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by zdragnar 1y ago
I noticed something similar with a Taiwanese family I was close to for awhile. It was customary to fight over any bill when sharing a meal. They would be quietly upset if someone actually took them up on their offer to pay without attemptin
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by zdragnar 1y ago
I have this mental block that keeps me forgetting which is which when discussing sum and product types. I have to go back to thinking of them as operations on sets. Almost certainly a lack of formal education in maths higher level than simp
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Where I live the temperature swings from -40 to over 100F with very high humidity every year. Bicycling with little kids is just not practical for a lot of it, and the nearest bus stop is a four hour walk (12 miles). Do large cities and sub
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by zdragnar 1y ago
My last attempt had passing tests. It even exercised the code that it wrote! But, upon careful inspection, the test assertions were essentially checking that true equalled true, and the errors in the code didn't fail the tests at all.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Oh wow, I thought you were proposing a silly experiment, but that was the chemistry winner...
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by zdragnar 1y ago
A number of operating system security features, such as ASLR, exist because low level languages allow reading and writing memory that they didn't create. Conversely, barring a bug in the runtime or compiler, higher level languages don&
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Part of the proposal is that the employer pays the government a large fee to sponsor the visa. They're not doing that for local workers; it's an entirely incomparable situation.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
China has vastly stricter controls in place now than SU did back then. Not impossible, but much harder.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
The people who really drive ms office adoption are the ones who use it all day every day. They can't imagine a world without Excel, and (at the time) the cluttered formatting of the office controls were a power user's best friend.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Unfortunately, I suspect this will just makes it easier to keep writing sloppy code.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Organizations aren't limited to a single country. My current client has employees in most of, if not every, time zone across the world. As such, you need to be able to review the legal status of every pairing or group of people's
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by zdragnar 1y ago
I didn't see the parent comment as downloading the gimp so much as praising something blender specifically did well. The fact that it has had more impact within the industry is the evidence to support it. Competitively, libre office ha
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Copying empty text is a configurable flag in some linux environments, at least, but I'm not sure if that behavior is faithfully preserved in teams / discord / etc as I've never really had it on.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Sure, but it starts with the impractical version to kick off the other side. The hearthstone house demonstrated the value of a central power source homes could draw from. The electric lights at the time were not much better than candles in
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by zdragnar 1y ago
1992, the year that was late to the 80's
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Recently there was a splash in the news about the US death rate projected to exceed the birth rate by 2031. Many of the largest countries are experiencing similar declines, with fewer and fewer countries maintaining large birth rates.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
It's not scalable to a small team either. The amount of copy/paste of markup I had to clean up on a site that didn't actually contribute to style, presentation or information was insane. Just divs and divs of tailwind classes
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by zdragnar 1y ago
It's hardly even a polite ask. It's literally a text file. Automated http clients, such as search engine indexers (Google, yahoo, etc) are expected to use it to know what pages can be visited or not. That expectation is nothing mo
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Three reasons spring to mind: 1- the DOM APIs are very verbose, excepting perhaps replacing chunks by setting innerHTML, but 2- manual DOM manipulations aren't composable without also using web components 3- naive manual DOM manipulati
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Eh? We eat almost no flour on a daily basis. We might eat cake every few months. "Standard" is not standard at all.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Some have replaceable pods / tanks, but most have no user serviceable parts whatsoever. One the liquid is low enough, the coil will burn a bit, and the whole thing should be disposed of. One shop near me would take used ones and send t
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Then you'd be wrong. Insurance companies are limited to the amount they can collect without paying back out. It's a fixed percentage. That means the more expensive treatment gets, the higher they can raise rates, and the more reve
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Well, there aren't any signs of a worldwide multi-year pandemic starting that will shut down every economy, force governments into extreme monetary devaluation via supply expansion to pretend everything is okay, and an extreme loss of
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by zdragnar 1y ago
I've watched HR people break the law discriminating against white job applicants in the name of DEI. One in particular was fired for it, but it'd be foolish to think that it isn't happening more elsewhere.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
I'm a bit miffed I can't find the article now, but I recall hearing it was more the reactor design approval process than the operational process regulations that interfered with and drove up costs. Every tiny detail of a site has
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by zdragnar 1y ago
DEI arose to public consciousness around the same time that "whiteness" was often used as a synonym for bigotry and privilege. So long as academic circles (and those who come from them, such as the people now in HR departments) be
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by zdragnar 1y ago
It's been awhile since I've seen it, but there was a very brief and small wave of articles perhaps a few years back claiming a lot of Indians in the US were still facing caste-based discrimination (by skin color, name or something
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by zdragnar 1y ago
It becomes unaffordable pretty quickly for a lot of people when such theft becomes endemic.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
At what point did school districts change? When I was in high school, right about the time that cell phones were becoming common among adults but not yet among kids, our school had a blanket policy that all electronics other than calculator
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Human flesh and blood is pretty bad at upgrading itself, too. A sapient robot, or one with specific programming, might adapt itself as parts wear out when individual components, limbs, and other odds and ends are separately serviceable.

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