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by quink 7d ago
And kind of the same for Rick and Morty, the most recent season was a real return to form.
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by quink 14d ago
This feels more like engine manufacturer QC rather than anything Airbus. Because also, from Wikipedia: On 22 June 2011, Qantas announced that it had agreed to a compensation of AUD$95 million (£62 million/US$100 million) from Rolls-Roy
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by quink 18d ago
I still agree with parent’s definition more because it also covers the ironic, sarcastic case, as well as the inherent ambiguity of the word ‘besser’. Plainly put, ‘better’ for who? If you just say it as a logical series of making it worse
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by quink 22d ago
Somebody else mentioned OS/400, I’ll mention MUMPS and its “globals”… specifically ^rOBJ Everything old is new again.
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by quink 1mo ago
Just listen to the overwhelming silence from the “states’ rights” crowd.
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by quink 1mo ago
Nuclear scepticism… did you know that nuclear power plants need cooling? Germany is learning that lesson the hard way right now, just check the news, it really speaks for reducing their dependency on nuclear as having been a very very good
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by quink 3mo ago
They acknowledge that in the article, and make it clear that it really refers to 1 BC.
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by quink 3mo ago
"A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision."
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by quink 3mo ago
Not having literal strings in the source code, I do need to get a capital “R” somewhere and the name of the system being “IRIS” in system variable $ZV makes that easy and terse. Apart from that one trick I think it’ll be more or less just f
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by quink 3mo ago
No you don’t - you can abbreviate it to just ‘K’ or ‘k’.
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by quink 3mo ago
First job out of university and stuck around with it for the next dozen years, probably longer than sensible... in the context of maintaining a bag of software that got put together in the mid-80s, a substantial module of which continued to
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by quink 3mo ago
I did most of Advent of Code last year code golfing in MUMPS (running on Caché), with the additional challenge on up to and including day 7 doing without literals - that's to say no numbers and no strings. It was good fun - https:&#x2
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by quink 3mo ago
I count 23 instances of invective language or politicisation in that HUD statement, and that’s to say nothing of the supposed data behind this. How about blame wealth extraction by the 0.01% before going after the out group that’s clearly w
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by quink 3mo ago
Likening non-Kelvin Kirk to Hornblower is so far off the mark…
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by quink 4mo ago
The 888 in the top right corner back in the day: https://youtu.be/rAk94cq23HQ?si=JLJMSqbUjKUsFcdQ just amazing that teletext was understood and ubiquitous to such an extent that just putting three numbers was important and
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by quink 4mo ago
They literally mention Vrij Nederland as a source as near enough the first thing in the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vrij_Nederland and https://www.vn.nl/microsoft-ambtenaren-amerikaanse-overh
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by quink 4mo ago
That Duffy sent this letter to the governors: https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/memorandum/Freedom_to_Drive_Initiat... Asking them to maximise roadway capacity (that’s to say just one more lane bro) in order to solve congestion
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by quink 4mo ago
It is of course, one step between this view and them being punished for having that view. One small step between being declared a luddite and the powers that be deciding that luddites aren't a thing we're to have.
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by quink 4mo ago
It feels also this speech was not really in any way related to AI per se. It was the Ayn Rand-esque hero, an Übermensch, who of course formed Google out of nothing proclaiming that individualism and egoism are the way to go, that they have
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by quink 4mo ago
And even if there weren’t any jarring errors, and rest assured there’s about a billion of them, there’s no appeal to this. It’s all context free short unassociated clips of pretty faces dancing on a beach. And? There’s no narrative, there’s
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by quink 5mo ago
And here I’m thinking that my text editor should have zero interaction with anything git other than as a diff viewer. lazygit is text editor agnostic and works brilliantly to give some near perfect porcelain to git specifically. And it work
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by quink 6mo ago
It was a telegram, not a letter. As also immortalised at the end of the 1968 episode of ‘From The Earth To The Moon’, attributed there to an apparently fictitious person.
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by quink 6mo ago
Because at this point all the people in all the other countries do not care who you voted for, especially not after he caused an insurrection and a Democratic Party administration didn't do anything to prosecute that. At this point all
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by quink 6mo ago
lol, others are saying elections to solve economic concerns. If that solves it why do you keep re-electing Republicans given this context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._economic_performance_by_p... sure the next e
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by quink 6mo ago
Getting rid of the delusion of American exceptionalism in how politics is conducted. In other words, do something about the two party system, or the pardon power or any number of things, the possibilities are endless. But doing anything abo
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by quink 7mo ago
Crazy suggestion, just connect two normal keyboards. Particularly if the left one is numpad-less you’ll get much of the idea for sure. They might be a smidgeon further apart than might be ideal, there’s some ugly duplication… which happens
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by quink 8mo ago
Get any satellite imagery of the UK, like on Google Earth. Even at a very zoomed out level, with London and Birmingham but an inch apart, you'll instantly spot the bit of HS2 they're building.
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by quink 9mo ago
SponsorBlock. Granted, doesn’t do much for my iPhone but on computers it’s a solved problem.
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by quink 9mo ago
How? Near enough no one was using the Kunrei system for any of that. If anything this will make it more consistent or at least no worse. Macrons are the biggest inconsistency but that’s always been the case. It was either Hepburn, the Engli
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by quink 11mo ago
> to win multiple elections around the country. So voters across the country have come to the conclusion that the Democrats aren’t to blame. You don’t always get comments that contain their own rebuttal, but when they happen they just br

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