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by nilamo 1y ago
Similarly, "stupid hack" adds nothing that just "hack" doesn't say. And in that case, why have a comment at all? The code is likely obviously hacky. At least I can have a laugh while looking at the hack someone came
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by nilamo 1y ago
I agree that it is nice to keep in mind as a general philosophy, however I also think it's important to keep in mind that the people who originally wrote "innocent until proven guilty" were all treasonous sepratists, and thei
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by nilamo 1y ago
> Hm, not sure if that is really less depressing... A starship capable of such a journey is surely large enough to bring all your friends and family along, colony-ship style.
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by nilamo 1y ago
Move your plant friend to your new desk?
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by nilamo 1y ago
Ah, then we got what we paid for.
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by nilamo 1y ago
"I needed money." Why is that not a good enough answer?
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by nilamo 1y ago
I recognize the benefits of open communication, while also not wanting to participate in something so gross. I'm absolutely baffled by people claiming censorship free is the only option, and that any moderation at all is bad. A free fo
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by nilamo 1y ago
I won't speak for others, but I refuse to use a service that doesnt work if I'm not signed in. But when it did work, there didn't appear to be overzealous banning, and all the banning conversation appeared to be coming from s
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by nilamo 1y ago
Sounds less like a planet, and more like a nebula.
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by nilamo 1y ago
> But real money comes from gambling and offering gambling services... Also known as investing... There's a huge gulf between a night at the poker tables, and buying into a little of MSFT's dividend, and it's really diseng
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by nilamo 1y ago
All of us who never hooked the dreamcast up to the internet.
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by nilamo 1y ago
This sounds like you're describing the back story of WALL-E
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by nilamo 1y ago
1) art museums, specifically the Smithsonian, but nearly every major city has a decent one. 2) state parks are pretty rad.
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by nilamo 1y ago
And there's no longer a CFPB to help you when it happens...
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by nilamo 1y ago
Why would you pay for a product and never want it to improve your workflows?
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by nilamo 1y ago
So now we're assuming that the Netflix app does not know which domain it considers safe?
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by nilamo 1y ago
> Rails 8 has moved Redis functionality into the database by default, which works fine. Databases could always do what redis did. Redis doesn't bring functionality to the table, it brings speed. If database caching, pub/sub,
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by nilamo 1y ago
Why does it need to be labeled at all? Is opening netflix.com while in the Netflix app really an external website?
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by nilamo 1y ago
The Office of Special Intelligence protects the world from dangers we would rather pretend didn't exist.
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by nilamo 1y ago
A sniper rifle does the same, with a single shot, more reliably and without witnesses.
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by nilamo 2y ago
"Defunded" NPR gets less than 2% of their income from the government. Defunding them isn't as big of a deal as claims appear.
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by nilamo 2y ago
That definition of real time is not good enough for things like pacemakers, where real time really does actually matter.
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by nilamo 2y ago
Something so major (global finances), over an issue so minor (fraud on an individual basis)? Serious organizations don't play games like that.
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by nilamo 2y ago
If that were true, Research and Development couldn't exist.
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by nilamo 2y ago
> I think you'll never find a case where someone got in trouble for not being a hero Very much depends on country: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duty_to_rescue
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by nilamo 2y ago
Why does the interest rate matter? Unless you have no cash on hand and are operating soley off debt??
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by nilamo 2y ago
Exactly. Hard to improve on something so great. We love a ``` select {what} from {where} left join {where} on {how} where {why} ``` A simple query, concisely answering every relevant question, while hiding all of the details of
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by nilamo 2y ago
I heavily disagree with the notion that most developers would rather query with something that isn't SQL.
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by nilamo 2y ago
- Very fast - avoids radar/detection - water based My first assumption is that this is for stealth ops. "Rescue" doesn't need those features.
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by nilamo 2y ago
If the results of that determination only apply after I'm dead, then their definition of good is not entirely relevant to me.

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