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I grew up in a family who couldn't afford coffee so we drank roasted barley for years. But then we moved to the US and my family became middle class. I'm fairly well-off now, but I'm not sure if I was advantaged by being an i
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And some of those programmers are quite lively for being in their 70s!
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I applied for a domain at nic.eu.org in 2023 and I have never gotten a response
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3y ago
Because they send controlled substances to the US and falsely label them as "supplements" I know, because I bought RX stuff from India and it did not get labelled as medication
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3y ago
So you don't somehow end up with mismatched curly braces? I might paste something, but mess up and forget to select one of the curly braces or select too many. I am seriously considering closing all of them on the same line in this sty
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I've never needed accurate fractions, except for one case where I should have stored the width and the height of the image as the original figures instead of trying to represent it as a fraction. But that's not a big issue, there&
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3y ago
If only it played well with Linux, but Mono is always playing catch-up
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I had a coworker who wrote return { ... } And JS helpfully inserted a semi-colon after return This is a feature you need to know about and you have to go out of your way not to get rekt by it
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3y ago
The @blah references were actually just Arc sugar
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@gc references were Arc under the hood!
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Just require it for public functions. Your own code can be as messy as you want unser the hood
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3y ago
I don't know why you think it implies reals. Most people would assume BigDecimal
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3y ago
Surely you jest, nobody writes a full shopping platform by themselves in a year, yet I read it and deleted all the old code that we didn't need.
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3y ago
PHP, so some of it was JS and some HTML
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3y ago
Yes, but they are categorized by phonetic mergers and splits. Once you understand which vowels tend to merge with each other (like the back vowels), it's not so hard
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The most difficult ones are Scottish and Irish English, but they split earlier with some sound changes happening in the south of England in the 1600s that didn't happen in the north. Standard Southern English and Standard American are
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Yes, but they are perfectly understandable. Compare to Chinese, where dialects that separated a few hundred years ago are not mutually intelligible. I mean like, different Hakka dialects that arose two hundred years ago are not understandab
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I've read every line of a 300,000 line web application in less than a year working at a company. I doubt I could write that many lines of code in that amount of time.
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3y ago
They are bitter, and not in a tasty way, but in an overpowering gross way
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3y ago
I would rather name it the 2020-27in-QHD-IPS-144Hz
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3y ago
So does it trade Bitcoin or something?
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A math major named this monitor: https://www.viewsonic.com/eu/products/sheet/VX2758-2KP-MHD
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https://www.apple.com/apple-tv-app/ Apple TV (app) gives access to Apple TV+ (streaming service)
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Yes, that's true for the average, but doesn't affect the median, which is basically exactly equal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_tax_levels_in_the_United... if you look at taxes, it depends on what kind
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There's still cleanup for Uber eats, unless you want splatters and garbage everywhere. I find unwrapping stuff and setting on the table takes time too. Looking for good restaurants also takes time, sometimes I start doing an order and
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To code from scratch you should first fab your own semiconductors
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Except for 70th percentile and below down to the 40th percentile
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No, insurance is against things that didn't happen yet that are out of your control. You can't just buy fire insurance when your house is burning down, so you shouldn't be able to have "electricity insurance" when y
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My dad has holes under the window for the water to roll off when you clean it. Those holes let in cold and hot air readily. He doesn't even wash the windows. It's a really bad design for what you're saying
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New York is the richest state by GDP per capita
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