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by mkehrt 11mo ago
Testimony is evidence. I don't think most cases have any physical evidence.
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by mkehrt 11mo ago
Sure, but perl was already dying by like 2005.
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by mkehrt 11mo ago
> great error handling Go get this completely wrong! It use a tuple rather than an enum for potential errors. This means you can forget to check errors and just use the invalid (nil?) return value from the function. On the other hand, r
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by mkehrt 11mo ago
So pieces of eight?
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by mkehrt 11mo ago
Sorry Europe and Canada, $1 and $2 coins are just absolutely terrible . I never want to have to think about where my change is. Bills are much lighter than coins and stack with the rest of the bills.
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by mkehrt 11mo ago
Back when I worked at Apple no one had stickers on their laptops (gasp, who would dare!). But everyone had identical MacBook Pros, and when we had meetings, they would go in the center of the table and then everyone would have trouble te
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by mkehrt 11mo ago
I try to avoid stickers from tech products which seem to be the common thing to do. Instead almost all of my stickers are from my friend's art projects.
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by mkehrt 11mo ago
United States of America v. One Lucite Ball Containing Lunar Material (One Moon Rock) and One Ten Inch by Fourteen Inch Wooden Plaque
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by mkehrt 11mo ago
I've written a fair amount of SML (though years ago) and I can't remember the value restriction ever being an issue. I certainly agree that SML isn't really a production language, though.
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by mkehrt 1y ago
What seems weird here? Iterating or mapping over Options is pretty normal in functional languages.
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by mkehrt 1y ago
FYI, I was just in Barcelona (I'd fortunately been before) the Sagrada Familia was sold out for the next several weeks. Parc Guell was sold out for the next several days, as well. Casa Batlo had a few tickets.
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by mkehrt 1y ago
I can't tell if you are being facetious or not.
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by mkehrt 1y ago
It's rude like calling someone on the phone is rude or SCREAMING IN ALL CAPS is rude. It's a new social norm that the author is pointing out.
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by mkehrt 1y ago
Michelmas is a holiday in September. Michelmas term is a British school term (fall term, I guess) and apparently also means the beginning of the legal year.
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by mkehrt 1y ago
I'm pretty sure "Michaelmas term" is just a Britishism sill in use today.
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by mkehrt 1y ago
> The truth isn't defamation, by definition. This is a famously American position.
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by mkehrt 1y ago
I think you can explain the product you work on rather the what you actually do. I personally say I work on Bluetooth support for Google Home assistant devices. "It's like Alexa, but Google. Even if you work on some absurdly do
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by mkehrt 1y ago
What is the point of this post? Devereux is a literal expert in the field who has studied this for decades. You're...someone on the internet? What are you posting for? This is rank anti-intellectualism.
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by mkehrt 1y ago
Catholicism isn't Protestantism. The idea that the Bible is the only source of truth is a Protestant idea and thus is very visible in the US. Catholicism, however, teaches that tradition and church teachings are sources of truth on p
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by mkehrt 1y ago
Fortunately my compiler writes a large number of unit tests for me, that run at compile time! I call it the "typechecker".
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by mkehrt 2y ago
What if it's 124 to 127? would you really type 124–127, or 124–7?
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by mkehrt 2y ago
I always use an em dash when possible when I should, and double en dash when I can't, just because I'm that kind of nerd. But it is the case that a double en dash on iOS autocorrects to an em dash, so I'm suspicious of the c
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by mkehrt 2y ago
MicroUSB is a terrible connector. Every time I have to use one, it's impossible to get into the slot; it's finicky, breakable and has a one way orientation. Lightning is delightful to use.
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by mkehrt 2y ago
Exactly correct, I think. Cyclone allowed borrowing of "regions" (which were similar to rust lifetimes) in a very similar way. This was either based on or itself inspired other theoretical models of borrowing at around the same ti
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by mkehrt 2y ago
Oh, that's an interesting point. Maybe that's what's going on. It's hard to picture such a line with a different pole.
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by mkehrt 2y ago
Is this really a Mercator projection? It doesn't appear to maintain the invariant that lines of constant bearing are straight lines. If I pick a point somewhere in the middle of Manhattan, the top point of Manhattan is somewhere near
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by mkehrt 2y ago
Wikipedia says it was base 10: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_abacus
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by mkehrt 2y ago
Oh come on, no one was doing arithmetic in Roman numerals. They were using abaci and writing down the results.
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by mkehrt 2y ago
Collins has cited "The King Must Die", Mary Renault's book about Theseus and the Minotaur, as a primary inspiration for the The Hunger Games, FWIW.
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by mkehrt 2y ago
Sounds like you don't live in New York, then? Most people here don't own a car and don't want to.

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