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by komadori 4y ago
Gosh, can you imagine if they had trained it on their internal source code repositories and it constantly suggested using Hungarian notation for your variables? ;-)
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by komadori 4y ago
The Gods Themselves (1972) by Issac Asimov was perhaps the original inspiration. Funny story, the setting of part 2 was so different to part 1 that I mistook the book for a collection of novellas until more than half way through.
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by komadori 4y ago
I don't think it's right to co-opt and despoil that name of doubtless many real people, so if there is a pushback against using "Karen" as an insult then I'm in favour of it. That said, this is first time I've
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by komadori 4y ago
Just to pile on, I would love to buy a Framework laptop instead of more ThinkPads, but I really can't do without a pointing stick keyboard. I even have a Tex Shinobi* for my desktop! I hope that Framework or a 3rd-party accessory can f
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by komadori 4y ago
1.2 billion cubic metres, no? That comma is a thousands separator, not a decimal point.
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by komadori 5y ago
Tea o'clock. Or more generally with any noun, X o'clock, the time for X.
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by komadori 5y ago
I think: ICE = Inter-City Express (train)
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by komadori 5y ago
My old Cantonese teacher from HK told me he used to play Theme Hospital growing up, but he didn't understand why or how to stop the patients complaining about/dying from the cold. He didn't realise you need to build radiators
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by komadori 5y ago
Baby carrots are a real thing. The taste is distinctive, and you couldn't replicate the stalks or skin texture by cutting up larger carrots. It's rather unfortunate if they're allowed sell pre-cut carrot chunks as baby carrot
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by komadori 5y ago
I can see why you might feel silly indicating on an empty road, but personally I find indicating to be such an integral and effortless part of turning or changing lane that I always indicate even if I can't see anyone about. By compari
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by komadori 5y ago
Many essentially ordinary Google account holders were incentivised to convert their accounts into domain (now G Suite) accounts for e-mail purposes. However, this has always had adverse consequences because many Google services don't s
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by komadori 5y ago
To quote Bryson's article: "but I have since come to realise that there was nothing especially odd in their driving less than a couple of hundred feet to visit us. Nobody walks anywhere in America nowadays." (emphasis mine)
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by komadori 5y ago
The problem I had with LastPass is that if you have any billing problem then you're immediately kicked down with to the free tier with all the problems that entails, including loss of access to regular support. Worse, they had a bug th
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by komadori 5y ago
AFAICR, they've removed the skip button in newer versions of the installer. You have to avoid being connected to the internet to create a local account now.
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by komadori 5y ago
> Or, “I love Amazon, I just wish you’d deliver a little slower.” Impossible. Not entirely impossible ;-). Amazon now offers the option of having your orders bundled up and delivered on a set day each week to save on trips. However, in m
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by komadori 5y ago
As soon as I saw the headline, I thought of that bookshop in Santorini! It was an interesting/eclectic place. The independent bookshop in the town where I grew up closed a long time ago. I suppose bookshop-as-an-experience is the only
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by komadori 5y ago
Likewise, I love the idea but there's no way I can do without a pointing stick keyboard. This basically locks me into ThinkPads at the moment.
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by komadori 5y ago
This tangentially reminds me of when I used to work on some commercial software which linked against a FlexLM binary blob for licence checking. We had a customer bug report where the software was occasionally crashing on start up on 64-bit
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by komadori 12y ago
I do try and make sure that HsQML works on Windows and MacOS in addition to Linux. Although, I admit I haven't tried MacOS 10.9 as my Mac is still running 10.8. I don't think I've ever been contacted concerning issues with Wi