jon-v

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by jon-v 3y ago
But what it's becoming isn't the point, the point of the loose translation is that the location of the furnace melting it down to become nails isn't specified in the original statement. The rest of the article implies it most
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by jon-v 6y ago
The main effect we expect to see on excess mortality is not from the lockdown, but from the overloading of the health care systems.
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by jon-v 7y ago
What do you think luck is?
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by jon-v 7y ago
The Salazar scandal involves a case in which doping of athletes was very specifically not proven.
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by jon-v 7y ago
But you don't actually need IT systems to record who is on the flight - all you need is a pre-printed list of legit passengers and a pen.
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by jon-v 7y ago
I have on multiple occasions been boarded by pen and paper in the US when technical issues prevented the electronic systems from being used - somehow airline/ground staff in the US often seem more empowered to do this sort of thing tha
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by jon-v 10y ago
When the actor was on Colbert he said he based the character on his mother.
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by jon-v 10y ago
Agreed. I'm currently considering Kafka for a project but am hesitant because ideally we need a zero maintenance solution, and Kafka seems to always end up requiring some handholding. I'm not familiar with the Redis dev process at
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by jon-v 10y ago
This is actually the only truly rational defense I can come up with for my preference of spaces vs tabs. (The generic argument is that the code will look the way I want it to even when rendered by a tool where I can't control the tab w