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I used to have a few friends who worked at deloitte as analysts I'd often catch up with them for lunch or after work drinks and I can guarantee you this was most likely made by a bunch of coked out 22 year olds working until 3am every
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>Big fan of techno-solutionist critique in general, but the one critique that frustrates me is "Solution X is bad because we could do Solution Y instead." Don't yell at people doing something to help (as it happens, probab
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It's hard to read but it seems to just be saying "Can you please track down the message and give it to him because he wont stop asking for it and it's getting annoying" ? Can't really see any evidence of a coverup t
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6y ago
Smacks of controlled opposition tbh.
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6y ago
Imagine being at a wedding in Pakistan and a bunch of these things show up with American flags, dancing and blasting old music
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6y ago
Do you know how much berry/fruit pickers get paid? or pizza delivery people? It will be a LONG time before it's more economical for a robot to do it I think
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I feel exactly the same, I've been learning a second language and it's nothing like learning programming, in fact arguably the opposite, I've found that obsessing over grammar is almost detrimental to making progress with a n
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science isn't when you just decide that things are obvious and leave it at that lol. They probably have data and an experimental methodology and stuff now that future authors can build on to try to answer more complex questions.
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6y ago
No one has ever really used the debugger at any of the c++ shops I've worked at almost exclusively logging. No one even knew how to get the build system to produce debug symbols at my last job.
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As a maybe slightly above average Australian male, I found it interesting travelling around Europe. I do ok-ish on dating apps at home, it's not fun but I could get a date or two a month if I made a consistent effort to message people.
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Do we? I'd prefer to do yard work than watch TV, but I don't have a yard and neither can I afford one.
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If they tried allowing the fetus to grow indefinitely would they have to figure out how to make the skull bigger or would the skull naturally grow along with the brain? My understanding was that human babies have relatively flexible skulls
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In the painting, that room is much smaller than it's depicted I think, or maybe people were a lot smaller in those days
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What is the point of this comment? communities of people of colour and the poor were being brutalised by police and school shootings were regular occurrences long before the Trump presidency.
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Why have journalists lately become obsessed with "teaching computers things" he wrote a program, he programmed the computer to write letters.
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I haven't even written a single line of 'code' at work in maybe six months now, everything is done in xml configuration files, a bit of sql here and there. Last job before this was more or less the same. Since I was a kid all
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Is it really that difficult? I can connect to my entry level nikon d3400 over bluetooth and send an image to my smartphone, edit it a bit and upload it to instagram pretty easily. Granted the bluetooth is very slow and image editing on a sm
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This is such a shame, my uncle passed his OM4Ti 35mm on to me recently and I absolutely adore it, a beautiful camera.
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> Well, some people never find their needs met... enormous numbers of people in the US are living literally a paycheck or a medical emergency away from bankruptcy and homelessness
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How is this a natural experiment? Anarchism isn't just "when there are no police" Obviously looting should be read as exposing underlying ills and unmet needs within society. Like are you suggesting the natural state of peopl
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Pretty much all the jobs I've had as a software engineer have been working on desktop apps. There's tonnes of random enterprise applications that look like they're straight out of 2005 out there still.
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Literally just signed up to comment this but The Birthday Party's various peel sets are absolutely incredible