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Comment · 1 month ago
INELUCTABLE MODALITY OF THE VISIBLE: AT LEAST THAT IF NO MORE, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read, seaspawn and seawrack, the nearing tide, that rusty boot. Snotgreen, bluesilver, rust: coloured signs. Limits of the diaphane. But he adds: in bodies. Then he was aware of them bodies before of them coloured. How? By knocking his sconce against them, sure. Go easy. Bald he was and a millionaire, maestro di color che sanno. Limit of the diaphane in. Why in? Diaphane, adiaphane. If you can put your five fingers through it, it is a gate, if not a door. Shut your eyes and see.
Comment · 1 month ago
Won't the focus length of the camera be wrong?
Comment · 3 months ago
A contest between on one side a comedian with joke policies and on the other side Count Binface!
Comment · 4 months ago
The citizens of Byzantium identified as being Romans. Interesting, many Greek Christians still did at the time that the modern Greek state was created. When told they are "Hellenes" they responded that they have always been "Romioi".
Comment · 9 months ago
Being pedantic the only nuts we generally eat that are actually nuts are hazelnuts. The rest are seeds, drupes, or as in the case of peanuts legumes.
Comment · 10 months ago
Yes and as a corollary, it has nothing to do with Venezuela having the largest oil reserves of any country.
Comment · 10 months ago
Is one reason that Russia is an empire, created as the same time as the British and French empires, ruling over countries with their own long histories and separate cultures that would break apart without an autocratic government?
Comment · 10 months ago
Sure, but my point was that RAII doesn't need to involve the heap. Another example would be acquiring abd releasing a mutex.
Comment · 10 months ago
Open a file in the constructor, close it in the destructor. RAII with 0 allocations.
Comment · 1 year ago
If they are trans or not he still "died for his beliefs", as he had said:

"I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our God-given rights."

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Why can't you use this for the comparison operator:

  bool operator<(const interval& x, const interval& y)
  {
     if x.min < y.min return true;
     if x.min > y.min return false;
     return x_max < y.max;
   }

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