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by jaza 4y ago
Can't think of any reason why this got downvoted, except that clearly the ReAnguVue mafia is omnipresent these days. Vanilla JS (and even that in moderation) FTW.
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Nope. Spanish dialects vary mainly by consonant sounds, for example, the lisped ("fervefa") vs non-lisped ("servesa") sound in words like "cerveza", and the standard ("yamas") vs Argentine ("sham
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I feel like I've got a pretty robust filter built in to my brain. I've never felt the need for ad blockers, my ignoring of (Google, Facebook, YouTube, in-site, TV, radio, etc) ads is so instinctive, it's like I literally don&
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First step is for the combatants to agree on whether they do their killin' before or after breakfast.
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And that would explain the difference in the number of people who have studied basic arithmetic, versus, for example, number theory.
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I'm also curious. Sadly, unless I hear otherwise, I assume that the answer is no.
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Agreed. My standard is to pad with 12 spaces, eg: SELECT foo FROM bar Which allows room for everything I commonly use, including INNER JOIN.
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by jaza 4y ago
Agreed. Don't bother trying to make Windows give Linux the time of day (pun totally intended), it never works, that's probably by design. Just give up and make Linux accommodate the Windows style system clock, has almost no issues
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by jaza 4y ago
Yes, Teams sucks. But (from my anecdotal observations) it's pretty popular. And in my opinion that's mainly because many companies decide: "meh, it's good enough, and it's easier (for accounting dept) and safer (for
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> Awk, as created by Alfred Aho, Peter J. Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan (who drew on their initials to create the name of the utility) TIL
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That's what I did: https://greenash.net.au/thoughts/2022/03/email-based-comment...
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By God I loved SimCity 2000 as a kid. Did anyone else build a "hydro mountain" in every city (basically a pyramid covered in water, to which you could keep adding hydro power plants as the city grew, was all the electricity you ev
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by jaza 4y ago
> Fun fact: Officially, there is no such place as "London". ;) Errr, yes there is. The City of London officially exists. The London postal district officially exists. The Greater London administrative area officially exists.
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Live fast, die young.
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Yes! And we're still friends.
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A former boss of mine, who was an extremely hands-off manager, and who was cynical and black-humoured about everything, said (only half tongue-in-cheek) that he didn't do Agile, he preferred the JFDI (Just F*** Do It) methodology. So I
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It quacks like a sarcophagus.
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The closest equivalent to that today, in most white-collar roles at least, is contracting. Usually not a physical walk-on hire anymore, but it is often quite a quick process (sometimes as little as a few hours), from "I need a worker&q
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by jaza 4y ago
We could make it the catalyst for a whole new vocabulary. Yesterman. Yesterland. Yesterlore. Yestergames. Yesterfood. Yestersex. Yesterlife. Yesterdeath. Yesterdog. Yestercow. Yestertech. Yesterworld. Or not.
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> Netlify just ejected all of the free plan users who work off GitHub. First I've heard of such news. What does that mean? Link please?
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I once worked on a large app that had always tried to support translation, but that had never actually been used by clients (after more than a decade running in production) in a language other than English. Well, what do you know, after all
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by jaza 4y ago
The English language has 100,000+ words. Most native speakers know less than 10% of them. You'll probably be less, not more, easily understood, if every time your instinct is to use "very", you replace it with a hyper-specifi
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anniversary - very = annisar
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"Lightning fast" is probably the most-recognised expression for "very fast" in English too. Not sure that there's an obvious candidate for "very big". And we have "stinking rich" and "dirt p
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by jaza 4y ago
"You mean we're all being sent to a gulag tomorrow? We'll be traversing a vast nothingness for months on end starting tomorrow? We'll be witnessing horrific environmental catastrophes that nobody knows about because they
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by jaza 4y ago
To stay true to the theme of being 90s-inspired, the office suite will have to include: Serenity Works!
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That's basically the case here in Australia (I live in Sydney, I believe the standard is about the same in other cities). My train line has been completely closed for the past week, for "routine trackwork" (and it's not
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by jaza 4y ago
While in synagogue on Yom Kippur a few days ago, I noticed (for the first time) that the "song of the day" in the Machzor (prayer book just for Yom Kippur) only has options for Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday. And it mad
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Pan-Jewish changes to Halakha (orthodox law) are still theoretically possible. The last significant such occurrence was the ban on polygamy in Judaism about a millennium ago. It's just a question of how many rabbis, across how many str
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German rail not known for its reliability... really?! Perhaps not in Germany. But in most other countries, German rail is perceived to be very reliable. And compared to rail in most other countries, German rail is very reliable!

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