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31.
by pif 4mo ago
You may substitute StackOverflow with Quora and your answer would not get less valid.
32.
by pif 4mo ago
Also, people confuse "good" with "ought to live forever". It's time to leave BSD and LISP in the history books.
33.
by pif 4mo ago
> devastating for someone with a loan Sorry, I can't understand why. Could you please expand a bit? I don't get how decreasing the value of the building makes the loan more difficult to repay.
34.
by pif 4mo ago
> some things are just not possible to do right If git doesn't let you do them "right", your concept if "right" is wrong.
35.
by pif 4mo ago
All the comments I've been able to read are missing the elephant in the room: no high-quality entropy source can turn a "should" into a "must". If you want something that is difficult to guess, ask the cryptography
36.
by pif 5mo ago
I keep stating proudly to any team mate and any manager that I've never ever needed a board to know what I had to work on.
37.
by pif 5mo ago
If you want it to be pronounced "sh", just write it "sh".
38.
by pif 5mo ago
Which part of "mathematical operations don’t reset the NaT bit" did you not understand?
39.
by pif 5mo ago
> if it fails, it is only considered evidence that you were not doing it enough. 20 years ago, this was the meme about XML. More seriously, this was also the answer about Communism.
40.
by pif 5mo ago
> "We will do x and y as a compromise but not z" This reminds a lot of this: "I'm going to try this extremely difficult pastry recipe at home, but I'll use margarin insted of butter because <idiot reason> a
41.
by pif 5mo ago
Wake me up when a heavily industrialized country will be in the list, thanks!
42.
by pif 6mo ago
Hello, could you please elaborate about those laws?
43.
by pif 6mo ago
> you now can annihilate them [...] from a comfortable distance The problem is: they can, too.
44.
by pif 6mo ago
Muons are not stable, thus you cannot tear them off matter as you'd do with electrons. And they have a mass of 105 MeV each, which means you need a nice particle accelerator to create a few of them. Furthermore, if you want (most of) t
45.
by pif 6mo ago
She taught me to only speak the truth.
46.
by pif 6mo ago
> I'm talking from the perspective in Europe > > No law maker asked about the major decisions the EU made. Idiot brexiteer talk...
47.
by pif 6mo ago
In civilised places, the government is the people. And civilised people know they are the government.
48.
by pif 6mo ago
The important question is: which fraction of people can afford it in either country?
49.
by pif 6mo ago
No, this is just what pays big dividends to useless managers.
50.
by pif 7mo ago
> No one can predict anything. Nobody ever could. Accept this reality and everything will be fine.
51.
by pif 7mo ago
Utter idiocy at election day is not passivity. History will put Trumpers and Confederate at the same level of despicability.
52.
by pif 7mo ago
If only people learnt to program properly and ditched unions completely...
53.
by pif 7mo ago
Which means that fasting helps you reduce the global calory intake, which is the only way to loose weight.
54.
by pif 8mo ago
"colloquial" has no place in official contexts. I'll happily talk about kB and MB without considering the small difference between 1000 and 1024, but on a contract "kilo" will unequivocally mean 1000, unless explici
55.
by pif 8mo ago
I understand the usual meaning, but I use the correct meaning when precision is required.
56.
by pif 8mo ago
I understand the usual meaning, but I use the correct meaning when precision is required.
57.
by pif 8mo ago
> Why don’t kilobyte continue to mean 1024 Because it never did!
58.
by pif 8mo ago
For all the people commenting as if the meaning of "kilo" was open to discussion... you are all from the United States of America, and you call your country "America", right?
59.
by pif 8mo ago
> I've never heard It doesn't matter. "kilo" means 1000. People are free to use it wrong if they wish.
60.
by pif 8mo ago
> Edit: I'm wrong. You need character to admit that. I bow to you.

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