frenchyatwork

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by frenchyatwork 2y ago
> Any foreigner can be denied entry to a country for any and no reason whatsoever That's a completely different thing than what happened here. Those are the rules, everyone knows that, and acts accordingly. The biggest problem in th
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by frenchyatwork 2y ago
What about the part of the Python ethos where "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it"
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by frenchyatwork 2y ago
That might be more exponential than polynomial.
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by frenchyatwork 2y ago
Also, the classic issue with tumors, is that they're your own body, and it's hard to selectively target them. Any treatment that hibernates tumor cells is likely hibernate normal cells, and be incompatible with life; unless you ge
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by frenchyatwork 2y ago
Historically at least, one of the significant jobs of a wingman has been to act as bait. With dogfighting, with cannon fire, fighters are most vulnerable when they're trying to shoot down another plane, because they need to be pointing
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by frenchyatwork 2y ago
Yes, but it was coined to promote specific view of Eichmann that he himself tried to cast himself in: that he didn't really like murdering Jews, he was just following orders.
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by frenchyatwork 3y ago
> I don't understand and can't accept why crimes committed while drunk get you a lesser punishment than a crime committed while sober. Where I'm from, most people who kill other people while driving get off without any pun
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by frenchyatwork 3y ago
The unwillingness, on all sides of political spectrum, to provide physical and psychological support to former military members in modern democracies is something that completely baffles me. In Canada, at least, no-one wants to join the mil
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by frenchyatwork 3y ago
Is Microsoft's sub claim unstable? I think you might have misunderstood the point. Miscellaneous claims like email/preferred_username shouldn't be used to identify 3rd party logins. Apart from not necessarily being unique, th
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by frenchyatwork 3y ago
It's worth bearing in mind that the people making these policy decisions in 2020 were doing so without any objective knowledge of how the pandemic would actually end up playing out. Car safety is somewhat different. While the harms of
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by frenchyatwork 3y ago
The culture is derived from the economics though. Software engineers who value simplicity don't get promoted, or their software is not as successful, because the other engineers who produce complex software produce results that users a
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by frenchyatwork 3y ago
Partial indexes are still slower, the database needs to scan the index, and then look for the data, and data is less likely to appear in the same pages.
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by frenchyatwork 4y ago
> The point is that there’s a single standard There already was single standard. I think your point is that you want there to be a single implementation. You can't really have that at this point without allowing powerful commercial
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by frenchyatwork 4y ago
> Also, not sure how the name was picked-up (Big caveat: this all depends on joining nylon ropes of similar diameters. Different diameters and UHMWPE cord has different rules) My understanding is that the American's picked it up fro
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by frenchyatwork 4y ago
> Every single study done on it shows that creative staff (including engineers) are more productive working where they are less disturbed, that open-plan offices are the least productive environment, etc. Do you have any specific sources
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by frenchyatwork 5y ago
Just write in the style where all your names are like 'folder1/folder2/folder3/folder1Folder2Folder3Thing.ts`. (to be clear, this is sarcasm, please don't do this!)
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by frenchyatwork 5y ago
> It tells you that it is a credit monitoring service when you call, but it is indeed the password manager service That actually sounds like it might be a business model (at least in places where the proletariat don't get too uppity
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by frenchyatwork 5y ago
IIRC, Firefox doesn't always give back memory when the machine has free memory. If you start running other high memory processes, then Firefox might dump some memory. The reason for this is 1) there's not much point in freeing mem
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by frenchyatwork 5y ago
So humanity's stupidest form of cultivation strikes again.
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by frenchyatwork 5y ago
I imagine these stats have a lot more to do with the roughness of the water than the temperature. Rough water can be extremely difficult and stressful to stay up in, especially if you're not used to it. Also, if you get tossed off a bo
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by frenchyatwork 5y ago
> I have a third party which returns errors ~20% of the time outside of working hours Then presumably those errors shouldn't be exceptions. Of course, there's a lot of a lot of assumptions behind this: 1. You have control over
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by frenchyatwork 5y ago
A lot of what counts as spam these days isn't something like "I search for bicycle reviews and get penis enlargement pills", it's more like "I search for bicycle reviews and get some blog who searched Amazon for the
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by frenchyatwork 5y ago
I think one of the fundamental things that make search work well about 1-2 decades ago was that web sites would link to each other, and that those links could vaguely correlate with reputation. There were link spammers, but there was actual
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by frenchyatwork 5y ago
This is kind of complicated because [u] is a rounded vowel, so it's slightly "labialized" even if it's not preceded by [w]. Additionally, English spelling rules are complete insanity, and if an English speaker sees &quot
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by frenchyatwork 5y ago
It matters as words are useful for communication only if we can come to some agreement about what they mean. What you're suggesting is that people accept that the cost of avoiding COVID and "flattening the curve" isn't w
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by frenchyatwork 5y ago
OP never said you can't develop conscientiousness, just that it was almost certainly partially genetic. You can learn to run faster, but some genetic profiles will never make it to the Olympics by just practice.
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by frenchyatwork 5y ago
In English, Wuhan is typically pronounced with a "w" (/wuːhæn/ or /wuːhɑːn/), see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuhan .
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by frenchyatwork 5y ago
Is it not obvious that one person's data being public (and the resulting information asymmetry) is a lot different than everyone's data being public?
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by frenchyatwork 5y ago
> Real estate developers are not some oppressed group, they tend to run local politics in most of the country. I think the people who run local politics are often the people who own lots of real estate, not necessarily those who build bu
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by frenchyatwork 5y ago
Well, I used to think /pol/ was satire, but they managed to start a whole religion (QAnon).

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