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by parenthephobia 9y ago
Google US gives https://www.splendidtable.org/story/eye-of-round-is-one-of-t... Google UK gives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_steak Possibly this is because in the UK (and presumably whereve
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by parenthephobia 9y ago
> If he doesn't get off the plane what else are they supposed to do? Refuse booking at the gate. Not give seats that paying customers are already occupying to their staff. Not remove paying customers using so much reckless force tha
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by parenthephobia 9y ago
It's not obvious to me what the difference between "real" and "fake" 2D is. What is hard to do in Unity because its 2D isn't "real"?
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by parenthephobia 9y ago
FYI, the latest Linux editor is always linked-to from the last post in this thread: https://forum.unity3d.com/threads/unity-on-linux-release-not... Why they do this in a forum thread instead of having a link on the nor
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by parenthephobia 9y ago
This is potentially a big win for me. I'm interested in Godot, but also wary of it because I didn't like the notion of a game-engine-specific language. I do like the idea of a MIT-licensed engine which works with <language of c
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by parenthephobia 9y ago
> You can't do the work on Linux. Although it is buggy, I use the Linux editor regularly. :) > And their project format is locked to prevent you from opening a project that had just been opened in a newer version than the one y
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by parenthephobia 9y ago
Most corporations are structured like ultra-authoritarian dictatorships. I'm not sure you want to use them as examplars of human governance.
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by parenthephobia 10y ago
You must know that the SWAT team didn't know they were part of a hoax. If there actually had been an armed hostage-taker then I doubt that many people would be saying that shooting him with rubber bullets was illegitimate. Having sai
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by parenthephobia 10y ago
Yes, but so does Rust. Reference counting is orthogonal to, although related to, to borrow checking. Vala's wiki has a page all about its ownership mechanism: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Vala/Ownership
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by parenthephobia 10y ago
Compile-time checking of owned and borrowed references was in Vala, a C#-inspired language for the GNOME ecosystem, four years earlier.
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by parenthephobia 10y ago
This seems flippant. If a car is fast we generally understand why. We don't need to worry that under some rarely-encountered combination of circumstances it will unexpectedly do a handbrake turn and open the fuel cap.
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by parenthephobia 10y ago
Almost all birds are killed and eaten. Birds in the wild don't die peacefully in their sleep. The real difference is what happens before they die.
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by parenthephobia 10y ago
> this animal is happy and thus does not want to be killed You're assuming this as a premise, which I think may be the root of the problem. Plenty of people don't believe that livestock is intelligent enough to comprehend the
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by parenthephobia 10y ago
> But in practice there are a zillion things you believe not because of logic, but because other people told you to. > Red lights mean stop The author ignores second-order effects. Red lights meaning stop is arbitrary, but I belie
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by parenthephobia 10y ago
Humour is fine in principle, but good comments should attempt to further the discourse - e.g. expanding explanations, adding related information, explaining opposing viewpoints, making constructive criticism, fact-checking, or asking questi
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by parenthephobia 10y ago
Perhaps there is a gap in the market for an independent rendezvous service that IoT devices and their controllers can connect to each other over. Rather than baking in a dependency on the vendor of the specific device not going out of busin
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by parenthephobia 10y ago
Yes, I can get electricity from a different provider, or buy a new handle, or indeed get a new garage door opener fitted. The problem is that a cloud-controlled garage door opener creates an unnecessary dependency on the continued existen
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by parenthephobia 10y ago
> Quantum uncertainty is a fundamental consequence of the underlying physics, it has nothing to do with influence from the measurement process. If you can prove that, your Nobel prize awaits. :) The truth is that nobody knows why there i
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by parenthephobia 10y ago
> the uncertainty principle states... That the product of the standard deviations of position and momentum are at least half of h-bar. It says nothing else about what that "means", the mechanism by which it comes about, or whet
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by parenthephobia 10y ago
It might be worth pointing out that as part of the joke they did actually make the app. You can download it, and it does have a convincing Windows 95 GUI.
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by parenthephobia 10y ago
> We can also give Georgia the benefit of the doubt Something I might be inclined to do if they fixed the problem after becoming aware of it. Did Georgia arrange a deal whereby its citizens can read the law of their land for free? Did th
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by parenthephobia 10y ago
> What's fair is that LexisNexis be compensated for the value it has added to that Law. Nobody has an automatic right to be compensated for doing work. Any right to compensation arises from people having benefited from that work, an
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by parenthephobia 10y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13980272
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by parenthephobia 10y ago
This is a category error. Freedom of speech is not itself sabotage, but it is obvious that one can use speech to commit sabotage.
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by parenthephobia 10y ago
> Does a cartoonist have a duty to contribute constructively to a scientific discussion? No, but neither does he have the right to not be called out when he contributes destructively to a scientific discussion.
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by parenthephobia 10y ago
It seems to me that you're conflating "open source" with "developed for free". I don't think GP has any issues with Vivaldi being developed by paid developers per se , but if Vivaldi Technologies decides to st
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by parenthephobia 10y ago
What does that prove? Of the twenty least happy countries in the world, all are outside the EU.
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by parenthephobia 10y ago
I was involved with running a SaaS which also had issues with free tier signups. Two observations. 1. Prioritise paying customers. Use spare provisioned capacity to provide for the free tier: don't spin up new capacity for free tier cu
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by parenthephobia 10y ago
> Not to mention, your search in an ad-less world will simply return... ads. Because that's what ads are meant be: persuasive arguments -- salespeople calcified in text. The last person I'd ask for advice about what to buy is a
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by parenthephobia 10y ago
Nobody said it was: sed is a tiny perl.

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