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by throwawaw 5y ago
Yeah, that one caught my eye (and then moistened it). The way he breaks his slump by sharing Factorio with his son -- what a wonderful, unexpected benefit of working in games. How many of us will get to do something like that?
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by throwawaw 5y ago
Did they change the rules just to punish her? Last I heard, the policy was that missing interviews incurs a fine, which Osaka decided she could handle. If so, this starts to look a little villainous. I guess they're afraid other player
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by throwawaw 5y ago
I just say "compile", too, because it's strictly correct and I like being correct. But "transpiling adds zero information" seems unfair: when you see that word, you at least know the speaker meant "compiling to
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by throwawaw 5y ago
WTF is with this Borat-level parody of "bad English"? That's not how people actually sound when English is their second language, and you didn't sound like that two months ago. What's with the act? (Sorry, mods, for
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by throwawaw 5y ago
I've been playing this game for 15 years now. Somehow, it just doesn't get old. One great DCSS tradition: whenever a new major patch is released, there's a two week long tournament. You more or less just try to win a lot, in
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by throwawaw 5y ago
For God's sake, just quote the whole thing. You really broke it off mid-sentence? If including "a million buildings destroyed" (or whichever other part you felt you couldn't include) would make your comment seem less dev
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by throwawaw 5y ago
> The same people who tout the virtues of being well-read skip right past the Bible, the most popular book in human history. Who's doing that? You wouldn't be able to understand half of what you read. Did the author just make u
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by throwawaw 5y ago
Do you think your friend might have been using the alphabet as an example of what Sesame Street had taught his kid, and not as a complete catalogue?
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by throwawaw 6y ago
Your edit drastically undersells the extent to which you were wrong on this one. > Amateur sleuths found fertile ground to fan conspiracies. They didn’t hesitate in casting Jeff Psaki, a money manager at Citadel, as proof of dark arts at
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by throwawaw 6y ago
a "dirty" rebase sets $? to 1, so I think the auto-abort feature is just `git rebase foo || git rebase --abort`.
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by throwawaw 6y ago
Oh, right, the article ...
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by throwawaw 6y ago
I wonder whether anyone has used "otherwise" for this. It'd be a simple alias for "else", but it'd certainly sound natural: if (X) { doY(); } otherwise { doZ(); }
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by throwawaw 6y ago
> The current level is "severe", which was set on 3 November 2020, due to a shooting in Vienna by a suspected "Islamist terrorist" in which four people died. It was raised by Home Secretary, Priti Patel, following rec
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by throwawaw 6y ago
I'm not buying it. They're already back online after 90 minutes. What kind of deplatforming is that? Why not say who was responsible or post those juicy, juicy emails? This is a bad fit for deplatforming and a good fit for outrage
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by throwawaw 6y ago
Almost too minor to bring up, but my brain won't let go. In your first sentence, was "surreptitiously stumbling upon" the book meant to happen "serendipitously" instead?
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by throwawaw 6y ago
Wouldn't that be shocking? But in fact, the URL in question opens a specific reply to that article. How embarrassing!
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by throwawaw 6y ago
> Importantly for us, Roam differs from other webapps in that it doesn't store all state and history in its backend. Instead, Roam's backend just stores a snapshotted Datascript database (updated ~daily as far as I can tell) an
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by throwawaw 6y ago
What differences did you see? They seem essentially similar. The exception being: > We should shift more of the tax burden onto capital, including by raising the capital gains tax, probably to the same level as taxes on labor. (2019) vs
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by throwawaw 6y ago
I can't believe I had never seen this. Thank you.
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by throwawaw 6y ago
Nope, you're not missing anything, then. Maybe I am -- I use the fzf plugin, but only for finding files. Is this (build_quickfix_list) what you're using? https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/blob/master&#
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by throwawaw 6y ago
Is fzf buying you anything over just using :grep? (If speed is the issue, the magic words are `set grepprg='rg --vimgrep'`, after which it's actually usable.)
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by throwawaw 6y ago
I love this one.
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by throwawaw 6y ago
Fun seeing that pretty much everyone else finds that idiom confusing too. Half-serious, over breakfast: (case [(> n min) (< n max)] [true true] n [true false] max [false true] min) (Side note: Clojure's
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by throwawaw 6y ago
This was the first play I ever read for fun (instead of for a class). I fell in love with it, and over the years I've re-read it several times. I don't know what it was -- it just bit me, somehow. Some theater company was performi
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by throwawaw 6y ago
Is there a reverse version of that last one? For navigation I prefer Finder over `cd; ls`, but once I end up where I want to be I generally need a terminal. edit: Another user replied with what I want as I typed this! Thank you haddr.
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by throwawaw 6y ago
Headline is unfortunate, and then the first part of the essay is spent justifying/walking back the title. The good part starts a few paragraphs down, at "We conduct experiments in risk management every single day".
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by throwawaw 6y ago
This is an extraordinarily level-headed and well-reasoned version of the "how much telemetry" conversation, from both "sides". The Julia community comes off looking really good here.
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by throwawaw 6y ago
By John Perry, co-host of the delightful radio show Philosophy Talk (or at least that's how I know him). I'm sold.
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by throwawaw 7y ago
> Walmart has a drug rehab program today they run at many of their stores; they drug test 100 applicants, 99 fail the drug test. They have no other way of finding people to staff basic positions. Sorry for being the "cite please&quo
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by throwawaw 13y ago
I won't be downloading the film itself, but this Youtube video about its source was strangely fascinating. I had no idea the Star Wars hardcore fan base was so resourceful and technically adept.

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