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by mckn1ght 3y ago
You are absolutely right about the searchability aspect. I want a PDF copy of every book I read now (I still prefer to read actually the deadtree copies) so I can find something again later. But until we can demonstrate that digital librari
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by mckn1ght 3y ago
Yeah, the 90s in french always tripped me out. 91 = quatre-vingt-onze = four-twenty-eleven
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by mckn1ght 3y ago
> Both Wikipedia as well as Conservapedia are biased Both-sidesing this when you have already been presented with indefensible nonsense such as “e=mc^2 is liberal claptrap” is shameful. That page hasn’t been edited since mid-2022. There’
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by mckn1ght 3y ago
I got started with a TI-85, writing math solvers and a Drug Wars clone. Did share with a link cable but never had the joy of discovering such vitality as yours!
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by mckn1ght 3y ago
Still going strong! https://www.ticalc.org/
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by mckn1ght 3y ago
Brilliant idea/URL. It’s often true though. So many things I think “I could make an app for that” I wind up just using a spreadsheet for. At least it helps me explore the use cases more deeply for when I’d want to actually take it to t
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by mckn1ght 3y ago
The government can however bar entry into the US in the first place: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleindienst_v._Mandel > courts will not look behind [the] decision [not to waive the statutory exclusion of an alien
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by mckn1ght 3y ago
If they ban the importation of a fruit or vegetable, there are others we can turn to for sustenance. Nobody is stopping any US citizen from building our own TikTok.
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by mckn1ght 3y ago
> Is war also peace Si vis pacem, para bellum > freedom also slavery Total freedom for one includes their ability to enslave others. My point is, you’re presenting false dichotomies to justify another (the political and the non-politi
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by mckn1ght 3y ago
I mentioned status of foreign nationals in the very next sentence, and it sounds like TikTok’s status is about to become “unwelcome.”
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by mckn1ght 3y ago
The first amendment in the bill of rights in the US constitution prevents the US government from restricting the speech of US citizens. It doesn’t say anything about foreign nationals with no status in the US. The government also has the au
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by mckn1ght 3y ago
They should be forced to read all the certification application material during test flights of the vehicles in question.
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by mckn1ght 3y ago
Nope I just use whatever is in the bag, I don’t care too much about the ratio. But we try to eat lots of carrot/celery sticks for snacks, and I regularly cook things with mirepoix so there’s not exactly a dearth of them.
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by mckn1ght 3y ago
I just use a fine mesh strainer. If you really want clarified stock, you can simmer it with some egg whites and/or shells, the proteins will agglomerate all the remaining sediment. Strain again and done.
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by mckn1ght 3y ago
Whenever I make stock I make a lot and then freeze it in ice cube trays. Pop out into a gallon ziplock and keep in the freezer. Same convenience at time of use, for slightly more work to make it, but IMO it’s a superior result (especially w
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by mckn1ght 3y ago
It’s a great addition to the compost heap though! ETA: shouldn’t use normally edible parts to make stock. Only like the tips and tails of carrots, celery root balls, onion peels… I keep a gallon ziplock in the freezer that accumulates these
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by mckn1ght 3y ago
This is an empty platitude, which is why it works so well for corporate PR. In reality, “diversity” is not binary, but is a continuum. And any time you have a continuum, you will have a threshold beyond which a given person cannot tolerate
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by mckn1ght 3y ago
Not until you tell us why it is a bad metric.
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by mckn1ght 3y ago
> Relationships are key to our survival, so I suggest personal relations could be just as good an essay as anything scientific Some of my favorite books are old literature that describe relationship dynamics I still see playing out betwe
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by mckn1ght 3y ago
If you say so. > The number of deaths per passenger-mile on commercial airlines in the United States between 2000 and 2010 was about 0.2 deaths per 10 billion passenger-miles. For driving, the rate was 150 per 10 billion vehicle-miles: 7
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by mckn1ght 3y ago
That's true, but is there any reason to believe Apple is acting in such a discriminatory fashion against a protected class of citizen?
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by mckn1ght 3y ago
Taxis in many cities operate under the authority of a government institution [0], so it makes more sense that they have a duty to do business with the public. Whereas one can often experience waiting for a Lyft/Uber where drivers repea
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by mckn1ght 3y ago
> But there’s also no harm in combining them Disagree. I’ve seen people write things like the following: if x != nil { x!.foo() } and then later the x != nil condition is changed to no longer check for nil, or the x!.foo() is mo
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by mckn1ght 3y ago
I believe what they are saying is that any graph can be represented by either a matrix or edge list. So they are equivalently capable representations of graphs. The "they" refers to matrices, not graphs, when they said "and t
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by mckn1ght 3y ago
They have different use cases. if x != nil is to do some work without needing x, because you'd still have to unwrap it if you used it. That's what if let y = x is for, it creates a safe lexical context to use the unwrapped value.
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by mckn1ght 3y ago
I’m almost done with it and I’ll say that I hated the first part, found many of the specific examples interesting throughout the middle, and although there are some interesting insights later, it’s an utter failure from a narrative standpoi
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by mckn1ght 3y ago
My bar is being able to execute a compiled binary produced with clang/gcc.
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by mckn1ght 3y ago
I’m waiting for the day I can have an Apple Watch without ever needing an iPhone to manage it, and an iPad to do real dev work (ie, Xcode for iPad) without ever having to fall back on a Mac/Book. I’ve been waiting for years already so
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by mckn1ght 3y ago
> about two years … that's the much more relevant comparison why is 2 years the relevant timeframe?
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by mckn1ght 3y ago
Labor cost pretty much always increases while the cost of research technology decreases once it encounters economies of scale. A car today at the admittedly high cost estimate of $1M will “pay itself off” versus your labor estimate in less

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