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by meepmorp 3y ago
No, no - it's completely plausible for a nuclear powered sub to get stuck in at most 150 meters of water and have all its life support systems fail badly enough to kill a couple dozen sailors. Also, China simply hasn't mastered th
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by meepmorp 3y ago
Bluesky isn't even out of beta yet.
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> Another argument against corporal punishment I suppose. Corporal punishment is physical pain, capital punishment is death - corpus meaning body, capitalis meaning head (as in, losing your head).
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by meepmorp 3y ago
I thought it was interesting. Why are you starting the flame war?
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by meepmorp 3y ago
I'm not convinced bing really is worse than google search, at this point.
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by meepmorp 3y ago
Or pick Feb 29, and it's just once every 4 years on average.
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This, but unironically
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by meepmorp 3y ago
Just because someone has a history of being deceitful and making up things to further their own agenda, that doesn't mean we should discount everything they say - especially when it's an extraordinary, n=1 result in the case of a
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by meepmorp 3y ago
I've seen 1.5 chars/token used as a rule of thumb for estimating token counts in Chinese text.
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by meepmorp 3y ago
Heat - you close off the affected area and heat it to a bit over 50C for a few days. The bugs die through desiccation.
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by meepmorp 3y ago
Who should be criminally charged for the Iraq War, and on what basis specifically? The las broken and evidence needed to support a charge is pretty clear in this case - I don't think that's true for Iraq.
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by meepmorp 3y ago
Is the vim/terminfo issue mentioned in the article what caused the UI glitching during the merge steam last week?
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by meepmorp 3y ago
Transcription practice really helped me associate IPA with speech sounds.
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The Greeks. They're the first known group to explicitly represent vowels, unlike the older Egyptian derived systems which only represented consonants and thus were abjads rather than alphabets.
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by meepmorp 3y ago
YubiKeys are fine, just avoid their proprietary OTP thing. They're fairly configurable and also do FIDO/WebAuthn, as well as TOTP/HOTP, PGPcard and PIV.
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by meepmorp 3y ago
> I can't say definitively. But if you look at the linked article there has been a large increase in cancer since the vaccine rollout. https://swizec.com/blog/pirates-downfall-causes-global-warmi... > But go
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by meepmorp 3y ago
> is criticizing the headline for the passive voice "Dam disaster" Because I love picking nits, that headline does not contain even a single instance of the passive voice.
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by meepmorp 3y ago
Are you suggesting his cancer was somehow caused by being vaccinated?
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by meepmorp 3y ago
No, we should encourage the development of these kinds of weapons because they make combat less dangerous for US servicepeople. Also, it's incredibly naive to think that you'd achieve anything but handicapping western nation in th
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by meepmorp 3y ago
> This is ARM's latest A-Series processor released in 2016, the Cortex-A73 supports full-size ARMv8-A architecture, and the ARMv8-A is ARM's first processor architecture to support 64-bit instruction sets, including ARM TrustZo
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by meepmorp 3y ago
I dealt with it by getting a split keyboard, so the cat can lie in front of me with my arms around her while I type. It's less work than shooing her off the desk every 3 minutes.
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by meepmorp 3y ago
> This industry is really bad about rewarding competence. If you promote the competent people, you leave the incompetent ones to do the actual work.
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by meepmorp 3y ago
It's bugs all the way down.
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by meepmorp 3y ago
> It gets complicated as Carlson has large monetary investment in chess.com How does that complicate the fact that Niemann admitted cheating on games he played on chess.com?
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What's ironic about it?
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by meepmorp 3y ago
IME, there's very little in life people feel as entitled to as something they'd previously been getting for free.
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by meepmorp 3y ago
> DreamBerd 2 has significant whitespace. Use spacing to specify the order of arithmetic operations. > print(1 + 2*3)! //7 > print(1+2 * 3)! //9 I can't decide if this is a terrible or brilliant idea, or
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by meepmorp 3y ago
It is? I'm not being snarky, that's just not what come to mind for me when I think about Mozilla.
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by meepmorp 3y ago
What makes you think it's an excel mistake? I didn't see anything particularly suggestive in the article itself, so perhaps you know more than is mentioned?
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by meepmorp 3y ago
> This makes it sound like there are two sides, where one side is smart and is never fooled by propaganda, and the other side is easily gulled by flashy TV effects. I think you're reading a bit more into the comment than the author

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