jpmoral

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by jpmoral 3y ago
I think in the context of HN, that's not what you want to find out. If I thought the other person just wanted a fight, I'd ignore them. If I thought a good discussion might be had I'd go something like "I think X and Y i
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by jpmoral 3y ago
What was their response to your angry question?
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by jpmoral 3y ago
I've only ever encountered "Do you have a problem with that/x?" as a challenge. Can it be used otherwise? Probably, but a native speaker would know how it's going to be received especially in a contentious topic lik
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by jpmoral 3y ago
I was very confused until I realised you weren't talking about electrical transformers.
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by jpmoral 3y ago
It discusses a book by the architectural critic Ian Nairn, in the context of the social, political, and architectural conditions of the time and place it was released.
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by jpmoral 3y ago
Okay, I was just clarifying. Tone is really hard to convey and interpret but that read like you were jumping on me for clarifying. I think that's what the problem is. The post in the screenshot is unnecessarily combative. It's not
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by jpmoral 3y ago
By "grounds for flagging" do you mean comments being reported and removed by moderation or do you mean being heavily downvoted? If the latter, then, again, a lot of people disagreeing with you isn't generally good evidence of
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by jpmoral 3y ago
> Though jokes on them, the more I am told that being right is wrong the stronger I become at voting right. You're entitled to vote how you want, of course, but taking disagreement as evidence of being correct generally isn't s
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by jpmoral 3y ago
In many cases, it's not because you're (the general "you") being "suppressed". It's just that you're tiresome. A few weeks ago someone was ranting about something (some movie he claimed was being give
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by jpmoral 3y ago
I think they meant that cellphones are our generation's equivalent of cigarettes.
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by jpmoral 3y ago
Yes but I read the sentence to mean that parent was talking about features they actually found superfluous.
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by jpmoral 3y ago
How so? When I used to drink I often regretted it the next day (or days). So I stopped.
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by jpmoral 3y ago
The article is about things you know you'll regret afterwards.
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by jpmoral 3y ago
Why is 'superfluous' in quotes?
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by jpmoral 3y ago
It seems the sense of the words 'inclusive' and 'diverse' in the article is broader than the politics meaning you ascribe to them. A quote from one of the moderators: >Intellectual curiosity is everywhere, and it’s pr
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by jpmoral 3y ago
Why the scare quotes? Why not just say your idea of what well-written prose is has changed?
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by jpmoral 3y ago
Nothing fancy either alias.co checkout alias.br branch alias.ci commit alias.st status alias.cm commit -m alias.unstage reset HEAD -- alias.cob checkout -b alias.pp pull --prune
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by jpmoral 3y ago
VTS (VTI in the US)
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by jpmoral 3y ago
Born in the 18th century, president in the 19th.
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by jpmoral 3y ago
Pretty happy with my 3+ year old Nokia 5.4. It's been pretty good at getting OS and security updates. Came with Google apps and no Samsung-style apps.
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by jpmoral 3y ago
> Akin to the article's title, the pain of this elusive quest is a melancholic symphony, a mournful reminder of the vibrant life that once was, and the silent void that has come to be. > For one, redescribing a symphony as a &#x2
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by jpmoral 3y ago
What do Chinese-language sources have to say about this?
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by jpmoral 3y ago
Wagner claimed a strength of 25k, actual number advancing on Moscow was probably lower. Not a good look for someone who has cultivated a strongman image for decades to be fleeing from that.
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by jpmoral 3y ago
"Casualty" means killed or injured.
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by jpmoral 3y ago
In my (very short, many years ago) stint as an EE it meant that parts (transistors, ICs, etc.) were guaranteed to work within certain specs within certain operating conditions (temp, etc.). It did not guarantee anything outside of that. Sou
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by jpmoral 3y ago
Ah, thank you!
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by jpmoral 3y ago
Question about the "Yields of Australian Commonwealth government bonds as of 21 January 2000" graph in Chapter 2 (page 13 of the A4 version): The y-axis (Yield in percent) values don't seem to match the data points. For examp
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by jpmoral 3y ago
The two issues in the title are (confusingly) actually unrelated.
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by jpmoral 3y ago
I don't think being up a full piece counts as material imbalance.
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by jpmoral 3y ago
With context then the quote is > Sometimes versions of the game are also intentionally shipped with debug symbols to generate better error reports. However, sometimes programmers forget to remove the debug symbols from the final binaries

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