magnostherobot

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by magnostherobot 5y ago
Interestingly I would use the use of "the patriarchy" as a term as evidence against the belief of the transformation of the meaning of the phrase "toxic masculinity". The patriarchy doesn't have a qualifier: that a
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by magnostherobot 5y ago
> All that striving for greatness is indivisible from the selfish need to inflict cruelty on your dominated foe. Take away the latter and there is no sports. It’s just exercise. I cannot empathise with someone that has this mindset. It s
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by magnostherobot 5y ago
I'm sorry, are you dismissing all psychology papers? > A field currently drowning in a reproducibility crisis My peers have told me that chemistry and biology also suffer from results that are difficult to reproduce, and I've c
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by magnostherobot 5y ago
> The side project myth is getting out of control. I was rejected in an interview last year within seconds of the interview starting because my answer to "what would you do if you suddenly had a bunch of free time" was not rele
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by magnostherobot 5y ago
grindr's pretty old at this point, and shows you distances to other people _to the metre_.
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by magnostherobot 5y ago
Do you have an example of a situation in which you'd want to cast the result of arithmetic intptr_t values to a pointer? The situations I can think of off the top of my head would be better done as arithmetic between pointers.
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by magnostherobot 6y ago
> [...] ultimately in this new era there is no path to redemption, no mechanism by which an apology can be accepted. I'm pretty sure the mechanism is: backing down from your position of power, apologising, being quiet in the communi
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by magnostherobot 6y ago
I don't use sudo to improve my security; I use sudo because it's what I've become familiar with. I don't want to come across as pedantic - the point I mean to make is that I think a lot of people use sudo without thinkin
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by magnostherobot 6y ago
I think of them as noun and verb: a Map is a mapping from thing to another thing; map the function maps several things to other things. IMO, neither are quite named right: surely Map should be Mapping, and map should be mapSeveral?
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by magnostherobot 6y ago
> Most puzzle games like this work this way As far as Zachtronics games go, you've been able to save multiple solutions since IIRC Infinifactory, and those games all have two or three optimisation goals. I think Silicon Zeroes only
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by magnostherobot 6y ago
Maybe it shouldn't be "don't reinvent the wheel", but rather "reinvent the wheel well "
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by magnostherobot 6y ago
"Fresher's flu" is the name given to the phenomenon of nearly everyone at uni getting a cold when returning for the new academic semester; everyone congregating from across the country/planet brings their own strain and
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by magnostherobot 6y ago
There's a short sci-fi story (whose name escapes me, but is mentioned in Cory Doctorow's Information Doesn't Want to be Free) in which the human race is given matter duplicators that can perfectly copy an item, including the
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by magnostherobot 6y ago
I just changed my PayPal password today; they restrict the length of a password to between 8-20 characters. Why the upper limit? Once you're at 20, you're likely using a password manager, so another 20 wouldn't hurt.