rags2riches

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by rags2riches 8y ago
I have no trouble believing that there are many developers out there with no understanding of character encodings. Because I have seen many applications where the handling of character encodings is nothing but kludges upon buggy ad hoc klud
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by rags2riches 8y ago
If you hold your knife in the right hand you hold the food item in your left. You then cut towards your right thumb, pinching the piece between your thumb and the knife as it comes loose. You can then bring the piece to your mouth with your
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by rags2riches 8y ago
In my grandfather's old workshop there are dozens and dozens of Moraknivar all over the place. There is always one within arms reach.
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by rags2riches 8y ago
Was this written by a bot? It's terrible.
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by rags2riches 8y ago
English grammar is too simple. I often can't tell if a word is a noun or a verb. In particular, headlines can be really hard for me to parse when they seem like nothing more than a handful of nouns.
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by rags2riches 8y ago
Ugh. It just struck me how the tragedy of the commons could apply to a human population.
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by rags2riches 8y ago
At one visit to the museum, my son played a computer game where he had to hit the sweet spot designing a ship for the king. First attempt failed like the Vasa. The second was rejected because it lacked firepower. The third was stable and ha
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by rags2riches 8y ago
They built several "Vasa class" ships. The other ships sailed. As time went on, they continued to build higher ships with even more guns on more decks.
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by rags2riches 8y ago
I can't claim to understand the first thing about quantum mechanics, but whenever I read about it I always come to think of lazy evaluation. Then I want to know if it's there simply for performance reasons or if it's to enabl
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by rags2riches 8y ago
My complaint with English is how there is often no difference between a noun and a verb. Sometimes several words that could be either are stacked and it really trips up my parser. It's also common to see badly translated software where
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by rags2riches 8y ago
I've never had a single complaint, nor have anyone I know. Have you ever had reason to complain about the smell of surströmming from a neighbor?
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by rags2riches 8y ago
The taste really is special. It's the most savory, salty, fishy food I have ever had. It's something like anchovies with parmesan and tuna cranked up to eleven. Pickled herring is not really the same kind of taste at all.
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by rags2riches 8y ago
There are so many mistakes made with surströmming, I hardly know where to start. Although it comes in a can, it should be stored cold. If you open it and it looks something like mushed up tuna, as I have seen in some Youtube challenge video
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by rags2riches 8y ago
When the advertisers know people so well that they think they are being spied on, does it really matter how this is achieved?
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by rags2riches 9y ago
Why not rails for the long distance high speed travel and then low speeds off the rails for that final distance?
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by rags2riches 9y ago
"Before the industrialisation of the paper production the most common fibre source was recycled fibres from used textiles, called rags." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_paper#Fiber_sources