mariodiana

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by mariodiana 5mo ago
Since you're using Biblical language, I just want to point out that you're not Biblically accurate. Murder isn't the original sin.
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by mariodiana 10mo ago
Yes. But I'm adding that learning methods should be explicitly taught, to where they become second nature to the student.
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by mariodiana 10mo ago
I'm may be a little off-topic here (but I don't think so). In my opinion, elementary school (grades K-5) should really focus a good deal on rote memorization, but only if this focuses on teaching every kind of game and technique t
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by mariodiana 10mo ago
They're telling us that iPhones are going to be getting so big, we're going to have to buy it its own custom pocket.
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by mariodiana 10mo ago
I worked for a small company that had a project with Bloomberg. We went to the office downtown, and being the clueless Upstate hick that I was, I saw the text-based UI up on a screen and asked my boss — a little too loudly — if we were at a
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by mariodiana 11mo ago
I'm nostalgic for an old World Wide Web (which never really existed, thanks to GeoCities and such), and wish that we could form a sect of "Puritans," break away from the High Church, and sail away to some top-level domain of
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by mariodiana 11mo ago
I'm 58, and have needed reading glasses for the last 10 years. Want to try something fun? Increase your default text size on your iPhone, and then just watch how many apps — native Apple apps, mind you — have their UI screwed up to the
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by mariodiana 1y ago
Back in 2011, Apple removed apps that crowdsourced warnings about DUI checkpoints. It remains Apple's policy today. According to Grok, "In March 2011, four Democratic senators—Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), Harry Reid (D-Nev.), Frank L
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by mariodiana 1y ago
Is Objective-C discussed at all?
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by mariodiana 1y ago
Unless I'm mistaken, I remember some years ago the Apple Store blocked a DUI Checkpoint app. Has that changed?
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by mariodiana 1y ago
My understanding is that your characterization is true of the Articles of Confederation, but not true of the Constitution. The federal government's power is delegated from the people. At the top of the Articles, it's pretty clear
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by mariodiana 1y ago
I'm not going to downvote you. But Rawls never applies. Rawls is a big scam. At root, it is relativism wrapped up in the august raiment of state-of-nature social contract theory, whatever his protests to the contrary; and the relativis
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by mariodiana 1y ago
Exactly. Children belong with their parents. And if their parents don't belong here, then Q.E.D.
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by mariodiana 1y ago
I anthropomorphize A.I. not for its sake but for mine. I figure that my brain has evolved to interact with other humans, so maybe my thinking is better stimulated when I pretend I'm talking to one.
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by mariodiana 2y ago
The fact that this would require a constitutional amendment makes me think this is more about collecting names to later pester for money than anything else. I wouldn't even take it seriously. "Make bank. Troll the libs." The
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by mariodiana 2y ago
It's sad that late-binding languages like Objective-C never got the love they should have, and instead people have favored strongly (or stronger) typed languages. In Objective-C, you could have your User class take a delegate. The dele
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by mariodiana 2y ago
Sunny's. I know it was actually a dance bar. I hung out a lot at Rooney's and sometimes the OMI. On the one side of Sunny's was a gym. On the other side was a Sears catalog showroom. Above the Sears were two apartments. My fr
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by mariodiana 2y ago
Graduation weekend 1989 at SUNY Fredonia, my housemate's father was visiting. We were four guys sharing an apartment right next door to the biggest party bar in town. At some point during the night before ceremonies, in the midst of ou
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by mariodiana 2y ago
OOP dweeb here. Since "Door" is an object, shouldn't the behavior be encapsulated and accessible to the client only via messaging? Then, we have "open", "close", "lock", and "unlock" --
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by mariodiana 2y ago
So, the trick here would be to purchase a ticket with a major airline, pack a no-no in your carry-on, and then bypass TSA security by adding yourself to the Known Crew Member list of a small airline using the third-party FlyCASS system, via
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by mariodiana 2y ago
As my good fortune would have it, I'm called to jury duty two weeks from now. I doubt I'll be sat though. Should I be, I'll keep the above in mind.
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by mariodiana 2y ago
"Candid Camera" required people to sign a release for the scene to be aired, no?
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by mariodiana 2y ago
I agree. Inflating the money supply (for example, via cheap credit policies) distorts the economy and creates malinvestment. Unadulterated consumer demand is eclipsed by the artificial demand created by the newly created money. The new mone
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by mariodiana 2y ago
I also don’t understand people on a tech forum not being more sympathetic about the economy’s troubles. Is tech not in a recession? That’s ludicrous. Tech is in a bad way.
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by mariodiana 2y ago
Wayback Machine archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20240401233215/https://www.econo...
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by mariodiana 2y ago
My understanding is that it’s the other way around. The Jews despised the Samaritans. The Samaritans were the hayseed, “deplorable” Israelites left behind when Israel was conquered by the Persians and the elites carted off to Babylon. When
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by mariodiana 2y ago
Perhaps this is essentially more lawfare against a party antagonistic to the political aims of Washington players. We know that our national (as well as state) law enforcement entities have been alleging for more than a decade now that Appl
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by mariodiana 3y ago
The Korean women want careers, and if they're open to having children, they want husbands who are willing to split the housework and childrearing fifty-fifty. Going by the article, the complaint is that it's hard to find potential
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by mariodiana 3y ago
All over YouTube are fresh faced kids telling you how to make 10 thousand dollars a month with a sure fire side hustle. At some point, even someone like me who can be a bit slow on the uptake has to realize it's too good to be true.
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by mariodiana 3y ago
I still don’t get what they’re trying to say. The more parts of your brain that are able to interact with one another, the more likely you are to be diagnosed with ADHD?

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