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by jlg23 6y ago
Five years ago, in between the Guyanas, also a 12 seater: My lighter gets confiscated by security, while all other passengers put their handguns and magazines into ziplock bags, which are thrown into a postbag, which ends up, open, next to
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by jlg23 6y ago
The author addresses that: > This model assumes that the question’s hypothetical is correct and the fatality rate is 1%. It also assumes for the sake of argument 100% infection. (In reality, of course, neither of these is a perfect match
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by jlg23 6y ago
I understand your sentiment to some degree, but I also see the benefits of modern development: > [food] Even when we live in rather harsh conditions we can have a balanced diet (where I live, without modern means of transportation, my di
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by jlg23 6y ago
Nice write-up of a nice project! BUT: This is clearly missing a power saving mode which displays a placeholder page with a cache expiration time set based on weather forecasts. And an 8bit song "Ain't no content when it rains&quot
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by jlg23 6y ago
> Why should someone interact with something that the author doesn't throw his/her/their name into? There are still quite some monarchies around in which you go to prison for speaking up against the rulers (in most you wil
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by jlg23 6y ago
Well... price-wise, in lots of Europe, taking a plane is cheaper.. What really made the difference for me is that the 4-5 hour train ride is done after 4 to 5 hours. My 1 hour flight starts 3 to 3.5h before the flight to get to the airport
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by jlg23 6y ago
That's exactly what courts are for: Application of laws created by the legislative. And yes, the SC should be fine with whatever congress does as long as laws are obeyed in the legislative process itself.
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by jlg23 6y ago
Non-determinism. Hackers are so used to finding a logical, elegant solution that we sometimes forget that social behaviour is not deterministic and that, when judging others, we do neither have perfect knowledge nor we are entitled to fully
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by jlg23 6y ago
Vita-Cola is again alive and kicking, and I am one who actually loves it. I am sure this is not just nostalgia, because, even though I was born in the GDR, I was 9 when the wall fell and maybe had 3 glasses of Vita Cola before. "crime,
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by jlg23 6y ago
Providing some link to how this data was "collected" would be tremendously helpful. Looking at https://millionneighborhoods.org/#11.46/29.7099/-9.7936 a private beach resort has "high access" w
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by jlg23 6y ago
It is not that I don't understand the "problem" - after all, I ended my very first accidental vi session with a reboot as well. But that was 23 years ago, long before Linux/GNU distros would be installed with a GUI and t
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by jlg23 6y ago
> It's also confusing because many Linux systems are set up by default to launch vim whenever another application requests an editor, even if the user uses something they are more comfortable with otherwise. export EDITOR=/
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by jlg23 6y ago
> Why can't you do that on Canvas or WebGL today? You can, but you don't get to start with a fancy IDE designed towards animation and event-based interaction.
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by jlg23 6y ago
> I'm not sure a system like this would have a productive effect on lifeguards. > If these systems are coupled with the right sort of training, they might be a net benefit. Or maybe the system could be designed in such a way tha
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by jlg23 6y ago
I am not sure that convincing someone by not talking to them has a high success rate...
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by jlg23 6y ago
> i believe that upstream would do good if they would change their mind about having or not a well defined vulnerability identification and notification system. No. Unless an issue is tested against HEAD, reporting it is just noise. Rep
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by jlg23 6y ago
> Lisp is large, important, and also not statically typed. It's worked out ok for Lisp programmers. Lisp programmers use check-type [1] a lot, they proclaim [2] types for performance optimizations and they often deftype [3] if no
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by jlg23 6y ago
Unless one is paid in LOC I'd expect a senior dev to write less code than a novice...
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by jlg23 6y ago
This debate reminds me on "Node.js Is Bad Ass Rock Star Tech", from 2012: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzkRVzciAZg
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by jlg23 6y ago
Or you just pipe through the program of your choice for which you know the syntax: echo "foo bar fnord" | cut --delimiter " " --output-delimiter ":" -f1- # foo:bar:fnord
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by jlg23 6y ago
> Specifying custom fonts is largely a waste of bandwidth for a very marginal improvement in aesthetic. Designers tend to disagree. I personally agree with you, but if we were not a very small minority, lynx[1] would be much more popular
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by jlg23 6y ago
> Moreover, suppose that you are really "off-grid". Meaning, you are off any fuel supply network!! In this case precisely, you would be saved by electric-related techs, such as photovoltaic. Albeit in theory true, here in the o
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by jlg23 6y ago
> But then some topics veer into domains that make me angry (hello politics), or I find a comment inappropriate or unfair, or mod behavior hypocritical. And I share that in a post that gets flagged or downvoted, and I get banned. Kurt Tu
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by jlg23 6y ago
It's a sad comment on society, that this comment is automatically flagged offensive because it contains the word "fuck". -- paraphrased from fortune files, offensive section
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by jlg23 6y ago
One might be using a keyboard layout in which some special characters are cumbersome to type. I am switching between 3 layouts regularly and "[" and "|" are only fun on QWERTY, on AZERTY or QWERTZ they are painful.
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by jlg23 6y ago
Pretty sure a typo and the million wanted to be a kilo? $120m/year for apparently unnecessary IT capacity would be hard to hide even in government contracts...
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by jlg23 6y ago
> you want to invest ~30% of the value of your bike to purchase a bike lock. Or get two different ones. Bike thieves specialize on one or two specific locks and prefer easy targets.
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by jlg23 6y ago
Just being able to amend job requirements with "or rust experience" is most probably worth it.
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> Excessive hand washing among the people who do isn't gonna help a lot particularly in drought-prone areas. I am a European who has been living about 100km north of Western Sahara for a few years now: People here wash hands much mo
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by jlg23 6y ago
> There are many more coronaviruses in the wild and we will continue to see pandemics until unsanitary practices like wet markets with exotic animal products are outlawed. Before trying to find a global definition for "exotic"

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