onorton

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by onorton 7mo ago
I'm not sure if this was the intention of the analogy, but fishing poles don't have reels.
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by onorton 4y ago
You can use the middle mouse button to open in new tabs. Looks like that's not disabled.
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by onorton 5y ago
> I know how to pronounce 'Kansas', and I was always under the impression that 'Arkansas' is the same with an 'Ar-' prefixed, which is apparently not the case. The reason why they're pronounced differen
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by onorton 5y ago
Yep. He is the youngest living member, though.
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by onorton 5y ago
> currency sign after the number instead of before it While they use Euros, the Republic of Ireland is an exception to this.
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by onorton 5y ago
At least with a higher level language it is easier to learn the practical side of concepts taught in Computer Science. As part of my architecture course at university, we were tasked to create a matrix multiplier in assembly. While it was a
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by onorton 5y ago
It's so known for its stickiness that a mixture of sugar and boiling water is used by inmates against others. It's known as "prison napalm".
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by onorton 5y ago
A small technicality, but I don't think he ever released under the name "the artist formerly known as Prince" but as the Love Symbol [0]. An example album being the Gold Experience [1]. [0] https://compote.slate.co
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by onorton 5y ago
Funny, at my UK university for Computer Science we did not have independently invigilated exams. I would assume other courses were similar. We did have them for secondary education though.
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by onorton 5y ago
> but very easy to fake with useless “tests” While it doesn't alleviate the problems entirely, you can also run things like mutation tests that check that your unit tests actually test conditions, rather than just execute all the c
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by onorton 5y ago
In the UK, the A level I took was called "Computing". My university called it that as well and treated it as an MEng rather than an MSc, but most UK universities still call it Computer Science I think.
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by onorton 5y ago
But why? It was his actual birth name. He also wasn't knighted so you could use the title "Sir" to distinguish the other Francis Bacon from him, though I've noticed Americans don't use the title generally when refer
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by onorton 5y ago
Not quite the same but the word "run" in English can express a lot of different concepts.[0] [0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/run
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by onorton 5y ago
My all time favourite example of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DySPDmCHgw
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by onorton 5y ago
"Plans are worthless, but planning is everything" is the version I've heard.
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by onorton 5y ago
I don't mean leaving the city by public transport or whatever. I mean leaving the monotony of a particular area which I thought you meant in your OP. Streets in London typically aren't the same for literal miles, whereas they can
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by onorton 5y ago
I think the difference being is that you don't have to get in the car just to leave it. I myself live about 5 minutes walk from a major train station in London whose trains go past my flat and it only takes me another five minutes walk
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by onorton 6y ago
I wonder how many of those are from papers discussing failure of peer review or interdisciplinary communication rather than the value of the formula itself.
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by onorton 6y ago
Not explicit but Ser Meryn comes to mind.
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by onorton 6y ago
> where you are not allowed to communicate with your fellow players Technically there is no textual communication. You could still communicate with players via signalling e.g. Choosing support commands for that player in places that are
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by onorton 6y ago
As someone who lives there, I would use "Britain" to include the other islands in England, Scotland and Wales but most people here don't refer to the main island specifically.
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by onorton 6y ago
> The article is way too long and reads more like a novel than an informative piece That is what is expected from the New Yorker
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by onorton 6y ago
I wonder if there is an equivalent political thing for the blind or for the partially vision impaired. I've only read or heard about these kind of divides (e.g. rejecting fixes for the condition, argument about whether it is an impairm
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by onorton 6y ago
They're not fiddly if you do assertion-free testing
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by onorton 6y ago
To add to the sibling comments, you should avoid this scenario in the first place by hiding things behind feature flags that only apply in dev. Request 1 can go in fine on its own and reviewed separately Request 2 can be added feature flagg
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by onorton 6y ago
Don't most systems have a merge commit for the PR? I know TFS/Azure DevOps does.
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by onorton 6y ago
Also, I think it relates to the point people arguing for Fahrenheit make that 0C and 100C aren't as relatable since they're related to boiling and freezing points of water compared to 0F and 100F which would be more "human&qu
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by onorton 6y ago
There's a name for this cognitive bias but I always forget what it's called. Something to do with the reader's expertise in one field being able to pick out flaws but not in other fields from the same source.
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by onorton 6y ago
They seem to be on the lower end of recognition in general so that might have something to do with it (statistical variation) Side note but I'm surprised that Diamonds and Pearls rather than any other 90's Prince song charted in t
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by onorton 7y ago
I still occasionally have flashbacks to 13 year old me finally getting the game after 3 years of watching that video and the disappointment and anguish afterwards. Though around 2007 when I saw more recent presentations I was starting to ha

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