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by lou1306 4y ago
I mean, you could say more or less the same about movies. Early film (as soon as people realized that film != theatre, at least) was wildly experimental, because qualities of the medium were still largely unexplored. But after a while the r
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by lou1306 4y ago
This is also what hit me while reading the OP. The students were cheating on a Whatsapp group their own teacher was a member of. I could perhaps turn a blind eye to the gross lack of integrity (I wouldn't, but I could); it's the
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by lou1306 4y ago
> On the Google side, there is (or was) Google Wallet (OG), Android Pay, Google Pay, gPay, now Google Wallet (new). Don't forget Fitbit Pay! (As Google apparently did)
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by lou1306 4y ago
That setup seems pretty RSI-prone and antiergonomic to me... Forearms appear to be near-orthogonal to the keyboard, mouse usage requires putting your wrist at nearly 90 degrees, top of screen should be at eye level but appears considerably
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by lou1306 4y ago
Uhm, no? That may be true for open access publications, but traditional publishing (with Elsevier or others) is typically free of charge.
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Or in the words of Moby Dick 's Ishmael, "I take the good old fashioned ground that the whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me".
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At least two alternatives: * The state maintains a public, affordable health insurance service * The state directly funds a public network of doctors and hospitals
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by lou1306 4y ago
The best explanation for leaving dd in its original form is that it's not really wise to alter the behaviour of a tool that has been nicknamed "destroyer of disks", regardless of that hot new CLI convention.
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by lou1306 4y ago
Every studio has had similar blunders. Disney expected The Lion King to fail and Pocahontas to be huge.
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Just playing devil's advocate here, but cooperate and cooper have different pronunciations, and coöperate (or co-operate ) makes it absolutely clear.
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No need to apologize :) But it is frowned upon. An article is a textual, rather than hypertextual, document. Links can be used to make the PDF easier to navigate, but should not make the printed document inferior. So, in short: * The file i
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by lou1306 4y ago
Sure, maybe "ugly" is not the best term here. The fact is, the "short" URL you provided is still 74 characters long, while a line in a well-typeset paper is usually 70-80 charecters long. Plus, username and repo in the e
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by lou1306 4y ago
As a researcher that has used git.io in at least one paper in the past, this is a relief. Unfortunately, GitHub permalinks to specific files (at a specific commit) are rather ugly, especially if you need to put them on paper. Hope they come
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by lou1306 5y ago
Uhhh the Italian app wasn't developed by the state either, but the government acquired and open-sourced most (all?) of the code [1]. It's not that hard really. [1] https://github.com/orgs/immuni-app
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by lou1306 5y ago
Modern ("scientific" [1]) racism was born out of a misinterpretation of Darwinism. Under such interpretation there's no concept of "punishment" or "guilt", so saying that "racism is wrong because coll
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by lou1306 5y ago
What if you have defined a "help()" function though? REPL should be as dumb as possible. That's a feature, not a bug.
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by lou1306 5y ago
> The author makes a big deal of lack of snapping. Frankly I've never seen the utility of it on OS's that do have it, infact I've always felt it more of a hinderance than a help (gets in the way, tries to snap when you don
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by lou1306 5y ago
That's his point, Sun has nothing to do with Gnu so they are not bound to their "standards".
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> not wanting to break the way the language works This is the reason. "help" and "exit" (as well as "quit") are perfectly cromulent variable names in Python. So the REPL does the best possible thing, i.e., t
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by lou1306 5y ago
> As in the case of podman above, if you know your user is asking for help, show them the damn help. Since (as other comments say) you can never know for sure that the user is asking for helo, the only sane way to actually implement this
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by lou1306 5y ago
Just in 2018, the Italian regions of Lazio and Lombardy had three elections together: 2 nationals (representatives/senators) plus the regional elections. And within a political system that is much much more fragmented than the US on
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by lou1306 5y ago
Man, between Broken Age, Thimbleweed Park, and now this , it sure feels nice to be a LucasArts fan these days.
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by lou1306 5y ago
Actually the iOS1 home screen is... Not as skeuomorphic as it could have been? The Telephone, Mail, and SMS icons are all highly stylized. Plus, all icons have that rounded square frame that makes absolute sense for a touch-based UI, but
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by lou1306 5y ago
tree-sitter sounds really powerful, but FFI sounds a bit cumbersome, especially for cross-platform development... Is there any way to avoid it, never mind the performance loss?
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If the standard allows for "right" and "wrong" cables, then it is not a "successful" standard unless you stretch the definition of "success" almost beyond recognition.
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It would take one hell of an incentive to make someone with * No previous tech knowledge * A full-time job * No external help learn systemd, or how to setup and maintain a web server, or whatever. Individuals may still self-host of cours
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by lou1306 5y ago
Most of the replies here kind of miss the point and talk about idioms (hatching eggs, dropping shoes, etc.). Idioms are indeed hard, but every languages has their own. So, when you meet eggs, shoes or whatever in a discussion that was not
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> Have more children. Have them early if possible. Pretty complicated when the housing market and labour market are such that, on average: * You don't own a house (= less money) * You only have a fixed-term contract (= low financial
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BTW you can get head and tail with plain old unpacking :) >>> head, *tail = range(3) >>> head 0 >>> tail [1, 2] Granted, unpacking also coalesces lazy iterables (like range in this case) i
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by lou1306 5y ago
Good point. Of course, one may retort that Turing also contributed to the second perspective. Sure, his work at Bletchley Park was secret for a while, but his involvement in developing the Ferranti Mark 1 [1] was well known. [1] https:&#

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