mFixman

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by mFixman 7y ago
If you drive like you are assigned to drive, your risk of running over people goes down to 100%. The responsibility of not killing people is on the drivers.
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by mFixman 7y ago
This is literally blaming the victim. Pedestrians aren't carrying a multi-tonne vehicle that can kill people. Traffic lights are for drivers, and it's drivers who should pay attention. The first step to fixing traffic deaths is fi
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by mFixman 7y ago
The board and (letter distribution × score) distribution are almost identical between languages. There are always a couple of letters with extremely high scores, and the winning tactic is to play ugly short words with those letters by the m
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by mFixman 7y ago
IMO this is because Scrabble is a terrible game. Knowledge of the breadth of your language will only get you so far in the game: the winner will be the person who can put the greatest amount of short words with 'X' and 'Z&#x2
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by mFixman 7y ago
That phrase is usually used to refer to Yorkshire, a large county in northeastern England.
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There were a significant number of people who preferred the NDP, but voted Liberal to deny the Conservatives a seat.
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The comparison that helped me understand it was seeing the Universe as a balloon. My friend and I both live at different points on the surface of a balloon with distance A. I throw a ball at light speed while the balloon is being inflated,
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by mFixman 7y ago
Amazing, this is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!
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Don't forget always-on-top. I shouldn't have to install a new browser that does hacky things with OSX just to keep a YouTube video on top of my workspace.
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by mFixman 7y ago
That still makes it impossible to switch from a particular window of an app to a particular window of another. My biggest issue with Cmd+Tab is the surprise factor. Pressing that shortcut may do nothing, raise a window, raise a lot of windo
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by mFixman 7y ago
Smugness aside, there are big cultural issues regarding meal pleasure importance. One of my biggest shocks from moving from a Latin American country to Britain was when I realised that taking 1 hour lunches, which I consider the bare minimu
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This is not like forcing motorcycle rivers to wear helmets. This is like banning cigarette ads on public spaces. Cheap sugary food, like cigarettes, get most of their buyers from addicts getting dopamine hits from the ads. This is specially
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by mFixman 7y ago
I've been using fish for several years now, but I always have to jump back to bash when I need to write an moderately complex command. Does anyone know if there's an equivalent of Bash's `(...)` (without '$') in fis
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I think this is the most HN comment ever read. And no, having an Internet curfew for preventing bloody protests won't improve the well-being of citizens.
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Don't forget `git cherry-pick`! IMO that's the most underrated git command.
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by mFixman 7y ago
The Latin alphabet is actually a terrible way to write English, and guessing how to pronounce words is the hardest part of being an ESL. You can't use 5 symbols for 19 syllables and call it a day. Ideally people would use Shavian[1] or
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by mFixman 7y ago
I can't help but being sad for the official end of the Inuktitut syllabic: it was such a unique system or writing, and it seemed to fit Inuit languages well. Unicode can handle a zillion characters, and I don't remember having pro
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by mFixman 7y ago
This is a sample of the top posts in this domain. > Bomb-plotting extremist American soldier tried to join US-backed neo-Nazi militia in Ukraine > Following Grayzone exposé, top Venezuelan coup official Ricardo Hausmann is forced to r
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by mFixman 7y ago
If the dates are stored in strings, then you are wrong in both counts. '2019-01-01' < '2019-01-01 00:00:00.0000', so that time won't match the date. '2018-12-31' < '2018-12-31 00:00:00.000'
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by mFixman 7y ago
There's a big difference between name-calling someone and accusing them of being a paedophile for doing scuba diving in Thailand.
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by mFixman 7y ago
You don't have to put a full timedate inside the comparison string. Writing `BETWEEN '2018-01-01' AND '2019-01-01'` works correctly and it's pretty readable. However, I agree that making `BETWEEN` use closed in
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by mFixman 7y ago
This is not money, it's a credit card. Banks have restricted what you can buy with the money you loan for ages. You can always buy bitcoin with your debit card.
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> You can't turn off autoplay I'm pretty sure you can turn it off for all devices from desktop Netflix's settings. I somehow don't have autoplay enabled when I watch any series.
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Comparing passport power by total number of countries you can enter is a bad metric. The UK has a much higher rating than Chile because Britons can enter countries like Lesotho or Namibia visa-free. On the other hand, Chilean citizens can e
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by mFixman 7y ago
An month makes sense as an absolute value, not as a relative one. The Windows calculator is terrible design. To calculate deltas between two dates you need to convert them to seconds, subtract them, and convert the result back to an absolut
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https://xkcd.com/1172/
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Let's say "at an hour that doesn't make work the first and biggest thing on each weekday".
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I disagree with the sense that being a night owl is bad for a 9–5. If you think about it, it's exactly the opposite. Being a night owl means that you wake up late, go straight to work, use up all your energy there, come back home tired
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Skimming the bash manpage every once in a while is important to stay out of information bubbles. There are too many developers who rely only on Google/Stack Overflow to find and write answers to questions, and it's common to repea
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Double-breaking is a good sign that you need to refactor your code and put any of the while statements inside its own function.

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