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by goto11 4y ago
> Sounds like “hollywood” is finally fully corporate, devoid of any soul it once had. Perhaps, but then again people have been saying that about Hollywood since at least the 1930's. Hollywood has always been an industry aimed at mak
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by goto11 4y ago
If you take a classic which have stood the test of time and compare it to the current average, the classic will probably look better. But that is just survivorship bias because we have forgotten all the forgettable movies. If you look at th
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by goto11 4y ago
> forget about rain and/or tone down the epic action set piece, etc. But this is the stuff which make the movie cinematic and draws the audience. Hiring a stunt man which looks more like the lead might not be possible - historically
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by goto11 4y ago
> Stack overflow is caustic so you don't want to ask there. I have only positive experiences with asking on Stack Overflow. Nine times out of ten I have gotten a useful answer. In one case, an answer provided a 20-line code snippet,
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by goto11 4y ago
Because a relational database give you schemas, constraints and a query language out of the box.
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by goto11 4y ago
Do you also get uncomfortable when there are more cops in shows that there are on average in society?
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by goto11 4y ago
Presumably complaint by people who haven't read the comic?
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by goto11 4y ago
> Aztecs were burning incense around the conquistadors to hide their unpleasant body odor (documented) The article specifically mention that people tend to confuse medieval and early modern periods when it comes to things like this. But
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by goto11 4y ago
The author talks about roman soap in the comments.
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by goto11 4y ago
> The writer presents little numbers on prevalence. It is probably impossible to provide such numbers. The best we can do is study the sources, which suggest bathing was a common occurrence.
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by goto11 4y ago
Ironically, the depiction of the middle ages in Holy Grail is satirizing the popular misconceptions about the middle ages as a place of filth and stupidity. Terry Jones, the director of the movie, studied medieval history at Oxford before b
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by goto11 4y ago
A lot of animals use sand - rolls in it or throws it at themselves. I know it is not the same as soap, but it is an interesting parallel.
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by goto11 4y ago
JSON is not a programming language.
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by goto11 4y ago
A title-element is required for the HTML to be valid. It is the only required element AFAIK.
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by goto11 4y ago
Functional programming is at last mainstream. The most popular JavaScript frameworks React and Vue has adopted functional rather than OOP approaches. Before long we will see how functional programming fares when applied by average program
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by goto11 4y ago
It is not the job of the data protection agency to provide alternatives. That would lead to serious conflicts of interest.
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by goto11 4y ago
That misconfiguration is what triggered the investigation, but the investigation uncovered more severe problems, for example the municipality could not guarantee that private information was not transferred to unsafe countries. Google have
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by goto11 4y ago
The ruling is "the first in a series of cases regarding the use of Chromebooks and the G-suite for education". So likely this is just the beginning. There have been two rulings regarding this particular municipality. First, they w
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by goto11 4y ago
> These ideas were probably strongly influenced by lobbyists from the main IT service providers What is your evidence for that? It could be any privacy-conscious individual which have raised the issue to Datatilsynet. Believe it or nor,
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by goto11 4y ago
It is not really a question of how much you trust Google. The issue is that the US government is entitled access to all data hosted by US companies. This means data hosted by a US company is not safe according to GDPR.
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by goto11 4y ago
Sure, but beside the point. There are many historical examples of heavier-than-air flight (kites, gliders etc.), but without means of self-propulsion it is not very practically useful.
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by goto11 4y ago
> He certainly does not, or, if he says those words, he's being deliberately facetious. It's irony. That is Vonnegut for you. His point is of course that Shakespeare isn't a poor storyteller, so it must be the model whic
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by goto11 4y ago
> there is this underlying hypothesis that things that happen to the main chracter can be qualified as true or bad. Vonneguts point is actually the opposite: > In Hamlet, Shakespeare tells us we don’t know enough about life to know wh
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by goto11 4y ago
That is his point...
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by goto11 4y ago
This is even explained in the article. It is the "infographic" which entirely misrepresent his point. The title of the article is also rather misleading. It makes is sound like he thinks there is exactly 8 possible shapes, while h
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by goto11 4y ago
Vonnegut is not saying there are only 8 possible shapes, he is just graphing some examples.
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by goto11 4y ago
It is definitely not supposed to be taken at face value. He explicitly mentions that Hamlet cannot be graphed like this - it is too ambiguous whether the events are "good fortune" or "ill fortune". He concludes that &quo
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by goto11 4y ago
Probably because sustained heavier-than-air flight requires an engine. So same reason the car was not invented earlier - a coal-powered steam engine is too heavy.
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by goto11 4y ago
JavaScript have operators which are keywords, e.g. instanceof and void. "void(2 + 2)" is a valid expression
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by goto11 4y ago
Haskell is also based on an everything-is-an-expression syntax, but ended up re-inventing statements one level up, in the do-notation blocks. To me, this indicates there is some merit to the statement/expression distinction.

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