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by mdpye 4y ago
I'm pretty sure that the "all men" in that document wasn't literally "all men" (even, never mind all people) either, so perhaps we wouldn't consider it the last word on the subject.
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by mdpye 4y ago
In Europe at least, this is true for a vanishingly small number of key mountain passes. And most of them have been bypassed with motorways on shallower grades which are significantly longer, but still quicker for cars to travel. Everywhere
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by mdpye 4y ago
I don't know where you live, but the other thing I've noticed people who have never cycle toured really fail to notice is how many thousands of small roads there are, at least in Europe, which link everywhere. Agrigultural roads t
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by mdpye 4y ago
It's not "for existing". Taken collectively, their work underpins the conditions for the lives of those better off. Remove "the poor" from the equation, and it's likely your quality of life would collapse. The
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by mdpye 4y ago
While that sounds like an amazing technical accomplishment, I can tell you that discovering it on an amiga with a hifi separates amp and speakers[1] was definitely better. I was very lucky, but I'm not sorry! ;) The soundtrack is sensa
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by mdpye 4y ago
My guess would be yes. They will pour more fuel on to the fire...
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by mdpye 5y ago
Surely you mean that the flat is for sleeping not living. They're too small for living, because all the living is done at the restaurants, bars, parks, theatres, offices and so on. If that's the style you prefer, then you need
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by mdpye 5y ago
Right. Facepalm. I kind of missed the bit where we shifted paradigms. My personal preference would still be to be explicit, to echew secret mutable state even in the tests, but that's just me. My personal baggage makes phrases like &qu
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by mdpye 5y ago
How do you convince the when-to-fire-logic to act on a mock, if the torpedo implementation is not provided from outside it? I'm wondering if I have the terminology understood differently to other people, because to me, DI == IoC. DI F
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by mdpye 5y ago
Do you distinguish between dependency injection (frameworks) and general inversion of control? Because what I think of dependency injection is extremely common in golang - they made interfaces satisfy structurally rather than nominally so t
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by mdpye 5y ago
How do you test the code which determines when to fire the torpedoes, without actually firing the torpedoes every time you run the tests?
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by mdpye 5y ago
Hah, yeah, the dropping of prepositions in around verbs has been alive in Yorkshire forever, where it's also common for articles too. And non-speakers often misrepresent the glottal stop which replaces the definite article in Yorkshire
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by mdpye 5y ago
Some points to consider: - ebola is transmitted via physical contact (with bodily fluids), not vapour in the air - ebola tends to be contagious only once symptoms appear, not for several days before Those two points alone make the two compl
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by mdpye 5y ago
> they've all eaten the same food Heh, that's what you think... Ever watched one of those lighthearted documentaries where they GPS tag and attach cameras to a whole neighbourhood's cats? They mostly wandered around eating
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by mdpye 5y ago
But what would you install them on? (aside an emulator of course). As ROMs they seem more a part of the hardware than the other stuff there. But hey, it could just be lack of interest on the part of their audience. It looks like they'v
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by mdpye 5y ago
I was also surprised by the omission, but then realised they're hosting archives of the installers. Much of classic AmigaDOS is in the Kickstart ROM (with the workbench environment loaded from disk). I'm guessing that as an OS it&
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by mdpye 5y ago
As the sibling says, we do use gratis as a loan. Gracious already means "with grace" (of manners or motions), and gratuitous "excessive" (as in violence)...
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by mdpye 5y ago
Most of these stories relate to administering interactive multi-user machines, not the kind of thing we now think of as a server. Users were simultaneously logged in at the shell going about their business in *nix, not sending stateless req
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by mdpye 5y ago
In the UK, and I think the rest of Europe, things like tax have recently been changing to strongly discourage this. Contractors now have to be hired for specific projects with identified goals and deliverables or the whole thing starts to g
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by mdpye 5y ago
Sure, your no code system can be Turing complete. Lots of things are accidentally Turing complete. But at that point, aren't you just coding with a different interface but all the same problems and complexity? And (as argued already
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by mdpye 5y ago
I suspect you are talking at cross purposes. You are suggesting no-code first on a micro timescale. For prototyping. That seems like a solid suggestion and use of resources. But from the GP, I read a statement on the macro scale. No-code ca
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by mdpye 5y ago
I would add a variable ENDPOINT, initialised to "" and set to " --endpoint $THEENDPOINTVALUE" if the endpoint value was passed. Then include that in every invocation? Sorry if I missed something in the logic, reading on
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by mdpye 5y ago
I don't see anything wrong with small rooms and common areas. It's the no windows and warren-like density of this that is disturbing. That students expect to live multiple years without any private space at all in the US has alway
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by mdpye 5y ago
Oh, and on dosage, I'm from the UK. In my experience in the US a single joint is rolled to a potency I'd consider equivalent to "a mug full of whisky", not a pint of beer!
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by mdpye 5y ago
It's difficult to say what an equivalent dose might be and this is just my experience, but... Definitely cognitive tasks would be considered more impaired by weed than beer, at "roughly equivalent to a pint" level. Likely nei
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by mdpye 5y ago
Careful. Plastics lock up carbon in "basically non-decomposable form" and that is proving problematic. And the problem isn't that we mined the carbon. Death (decomposition) is a critical part of the circle of life...
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by mdpye 5y ago
I had some questions about that too. It looks cool, to be sure, but I watched the video of the nail being hammered through some boards, and... let's just say I'm not so timid with steel nails! For what they were showing, if you we
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by mdpye 5y ago
Which OSM app do you use?
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Axiomatic CSS and Lobotomized Owls(alistapart.com)
2 points by mdpye 5y ago|0 comments
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by mdpye 5y ago
Many of those booleans aren't necessarily named. Any "is(n't) null" check on a nullable includes a boolean expression. That's quite a few booleans right there. Using an optional (and accessing it with either fmap or

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