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by mcphage 5mo ago
Thanks for sharing that, that was just a nice story.
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by mcphage 5mo ago
When a company is acquired, sometimes the company's products get a new lease on life, and sometimes the company's products are killed, or allowed to die.
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by mcphage 5mo ago
How do you evaluate the merits of a graph of information? I usually read articles like this to learn something, not to grade someone else’s assignment.
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by mcphage 5mo ago
> without your jealous 1-star reviews What makes those reviews “jealous”? Jealous of what?
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by mcphage 5mo ago
> the US will probably take action against Yemen and Somalia So we’re losing 1 war, and your solution is to start 2 more?
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by mcphage 5mo ago
Oh, there’s definitely hard parts of having kids—but changing diapers isn’t really one of them.
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by mcphage 6mo ago
In its defense, this is also happens to be a really good link, and every time it gets posted, new people encounter it for the first time. (And I'm always happy to see it once more).
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by mcphage 6mo ago
When I was in college (back in the early 2000s) I took a course on computational linguistics as part of a linguistics degree. And we studied formal language style parsers, and statistical style parsers. And I really didn't like the s
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by mcphage 6mo ago
> We don’t do that for political reasons. We don't do that because of all the reasons those laws were put into place.
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by mcphage 6mo ago
Tiger got to hunt, Bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder, "Why, why, why?" Tiger got to sleep, Bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand. —Kurt Vonnegut
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by mcphage 6mo ago
> I very carefully worked through, line by line. If you sat down in front of it, and asked it a question that wasn't in the dialogue, there was some probability it would answer it. I mean, if it was reasonably close to one of the qu
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by mcphage 6mo ago
I came to say the same thing. If you have to reach every cell, then you can immediately draw in the corners, for instance.
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by mcphage 6mo ago
> The way they do renewables in some places: > * making everyone to use natural gas for heating by making it much cheaper than electricity They do renewables in some places by selling cheap fossil fuels? That’s… not doing renewables.
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by mcphage 6mo ago
Nice, someone even lower than my #297!
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by mcphage 6mo ago
I agree... it's gorgeous, but it's missing the ocean's colors.
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by mcphage 6mo ago
Drinkin outta cups
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by mcphage 6mo ago
> I'd wager Joe Sixpack, brass fisher in Montana I don’t think Montana fishermen have a broad impact on society, or its decision making. There’s just not that many of them.
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by mcphage 6mo ago
What does it mean to have 0.3cm height error, when height is one of the 8 questions?
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by mcphage 6mo ago
> We wouldn't have a war if Iran wasn't pursuing nuclear weapons. It's post-hoc justification. And you feel this war is going to get them to stop?
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by mcphage 6mo ago
> They shouldn't have needed a JCPOA anyway - why was Iran pursuing nuclear weapons in the first place? This current war is why.
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by mcphage 6mo ago
Do you think this war is (a) likely to convince Iran to not pursue nuclear weapons, or (b) convince Iran that nuclear weapons are a necessity for their continued existence? I'm pretty sure it's (b), and that between Russia's
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by mcphage 6mo ago
You've got to set up the story beats beforehand, otherwise your viewers will complain that things show up out of nowhere.
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by mcphage 6mo ago
> Although the war in Iran is very obviously justified, Wait, what now?
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by mcphage 6mo ago
> And yet we elected Jesus. You mean that doctor?
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by mcphage 6mo ago
> No, it was government mandates that played hell with peoples' social lives. What did the government mandate about your social life?
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by mcphage 6mo ago
> Pit is also popular in my family when there's a gathering of us We call Pit "The Yelling Game". For being over 100 years old, it's elegant, clever, and fun.
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by mcphage 6mo ago
Concord grapes are pretty common in season in New York State, and I’m assuming the states nearby.
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by mcphage 6mo ago
> A LOT of formerly pretty high quality brands have ended up getting sold off to brand management companies and the like. That sounds fascinating... I'd love to read an article about that.
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by mcphage 6mo ago
> stop taking advantage of others weaknesses What does it mean to have a weakness for purchasing T-shirts that read ”PTSD: Pretty Tired of Stupid Democrats”? That's not predatory; they're paying money for a t-shirt and (presum
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by mcphage 6mo ago
> That is the funniest comment I have seen. You say it's funny, but the rest of your comment makes me think you didn't realize it was a joke.

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