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by wanda 5y ago
Oh dear, don't just throw a name and a book title at me. Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Kant, Wittgenstein, Popper, Derrida... none of them got it right or else we wouldn't be having discussions like this one! But all of thos
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by wanda 5y ago
Fair point. Can you show me a Prime Minister who hasn't lied to the Commons and the British populace about something? Sorry, that's unfair. Can you show me a [governing body/individual] who hasn't lied to the [country]&#
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by wanda 5y ago
That would be a fact only after you did it, and it's a fact only to those who witness it. It could never be a fact to you, because if you're dead, you'll be quite incapable of knowing it to be fact, and if you survive, it wil
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by wanda 5y ago
I think what is more fascinating is that high-ranking politicians have always sought ways to circumvent the rules, in order to get ahead, securing themselves exorbitant personal fortunes, even in times of financial crisis, and often at the
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by wanda 5y ago
Are you... are you serious? The day that every statement of unfortunate fact has to be prefaced by an expression of emotional disapproval... that is the day I officially give up on our already laughable species. No one should have to explic
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by wanda 5y ago
You can turn that stuff off. But I agree it's absolutely nuts that advertisements and "suggested content" is included as standard without a very clear prompt on first use saying "you can turn this off if you like" -
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by wanda 5y ago
You have to remember that money is the only thing that exists. Stories do not need to be good for a video game to sell. These days, the game doesn't even need to be original, you can just sell a remake or a remaster and print more mone
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by wanda 5y ago
Quite a few of the usual suspects seem to be absent. Pragmata Pro, Fantasque Sans Mono, Fira Code, Go Mono, etc. Definitely expected to see Anonymous or Space Mono on there, though I don't particularly care for either of these myself.
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by wanda 5y ago
Cousine is one of the ChromeOS core fonts, along with Arimo and Tinos, and I find them both preferable to Arial and Times New Roman respectively. As for Cousine, it used to be my programming font of choice, but I prefer IBM Plex Mono these
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by wanda 5y ago
I don't think anyone here would dispute the importance of always reaching beyond as a species. Ultimately, however, these billionaires are not contributing to reaching beyond. We've been to space before -- in fact, the first space
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by wanda 5y ago
> Senet is the oldest known board game. I was always under the impression that a form of backgammon was on the ancient Mesopotamian/Sumerian scene around the same time -- though, now that I actually come to look for a good source to
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by wanda 5y ago
What the parent is saying is that as long as there is legal demand for a substance, the supplier is not the only one to be held accountable. Oil and gas conglomerates emerged and flourished because they met the demand of society. If the dem
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by wanda 5y ago
Another vote for second-hand / refurbished Thinkpads, specifically T x /X x /W x /P x series. X-1 Carbons are good but avoid the touchbar (think it was gen 2), you want physical Fn keys. I have an X-1 Carbon and a W520,
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by wanda 5y ago
Because the larvae in the cheese can launch themselves for distances up to 15 centimetres (6 in) when disturbed, diners hold their hands above the sandwich to prevent the maggots from leaping.
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by wanda 5y ago
No mention of the <dialog> element [1] but that's probably because browser support isn't great—not implemented in Safari, experimental flag in Firefox. The lazy-loading option for img elements is news to me, but I think I&#x
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by wanda 5y ago
What's the use case though? @container queries have been discussed/proposed before, but I've never really experienced a time where I wished they were a thing. For different screen resolutions and orientations, you have media
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by wanda 5y ago
define first exactly what we mean by a “moral obligation”. A moral obligation or a moral duty is a morally required form of conduct. This defines the word obligation. The word "moral" and "morally&quot
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by wanda 6y ago
As someone who has primarily worked with Perl, JavaScript, SQL during their career, and who has a penchant for regular expressions, I'm a sadistic psychopath. Super. I mean I've been told I'm pretty unemotional, but sadism
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by wanda 7y ago
Thanks! You're right, displace was definitely the wrong word. Unfortunately can't edit now. If that's all I'm wrong about, I'm happy.
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by wanda 7y ago
this is the way I'm looking at it, someone please correct me if I don't grasp the situation. definitions: • "ionising radiation" broadly refers to particles (alpha/beta particles; cosmic rays) and EM radiation types
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by wanda 7y ago
If that's going to be the prevailing attitude once this pandemic is brought under control, it would seem I picked a doubly bad time to quit programming and become a restaurateur.
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by wanda 7y ago
Why run KA as a non-profit at all then? If you run something for the common good, you extract whatever you need to live and to run the thing — not $800k. At least, that's what I would do if I ran a non-profit, I would take only the mon
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by wanda 7y ago
A move that will achieve little other than to damage Google's image further. There are other prevalent video upload/streaming websites who will not as actively enforce their content restrictions. The impact of YouTube's aggre
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by wanda 8y ago
Sounds ghastly.
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by wanda 8y ago
FreeHand
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From Farm to Blockchain: Walmart Tracks Its Lettuce(nytimes.com)
2 points by wanda 8y ago|0 comments
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Correlation between galaxy rotation and visible matter (2016)(arxiv.org)
1 points by wanda 8y ago|0 comments
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by wanda 8y ago
Oh my, you're a big shot engineer and investor chap! Sorry, being British and something of a recluse, I don't really talk to people like yourself very often. Now I wish I'd omitted the "but I could be wrong" so I&
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by wanda 8y ago
I think spullara was being sarcastic, but I could be wrong.
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by wanda 8y ago
Just get Font-Forge[0] and a protractor. Give it a week or two and you'll be able to throw together some copycat LL Circular [1] derivative, to give the illusion of having 'own typeface' money, which might in turn look rathe

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