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by nemo 11y ago
Regexes are really easy in Ruby as well (which cribbed a lot from Perl). There's an OO syntax, but also support for the Perl built-ins so this works fine in Ruby: print "match" if something =~ /thing/i Captures wit
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by nemo 11y ago
A large segment of the population is bad at math (and it's way more than 30%). You're labeling those people as some kind of moral failure since you didn't like the kids at school who were poor students and are sure all peopl
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by nemo 11y ago
Yes, Oracle's database is really very, very good, and if you know how to use it it's really powerful. I really did like working with it, but hope I never will again due to the company that sells it. While Oracle is powerful (and
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by nemo 11y ago
"typical case of customer losing the tab on bar and complaining about paying the fee for lost-tab." It's more the customer getting a bar tab for a huge number of drinks they could potentially have ordered but claim they didn&
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by nemo 11y ago
BMW noticed Google's pushing into the (self-driving) car business. That's what their trademark complaint's based on.
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by nemo 11y ago
Sure, they aren't actually sending anyone, but they are pretending they are, and gullible people believe them. Accepting applicants who are married and screwing with their spouses' minds is incredibly ugly, even if it's just
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by nemo 11y ago
I think it's easy to read as just plain homoeroticism - the book's laden with it, esp. in subtext, though sometimes explicitly. You'd have to consciously work to not see talking about the delight of men pressing into other m
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by nemo 11y ago
True, though in Melville's time the word "sperm" did also mean semen, and the homoeroticism isn't just in the word "sperm" but the whole of the passage. Moby Dick has a ton of homoerotic scenes like the man don
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by nemo 11y ago
Moby Dick has some seriously homoerotic content, though: "Squeeze! squeeze! squeeze! all the morning long; I squeezed that sperm till I myself almost melted into it; I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me; a
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by nemo 11y ago
Mars One actually accepted applicants who were married? I'd thought I'd already lost all respect for them but somehow found more to lose.
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by nemo 11y ago
If only there were 800 characters representing all of Riley's emotions and the parents were meaner the movie would have been much better...
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by nemo 11y ago
There are some areas in academia (esp. among Lit. Crit. and cultural studies types) where the term DWEM (dead white european male) is used to criticize the traditional canon as a kind of cultural chauvinism. I studied Classics where that s
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by nemo 11y ago
More like a 90 day interview.
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by nemo 11y ago
While it's worth noting Hari's previous problems, deciding to simply not give him the time of day is black-and-white thinking. His current work would better be judged on its own merit (with an eye to possible issues based on the
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by nemo 11y ago
"The left" is an umbrella term for all kinds of causes that don't all share the same concerns, values, or goals, while "progressive" is basically a replacement term picked up once right-wing propagandists had poison
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by nemo 11y ago
The problem with Hitler wasn't just the ugly and noxious ideas he had, but what he did. Moldbug is a ignorant crank, but on that front he isn't doing much besides ranting, largely in the incoherent jargon he's invented. I d
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by nemo 11y ago
While Moldbug holds hideous political views, if the talk is on tech. and doesn't overlap him advocating hideous things, then this is akin to the old Hollywood blackballing, the excuse for dropping him was pathetic, and I agree that pro
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by nemo 11y ago
I know people from Apple data-related teams and have no idea what you're talking about. Might depend on the team...
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by nemo 11y ago
A lot of the prices of pieces of fine art aren't just tied to the aesthetics, but have to do with artifacts that are scarce and desirable. An Apple I isn't really desirable as a computer, but because it's an Apple I, made by
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by nemo 11y ago
You're right that if the slide said C requires a build step unlike a lot of high level languages it would be correct. The terms "interpreted language" and "compiled language" have a sense in normal usage that I des
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by nemo 11y ago
I think the slide was correct in expressing the idea it wanted to express using terms that are commonly used in the sense they used, while the parent was being pointlessly pedantic in wishing the terms had some strict sense that was the onl
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by nemo 11y ago
Compiled vs. interpreted is intended there to mean something a little different than runtime behaviors. Compiled - source files are run through a compiler which produce some output file that's then run. With C or Java you run the .c o
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by nemo 11y ago
"It starts with a lie" Web Mercator is a Mercator projection, so it's not a lie, just slightly imprecise. "which is admitted in the very end of the post" The post discusses Web Mercator in the second sentence. &quot
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by nemo 11y ago
The ongoing travesties of justice that poor communities face are a disgraceful monstrosity of abuse, no doubt. The scale of disenfranchisement from mainstream society is hard to even get a sense of for most. Riots are in some senses a pro
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by nemo 11y ago
Isn't the goal to see that all have their rights, though? Certainly the travesties of justice that many African-Americans suffer daily are at least on par if not worse than getting a store trashed (having your livelihood destroyed, vs
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by nemo 11y ago
Microsoft - yesterday's technology, tomorrow.
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by nemo 11y ago
That is a minor simplification of the wikipedia description, though the illustration in the wikipedia article helps to make the mechanism clear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie–Hellman_key_exchange#Cr...
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by nemo 11y ago
"we should be able to treat this situation as urgently as things were handled in WWII." The US went into WW II because of Pearl Harbor. We didn't go in after Hitler had invaded most of Europe. We did send war supplies but d
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by nemo 11y ago
"that's only if you are bad at PR and communicating expectations, or self-defense." Without the stability of rule of law in a reasonably regulated state, self-defense is incredibly difficult in the modern world, with modern t
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by nemo 11y ago
The joke was that atheists (along with the others listed) are inclined towards outspoken rants at everyone. You responded with an outspoken rant to the joke.

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