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by moomin 1y ago
My wife, reading this: "I see Westminster's PR department are doing their job."
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by moomin 1y ago
Had to look this one up. Apparently the answer is he was a rich *hole who murdered a student, got fined £80 (which might have been a lot of money, but he was rich), stayed away from Oxford a few years and then The Powers That Be told everyo
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by moomin 1y ago
Select doesn’t have to return IEnumerable. A struct that exposes the same methods will work. So allocate-free foreach is very possible.
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by moomin 1y ago
Accurate way of phrasing it. Even Dobbs vs JWHO accepted that this is the point.
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by moomin 1y ago
They’ve forked the library, not the compiler. The Java version thing they’ve taken the hit on. (The HN title is incorrect.)
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by moomin 1y ago
Gladstone once asked Faraday about the usefulness of electricity, just saying. Faraday's response: "Why sir, there is every possibility that you will soon be able to tax it!"
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by moomin 1y ago
When we say that extremists hate our freedom, bear in mind this is the one of the kinds of freedom they hate. To win against these people, we have to be better than them and stop providing them with recruitment material for the next generat
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by moomin 1y ago
UK military has way more training on de-escalation than US police…
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by moomin 1y ago
Good time to take out a 30-year mortgage.
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by moomin 1y ago
It would be absolutely shocking if the US managed to mess up its incredible lead in scientific research. But like all things, it is the product of a consistent policy environment. If that environment changes, one day people will be writing
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by moomin 1y ago
> Trump will not. People said that the last time he was elected. Be wary of treating him as an aberration. He’s not magic, he’s exactly what people voted for. What makes you think they won’t vote for the same again with a new face?
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by moomin 1y ago
Always great to see more people who love the Barbican as much as I do. A gloriously inventive space that feels like it comes from an alternate timeline. There’s also an integrated complex including a theatre housing the RSC, a concert hall
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by moomin 1y ago
No cosmopolitan, pity.
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by moomin 1y ago
I think the real problem here is that many of the things that get wrecked are specifically designed to get wrecked rather than the driver.
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by moomin 1y ago
I’ve had people complain that, and I kid you not, my answer was obviously answered by combining the content of two specific pages in different reference books. Which, honest to God, made me wonder what _was_ a valid question.
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by moomin 1y ago
Ok, that’s one item on the Alchemic Programme checked off. What’s problem #2? I think it’s immortality.
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by moomin 1y ago
In general terms, whatever the subject, you can bet the Catholic Church has people that have thought deeply about it. Doesn’t you have to agree with them, but it’s a far cry from the kind of anti-intellectualism so beloved of the “evangelic
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by moomin 1y ago
I’ve seen Americans in Westminster Abbey puzzled and faintly outraged that Charles Darwin is buried there. It’s true that later in life he moved away from his faith, but did so privately and even then his main issue was the problem of suffe
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by moomin 1y ago
Gay penguins are massively inconvenient for “natural law” arguments.
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by moomin 1y ago
I think the relationship stays with the orthodox churches is “It’s complicated.”
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by moomin 1y ago
Yes, the “on this rock I will build my church” guy.
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by moomin 1y ago
This reminds me of the joke that a programmer would regard writing a function like "LaunchMissilesOnMoscow()" as unethical, and would insist on refactoring it to "LaunchMissilesOn(City city)".
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by moomin 1y ago
Broad laws and regulations have obvious problems that should be evident to anyone who works with code for a living. There’s a reason lawyers are cautious and precise.
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by moomin 1y ago
I’ve seen it argued that, in practice, there’s two C++ communities. One is fundamentally OK with constantly upgrading their code (those with enterprise refactoring tools are obviously in this camp, but it’s more a matter of attitude than te
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by moomin 1y ago
I really don’t have a dog in this fight between monopolists, but I’ll admit I’ll be happy to have the button.
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by moomin 1y ago
I have a standard joke about Random Access Memories that, although I'm not saying that Daft Punk contributed nothing to Get Lucky, I'm saying that if _I_ made a record with Niles Rodgers and Pharrell Williams it would be a top 10
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by moomin 1y ago
A good way of thinking about this is: consider the case where the data in question is illegal. Could you get into trouble for not only having access to it but also making copies of it? There’s plenty of case law there…
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by moomin 1y ago
Ouch. I mean, that’s really horrible. Not just the A, but the CV as well. Genuinely hard to read what it’s meant to say.
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by moomin 1y ago
Someone at my firm went to a BH AGM. There’s literally nothing like it; it’s like a Star Trek con, but for capitalism.
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by moomin 1y ago
Just answering the title: God, no. And current me looks back at previous me with _very_ mixed feelings.

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