mkoubaa

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721.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
Within 5 days I'm fully adjusted but there are some symptoms of dehydration before that. Leads me to doubt the conventional wisdom these days of "drink gallons of water per day to have a chance of being healthy"
722.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
Chronologically, the first sentence of the Quran is "Read." And, the Quran on dozens of occasions demands that people think and use their faculty of reason. A message can be considered divine without it being completely patronizin
723.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
I and many others use calculations but some folks prefer the traditional method
724.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
There is no Muslim authority or institutions, it's decentralized
725.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
I wouldn't downvote it if this was written in 2015 when this was the zeitgeist but most of us have moved on from that (harmful imo) trend
726.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
Natural selection only works if the organism is allowed to die. I think the same is true for institutions and the cultural elite. Part of the stagnation, if you buy it's existence, is a slowing of the rate of death of institutions. I p
727.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
Sometimes I wonder whether C (the ISO programming language) will ever diverge from C (the de facto FFI and ABI for all systems ever) I expect no but I hope yes
728.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
My company has at least 3 implementations of cross platform COM (one organic, the rest through acquisitions)
729.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
I'm not really expecting anything, it's just my experience developing commercial desktop applications on Linux that you inevitably end up having a startup script that sets LD_LIBRARY path before the main process starts. And even t
730.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
Microsoft's mission to empower people anywhere in the world to do more apparently means transferring wealth to thugs in developing countries without actually delivering technology.
731.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
Even if your point is granted it does not account for Microsoft employees stealing from Microsoft.
732.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
DT_RUNPATH is not nearly flexible enough to matter
733.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
All this because nobody wants to change the ELF loader to better isolate dependencies of binaries
734.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
Agree completely. A society that thinks about the welfare of children is great but you hate to be always on the receiving end of "will anyone think of the children??!". I don't know where I was going with that analogy
735.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
This probably isn't the reason but people who spend more time in nature have less spatial intuition about artificial things like 90 degree angles and perfect circles. A possibility is that aphants have an advantage in abstract thought
736.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
Generalizing this is harmful. It does not follow that things that we did not choose are not our responsibility.
737.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
Not fully true. There are incredibly competent manufacturing engineers living there. By a factor of at least 5 over the US
738.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
In a narrowly pedantic way, sure. But that doesn't make this take useful or right
739.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
Even though it's not fair you will almost certainly have a better life if you make healthy choices than otherwise.
740.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
If GPT takes your white collar job theyre always hiring at old folks homes
741.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
This is a popular yet awful take
742.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
The self imposed agony of insisting on the hitherto unprecedented lifestyle of nuclear families that don't know their neighbor's names
743.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
Can't put the booger back in the nose
744.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
This seems to be targeted specifically at people who are extrinsically motivated and do not prioritize family. In my humble opinion that's the worst quadrant of those two variables. But apparently, with how prescient this seems to most
745.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
Dear english speakers, this author learned your language, took the time to understand glibc malloc, and then wrote an article in your language as best they could explaining it, at no cost to you. Don't nitpick about grammar, please.
746.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
Yes but we can process the shit out of the meat and add msg etc. It doesn't have to be bbq
747.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
selling wild game appears to be illegal in Canada like it is in the US. Ostensibly the reason is because of risk of illness but it's likely also due to lobbying by farmers. I think there's a solution staring at us in the face her
748.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
I've seen people cheat first hand dozens of times and know that a jury would find them not guilty. Legal standards are very high
749.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
Even a new consumer of heroin needs to be sold it the first time
750.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
Could they have been delivered to another nation in a clandestine way and reported missing to cover that loss? To me it seems viable and probably if my hypothesis is correct there's a country that became a nuclear power soon after we

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