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by tmtvl 1mo ago
I bought a lifetime subscription originally for Legal Eagle videos (both for the Nebula-exclusive videos and the Nebula-exclusive extras at the end of the videos), but I've also enjoyed Not Just Bikes and Tom Scott's England serie
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by tmtvl 1mo ago
"Do you have Prince Albert in a can?" Rest in peace, mister Curry (inconceivable that he wasn't knighted).
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by tmtvl 1mo ago
Long time Waterfox user, I really like how their partnerships make it more likely that if/when Mozilla fully goes off the deep end (which they arguably already have), WF can continue on without needing to depend on downstreaming stuff
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by tmtvl 1mo ago
Reminds me of the old IGN quote: > "There's a tendency among the press to attribute the creation of a game to a single person," says Warren Spector, creator of Thief and Deus Ex.
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by tmtvl 1mo ago
Isn't Human Revolution that game where you're being a super stealthy ghost, making your way through an entire level undetected only to have a cutscene play and drop you off into a boss fight? That doesn't sound much like the
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by tmtvl 1mo ago
The Volla 22 runs Ubuntu Touch, which lets me make and receive phone calls, send and receive text messages, and it even has a browser. Everything I need for my daily life. Your daily life may vary, though.
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by tmtvl 1mo ago
Tai Chi basically has the exact same 2 major health benefits which various other sports do: 1. Getting otherwise sedentary people moving. 2. Giving people a way to form social bonds with others over a shared hobby. Anything beyond that is p
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by tmtvl 1mo ago
A colon in Guile is just a regular character. For example: (define abc:def 3) (define :ghi 4) (* abc:def :ghi) ; => 12 In Common Lisp a colon is a package separator, with an optional package which defaults to the keyword packa
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by tmtvl 1mo ago
I don't know about Racket, but I do know Guile does that and I kind of prefer it as a way to reduce syntax (because the number sign is syntax already for most Lisps as the marker for a vector, and it's also used to bring functions
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by tmtvl 1mo ago
If a massive PR can't be broken up into multiple small but meaningful sub-PRs then it's normally good manners to say something like 'here's what I want to change, this is why it needs changing, and I think it needs this
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by tmtvl 1mo ago
Also it shows something when you open it without enabling its JavaScript instead of a normal website which won't show anything without JS... even if the page only has to show text (HTML? I hardly know her).
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by tmtvl 2mo ago
The internet at large, including all those posts where someone responded 'that's wrong, it's actually' but as an algorithm can't actually make sense of that it will happily regurgitate misinformation.
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by tmtvl 2mo ago
I'd say it's worth a read, if only to get to the $200 bit.
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by tmtvl 2mo ago
So what you're saying is instead of spending 1.2B to stop a firm from building wind, the government should leave the firm be so they can keep building wind and invest the 1.2B into building a nuclear power plant which will come online
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by tmtvl 2mo ago
JerryRigEverything on YouTube wasn't particularly impressed with the Cybertruck as it had catastrophic failure at 10,400 pounds of downward force on the hitch.
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by tmtvl 2mo ago
Roughly translating something my grandfather once said: 'a quote is not something to be parroted, but to be pondered'. Unfortunately all the provided quotes are in English, so they're unlikely to actually be things Aristotle
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by tmtvl 2mo ago
> What exactly is the point of a console at this point? Anti-cheat. Knowing that if you get into a match with other people they won't be running software on their system that gives them an unfair advantage.
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by tmtvl 2mo ago
Unfortunately most people have a problem with starvation and homelessness, you'd almost swear they're allergic to those things.
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by tmtvl 2mo ago
Per the 1828 Webster Dictionary: an emulsion made by bruising seeds; as, the milk of almonds, produced by pounding almonds with sugar and water.
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by tmtvl 2mo ago
> gas syntax which is like nails on a chalkboard That's weird, GNU as should default to AT&T syntax. Maybe the author switched to Intel syntax by adding the .intel_syntax directive at the beginning of the code?
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by tmtvl 2mo ago
You're right, I'm wrong, my bad. Still I wonder if the software fails to work when paths contain unexpected characters.
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by tmtvl 2mo ago
Only ru_RU? It doesn't get disabled with, say, zh_CN, ko_KR, or anything else where the script is outside of the Basic Multilingual Plane (AKA ASCII)?
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by tmtvl 2mo ago
In Common Lisp it'd be: (funcall (funcall (funcall (funcall ; ... ...though I don't think that functions which return functions which return functions which return functions ad infinitum are a great idea. Simply taking a va
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Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7(sbcl.org)
277 points by tmtvl 2mo ago|169 comments
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by tmtvl 2mo ago
Right-wing politics being opposed to environmental action is so weird when back in the day right-wing politicians didn't have such an issue with it (for example this speech by Margaret Thatcher: < https://www.margaretthatc
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by tmtvl 2mo ago
Agreed: expecting Alphabet not to do the evil greedy thing is like expecting a lion to become a vegetarian, it just isn't going to happen.
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by tmtvl 2mo ago
On a similar note: Godot VLC (< https://github.com/xiSage/godot-vlc >), because let's not pretend we don't remember the Unity terms change controversy.
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by tmtvl 2mo ago
Someone heard about the Medieval Warm Period, looked at the Wikipedia page, saw the temperature data for the Greenland ice sheets and misinterpreted it to mean global temperature. It fits in well with the 'well, the Jurassic was warmer
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by tmtvl 2mo ago
Or got help from someone else who was better at English.
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by tmtvl 2mo ago
When going home after training I sometimes like to get something to drink at the station and the stands are usually closed so I need to get something from a vending machine. Those only accept coins or contactless payment by card, and as I h

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