xdennis

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by xdennis 6y ago
> emoji's are part of text communication in the same way facial expressions and body language are part of oral communication. That's exactly what emoticons were meant to substitute: non-verbal communication. The problem is that
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by xdennis 6y ago
I used the AWS free plan many many years ago as a student. I was so paranoid about losing money that I immediately shut what I was using down after I thought I didn't need it any more (even though leaving it on was part of the free pla
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by xdennis 6y ago
> “Serverless” means there is no physical or virtual hosts to manage While true, that's not the defining characteristic of "Serverless" because PaaS also does not require server management.
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by xdennis 6y ago
Proper spacing makes code readable. Forcing it is a good thing.
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by xdennis 6y ago
So in the wrong sense? This squeamishness is a product of the infantilization western culture seems to be going through recently. Hopefully immigration from 2/3-world countries (e.g. me) helps fix it.
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by xdennis 6y ago
> murder Please show me the law.
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by xdennis 6y ago
The EU has protections these sort of brand dilutions. You can't call it cheese if it doesn't come from milk and you can't call it milk if it doesn't come from a teat.
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by xdennis 6y ago
Your objective is terrible. The ability to eat as much animal products as you desire is synonymous with living in a first world country. A future where we can no longer do that is backwards.
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by xdennis 6y ago
People bringing their biases is not the same as people ramming in their toxic politics. It used to be possible to do new things without being toxic. E.g. Ripley vs the female Doctor Who.
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by xdennis 6y ago
You forgot to quote the important part: > Our European visitors are important to us. So important that they'd rather not have me see anything than to ask if they can track me.
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by xdennis 6y ago
If the party in power now packs the court, the other party will pack it the other way when it gets in power.
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by xdennis 6y ago
- Medics exist to protect patients, not the other way around. - They didn't say: "we need to prioritize medics", they said "masks have no effect" and sometimes "masks are BAD for you". - They have doctors
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by xdennis 6y ago
> There was the expectation that google's AI suggestions and info boxes would improve over time, but i 've noticed them getting worse and consider them a permanently broken gimmick now. A funny example I saw recently is searchi
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by xdennis 6y ago
Just because it's banned doesn't mean the debate is over: https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BytxHbenQyQ/V_O2hw4mUXI/AAAAAAAA8... Some western countries have respectably high numbers: France 50%, UK 48%, Holland
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by xdennis 6y ago
After having learned of Critical Theory these disingenuous cynical pieces are easier to spot. She repeatedly calls female voices "disembodied" as if male ones aren't or the solution is to have the speakers encased in female p
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by xdennis 6y ago
> lately it seems to be all about scoring sick dunks on SJW's I'm surprised you'd say that considering that Spotify has banned controversial episodes with Stefan Molyneux, Gavin McInnes, Milo Yiannopoulos, David Seaman (th
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by xdennis 6y ago
I think tree-style conversations were invented so that you _can_ go off topic.
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by xdennis 6y ago
It's true that Python programmers don't often hack builtins, but they still do things which aren't possible in Java. For example: imports inside functions instead of at the top of the file (because the import does work, but t