richie_adler

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by richie_adler 2mo ago
Thinking is NOT overrated. Most people go through life never doing it at all.
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by richie_adler 2mo ago
As opposed to have kids because "is the thing to do", "it's time", or "I have to give grandkids to my parents"? Those are much worse reasons to breed.
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by richie_adler 2mo ago
What's the Android option?
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by richie_adler 2mo ago
This whole affair has the dirty shadow of a society like the one depicted in Jennifer Government.
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by richie_adler 3mo ago
Richard Hipp says he doesn't care how anybody pronunces it. That said, he pronounces it "S-Q-L-ite".
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by richie_adler 2y ago
Very positive attitude. Beware the sealions, but keep up!
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by richie_adler 2y ago
Your approach (which I share) requires thought and discernment, which is a scarce resource nowadays. People intend to turn their brains off when they doomscroll. (I'll never understand the desire.)
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by richie_adler 2y ago
> Should we encourage abortions for single mothers because their child might not have a happy life? Yes. > Should we abort fetuses who have some disability? If the parents are unwilling or unable to deal with it every day for the rest
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by richie_adler 2y ago
People enjoy dealing with simpler software and hardware as a hobby. Why does it bother you so much?
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by richie_adler 2y ago
Even after the first Trump presidency happened?
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by richie_adler 2y ago
It's redshifted already.
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by richie_adler 2y ago
For me is not needing to chain a lot of commands with && to ensure that it fails with the first command that fails. With just, if one of the commands of the recipe fails, it stops.
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by richie_adler 2y ago
My favorite feature is the ability to decorate the recipe name with the OS and then write relevant code for each recipe that does the same in each OS.
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by richie_adler 2y ago
> that state cannot be expressed in words or cognition, because it isn't part of your mind What else can it be, if not a part of the mind of a state of it?
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by richie_adler 2y ago
Nah, I love Calibre but he has lousy opinions that he has to eat over time (he migrated Calibre to Python 3 after all).
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by richie_adler 2y ago
> Powers of two are a sign of divine intervention A little weak, though. I'd rather have something more impressive, like the message embedded in the decimals of Pi as found in the Contact novel. (That also doubles as an argument to
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by richie_adler 2y ago
> For most people love of God assumes the existence of God. Its far more important than any feelings about a fictional character can be. And that's actually a problem. For them, that love for a fictional character that for them is r
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by richie_adler 2y ago
I find this curious. Were you able to identify the cause of your anger and angst?
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by richie_adler 2y ago
Thank you, I wanted to express this but you did well already.
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by richie_adler 2y ago
Regarding 2, IIRC they guarantee that backward compatibility to their supporters. So it's very unlikely the desires expressed elsewhere will be fulfilled by the SQLite team. The code is Public Domain, though. Anyone should feel free to
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by richie_adler 2y ago
It will never happen. Please, move on.
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by richie_adler 2y ago
The numerous countries submerged in misery due to US intervention certainly would welcome a lessening of its power.
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by richie_adler 2y ago
Forbidding the expression of whole categories of feeling and encouraging falsehood in the expression of affection is revolting.
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by richie_adler 3y ago
I worked with an old LJ 5siMX. It was a pain to set the static IP configuration but other than that, amazing. Printed a buttload of insurance policies for years, plus simple text reports improved with a few PCL commands. And a proper PS ren
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by richie_adler 3y ago
The same cast except for Jessica. Alice Krige is amazing in other things, but my Jessica was Saskia Reeves.
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by richie_adler 3y ago
Hurt was the worst part of it. I swear, I still cringe when I remember his unemotional delivery of "Desert. Power." Damn he was bad.
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by richie_adler 3y ago
> And strings are lists Eh, not really. Lists are mutable, strings are not. Strings are iterable and sliceable, which makes them usable in many similar ways to lists, but they're not lists.
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by richie_adler 3y ago
Ruby is "perl-esque" in syntax, and of course TIMTOWTDI is opposite to the 13th item of the Zen of Python, so it's understandable some dislike to an express design decision. But hate ? Really?
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by richie_adler 3y ago
Pascal can also do this.
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by richie_adler 3y ago
TIL. Thanks!

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