast 7d ago
I don't think it's really possible to learn a new language unless you have to. Sure, you can learn some words and grammar from books and games like Duolingo, but you'll never really learn the language if you don't use it
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by globular-toast 7d ago
I like the analogy, even if I find it a bit depressing. However, this caused me pause: > Instead of the most important question being “how to build this”, or “can we build this”, now the most important question is “what should we build”
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by globular-toast 8d ago
It's become a bit clichéd to say it but I think it's different this time. The kind of "piracy" you're talking about wasn't depriving the authors of anything because you could always make the argument you weren&
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by globular-toast 8d ago
Why are people not learning to write at school? In most developed countries don't we spend like a whole decade or more learning to do stuff like writing? Yet people still feel like they can't write? Writing is something we really,
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by globular-toast 8d ago
Yeah, I'm sticking to pre-2020 works from here on out. Not sure how I'll be able to read about current events, though.
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by globular-toast 8d ago
Well, exactly, but this lends credence to the numbers being somewhat accurate. If there were almost as many male centenarians then it could probably be attributed to bad record keeping.
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by globular-toast 8d ago
If it's all just fraud, why are 88% of them women? Is there any reason fraudsters would overwhelmingly claim for women?
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by globular-toast 8d ago
I had to double check the date. I even saw 2001 in the title but I still think of every post-2000 date as "fairly recent" so didn't make the connection to 9/11.
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by globular-toast 9d ago
Farenheit. So a little bit cooler than us.
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by globular-toast 9d ago
> Reduce also forces you to conjure up a "zero" value of the relevant type It's more accurately an identity. If you are multiplying the identity is 1. While I think most people are comfortable saying the sum of no elements
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by globular-toast 9d ago
Most programmers aren't comfortable with higher-order functions, in my experience. Map and filter are special cases that they may have learnt, but other less common cases they don't understand. Also, in many languages reduce is ho
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by globular-toast 11d ago
I would never do this normally, but when I walked the Camino Primitivo the guidebook contained other routes so was more than twice as big as it needed to. Weight matters so I tore out the bit I needed. I read most fiction these days on my K
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by globular-toast 12d ago
I thought this was going to be about the noise, pollution, danger, bullying etc. Ah, no, it's about things that annoy the person on the inside of the car. So if both the people outside and inside the car hate the things, why are we s
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by globular-toast 12d ago
Leather shoes are still disposable if you can't unstitch the sole. You need a Goodyear welted shoe if you want one that will last decades.
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by globular-toast 12d ago
Couple that with the fact almost everyone seems to run now, and that running shoes/trainers have become acceptable fashion in all but the haughtiest of occasions. In the 90s, running wasn't even really a thing. A few people went &
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by globular-toast 12d ago
Not really. Most stuff is sealed for life. So it's more replacing whole parts when they fail than changing the oil in something. But many bearings will last hundreds of thousands of miles and never need changing for the entire life of
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by globular-toast 13d ago
But if there is blame, pilots will never fly again. They don't receive a slap on the wrist and an "oh, you".
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by globular-toast 13d ago
> Engineering is about creating something that serves a purpose, while operating within a set of constraints. A builder fits that description. Even a cook fits that description. Engineering is something else. It's hard to describe w
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by globular-toast 13d ago
I'm hoping to get a mini-split system installed soon and thought I might as well look for something with HA integration. It's not easy. Some manufacturers like Samsung actually want to charge you monthly for cloud integration! Com
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by globular-toast 14d ago
Even if their rules say that I don't get why they are allowed to call the police. In this case it might have been an unregistered gun but if someone was carrying legally they can refuse service but they shouldn't be calling the po
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by globular-toast 14d ago
This is quite funny timing as just a few days ago my partner, who eats kiwis almost every day, tried eating the whole kiwi. She used to scoop it out but now says she'll never go back. It's also way more convenient as there are no
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by globular-toast 14d ago
I've noticed that delivery drivers are always racing around like their lives depend on it? Why do they do that? Because they are given workloads that are impossible to complete without racing. But what if it just didn't race? Thei

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