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by narag 4y ago
Food for thought: what are the expected consequences of the exception? If the error will stop the program flow and show a warning dialog to the user, it's useless to think too much about performance. More or less the same if it's
572.
by narag 4y ago
A friend used to call this kind of setup flag-oriented programming . I've suffered it when working for engineering companies where the PMs understood the logic but didn't understand why it's a bad idea to just create branche
573.
by narag 4y ago
Electoral systems are very difficult to change. The party with enough votes to lead the change isn't going to be interested, because it's the system that put them in that position. Edit: So we're talking electoral systems, re
574.
by narag 4y ago
I must be the only person in the world who really loved that theme. It always cheered me up. The default wallpaper not so much, but I never let the default one anyway. The coloured "rubber" gadgets were very nice. Those haters sur
575.
by narag 4y ago
Mr. West is not in his best moment. He's not well known here in Spain. I mean, everybody knows he's a singer and was married to the exotic lady, but I don't think I've heard him sing.
576.
by narag 4y ago
Nice try :) I had something in mind, but it works better as a fill in the spaces game. FWIW, it wasn't Epstein's death, I don't know if it's being called a conspiracy theory, maybe because nobody is very vocally demandin
577.
by narag 4y ago
I've always found weird that Oswald being paid by some powerful organization is considered a fringe conspiranoia, like Elvis is still alive , when some facts (Kennedy was the POTUS, Oswald was himself killed later before he could spea
578.
by narag 4y ago
I don't. I used to when votes worked both as votes and as bookmarks. At some moment I started bookmarking stories in the browser and gave up voting because somehow I felt humble and decided that my opinion wasn't important for sto
579.
by narag 4y ago
The annoyance for me is owning a printer, not using the usb stick.
580.
by narag 4y ago
Still two orders of magnitude more expensive for my needs. Thank you but nope.
581.
by narag 4y ago
But even if they don't want, it's still there for GMail, other employees, whoever hacks their account, etc.
582.
by narag 4y ago
The first computer I bought was a 386. But I tried the used machine market before, to see if it was possible to save some money. My father drove me to a company that had their used system for sale. It was embedded in a desk, the screen was
583.
by narag 4y ago
Funny, for me it helps replacing another device that I canned twenty years ago: the printer. Every time I need to print something to feed some troglodite's requirement, I put a pdf in a pincho and go down the street to the call shop.
584.
by narag 4y ago
...giving up all your identity is my "sick mindset". So drop it already. The article isn't about "the extreme end" anyway. There's a middle ground between being a soulless robot and a sheep, isn't there?
585.
by narag 4y ago
This reminds me a class very long ago, when the teacher wrote two contradictory definitions of style in the blackboard, one saying that style is what the authors have in common with their school, the other saying that style is what the auth
586.
by narag 4y ago
So the opposite of the reclaimed slur someone mentioned.
587.
by narag 4y ago
I believe that the answer you seek is in the article. You're too attached to a sick mindset. It's better to stop overthinking and doing something that have more pleasant effects (for you) than writting long-winded comments here. O
588.
by narag 4y ago
I'm not a native speaker, not in the know of the nuances of those terms, just accepted the one you chose. There's a point that I still don't understand. The article advices to keep identity as a minimum. Not having none, just
589.
by narag 4y ago
I take he's talking about ideas. Being queer, as I understand it, is not an idea but a fact, like being six feet tall or having blue eyes.
590.
by narag 4y ago
I must have missed it at the time, otherwise I would remember this gem: Because the point at which this happens depends on the people rather than the topic, it's a mistake to conclude that because a question tends to provoke religious
591.
by narag 4y ago
You're wrong, I'm not American. I dated an actual person that lived in the USSR. She was somehow conflicted, but talked in no uncertain terms about the soviet boot . Also you're wrong. I question everything. Of course, you d
592.
by narag 4y ago
Not totally unfamilliar, I've probably seen some movie based on his books... I remember hearing about his troubles, maybe when he passed away. BTW, I wouldn't need to read Tarantino's book. I watched the original sources at t
593.
by narag 4y ago
No, I haven't. The point of the comment is that Fleming provided a nicer narrative than Le Carré so it was prefered for political reasons. Fleming, in the article, pretty much says that he doesn't care much about politics, that he
594.
by narag 4y ago
I wasn't talking about any book, that I haven't read anyway, just making a distinction, nitpicking if you prefer it that way, about a specific paragraph. In it, photochemsyn states that you don't know who the good guys were,
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by narag 4y ago
Hi, hope you're still there. I don't remember doing anything special. Just copied the files from my older laptop in a writable directory, not under Program Files, but under my user home dir. Let me know if you have any problem wit
596.
by narag 4y ago
This is because there's a lot of uncertainly about who the 'good guys' were in the Cold War, or even if there were any. Ends don't justify the means and there were very bad means in both sides. Probably I shouldn'
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by narag 4y ago
It was easy for me after enough hours playing, IIRC I had a ~100M record... must have the record file anywhere. Actually I have the game installed in Windows 10, but I no longer play it. I lost the aim in the central targets that give endle
598.
by narag 4y ago
Same here. Not only the goth typography, but also the old unstable spelling of the time make the text extremely difficult to read. I tried with the image in page 12 and, even if most words should ring a bell (my own family name, places near
599.
by narag 4y ago
FWIW, there has never been a Charles V of Spain. Article referes to Charles I of Spain and V of elsewhere. This guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_V,_Holy_Roman_Emperor Our last ruler of that name was Charles
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by narag 4y ago
It's been a couple of years at least, so it isn't fresh. I don't remember anything about dealing with codecs. Anyway, it seems from all the links that using some re-encoding option will fix it. Thanks again!

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