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by narag 4y ago
As I have young children of my own today, I'm faced with these questions. What is a healthy amount of pushing vs too much? What about not at all? The only thing they need to be good, not even best, is the studies that will enable the
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by narag 4y ago
There are 161,000,000 km² of ocean... Sorry if you aren't the best choice, but I had to ask someone in the thread. Why? I mean why all the ocean? If the purpose is to find archeological sites, most will be on the continental platform
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by narag 4y ago
I have found a game that seems close to release: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1523650/Stargate_Timekeep...
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by narag 4y ago
As a fan of the Stargate franchise, I'd like a game based on it. Actually I haven't even checked if there is one already, I will now. The last spin-off, Stargate Universe, had a nice set up: you're in an old battered ship tha
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by narag 4y ago
Anyone else feel like the golden age of internet services is behind us, and this shitty version is the only path ahead of us? I have this theory, for a long time, that a lot of what sucks in computing is simply because at some moment it w
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by narag 4y ago
I'm curious: what's replaced Query? I guess it's not a single library, but a set of frameworks...
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by narag 4y ago
Another alternative explanation, that I find that extends to many alleged addictions is that he is avoiding doing what he needs to do because anxiety. A recent related post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31408431
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by narag 4y ago
That's what makes TSRs possible. A TSR is essentially just an ordinary program, the only difference is that when it exits, it tells the OS to leave the process in memory rather than unloading it. Yeah, I remember programming a bunch
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by narag 4y ago
Sure, I just meant that maybe smaller phones are profitable, just less profitable than bigger ones, so companies incentivize the latest. I've given up. My plan is buying a dumbphone until Pine is usable by me.
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Clearly? Are you sure? Paraphrasing Contact : First rule in cell phone building: why build small when you can build twice as big at twice the price?
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by narag 4y ago
I recommend Code Complete for characteristics that make code objectively better and more readable. This article seems to make the case that it's all about taste or lack of familiarity. I'm not convinced.
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by narag 4y ago
I consider myself a libertarian with two exceptions: public education and healthcare as a fail-safe. Maybe a mixed system using vouchers would be even better, not sure. But from a practical perspective, I think they work better than the opp
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by narag 4y ago
Not sure why you think I want to convince anybody. The original poster asked why people seems so conformist IRL, as oppossed to online. I just explained that most people learned that being Don Quixote is dangerous.
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That's not wise, that's dishonest to the other person and to yourself. Yeah, you're probably right.
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It's impossible to convince most people of even the most obvious truths. The wisest path is to fake agreement, keep your thoughts for yourself and move away ASAP. Online it seems you can get away with more honest talk without consequen
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by narag 4y ago
I know someone that has been abusing benzos for more than forty years. In hindsight, the weird thing is she's still somehow functional, at least in Twitter. But of course: needs four or five pills to sleep four hours a day, paranoia, m
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by narag 4y ago
Trusting social media as a measure of general opinion is not a good idea. They could be a tiny minority making a lot of noise.
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by narag 4y ago
Folks... [Not an English native] Isn't that a little too informal? Bugs Bunny came to mind. Is "ladies and gentlemen" somehow out of fashion?
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by narag 4y ago
Best legal definition I've heard involves death. When is a person considered dead? Brain activity ceased irreversibly. In the opposite end you have first brain activity (around three months since fecundation) as the best milestone. Of
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by narag 4y ago
I have this ultracheap made-in-China big kitchen clock, with a single AA that I've replaced twice in eight years. I don't buy expensive batteries, more like in line with the clock. It has second hand (the kind that doesn't ti
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by narag 4y ago
Also Gillette Blue II (now even cheaper clones) + same kind of brush + cream. The rest I don't feel the need for it. And an electric shaver for the days I'm too lazy. With both methods, it's fast and convenient. I can't
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by narag 4y ago
There's this assumption, not explicit, but floating around this thread, that aerodynamics somehow makes splats more difficult. I can't really refute it, but it doesn't ring true to me either. Insects don't even touch the
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by narag 4y ago
Will industry move towards simple solutions after experiencing this churn down the line or are we doomed forever? IIRC I found this site because of this essay by Paul Graham: http://www.paulgraham.com/icad.html TL;DR: don
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by narag 4y ago
Personally I like using nice notebooks with ornate covers based on old books, with metallic ink accents. You must be young. If I used something like that at work, the young yahoos would laugh me out of the building.
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by narag 4y ago
Phoenicians wouldn't have gone so far inland. Carthaginians were their descendants, but at the time of Second Punic War, centuries had passed since original colonies like Tarsis or Malaka (Cádiz, Málaga) were founded. Carthage was a Ph
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by narag 4y ago
And if the rule is "don't juggle forks while riding a unicycle around electrical outlets", it's usually because someone lied about what happened. Next thing that happens is smoking is forbidden while you're drivin
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by narag 4y ago
Actually they're used in legal school. To add the "stop looking at the finger" part, they tell you that there's proof of what happened, but still most students keep wondering how was it known.
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Yeah, I don't see that last thing working in my country. "Criminal organization" is a crime in itself so it's a different tool to apply tougher penalties. But, apart from that, the complicity rules have more strict requi
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The doctor was found guilty of murder, because he had overwhelming control of the situation. No idea what "felony murder rule" is but if it's in the anglo-saxon tradition, I doubt it's applicable. I can't remember w
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by narag 4y ago
Actually, some real cases are as weird as the hypothetical ones. A couple comes to mind: a guy rents a house in the middle of nowhere with the condition that he won't play the grand piano that's in the middle of the living room.

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