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by maxlybbert 1y ago
When I lived in North Carolina a few years ago, it was common for local private companies to get a contract with the state to run offices that issue license plates, while only the state ran the offices that issue drivers licenses and everyt
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by maxlybbert 1y ago
There is actually a law that requires FedEx and UPS to charge more for some parcels ( https://pe.usps.com/text/qsg300/Q608.htm ). It was created after Lysander Spooner created the American Letter Mail Company ( h
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by maxlybbert 1y ago
I thought the same thing. Maybe the point of the story isn’t “we were surprised to learn you had to synchronize access” but instead “we all thought we were careful, but each of us made this mistake no matter how careful we tried to be.”
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by maxlybbert 1y ago
Oops. “The Chemistry of Cookery” is from 1892.
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by maxlybbert 1y ago
Exactly (about miasmas)! I thought about making a comment on essential oils in my original comment, but chickened out.
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by maxlybbert 1y ago
I honestly didn't mean any condescension. Years ago, I read a roleplaying book ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkworld ) that had a throwaway comment that many ancient civilizations had decent medical care for in
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by maxlybbert 1y ago
The Black Death occurred when European medicine (at least for diseases) was still rudimentary. Plague doctors had pleasant-smelling herbs in their masks because that seemed like a reasonable defense against the disease. Leaches and bloodlet
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by maxlybbert 1y ago
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/12/15/camels-and-rubber-... Hardly a new idea. And Uber didn’t create it, they just do it well.
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by maxlybbert 1y ago
That happens with airlines as well.
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by maxlybbert 1y ago
That reminds me that he got lots of comments from upset readers because shortly after Mother Teresa died, one comic's punchline involved 100 nuns dying in a plane crash ( https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/1997-09-13
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by maxlybbert 1y ago
Honestly, the main difference I run into is just file paths, and that’s easy to sidestep ( https://perldoc.perl.org/File::Spec ). There are differences, but they’re usually esoteric ( https://perldoc.perl.org&#x2
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by maxlybbert 1y ago
The federal government provides money to schools so that schools can provide low-cost food in their the cafeterias. The food provided has to meet nutritional standards ( https://www.fns.usda.gov/nslp ). The federal governme
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by maxlybbert 1y ago
I believe the current rules ( https://www.fns.usda.gov/nslp ) require the schools to make some effort to avoid certain allergens. When my children were in school, their school said that anybody who didn’t have lunch would b
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by maxlybbert 1y ago
I doubt there's a specific "ability to send surreptitious screen shots to developer" permission. It must be a combination of permissions: one for making network connections, another for capturing the screen without making it
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by maxlybbert 1y ago
The Alien Enemy Act is actually an incredibly old law (i.e., it’s not a new development). What is new is attempting to use it based on a declaration that there’s been a non-military invasion ( https://www.congress.gov/crs-pr
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by maxlybbert 1y ago
Immigration law is wildly different from what people expect. But it is the law and it has been held up in countless court cases. This weirdness is not new. I think most of the weirdness comes from the fact that entering the country illegall
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by maxlybbert 2y ago
The Wright brothers did create a glider ( https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/1900-wright-gl... ). They also created a powered airplane a gasoline engine and propellers ( https://www.nps.gov/
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by maxlybbert 2y ago
It’s not just “there’s a line in some file that’s undefined” partly because undefined behavior is often caused by the state of the world. Dereferencing a pointer is defined unless the pointer is invalid, and any particular pointer may be va
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by maxlybbert 2y ago
The committee tends to also provide bounds checked interfaces ( https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/container/span/at ). But that requires people read the documentation, and based on the number of people
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by maxlybbert 2y ago
"Implementation defined" and "undefined" are different things. On my laptop, sizeof(long) is 8; that's implementation defined. It could be different on my phone, or my desktop, or my work laptop. Undefined means, r
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by maxlybbert 2y ago
There’s a better formatted PDF on Stroustrup’s website: https://stroustrup.com/21st-Century-C++.pdf .
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by maxlybbert 2y ago
I wasn’t trying to claim any equivalence. I was replying to “It's just that as far as I can recall no one has ever really tried to spend less in the government.” Biden did, in fact, try to spend less than was appropriated.
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by maxlybbert 2y ago
Well, Biden tried to not spend money to build a wall on the border. And he essentially ran out the clock in that one, so I guess there has been recent success.
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by maxlybbert 2y ago
Personally, I find Perl’s modern object modules interesting and fun. And I’ve always liked the fact that many Perl built ins were based on POSIX, which doesn’t seem common in other languages.
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by maxlybbert 2y ago
I think you’re talking about something different. Regardless of which ethnic group, sexual orientation, nationality, etc. I belong to, if I want to get an NSF grant, I have to fill out certain paperwork. And, apparently, it’s expected that
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by maxlybbert 2y ago
This bankruptcy was filed in Texas. How would the corporate charter affect the fairness of how the auction was conducted?
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by maxlybbert 2y ago
I’m sure that the difficulty the New York Times editors have about summarizing laws related to online publishing shouldn’t make you wonder about what glaring mistakes are in their other reports about topics the newspaper wouldn’t be expecte
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by maxlybbert 2y ago
Well, because the dissent doesn’t mention it.
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by maxlybbert 2y ago
The War Powers Act is questionable. The US never declared war in Vietnam. The president simply sent troops to Vietnam knowing that they would end up fighting. But the president said he had that authority as commander-in-chief. The War Power
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by maxlybbert 2y ago
I don’t think we covered that in my history classes. Congress’s website about the constitution agrees with you and adds additional details ( https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S8-C11-3... ).

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