spiralx

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by spiralx 8y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTm1tJYr5_M It's worth checking out all of his language videos if that sort of thing interests you :)
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by spiralx 8y ago
Which is why I've read that jokes - where the format is setup and then the twist - are hard to express in German :)
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by spiralx 8y ago
> For English, aside from do/does useless distinguishment, the lack of a gender neutral noun for a person usually make people write in a way "he/she". You could say, "the person" but it's long. You mean
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by spiralx 8y ago
You're both right, although you more than the other guy being a dick. libuv uses a thread pool for asynchronous I/O for everything but network requests, which are handled on the main thread - presumably because they're alre
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by spiralx 8y ago
> 'foo'.padStart(20) < " foo" The fact that Array.prototype.map has different semantics from Python's map built-in, as most likely encountered by newcomers to JavaScript with the
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by spiralx 8y ago
Indeed, same here!
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by spiralx 8y ago
> In the old days, the only terms people had to describe electronic dance music were "techno" and "house." And then "garage". Out of those three genres, only one isn't named after the place it started a
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by spiralx 8y ago
Because a wave is a more general phenomenon than what happens on the surface of water, and waves of all kind result in interference patterns. Also, waves in the ocean certainly aren't two dimensional either, the surface "wave&quot
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by spiralx 8y ago
> The US is also a very heterogeneous society, so race issues come up a lot. No it isn't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_ranked_by_et...
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by spiralx 8y ago
Here's the smallest jQuery replacement I've seen :) https://gist.github.com/paulirish/12fb951a8b893a454b32 It let's you do $('p').on('click', el => /* ... */) wh
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by spiralx 8y ago
You can always use either Prettier or Standard JS to lint and format your code, and both can be set up with or without semicolons... https://standardjs.com/ https://prettier.io/ I prefer Standard JS, but ei
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by spiralx 8y ago
If you really need a shortcut then const $ = (sel, elem = document) => [ ...elem.querySelectorAll(sel) ] is nicer as you can use CSS selectors.
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by spiralx 8y ago
I prefer "elem" as then it's easier to distinguish from "event" than it is for "el" and "ev".
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by spiralx 8y ago
Although NodeList has forEach defined on it now at least.
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by spiralx 8y ago
Even more shorter and modern :) javascript:(() => document.body.querySelectorAll('*').forEach(el => { if (['fixed', 'sticky', '-webkit-sticky'].includes(getComputedStyle(el).position)) { e
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by spiralx 8y ago
> I don't know how GDPR handles backups and what time tables are allowed for reasonable data retrieval and expunging. Keep a log of user ids who have requested deletion and purge their data whenever doing a restore. And don't k
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by spiralx 8y ago
You can try the one of these sites for that: https://www.colourlovers.com/palettes/search?query=love http://www.color-hex.com/color-palettes/?keyword=love There are some other sites that do simila
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by spiralx 8y ago
Perhaps like this one at Reed College in Portland? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLBcp3nJlFQ
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by spiralx 8y ago
Don't worry, the SEC has now declined to approve two separate attempts at a Bitcoin-based ETF, both times citing the extensive manipulation of Bitcoin markets as one of the reasons. I don't see them changing their attitude given t
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by spiralx 8y ago
In my experience with smaller outdoor psy-trance parties they've tended to go with Opus rigs, but when I've been to the Ozora Festival in Hungary where they might have ten thousand people dancing in a valley, it's the sort of
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by spiralx 8y ago
As much as I love a room with a properly fitted and tuned Funktion One system playing techno at a level where I can feel the bass in every part of my body, that pretty much is the sweet spot for F1 rigs, so you might be disappointed with ho
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by spiralx 8y ago
> Is she predisposed to be okay with cold climates, or was she born so that her parents could handle the cold? The second meaning doesn't make any sense, you could say "I was born to fulfil this destiny" for instance, beca
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by spiralx 8y ago
I bought the album when it came out, and I certainly thought it meant a child, and so did most people as far as I can tell. After all, that's what it says, and interpreting baby as an endearment would mean the line made no sense given
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by spiralx 8y ago
Is this another example of the crypto-currency version of disaster tourism, whereby crypto advocates (to use a polite term) see somewhere that's undergone some kind of societal collapse and start making plans for how their favourite co
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by spiralx 8y ago
This site will generate various Unicode versions of text - struck-through, bold, italic, bubble, all caps, script, Franktur and more: https://yaytext.com/
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by spiralx 8y ago
How would you prove which power plant produced the particular molecules that gave you cancer? What if the company that owns a power plant has gone bust? How does this help you deal with cancer? What if you die before you make it through the
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by spiralx 8y ago
The Greek Government would buy the debt, assuming that we're talking about bonds. That's how you run a deficit.
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by spiralx 8y ago
The holographic principle says that all of the information required to represent a 3-D volume is encoded on the 2-D surface of its boundary i.e. in one sense there is no difference between e.g. a black hole and its surface. https:/&#x
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by spiralx 8y ago
It's actually 2x2 Planck lengths per bit, so 4 Planck areas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bekenstein_bound
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by spiralx 8y ago
You'd be surprised at some of the things that generate massive edit wars on Wikipedia though: https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/wikipedia-...

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