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by frenchy 7mo ago
I find it funny and sad that this is the sort of thing that people like to bring up as somehow bad and not the part where the Isrealites are admonished for not genociding the Cannanites hard enough.
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by frenchy 7mo ago
As someone who half-learned to drive in Manila, the idea that they would use Filipino drivers as backups is ironic. For context, my "driver's test" was going to the back of the office, and driving some old car backwards and f
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by frenchy 9mo ago
Sort of, but the difference here is that it's really "blame the person who created the process, not the person following it". The people with the authority to alter faulty processes don't want to change it, even if it&#x
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by frenchy 2y ago
This is just the modern version of the parable of the talents.
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by frenchy 2y ago
Electric motorized bicycles exist, they're just called motorcycles or mopeds. The whole point of an e-bike is the limiter, and size restrictions.
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by frenchy 2y ago
> the first Germany defeat Assuming you're talking about stategic defeats, I'm pretty sure the Battle of Britain was earlier. Possibbly North Africa too, but that's more debatable.
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by frenchy 2y ago
Standards are great, in theory, but a standards group can easily be co-opted by throwing enough people and money at it. That's basically what happened with DRM.
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by frenchy 2y ago
But the popular tooling for it (e.g. Visual Studio), isn't.
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by frenchy 2y ago
Yes and no. Youtube's moat is it's content creators. A gready algorithm might make them more money in the short run, but it would destroy their moat, as content creators migrate to other platforms.
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by frenchy 2y ago
Isn't this what the NSA is for? Also, I think we have plenty of reason to believe they regularly try to penetrate powerful companies, they just don't necessarily tell us when they do.
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by frenchy 2y ago
Yeah, but I'm pretty sure that's not what's happening here. What jccalhoun is describing is actually a reduction in the cost of living. The younger people from the city are moving from the city because the town is cheaper. Th
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by frenchy 2y ago
> Branding makes structural typing work like nominal typing for the branded type only. That's not quite true. Branding doesn't exist at run time, where as nominal typing usually does at some level. Classes exist at runtime, but
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by frenchy 2y ago
The key point here is that the formatter has to be sufficiently advanced to know to do the right thing the vast majority of the time. Once it gets there, and once you've gotten used to the code it produces, it's better. Note that
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by frenchy 3y ago
If users didn't care about alternative app stores, then why does Apple ban them?
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by frenchy 3y ago
> since it teaches new students bad habits, like keeping their heads down and focusing on instruments. I'm very much not an expert on this, but I thought that most of the time, at least for recreational flying, the opposite was the
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by frenchy 3y ago
More accurately: probably referring to the length of their rope (and thus max pitch lengths). With alpine climbing, the actual pitch length can be all over the place due to a variety of reasons.
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by frenchy 3y ago
> I think building materials, labor, and land is increasing prices Denser housing provides more functional housing for a given amount of material, labor, and land. For example, if you're building a townhouse, you just need a 10 inch
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by frenchy 3y ago
The next verison of GTA should be a game where you get a gig with a corporation called Rockstar, and all your jobs are focused around making them money.
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by frenchy 3y ago
> I doubt that many people under age 70 remember that personally. Jesus of Nazarath was reportedly crucified in Judea almost 2000 years ago, and people have all sorts of opinions on that event. Events like these just have a way of gettin
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by frenchy 3y ago
I believe they also collect location data when you're not using Google Maps for the purpose of updating their database of wifi locations (that they then use for location tracking). There is an agreement for this too, but the Android ph
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by frenchy 3y ago
This is a good point, even without polymorphism there are risky refactors, but the polymorphism increases the number of potential risky refactors. On top of that, it might be a lot more obvious that turning a vector into a vector of vectors
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by frenchy 3y ago
With cloud services, there's some expectation that your stuff is private. Copilot is like doing all your cloud development with an anonymous FTP server.
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by frenchy 4y ago
> Canada's charter of rights and freedoms isn't worth the paper it's printed on While this is certainly technically true, the charter is something of a representation of the social contract that already existed between Can
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by frenchy 4y ago
It totally depends. I do half our shopping on a bike, but I was very intentional about buying a place that was only a km from a grocery store. I could walk if I really wanted. The worst part is that the shopping carts aren't near the b
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by frenchy 4y ago
> Why not a park or other recreation area How do they get there? What might not be obvious is that the parks are often far away, because you can't afford to maintain many parks because the tax base is too small.
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by frenchy 4y ago
> but roles eliminate a lot of room for conflict. I think that's only true if those roles line up with practical realities. The bulk of the problem with the 'old' roles is that become obsolete due to technological and cult
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by frenchy 4y ago
Because 'cookie law' isn't just about cookies. This is an intentional confusion on behave of the advertisers. It's really about using cookies for the specific purpose of tracking. There's alotof uses for cookies and
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by frenchy 4y ago
That's what I remember as well. It seems like the acronym has been so successful that it remains popular even though no one can agree one what it stands for.
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by frenchy 4y ago
There's a difference between knowing the laws of the road, and being a competent enough driver that you can perform them. The rules are rarely, if ever, enforced, so a lot of drivers just figure it's not a big of a deal. It's
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by frenchy 4y ago
People change their names all the time when they get married or immigrate and have no problem with their birth name's being available. I don't think it's fair to make a blanket statement about this.

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