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by maw 4y ago
Serious(-ish) question: does "And last but not least, I hereby decree that all texsht herein be read in Sean Connery voish." mean that this technically isn't FOSS?
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by maw 4y ago
Unrelated to the article's thesis: the use of both colors and numbers in the static map of the Roman Empire is very clever and I wish this technique were used more often. I don't in general have trouble distinguishing colored area
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by maw 4y ago
I once proposed to some people I know getting started in app development an idea: the app would listen to what you say and if you said the word "güey" more than five times in a 24 hour window it would give you an electric shock. I
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by maw 4y ago
I'm reasonably certain that I'm not your father but I used to do that too - although I don't think I made it into the hundreds.
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by maw 4y ago
Yes, in a line in "Born in the USA." Of course there's an implicit eyeroll there; it's not used to denigrate Asian people.
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by maw 4y ago
I'm with you. It's easier said than done, of course, but crash-only software is a worthwhile goal IMO.
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by maw 4y ago
To me this basically seems like boat programming made respectable. Of course, if you asked me, it always was. You couldn't assume great connectivity then and you often still can't today.
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by maw 4y ago
I know it does, but is it comparable to what you get access to if you learn French or German or Indonesian?
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by maw 4y ago
Those languages have extensive literatures which you could read in the original. Esperanto doesn't.
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by maw 4y ago
When evaluating libraries, recent activity is one of the things I look at. It's a far from perfect heuristic. I've probably rejected libraries like yours for what amounts to no very good reason. I don't know if this is a go
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by maw 4y ago
Yep, all this. The only thing I'll add is that, ca 2012 which is when whatsapp started really taking off where I live, intercarrier SMS was slow and unreliable. WhatsApp was fast and reliable.
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by maw 4y ago
> Good design is makes a product useful and understandable. Good editing is makes all element of a lists is has the same grammatical form.
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by maw 5y ago
He wrote https://github.com/Wilfred/deadgrep too. It's awesome and I don't know how I lived without it for so long.
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by maw 5y ago
It gives actual insight into prognosticators' accuracy. If their 90%s are right about nine times out of ten, their 60%s six out of ten, and so on, then they're pretty good. If they're not then they're not.
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by maw 5y ago
Pretty sure verisimi meant to say "Soviet Ukraine".
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by maw 5y ago
I wouldn't set my hopes too high because of this. It's just all too prone to pee hacking.
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by maw 5y ago
I wish Casio made earbuds. I doubt they'd have the best sound and they probably wouldn't be very comfortable (no different from the competition) and they surely would be no sartorial revelation. But they would last forever and the
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by maw 5y ago
Of the 100 most recent emails I have marked as spam in gmail, 26 were misclassified. FWIW, just an anecdatum and probably a real outlier and all that.
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by maw 5y ago
Maybe you grew up speaking a language where penultimate and antepenultimate's cognates are in common use, like Spanish. I still remember hearing a Mexican friend whose English was, at the time, very basic use the word "polemical&q
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by maw 5y ago
In many circumstances, WhatsApp works better -- like, a lot better -- than normal calls. Also it's often subsidized. They probably could have paid extra money out of pocket to call normally and get a substandard experience.
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by maw 5y ago
In LLPSI's marketing materials, they call it the "natural method." (I've also seen "nature method.") Another term is "comprehensible input" -- but I am not certain precisely how the two relate to eac
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by maw 5y ago
When I was still formatting code manually (... -ish; emacs did a lot of the tedious work for me) I eventually settled on a style very similar to your four-argument example, precisely because it makes diffs easier to read. For the same reaso
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by maw 6y ago
My hope is that various forms of artificial meat become viable and generally affordable. I think this is realistic, in spite of the opposition we can expect from both Big Ag and Big Fake Yoga.
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by maw 6y ago
My 2¢: in however many decades from now, we'll be about equally horrified by animal cruelty and by all the grain we used to eat.
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by maw 6y ago
Half-relevant: I really like when dashes are used for dialogue. I think the way it's done in Spanish (and other languages that, alas, I cannot read) is especially stylish. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotat
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by maw 6y ago
> the only jobs were Professor or Think Tank Mostly offtopic: I initially misread that as "Professor of Think Tank" and I immediately understood it to mean something within the disciplines of military affairs, macroeconomics, s
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by maw 6y ago
Probably. But here's an interesting sequence of events: - The alt-right emerges as an influential bloc - Our self-appointed explainers and meaning-makers try and fail to understand it; unable to understand it they're completely un
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by maw 6y ago
Maybe _your_ brain can, but mine can't. To somebody with APD, it sounds like science fiction, although it does require more suspension of disbelief than faster than light travel or teleportation.
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by maw 6y ago
Step 1: Live somewhere where online shopping other than with Amazon actually works. (You can think what you want about Amazon, but it's a remarkably provincial piece.)
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by maw 6y ago
Yeah, another five years or so and he ought to get there. This sounds like a long time but there's also at least one gloriously awful and/or awfully glorious pun to look forward to per episode along the way.

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