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by jgwil2 5y ago
Is this for getting the shrink wrap off of a new CD case? Because I can't imagine needing a tool otherwise.
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*there
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As actors, they've probably all spent a lot of time in Southern California or working with people from there, so it shouldn't be surprising that they would pick up some of the speech patterns.
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No one is claiming that it is rude to negotiate on salary. What people are claiming is rude is when companies allow candidates to go through a lengthy interviewing process when they already know that their budget doesn't align with t
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What's your favorite?
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> Part of it's that we had entire accents and styles of speech that were once common, that are now all but gone, a century or less later. Language is constantly changing, but it's only in the past 100 or so years that we'v
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That's assuming a lot of people aren't currently working bullshit jobs or things that we can't automate though. I suspect that if we have a real worker shortage we'll find there's a lot we can do without or do more
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by jgwil2 5y ago
Here's something very similar to that: https://www.aosabook.org/en/
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by jgwil2 5y ago
I think you might find this page useful: https://teachyourselfcs.com/
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The ocean's rarest mammal has a few final lessons to teach us(vox.com)
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> In-house servers would lead to an insane amount of outage. That might be true, but the effects of any given outage would be felt much less widely. If Disney has an outage, I can just find a movie on Netflix to watch instead. But now if
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Well, a pretty obvious objection to your reductio is that cabbage doesn't do any of that.
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Why is France so afraid of God?(theatlantic.com)
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Wisconsin Republicans Push to Take over the State’s Elections(nytimes.com)
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by jgwil2 5y ago
I agree. If I'm honest his writing style makes him seem like he has a somewhat abrasive personality and I do wonder if that might be a factor as well.
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The only way I was able to really feel like I understood regular expressions was implementing a regex engine myself.
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> But for longer works where the proof is decomposed into multiple lemmas and sub-lemmas, these can be very useful. Wouldn't they be better off as an actual table of contents though, rather than in paragraph form?
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No one is named, so how does this constitute a personal attack?
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This is how HTML renders by default - I guess it's an artifact of times when not everyone had a 2 foot wide screen. Fortunately many browsers/extensions can fix this for you with reader mode.
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As far as I understand, Esperanto would not be considered a pidgin as it's an artificial, designed language. Pidgins are natural languages that form in order to facilitate communication in multilingual environments.
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Hmm, I'm pretty sure that Europe has not opened its borders.
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We'd better hope not. If insects disappear civilization will not be far behind.
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OTOH personal computer usage exploded during that time period, so it seems like a lot more people are able to use a computer if it has easier to use (less interesting?) software.
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*heat sink Edit: why is this downvoted? This is a legitimately confusing mistake; people may think it has something to do with synchronization.
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Now it's not sorted so you're going to end up having to do a linear scan of the entire pile if you do this regularly.
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> Macron's Les Republicains got elected because voters liked his vow to get tough on unions and union pensions, and privatize more infrastructure, neither of which appears in Biden's campaign platform. This might be a valid poi
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> I'd not call it a characterization but a fact. It's a subjective, unquantified statement. It cannot possibly be called a fact. In any case the proof is in the pudding: children in the US who are born poor are highly likely to
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> But then again, our society is full of compassionate safety nets for such kids. That really depends on what you are referring to by "our society." If you're talking about the US, many would dispute that characterization.
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Good point. I believe primary sources are flat-out banned, which could explain why those links didn't cut the mustard.
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Ancient History Shows How We Can Create a More Equal World(nytimes.com)
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