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by pohl 4y ago
As someone who grew up in a house that was never without a box of Bisquick in the cupboard, that phrase speaks to me.
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by pohl 4y ago
The April update's focus on the word "genocide" is odd, given that systematic mass killing is actually happening in Ukraine.
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by pohl 4y ago
Judging from the dateline, it's a May 3rd joke.
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by pohl 5y ago
I'd be curious to play with something like this on a Penrose tesselation.
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by pohl 5y ago
At bare minimum, one would think we could all agree that it's a good thing to honestly teach our nation's actual history — rather than trying to ban teaching it so that we can pretend that systemic racism is not and never was a th
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by pohl 5y ago
It makes me sad that we (the United States) have entirely lost our e pluribus unum . In some quarters, folks consider the mere idea to be communism. Of course they're not exactly deep thinkers, those folks, but that's the dominan
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by pohl 5y ago
Thank you, fixed. That phrase flew right out of my fingers carelessly.
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by pohl 5y ago
It's worth noting that the "4 chords of pop" observation reference in TFA (which is about how few chords you need to learn to be able to make songs) is a bit different than the 4-chord cycle progressions discussed in that Axi
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by pohl 5y ago
I see no reason why library authors should be expected to document this when the actual source of truth — the Cargo.toml file — is sitting right there and will never be wrong. If you want to see the transitive dependencies, all you need is
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by pohl 5y ago
It's only spoken of in knowing glances, like Voldemort.
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by pohl 5y ago
If the owners of a web site do something with their own site that I don't agree with, I tend to just not go there. Beyond that, I don't care. It's not "the public square", and they're not the government. Point
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by pohl 5y ago
Like I said, the discussions you're referring to are still out there. They're still happening — right now, as we speak. You're free to go join in on them. Nothing is stopping the vast majority of people who are talking about
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by pohl 5y ago
I have good news for you: there is still a veritable cornucopia of tweets about Hunter's laptop, and the Steele dossier, and COVID policies, and trans folk as athletes out there. I see them every damned day with my own eyes. While ther
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by pohl 5y ago
Amazing that anyone would think that the kinds of things that actually get moderated-out would have somehow enriched discourse — as if humanity doesn't have more productive things about which to amicably disagree.
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by pohl 5y ago
Both that — and the opposite — in different sentences.
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by pohl 5y ago
I'm sure that to someone carrying a knife for protection also thinks it "makes sense" — and I'm sure it actually does in some contexts. In a gunfight, however, does it still?
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by pohl 5y ago
Yeah, productive ways exist, but is that enough? Again, thinking of Brandolini's Law, it would need to be an order of magnitive more productive than before in order to reach parity.
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by pohl 5y ago
This was a great article. A practical question came to mind while reading it: Now that bad-faith communication has become normalized, does it makes sense to keep bringing good-faith communication to a bad-faith communication fight? Obviousl
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by pohl 5y ago
Decentralization is not the silver bullet folks make it out to be.
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by pohl 5y ago
This thread reminds me of a relevant comic: http://synd.imgsrv.uclick.com/comics/nq/2015/nq150718.gif
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by pohl 5y ago
All true. That exhaustion is exactly the vulnerability that autocrats seek to exploit, alas.
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by pohl 5y ago
That sort of don't-let-my-peas-touch-my-mashed-potatoes instinct is part of the reason that autocratic-aspirants are getting away with so much these days. I'm amazed how there can be a coup attempt and people will just show up to
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by pohl 5y ago
Not sure what you mean by "really". I guess I have heard some use of that term to mean that it works on watchOS/macOS/iOS/iPadOS/tvOS. In priciple one could create implementations on other platforms, but no one
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by pohl 5y ago
0) It's a bug in software 1) It's amusing 2) He's in the news right now for his spouse being all insurrectiony.
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by pohl 5y ago
It's that thing where people who, while otherwise mathematically literate, somehow convince themselves that exponential changes adumbrate some future transcendence rather than, say, the breaking point of systems.
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by pohl 5y ago
I wouldn't work in the browser at all. I'm liking SwiftUI a lot.
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by pohl 5y ago
Not a react fan, here, but hooks are so much better than pre-hooks react. Not sure why anyone would want to go back.
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by pohl 5y ago
settled the debate once and for all That's hilarious. The bulk of the debate happened after he weighed in. Giraffix Interchange Format.
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by pohl 5y ago
Stuart Smalley, as Oberon, looking into the mirror giving his daily affirmation: "I'm viable enough and, doggone it, people like me."
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by pohl 5y ago
Of course I thought of go – it's just not in the systems language space (it has GC). (I believe Rob Pike expressed some remorse for causing some confusion about that by using that phrase in early go documentation. I remember seeing him

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