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by pif 3y ago
I personally would not suffer if soy disappeared from the planet, but that's just me! Anyway, soy sauce is something that people _added_ to their diet. The article is about _substituting_ an important part of the diet.
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by pif 3y ago
I have not read the article, but I bet the answer is a plain and simple: "Because people buy cheap instead of quality!"
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by pif 3y ago
Who is actually demanding this fad? What's wrong with the natural way of eating?
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by pif 3y ago
> I hold an unpopular stance: code comments are as important as the code itself. It's unpopular because it is astonishingly wrong. Customer: "It does not work". Me: "The comments are correct, the code is not, let&#x27
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by pif 3y ago
> I hold an unpopular stance: code comments are as important as the code itself. It's unpopular because it is astonishingly wrong. Customer: "It does not work". Me: "The comments are correct, the code is not, let&#x27
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by pif 3y ago
> Here is the link of the group, claiming and explaining the attack No, thanks! They chose violence in a country where democracy is working: as such, they only deserve to be closed behind solid bars and NO DIFFUSION of their opinions.
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by pif 3y ago
Do you mean "criminally idiots"?
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by pif 3y ago
Edit: thanks to commenters for the reference to KSP. I had to ask Wikipedia what it is, and the first sentence is: "Kerbal Space Program (KSP) is a space flight simulation video game developed by Mexican studio Squad". Mexicans fo
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by pif 3y ago
Yes, I am. Does it matter?
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by pif 3y ago
[OT] In re "mun-ar", maybe you meant "monthly". Etymology of "lunar": Middle English, from Latin lunaris , from luna moon; akin to Latin lucēre to shine [0] Etymology of "moon": Middle English m
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by pif 3y ago
Only a kid may consider it worthy to mention driving a manual. Manual transmission is the natural state of things. If you can't drive manual, you can not drive.
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by pif 3y ago
> almost all development conventions mandate directory intentionally kept empty or to exist before their contents exist Never heard about this, nor can I imagine what purpose it could serve.
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by pif 3y ago
@PetitPrince: the French part is on the civilised side of the Röstigraben. You can't extrapolate from there to the rest of Switzerland.
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by pif 3y ago
> If you're hard-working and a skilled worker, it barely pays off these days. Part of me cannot stop thinking that people should just stop converging where already too many people live. If you can only find a job in London or San Fr
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by pif 3y ago
Talks about an event several dozens of million years ago. Shows a picture of a hominid looking at a star. Keep up the good work!
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by pif 3y ago
It's the same as in Visual Basic: those who request programming languages for dummies, they have a tendency not to be the brightest software developers in the toolbox.
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by pif 3y ago
Same here, Italian background.
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by pif 3y ago
> hat's scientific rigor, that's sufficient for a scientific journal paper. I don't buy that's sufficient to put a person in prison for life. It may be sufficient for a scientific journal paper, but if it is not suffi
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by pif 3y ago
> It's one of many instances where there's a valid reason for the technology to be implemented as such but since doctors usually aren't thinking about the technology or security aspects they just perceive it as annoying. N
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by pif 3y ago
Why do you care about the opinion of people who care about comparing fast food chains?
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by pif 3y ago
I hate rule n. 5 and never follow it, even if my current employer tries to enforce it. I work in an office, among colleagues: if I cannot trust them, the company has a huge problem, independently of my unlocked screen.
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by pif 3y ago
Use two pipes and you won't need to half-close any socket.
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by pif 3y ago
Is there a rule preventing an abstract from being added at the beginning of such an article? You know, just to understand rapidly whether the rest of the read matches your interest.
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by pif 3y ago
Maybe I'm not getting it completely... In the first example, he is using two pipes; in the second example, he is using one socket. And he complains that that they don't work the same!?!
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by pif 3y ago
> It’s also an illustration of how an optimization in one place can lead to bugs downstream by violating programmers’ expectations. This touched upon a pet peeve of mine for its resemblance with all the talk about undefined behaviour in
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by pif 3y ago
> for the rest of us we generally have to trust what we read or the experts that we pay for their assessments. Rest assured, I'm in with you in the rest of us. As you said, we have to trust the experts: that's why we pay them!
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by pif 3y ago
> It's easy to think people are being obtuse and sticking their heads in the sand It's easy because it is the case. You don't believe in facts: you either recognize them or choose to ignore them.
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by pif 3y ago
> In theory the Accept-Language header should be enough No, it is not enough, because there is no way to tell: "Pick the source in my 3rd language rather than the translation in my 1st language".
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by pif 3y ago
I hate how automatic translations are treated on the web as if they were respectable translations, provided by professionals! I can read three languages, and I'd like my browser to pick the "main" version of a page if it happ
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by pif 3y ago
Paula Bean still pushing for unary computing: "brillant".

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