siltpotato

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by siltpotato 5y ago
Huh? How does that work?
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by siltpotato 5y ago
As a musician, I’d say no. Sure, you don’t get the significance of “what is this Dorian thing” unless Scarborough Fair is playing, but nothing in the article really applies to hearing music.
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by siltpotato 5y ago
Have never tasted it in my life and it already looks delicious. I love thick, flat noodles. I undercook fettuccine and ensure they stick together but I wonder if that would provide the same experience.
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by siltpotato 6y ago
Didn't foresee the inefficiencies and overhead of modern programming.
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by siltpotato 6y ago
Before I look up `man cat`, what can you do with `cat` other than just see what's in a file?
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by siltpotato 6y ago
My cat died recently and I didn't get that experience before then. He always knew when I was ready, somehow.
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by siltpotato 6y ago
Apparently this is the seventh one. I've never worked on a safety critical system but this is the story that makes me wonder what it's like to do so.
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by siltpotato 6y ago
Filter means to remove, not to add. Like `filter()` in Python or Swift being given a condition and a list and returning everything that meets the condition.
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by siltpotato 6y ago
Hold on, what? Okay, return false if they aren't equal, then open another process to repeat this method once again in the shell... I can't guess the reason. Would you know if there is any reason this might have been done?
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by siltpotato 6y ago
Saw "Wild lynx could be reintroduced" and I wondered what environment used to have a browser but then didn't.
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by siltpotato 6y ago
The meaning of "classical" with a lowercase 'c' refers to elite music with theory built around it from any culture; most people are not referring to the "Classical" with a capital 'C' period of Europe
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by siltpotato 6y ago
Why not support the printer so that it has more elevation than the fire?
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by siltpotato 6y ago
I haven't. I have deleted some accounts, but a trail of forums, typically writing forums, with my email and some one-off password, has followed me for about half a decade. Honestly don't know how to fix that. Of the big ones, I ha
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by siltpotato 6y ago
That sexuality of a character in a game is even known is problematic; this implies the sexuality is being acted on. I wish developers would stop exploiting the four Fs to induce us to buy, and sadly my minimal consumption of video games is
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Ask HN: What is your approach to reading a code repo for the first time?
5 points by siltpotato 6y ago|4 comments