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by jlg23 9y ago
Where was the "disrespectful" behaviour?
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by jlg23 9y ago
I am amazed by the negativity in the comments. China is a very specific environment with its own rules - just like the US or Europe. There you need to maintain good relations with the party, in the western world it is government officials (
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by jlg23 9y ago
Well, looks my memory got corrupted over the last 2 decades: apparently not the correct number. Anyway: You had to specify purpose once and provide an allocation plan for the periods I mentioned above.
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by jlg23 9y ago
> They've really cracked down on IP allocation since the days of giving companies entire /8s [...] You did not have to be a company, your estimates of how many of the IPs you request you'll plan to use right away, after on
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by jlg23 9y ago
> They seem dense and dry. I consider that a feature. I loathe wasting my time by having to dig through layers of prose to get some fact. But they are probably not suitable as a tutorial, they only make sense when you already know relati
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by jlg23 9y ago
Side note: I only got a vaccination in Germany 3 years ago because I was going to a high risk area for several months. "It is treatable, so we do not vaccinate for a mere 2 week holiday." There was an actual shortage of vaccine be
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by jlg23 9y ago
If you look at it in just the right scale: definitely. The problem is to find the exact spot to look at. Even today, geo-exploration is mostly a joke: drill where experience tells us to. New hotness: Have AI do inference from formalized exp
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by jlg23 9y ago
Because: * in open source software projects, professional designers are rare. * functionality or documentation might have been higher priorities * it would be unfair to deprive you of the opportunity to contribute a better design to this o
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by jlg23 9y ago
> we no longer expect everyone to sew their own clothes or bake their own bread - why do we still demand that everyone cook for themselves And yet a lot of cultures do expect you to know basic sewing (eg reattaching a button is expecte
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by jlg23 9y ago
Not sure which cut you watched, it does have a happy ending for the protagonist. He enjoys Beethoven again. EDIT: A friend who read the book initially just said it was not happy, but agreed it is when you only know the movie.
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by jlg23 9y ago
Nobody said they never did. I personally am thrilled by: * It works reliably enough to be useful in the most extreme inhabitated environments. (And this habitation is artificial and very expensive) * The logistics behind the experimental
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by jlg23 9y ago
> something you won't find in any European high speed road without deflectors that will make vehicles not crash against concrete. You find those on the German highway between Berlin and Poland, for example. > From my point of vie
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by jlg23 9y ago
s/he just did ask that question.
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by jlg23 9y ago
> I can throw paint on a canvas. But you did not throw the paint in a context that turned it into a statement. In fact, you did not at all. That's the point. There was some artwork created before I was born: An artist made a stateme
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by jlg23 9y ago
No, not at all. You only get to feel the low frequencies anyway, which is why infrasonic speakers are nowadays a standard for electronic music venues. You then sync those with audible output and people think they "feel" the music.
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by jlg23 9y ago
"less politics" - and shouldn't you start by justifying your recommendation?
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by jlg23 9y ago
One can also assume that any competent replacement for the "checkyoursudo who was hit by a bus" is able to log into machine after a reboot. I rather rely on beginner level sysop skills than on management understanding the implicat
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by jlg23 9y ago
WP touches this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blender_(software)#Use_in_the_...
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I saw aid for starving people spent on staff salaries through inept planning(theguardian.com)
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by jlg23 9y ago
"And not to drive any faster than possible under the assumption that someone will cross the road in camouflage at night."
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by jlg23 9y ago
LtU is a pretty good resource on all things programming language: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/
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by jlg23 9y ago
> it should be a civil offense to frivolously report child endangerment based only on the fact that children are unsupervised. So when I see children alone and think they might be lost, what do I do? Trust the runaways who tell me that a
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by jlg23 9y ago
> Honestly I think ease of use of a library is way more important than implementation elegance. How many people are ever going to look at your libraries source code? Poor idiots like me who get hired to help get the hard, last 10% done.
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by jlg23 9y ago
I am not sure I want: * HTTP-requests done in constructors * Assertion classes that wrap objects of interest which in turn must be extracted from their wrapper * Specific methods that assert that one very specific attribute has an equally s
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by jlg23 9y ago
The creation of educational institutions and accessible healthcare is part of probably every investment deal in large parts if Africa. The question seems to be wether those deals are crafted with both parties on eye level or wether they are
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by jlg23 9y ago
If there's one thing I've learned from travelling the world: There are contract killers and they can be had for very little money. Where I currently live you could get away with murder for 1 to 10k - depending on who you know. The
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by jlg23 9y ago
How comes a 7 hour old, now closed, bug report on some dead simple bridging tech that abuses tags in their SCM is news?
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by jlg23 9y ago
I enjoyed Civ4 most because of the detailed fight stats/info before you attack. Civ5 brought some significant changes to the gameplay but you are in the great position to make an unbiased choice. I loathe it (playing since the first re
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by jlg23 9y ago
"Running all over the city" sounds like a rather good thing wrt health. And why would anyone be bothered by others seeing flying emojis if the chose to?
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by jlg23 9y ago
Learning to program is not mastering a new language. A good programmer can wrap their head around any language in short time but becoming this good programmer in first place will take years.

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