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orhmeh09
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Please don’t call it brain damage. It’s unfair to the human beings who aren’t responsible for the mess of POSIX.
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FWIW, Debian uses dash as its default shell. It does not appear to have which as a builtin.
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I use qsub daily with sun grid engine. Other derivatives of grid engine and I believe SLURM also implement qsub.
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If Debian is perfectly fine with anti-POSIX, why go to the effort of making and switching to dash over bash? One of the impetuses for that project was bash’s inability to confirm to posix even when launched in posix mode. What’s that about?
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What’s the effect size of fear mongering on the study population? If you haven’t measured it, would you hypothesize it to be greater than previously observed effect sizes for health-related behaviors and attitudes of older people? These top
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What does whataboutism mean here?
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There’s probably a stronger correlation with age and free time, here, than with the television channel.
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Although this applies to VR too, I could not do burpees or jump rope in my apartment without angering numerous neighbors. This is probably more of an issue in a wooden building than one of stone or concrete. If you cannot imagine where exer
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Have you read the Dialectical Biologist by Levins and Lewontin? I’ve been thinking of picking it up (no real biology knowledge personally).
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The ones who use Signal do not necessarily understand. It’s pretty hard to hand it to Matt Gaetz: https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-shock-jock-texts-that-coul...
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OK. How do you know this?
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Fun fact - Mach is the Mach 3 in razor blades, among other places (obscure things like units of measurement).
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I understand. I agree that yes, that would be similarly fruitless. What is to be done?
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When you say “just do x,” you make it sound so simple. You’re missing out “just do all of this keeping in mind you’re trying to change the law using lawmakers who are personally invested in these companies that have more resources than many
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No, he isn’t an expert, and people in logistics consider him an outsider who is a CEO of a startup that makes software that is helpful for a certain set of concerns within supply chain management. Making software for an industry does not ma
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When did people start dousing their driveways in antiseptic?
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Banking officials promised us this doesn’t happen.
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Only if you think within the structures of a particular ideology based on the notions that people are rational actors and that the market produces the most effective solutions for any given use case.
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Neat! I’ve never used Elastic but might have a use for it un the near future. Do you recommend any resources?
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I could believe it — I’m pretty sure I’ve done it before using Postgres. Benchmarks appear to confirm this possibility —- 100 million towns indexed in about 35 mins using the standard b tree index, and 20 mins for BRIN on a laptop in 2019:
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I’m terrible at real-time strategy games, yet the campaigns in CnC1 and RA1 were among the few (possibly only) I was able to complete. I really enjoyed the theme and wanted to see all the cutscenes, which might have helped with motivation.
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I have not received a friendly email in more than a decade. It’s all on social media unless it’s work or spam.
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If you insist on being a pedant, you had better realize that "North Dakota State University" contains neither "public" nor "college." Revise and resubmit!
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Do you remember MobileMe? Jobs was in charge when its 60-day demo shipped with OS X: https://www.dummies.com/computers/macs/how-to-decide-whether...
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Do you have sources supporting your statements? They may sound common sense to you, but there is considerable ongoing scientific inquiry into people’s attitudes today, their sense of responsibility, and their sense of agency. Maybe you’re r
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I may be at fault for citing Wikipedia, but I think this supports the idea that it was developed to fill a gap: > In the 1970s the US Department of Defense (DoD) became concerned by the number of different programming languages being use
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The purpose of the language was to serve those limited contexts for which no suitable alternative existed. It’s not meant to be Python.
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The purpose of Ada was not to sell compilers, nor to serve as a means for an acquihire, nor IPO, nor VC money. Passing the test suite is just about the most important thing an Ada compiler must do. The requirements of the language originate
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How about Russell Stover chocolate? https://thecounter.org/russell-stover-uses-prison-labor-cand...
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I think it may be a cultural thing — I don’t have the Smalltalk blue book with me, but I think this type of modification at runtime is very common in Smalltalk environments and languages related to it.
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