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by xxr 4y ago
Do you mean ice cream where it's the central flavor, or in the form of carrageenans as a thickener?
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by xxr 4y ago
I think the misspelling is more likely for someone who’s not super capable with English and doesn’t have familiarity with Git. Even for people who usually operate in (natural) languages that use the Latin alphabet (or something close to it,
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by xxr 4y ago
I haven't used this app, but something that makes me smile is that the paid version is only 563KB (the paid version is 4.6MB, and I suppose it's pleasant that the ad SDKs are "only" 4 megs). After seeing every major app
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by xxr 4y ago
>being able to log errors and see what the error message says A faculty that was, of course, lacking at this particular organization
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by xxr 4y ago
A former employer had a system that consumed phone calls from Twilio. The phonecall table had a touchtoneinput column for the sequence of digits a caller pushed after the call connected (press 1 for English, press 3 to dispute a charge, etc
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by xxr 4y ago
I'm imagining a Let's Do It And Be Legends type with an extra dash of sociopathy who had just watched an edgy Discovery Channel show about the Stanford Prison Experiment and thought, "If we don't call it an experiment,
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by xxr 4y ago
I can't tell whether TikTok is really that much worse than Instagram, Twitter, FB, MySpace, etc., or whether it's just the first major social platform to explode after I turned 30.
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by xxr 4y ago
I imagine that FAANGs are sensitive to offering higher and higher proportions of equity pools to keep up with total comp expectations.
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by xxr 4y ago
Is there enough raw material on earth for landfills to become major environmental problems? (genuinely curious)
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by xxr 5y ago
They are a grower
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by xxr 5y ago
Code switching originally was a term in linguistics to refer to the same speakers using multiple languages (or multiple registers of the same language, etc.) in a single conversation, which is probably why imbnwa is confused about the appli
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by xxr 5y ago
Perhaps Epic originally wanted to purchase itch.io but couldn't settle on a deal so they went to the O.G. instead?
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by xxr 5y ago
Down for me
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by xxr 6y ago
>the current consumption was astronomical, sometimes triggering the protection of the power supply on certain images That's surprising, since I was always under the impression that E-Ink displays were pretty low-power. Is it the dra
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by xxr 6y ago
Same--up until now I "knew" that grep stood for "GNU regular expression parser." Always good to have a reminder to question all the other things we "know."
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by xxr 6y ago
How well does it do at that job? I've found that recipe websites are some of the most bloated and least performant, up there with network-affiliate-branded news sites.
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by xxr 6y ago
Fallout: New Vegas is essentially a big choose-your-own-adventure platform with several major choices of varying mutual exclusivity. The real heart and soul of FNV, though, is in the incidental stories found in side quests and companion que
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by xxr 6y ago
Imagine something of this magnitude combined with well-voiced (or silent and subtitled) high-effort deepfakes.
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by xxr 7y ago
Reminds me of the Japanese brand (non-brand?) Muji: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muji
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by xxr 7y ago
Unabridged version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32FB-gYr49Y
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Harmonia axyridis(en.wikipedia.org)
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by xxr 9y ago
>Would-be bull fighter needs sponsor Is this gay slang? Urban Dictionary's second definition[0] suggests something like a "beard" (straight cover for a closeted person), but I would not be surprised if it were someone who
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by xxr 9y ago
That sounds like a great way to illustrate imperative vs declarative as well: camel_Snake.sit() BoneFractureError: coccyx SIT DOWN; Exception of type 'Room.OutOfChairsException' was thrown
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by xxr 9y ago
True, but it doesn't appear to be readily enforced. One of the lawsuits involving the Fyre Festival revolves around sponsored social media posts that failed to disclose that sponsorship.[1] Certainly, someone could come and sue Mayweat
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by xxr 9y ago
I'd look around for startup-networking meetups in your area. I've been to Seattle Startup Drinks on a number of occasions, and there are plenty of more "business-side" people that show up looking exactly for us--I didn&#
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by xxr 9y ago
Was the initial hope that the tech would come first and the legislation would follow?
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by xxr 9y ago
This reminds me a lot of WordsEye[1], but not even WordsEye lets the human user interrogate the machine about the created environment using natural language. [1] https://www.wordseye.com/
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by xxr 9y ago
Ah, it wasn't super clear how much of anything is available to play. Is it like Minecraft where it receives rapid improvements?
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by xxr 9y ago
Am I correct in my understanding that every dollar pledged essentially pushes the release further into the future since the developer is on the hook to add something extra with that dollar? Not that each dollar comes with a signed and sworn
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by xxr 9y ago
I think you're correct--someone else in the comments pasted the FTC's definition of "transactional," and the transaction in question may be an already initiated commercial transaction, not an interactive transaction betw

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