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by nescioquid 1y ago
As a lay-person who likes to read about bugs, I've come to expect the qualifier "true" to connote something special about bug's "mouth parts".
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by nescioquid 1y ago
>>I'm not a headphone person but always have music playing in the background on speakers — often at a fairly low volume so it is easily ignored...<< Given the number of self-exonerating qualifications in that statement, I t
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by nescioquid 2y ago
Note how one opinion provides the warrant for the other.
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by nescioquid 2y ago
To add to your comments on travel, reading position, lighting, some books are just too large or heavy to lug around or even hold for long periods. There are a number of door-stopper books that I otherwise just wouldn't have read becaus
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by nescioquid 2y ago
There is a story about an inventor who approached Trajan[0] with plans for new construction machinery that would require far fewer laborers. Trajan's response was incredulous: if he used the new construction equipment, how did he expec
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by nescioquid 2y ago
Consider that you may be eavesdropping on the sort of self-talk the author engages in. The clear reasoning mixed with vituperation makes me suspect he probably beats himself up. There is a lot of worry over being mistaken and stupid. I&#x27
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by nescioquid 2y ago
People often screw around over the piano keyboard, usually an octave or so about middle C until an idea occurs. Brahms likened this to a pair of hands combing over a garbage dump. I think a creative person has no trouble generating interest
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by nescioquid 2y ago
Make it three. I'm on the third battery for my darter pro: twice so far, the battery has swelled up and made the keyboard buckle. System76 support consists in selling me replacement batteries at a serious markup. I've decided not
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by nescioquid 2y ago
My impression is that the term came from Make magazine marketing/PR/branding. I think that we say "maker spaces" rather than "hacker spaces" probably has a lot to do with the success of Make's branding eff
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by nescioquid 2y ago
It's also the sound a gun makes when it's fired (in German). There's a pipeline-related joke in there somewhere.
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by nescioquid 2y ago
I would guess most people interested in the quiz would be familiar with betacode (which this looks like, sans diacritics). edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_Code
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by nescioquid 2y ago
That sounds like a Fagan review. I haven't been involved with one either, but I think some of the forces that drove people to do them have been weakened. When you are shipping code that you won't be able to update easily (i.e. che
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by nescioquid 2y ago
Eumenides trousers?
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by nescioquid 2y ago
woosh
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by nescioquid 2y ago
In the early 20th century, arguments against eugenics included pointing out that natural selection works through environmental pressures. Selecting for traits we value currently may well paint us in a corner should the environmental press
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by nescioquid 2y ago
My thought is that one didn't simply travel alone on horseback, but with a group and baggage, and I wouldn't expect servants to be mounted. The animals help with the baggage. You also would want a group since there are highwaymen
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by nescioquid 2y ago
I recently reread the first few chapters of The Castle and was surprised find such a different novel than what I remembered as a teenager: it was funny . My German is better now than when I first attempted the novel, but when I was younger
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by nescioquid 2y ago
You're probably a conscientious person and from "the inside" it maybe feels like you're procrastinating. But taken on your own account, it just looks like you don't actually have a problem with procrastination and a
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by nescioquid 2y ago
I'm not the one getting down-voted.
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by nescioquid 2y ago
This caught out the current Show HN poster, so I imagine the comment could be useful to future Show HN posters. Besides, the comment wasn't unkind to the present poster and is actually kind to future posters, so the admonishment and do
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by nescioquid 2y ago
I shared the urge to avoid loop until I read Pascal Costanza's Highly Opinionated Guide to Lisp[1] >> Seemingly, the intended way to use the LOOP facility is to just "guess" a way to express an iteration and see if it w
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by nescioquid 2y ago
Giving your friend the benefit of the doubt, sometimes one gets the wrong perspective from a careful, qualified statement. W. Sidney Allen wrote Vox Graeca[1] and Vox Latina which are well-known works which detail both what we know about pr
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by nescioquid 2y ago
This seems obligatory: https://tldp.org/HOWTO/Coffee.html
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by nescioquid 2y ago
The argument is actually more about insight. You can't have insights about things you don't already have in your head. Insight in this context is noticing some new relationship between two facts. There was a slang term "refri
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by nescioquid 2y ago
This morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas; how it got into them, I'll never know... If there is a standard library for GNU Make, one would expect it to be part of the GNU project. That the GNU project enforces a certain naming conv
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by nescioquid 2y ago
Your library is called 'GNU Make Standard Library', but it doesn't look like it is at all affiliated with the GNU project. I don't know what GNU/FSF's position on this sort of thing is, but if your project isn&
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by nescioquid 2y ago
First, I don't have a dog in the fight between parent and GP. Secondly, you're balking at a foundational commonplace in Western music. Musical perception shares pathways with speech and it is believed this is also why certain timb
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by nescioquid 2y ago
It seems they could have made the same investment without the misrepresentation - or are you trying to say the misrepresentation itself is shrewd?
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by nescioquid 2y ago
No chess player ever wants to play a child. If you win, congratulations, you beat a child. If you lose, you were beaten by a child whom everyone will conclude is smarter than you.
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by nescioquid 3y ago
I never can decide, but I think you have made the correct point. For me, it was "four twenties, nine and ten", which was only funny because one said "sixty, nine and ten". I dunno, I love it and it terrifies me. The fi

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