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by spiralx 7y ago
> How much of that is based on people not knowing how to properly socialize them as kittens is an open question for me though. A lot from what I've read and my experience, there's a critical period between 8 and 12 weeks where
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by spiralx 7y ago
All cat owners seem to have owned more cats than they started out with :)
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by spiralx 7y ago
> This has been my problem with cats. They are hit or miss. There's a crucial period between 8 and 12 weeks (IIRC) where if a kitten isn't handled regularly they are likely to always be somewhat wary around people. If you want
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by spiralx 7y ago
> If we can keep the poles cooler, we could increase the ice cap, reduce melt, and affect only a small number of living creatures. And more ice means a higher albedo, so more sunlight is reflected back into space. But I see the challenge
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by spiralx 7y ago
Or in RELAX-NG compact :) grammar { start = Dict Dict = element dict { DictItem* } DictItem = element key { text }, (element string { text } | element number { xsd:integer }) }
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by spiralx 7y ago
I've got a stylesheet I wrote that turns HTML or XHTML into a fully indented and highlighted representation of itself which I was quite proud of :) I used to spend a lot of time writing XSLT and XQuery lol.
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by spiralx 7y ago
I remember when Neverwinter Nights 2 came out touting that all of its data files were in XML for ease of modifying in user extensions. So I had a look and was it XML? Was it fuck, it was like a GeoCities novice's idea of how to code HT
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by spiralx 7y ago
"Key in attribute" is the correct way to do it, it's just that his examples are absolutely terrible and make no sense at all. A completely unstructured list of key-value pairs is overkill for any structured data format.
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by spiralx 7y ago
> JsonSchema is pretty good -- it is not as widely used as XSD, but it has libraries for most languages. It's okay now that the newest revisions support more realistic use cases, but ironically I find it impossible to write as JSON.
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by spiralx 7y ago
I mean I could make the claim "Glenn Greenwald is a servant-journalist for Russian government officials." with at least as much evidence: https://arcdigital.media/why-are-internet-radicals-helping-p... https:&#x2
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by spiralx 7y ago
Surely class actions cover this sort of thing? And I know court costs work differently in the US and UK, but there are plenty of "no-win, no-fee" legal firms over here - affectionately known as "ambulance chasers" lol.
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by spiralx 7y ago
Mine came with a faulty screen from a third-party, also had a Dell technician come to my office and replace it there and then.
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by spiralx 7y ago
The one time I had to use MacOS I managed to get something tolerable after spending a lot of time in Karabiner, but the keyboard controls were just incomplete and inconsistent and there wasn't any way around it. Let's not even get
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by spiralx 7y ago
Wasn't /r/goldandblack a split from /r/anarchocapitalism, not /r/libertarian?
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by spiralx 7y ago
There's also the Y2036 problem which is part of Y2038, and other issues in 2028, 2040, 2042, 2048, 2050, 2079, 2080, 2100, 2106, 2108, 2137, 2262, 10,000, 32,768 and 65,536 - although I'm sure by the time we reach the latter end o
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by spiralx 7y ago
Well for any region that becomes independent via legal means in a fashion well-documented by international observers as being legitimate, then they'll consider allowing them to join the EU just as they would for any other country? Just
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by spiralx 7y ago
> Under fractional banking, almost all money is created via debt. Government issues debt which is bought up buy banks which allows the government to issue new money including cash. It is purely created from thin air. Except fractional re
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by spiralx 7y ago
Couldn't tell you, wasn't paying attention ;)
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by spiralx 7y ago
Writing, listening, watching a film and navigating a new place all require attention as they're novel activities. But I could easily make a shit paper aeroplane while navigating, and I've coded through pure muscle memory plenty of
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by spiralx 7y ago
I find that when doing something less interesting I tend to switch back and forth between two tasks quite a lot while working - each switch acts to regain attention before it starts dropping off again. As long as nothing external forces me
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by spiralx 7y ago
I'm fairly certain that PayPal is registered as a bank here in the EU, possibly in Luxembourg. It couldn't operate how it does here otherwise.
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by spiralx 7y ago
> “big dog” is an idiomatic phrase Not a super common one though, and even if you were using the idiom you wouldn't write "black big dog" because it still sounds incorrect and makes it less clear you're using the idio
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by spiralx 7y ago
Ok, the analogy of magic variables as pronouns actually makes them make a little more sense as a concept, even though I still don't think that the ambiguity of meaning is a useful feature in a programming language overall. In a natural
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by spiralx 7y ago
> The analogy to natural language carried further into practice than Larry Wall could have dreamed. Over the years I've seen this mantra repeated a million times but I've yet to have anyone actually explain what it means beyon
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by spiralx 7y ago
If you use a const enum in TypeScript it gets transpiled down to just the plain integer or string without any additional overhead. It just means you can't use a variable to get a value from the enum e.g. State[ currentState ] - whi
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by spiralx 7y ago
Most countries with universal coverage operate on some kind of insurance model, many with private providers, yet don't spend as much as the US does. Insurance companies are a factor in American health care costs but they're not th
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by spiralx 7y ago
Banks don't loan out deposits, their ability to make loans isn't dependent upon savings: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...
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by spiralx 7y ago
> Right, you're talking about the velocity of money ( https://www.aier.org/article/what-money-velocity-and-why-doe... ) which I find a fascinating concept. Actually the relevant concept is the marginal utility of
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by spiralx 7y ago
Bank lending is not tied in any way to the amount of deposits they have on hand: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...
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by spiralx 7y ago
The "Money creation in the modern economy" paper makes it clear that fractional reserve banking is not how banks work - a fractional reserve system is based on banks lending out deposits, which as you say is not true. > Money

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