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Jackie Chan has been a CCP sockpuppet for a long time now. Then again his alternative might have been "vanishing for tax evasion".
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> having less and less nuclear weapons Disarmament didn't work out so well for Ukraine...
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"The stone age did not end for a lack of stone, and the oil age will end long before the world runs out of oil." S. Yamani
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What's the electronic music scene like?
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How concerned are the locals about the potential of getting "harmonized" by mainland China? I wouldn't want to be there if that goes down.
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@honest_update: We replaced our monolith with micro services so that every outage could be more like a murder mystery.
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Director had depth and power, while Flash was very accessible to illustrator/designer types. That era saw some amazing net.art demoscene type pieces that have no modern equivalent (Joshua Davis / flight404 etc). Haiku.ai is doing
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Shockwave was generated by Macromedia Director (the spiritual precursor to Flash) and had a lovely IDE with a fantastic debugger and excellent 3D, video and audio support. You could make "proper" games in it, I once hooked it up t
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I find it fascinating that many Asian cultures do not distinguish between Blue and Green, including their traffic signals [0]. And color symbology varies between cultures [1]. There are also interesting parallels between the color wheel and
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The most emotionally intense moment I've ever experienced in a video game (and I've played a lot of video games) was crossing the border into Mexico in Red Dead Revolver. The hairs on my arms stood on end. The YouTube clip [0] doe
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> why some people seem so impossibly warm Not to be confused with the manipulative charisma of a narcissist, these peeps are just a little bowl of Californian sunshine. I'm always downlow super jealous because as far as I can tell
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It's almost as if we're a bunch of barely evolved primates jockeying over money, power and status for a limited pool of breeding partners and resources. Of course I realized long ago that I'm above such petty concerns.
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"Playgrounds hung in space, castles hermetically sealed, the rarest rots of old Europa, dead men sealed in little boxes, magic out of China..."
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vimwiki is great, but $DEITY forgive me I started using OneNote so I can paste in screenshots and now I can't give it up. Too bad it doesn't support vim keybinds. I tried spacemacs/org/gtd for a while but there was too m
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Thanks for the thoughtful response. I think this comes down to low ceremony (move fast but easy to make a mess) vs high ceremony (upfront cost when adding features but high safety). I'll check out Warp and Yesod, although tbh the next
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Honest engagement. > literally any modern web framework in a static language I was part of a SaaS startup using Java Spring and the verbosity and front-loaded design costs slowed our iteration enough that we couldn't respond to ma
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So. What is your suggested alternative stack for rapid MVP prototyping? Personally I'm fascinated with Clojure but it doesn't yet have the ecosystem (for me as a Clojure noob) to easily punch out product prototypes. Likewise I&#x
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Special economic zones like Shenzhen (Silicon Valleys) vs rural dirt farmers. It's a command and control capitalist system, a weird inversion of the free market economy. A different lens to view this through is Deng Xiaoping used SEZ t
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Ludicrous gibs!
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The debugging and problem solving skills will stay with you for life.
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The reason I never give fb my mobile is if you use a pseudonym account, it will suggest your profile as a friend to anyone who has your mobile in their phone contact list (eg ex-partners, stalkers, employers, drug dealers). Found that one o
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In my country we used to have bi-annual hard rubbish days where people would leave out old unwanted furniture to be collected by local council. When I had little money and no car, I could walk around the neighbourhood and drag home slightly
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Facial expression recognition. I was talking with one big data analysis vendor who claimed they installed expression recognition software outside toilet stalls in the Dubai airport. If you exited the khazi with a disgusted expression, the s
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The Skinner by Neal Asher includes a protagonist who is blackmailed to act as an agent of a hornet hive mind for the crime of squishing a hornet.
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If a pro tennis player declined to play in mixed doubles to shield their spouse from paparazzi gossip, would you call them sexist?
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Did you evaluate Jekyll or Hugo for your use case?
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> "you can't just ... declare Helvetica to be the objectively best font." You, sir, are a scoundrel and a heretic.
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My impression was more "All models are wrong, therefore all models are valid". Some models are less wrong! It seems to me that the postmodernism movement correctly called attention to social models being somewhat arbitrary and pow
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I was forced to take a unit of postmodernism as part of my studies and came away no wiser as to what postmodernism actually is. There was a bunch of dense, impenetrable academic word games that seemed to be asserting that all truth is cultu
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The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two(en.wikipedia.org)
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