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by wickerman 7y ago
I think this highlights why these discussions have shifted from "global warming" to "climate change", as stuff like this might give people the impression that global dimming will solve the issues caused by greenhouse gas
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by wickerman 7y ago
I changed OS, had to reinstall, then forgot about it. I also don't browse as much as I used to? I'm mostly working on personal projects when I'm home, so I barely spend time outside of podcasts or youtube videos.
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by wickerman 7y ago
The more you know! I am ashamed to say I barely know anything about them despite them being persistent pests in my life.
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by wickerman 7y ago
I remember disabling Javascript for a couple of months in Chrome some time ago and it barely broke anything. Had a great browsing experience. This might be because of my own personal preferences when it comes to sites, but I don't thin
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by wickerman 7y ago
I used to live in a slaughterhouse district where the damn things would crawl out of sink, bidet and shower plugs, making every single trip to the bathroom a very anxiety ridden experience. Plus they were of the flying variety, and occasion
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by wickerman 7y ago
Although I understand the middle ages' worldview was entirely christian and thus tracing the evolution on the symbolic perception of animals would involve tracing it through christian authors I'd contest that to fully understand t
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by wickerman 7y ago
My point is that, if there's a specific reason why the code needs to be rewritten (i.e. code needs to be clearer, or more performant, or adhere to coding standards) then you can point out what's wrong with it with a simple explana
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by wickerman 7y ago
First rule about code reviewing is that you don't tell someone how you would've written it, but rather try to point out pros/cons of current vs proposed approach. It's as easy as that. Every time I see a piece of code I
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by wickerman 7y ago
As other people have mentioned, olive trees are native to the Canaanite region so they strongly feature there because that's what people were used to seeing. But to add to that, you'll also see a lot of mentions of Cedar trees (wi
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by wickerman 7y ago
Oh god the terms and condition ultra slow scroll got me to close the page. This is brilliant.
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by wickerman 7y ago
If the argentinian government wasn't riddled with corruption and people who literally stole most of public money then there wouldn't be a child poverty rate of 50% and engineers like myself wouldn't dream of emigrating. Never
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by wickerman 7y ago
I agree, but this isn't the issue here. The issue is that poor people can't even access basic healthcare (can't even call an ambulance) without falling into massive debt. Free healthcare > no healthcare at all.
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by wickerman 7y ago
No, but you can over a period of time. I have two, I could apply for a third due to marriage and a fourth one because I lived in a place long enough, without having to renounce citizenships.
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by wickerman 7y ago
It tells you a lot about foreign/trade relations but for people who can move around/work or be able to claim ancestry for passports it might be a nifty guide to keep in mind. I know a Latvian who was living in Ireland, and applie
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by wickerman 7y ago
As a south american living in the EU, I grew up hearing people saying "ah, in the US..." and while probably they were thinking back to a time when the US wasn't as terrible as it is now, it's a bit irritating for me to h
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by wickerman 7y ago
Having a Mercosur passport (Argentina) and EU passport (Spanish) I think I have a pretty sweet deal - Spanish passport gets me visa free to most of the countries in the world, and the Argentinian passport gets me to Russia visa-free (hi Put
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by wickerman 7y ago
Most of the country has a very warm winter (yesterday I spoke to my mam and she said it was 16 C). There's been grid problems since I have memory. Doesn't surprise me that the whole thing eventually went down.
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by wickerman 8y ago
Another great exercise in confirming common sense.
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by wickerman 8y ago
I find this sort of story super scary because I come from a similarly big country with vast expanses of nothing. I know of an elderly couple who a couple of years ago died of a heat stroke after they got lost on their way and took a differe
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by wickerman 8y ago
Same, it was working for me yesterday and now it's asking for a login. Just look up the page on the wayback machine.
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by wickerman 8y ago
China used to jail teenage girls who wrote or read slash fiction for "spreading propaganda that clashed with the morality of the party".
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by wickerman 8y ago
Huh is not used in spanish at all. Maybe in the more english-influenced caribbean regions but in the southern cone we don't say "huh" at all, rather "eh?".
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by wickerman 8y ago
As a non native english speaker, I don't agree that english has relaxed pronunciation rules. People have trouble understanding english coming from, say, spanish, because english has around 20 vowel sounds whereas spanish has 5. So for
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by wickerman 8y ago
I had to code a small OS in C in third year of college and the main piece of it was the scheduler. I remember my semaphore routines quite fondly actually.