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961.
by manicdee 8y ago
This reminds me of that joke about which life choice a vegan Crossfitter will bring up first :D
962.
by manicdee 8y ago
Because it makes the later salary per household look better.
963.
by manicdee 8y ago
See, offer people a little convenience they will give up a lot of personal data.
964.
by manicdee 8y ago
Nothing nefarious about it except that simply requesting a favicon means you have made a request, so now that site knows where you are. There’s really no need to request the favicon unless there is an actual page requested from the site.
965.
by manicdee 8y ago
Christ does exhort his followers to render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s, and Democrats believe the state acts on behalf of the populace to perform tasks that we individually could not do. So a community can clothe and house the poor better
966.
by manicdee 8y ago
What makes you think people being respectful to each other would be amusing?
967.
by manicdee 8y ago
Remember you can love your juniors you just can’t lurve your juniors. I will also remind you of three important words: Filos, Eros and Agape.
968.
by manicdee 8y ago
Did you read the SQLite CoC? All of it? Hint: there is a clause pointing out that complete adherence is impossible and that the aim is to conduct oneself as much as possible by The Rule.
969.
by manicdee 8y ago
GP was booking an appointment for a routine procedure which has a known scope, effort, and bill of materials. There is nothing in this procedure that even remotely resembles refactoring a legacy codebase.
970.
by manicdee 8y ago
Having children at all is a severe negative impact on the economic prospects of women of any age. Once you have children you're out of the career grind for a few months and you get back into the game with a lower participation rate (fe
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by manicdee 8y ago
What’s driving me away from the Mac ecosystem: Loss of iOS sync from iTunes with no replacement. I used to sync two phones and two iPads through iTunes in order to reduce bandwidth use (Australian internet sucks). I can now use Internet Sha
972.
by manicdee 8y ago
I’m not a fan of the attitude that the homeless are solely to blame for their problems.
973.
by manicdee 8y ago
What value of taxes are they hoping to avoid for that $400k if bribery?
974.
by manicdee 8y ago
You need to look at why humans have accidents then. Hint: it’s not due to the sensor package being used.
975.
by manicdee 8y ago
And yet here we are with limited spectrum stereo vision, at the top of the evolutionary ladder.
976.
by manicdee 8y ago
What you are describing is expected and normal behaviour especially for shorts. If you complain, you will be duly lectured on the role of shorts in maintaining a sensible market and finding true value of stocks, yadda yadda.
977.
by manicdee 8y ago
Having to correct a story minutes after a market movement has reaped the company millions in transaction fees seems like a small burden to bear.
978.
by manicdee 8y ago
When the signal to noise ratio is so low, and the time cost of continually reviewing references and arguing with the right wing article brigadiers is so high, banning the troublesome source is a simple way of ensuring the available editor t
979.
by manicdee 8y ago
To be fair Gwynne working for Elon is a darn good case of life imitating art! Tony Stark is an arsehole, so is Elon.
980.
by manicdee 8y ago
I Gwynne’s case I am pretty sure what makes her happy is achieving the impossible and making it routine.
981.
by manicdee 8y ago
And the land clearing, concerting, roads and large structures converting sunlight into local heat. Removing vegetation is probably the greatest single increase in local temperatures.
982.
by manicdee 8y ago
This is my reading of that comment too. Having a great language is no use if you can’t get the wetware to express ideas in that language.
983.
by manicdee 8y ago
I find it annoying that people pretend the image is about men and not just one man who is about to get a clip over the ear.
984.
by manicdee 8y ago
One of the points under contention is the lower rate of citation of women in any field. Thus using number of citations is a sexist metric and amounts to little more than dick waving.
985.
by manicdee 8y ago
On the flip side, if it’s valuable enough to pirate, the shipping company should have had better security.
986.
by manicdee 8y ago
I didn’t load up on Tesla shares when Elon tweeted about Ambien, self driving advancements, or software updates coming any day now, so why would I take him seriously about going private? The route for going private was to stop trading the s
987.
by manicdee 8y ago
Proof, not speculation or propaganda.
988.
by manicdee 8y ago
Obviously Elon’s mistake was not changing the laws to make his crime legal. Cf Goldman Sachs the great vampire squid.
989.
by manicdee 8y ago
If you want to accurately represent the point of view being debated you need to consider the motivations and insinuations surrounding the 20% number, rather than performing semantic onanism with the ratio itself.
990.
by manicdee 8y ago
Headline should actually be: “Stop abusing lambdas in Python: how you are doing it wrong and how you can do it better.” This tutorial is not an argument against lambdas, but an argument against abusing Python lambdas.

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