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by wk_end 4y ago
Can you be specific? What is it about Scandinavian or German or Dutch politics do you think would avoid the situation in SF? I ask because left-to-right isn't really a one-dimensional scale. California has legalized recreational weed,
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by wk_end 4y ago
Adaptation is a great movie but I wouldn't really say it resists being understood - it tells a fairly straightforward narrative (the only catch, I guess, is the question of how much of the climax and denouement is "real" and
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by wk_end 4y ago
Personally I love Joyce but found Gravity's Rainbow puerile. I definitely missed a lot and should probably take another swing at it, though.
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by wk_end 4y ago
Once upon a time there was a program called "GoodTools" that maintained a database of all known dumps, so you could run it against your ROMs and it could identify which ROMs were known bad. Dumb completionists then decide to colle
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by wk_end 4y ago
It's definitely overstating things. Bad dumps are possible and were somewhat common back in the day when people were spreading ROMs via GeoCities pages and Usenet, but these days databases like No-Intro and Redump have helped make sure
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by wk_end 4y ago
...except it's not. It crashes regularly and has many compatibility issues.
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by wk_end 4y ago
"Clickbait" doesn't necessarily mean something that's inaccurate - it can (and usually does) mean something that's phrased in a way - often by omission - so as to imply the most sensational possible interpretation o
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by wk_end 4y ago
I can't speak for the NES, but I've done lots of Game Boy asm coding, and personally - although others feel differently - I prefer using the register addresses rather than trying to memorize a bunch of unofficial names. Usually co
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by wk_end 4y ago
It wasn't about "taking orders", and it had nothing to do with the British. The CCP broke promises they'd made to the people of Hong Kong.
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by wk_end 4y ago
That's not really how I - and I think most engineers - understand the term "expressiveness". In Haskell I can express "a side-effect free function that consumes a String and produces an Int", for example; it's
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by wk_end 4y ago
Lisp was never "pure", but yes, there's definitely been a shift in the meaning of the term "functional language". Which makes sense: the things that made Lisp more "functional" or better suited to the func
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by wk_end 4y ago
ADT's in TypeScript aren't as nice as in a language that supports them natively in many respects, but "PITA" is really overselling it. We use them pervasively at my shop. In fact, the ability to synthesize them without n
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by wk_end 4y ago
I'm not sure if I'm expressing myself poorly or we just disagree on this point, but for the record: I understand why someone might destination shop in a place like NYC, LA, Tokyo, etc.; I can't imagine why someone who lives i
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by wk_end 4y ago
If you consider these releases "official", maybe, at least as far as "desktop operating systems" go. It's older than Windows; Mac OS is older, but you could argue that modern-day Mac OS isn't really descended f
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by wk_end 4y ago
I'm not saying no one does it (though, like I said, I can't imagine why), I'm saying there's a very good answer to OP's question of: > Why go to Nordstroms [sic] in Vancouver when you can hit the one in Seattle?
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by wk_end 4y ago
Bellingham is one thing, but Seattle is a good 2.5h drive from Vancouver, or maybe even more depending on border crossing and traffic along I-5. I can't imagine anyone deciding that they want to drive for five hours plus to save a litt
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by wk_end 4y ago
Praising "Adolf Hitler's bolstering of Nazi Germany in the 1930's" is a little bit more than cringe.
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by wk_end 4y ago
This essay is an exhausting example of someone spending far far too long looking in the mirror, though.
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by wk_end 4y ago
They're completely different languages. Common Lisp isn't Racket. Racket is "a Lisp", but it's not Common Lisp (or even Scheme, which it's much more closely based on). You're writing something like: If Jav
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by wk_end 4y ago
It's pretty normal for the airport of a major city to be well outside of those major cities, given how air travel and tall buildings and large swaths of empty land for runways and population density don't exactly play well togethe
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by wk_end 4y ago
The article is describing classic ARM. (Modern) Apple devices are all ARM64, which doesn't have the PC as a GPR. The article is also entirely about how the PC is a general-purpose register on 32-bit ARM machines. No idea if the 1st gen
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by wk_end 4y ago
Boston Pizza is to pizza what Cheesecake Factory is to cheesecake. It's not great pizza or even good pizza that they serve there (in addition to a million other things), but it's fine for what it is. It's definitely not lut
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by wk_end 4y ago
The two big features of Java - that helped it take over from C++ - were GC and the JVM ("write once, run anywhere!"). Object Pascal didn't have either of those things...Object Pascal was essentially Pascal-With-Classes, in th
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by wk_end 4y ago
Jill of the Jungle?
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by wk_end 4y ago
I don't know what "[it] was not as productive as it was" means (it's a logically nonsensical statement, so I assume you made a typo). It was not an especially great (though not terrible) or productive place to work, I&#x
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by wk_end 4y ago
Qt is actually not that good. I used to work for a large, well-known software company that distributed an app using Qt; every day that I worked on the native client was a nightmare of framework bugs, quirks, and limitations. For all of CSS&
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by wk_end 4y ago
> Because to become teachers, you typically don’t have to have your ego brutalized jumping through irreverent hoops. No, instead you have your ego brutalized by spending half your youth (not to mention tens or even hundreds of thousands
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by wk_end 4y ago
The relative poverty of North Korea is far from the only problem with North Korea, though.
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by wk_end 4y ago
I've had this same thought too...something like, if there's an infinite number of possibilities of ways to be experiencing something, why should "I" (untethered from everything that made me "I" of course) ever
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by wk_end 4y ago
> The notion that there exist, to any meaningful degree, philosophies or cultures that will not produce atrocities on a pretty regular schedule, is something a decent education ought to rid one of. This is precisely what I'm saying,

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