LeonB
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Comment · 10 days ago
In practice you use aliases instead of the full name.
Comment · 4 months ago
Om shared with me some very personal thoughts and I think I’m not alone in considering his loss immeasurable.
Comment · 4 months ago
That doesn’t seem right - off the top of my head I think it’s more like 4 years?
maybe it should be “103*4/2/52” (not “/12”) ?
… hopefully the effective wait time is considerably shorter if a long line is taken as a demand signal, leading them to buy more.
Comment · 4 months ago
That definition hinges on their definition for “economical” - adding a qualifier like “excessively economical” would’ve been good I think.
Comment · 5 months ago
Herodotus wouldn’t have written it quite the same — no Jupyter notebook for example,
Jupiter being a Roman term; the nearest equivalent for the Ancient Greeks was Zeus.
Comment · 5 months ago
Finally C# will have a more idiomatic way to represent this classic code example from “The Daily WTF” in 2005 —
enum Bool
{
True,
False,
FileNotFound
};
Comment · 6 months ago
…months after it began.
Comment · 8 months ago
You must be referring to the abridged Strnk n Wyt
Comment · 1 year ago
In Superman III, the eponymous man straightens the leaning tower of Pisa, and in Superman II he spins the earth backwards to reverse time.
A better idea would be to un-tilt the earth’s axis, thus getting rid of variable day lengths, annual seasons, the need for DST etc, just one enjoyable spring day, every where, all year round.
Comment · 1 year ago
> Yurchick was one of 21 people that had been indicted for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute kilogram quantities of methamphetamine in Texas and elsewhere from August 2019 to March 2021 … Yurchick subsequently pleaded guilty to that charge on February 1, 2022
From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icy_Blu
Feel free to dig deeper, I’ve only taken a shallow look.
Comment · 1 year ago
Interesting point.
It’s a kind of reframing (or consequence of) the bullshit asymmetry principle.
Comment · 1 year ago
Yes, absolutely.
The survey could say, “given that the existence of corporate monopolies demonstrates weak and non functional governments, should governments a) cede more power to the monopolies, or b) pretend to claw power back from the monopolies?”
Comment · 1 year ago
Absolutely.
They hand-wave tremendously complex questions, in such a way that the respondent is free to interpret them any way you wish.
A similar survey question might be:
> I am thinking of a number. Is it, a) too high or b) too low?
Comment · 1 year ago
A “ministry of truth” would (I assume) be a part of the executive branch of government.
Whereas the creation of laws and the interpretation of laws are powers that the executive branch does not have, and are held separately by the legislative and judicial branches.
In a, well, y’know “functioning” democracy. Apparently.
Comment · 1 year ago
> These days, American meat is absolutely overflowing with antibiotics. I don’t know if there’s any kind of serious effort to address that
There’s several clearly wrong claims in that paragraph alone.
Here’s one counter claim with sources:
https://www.health.state.mn.us/diseases/antibioticresistance...
“Less than 0.5% of all meat samples tested in 2018 contained detectable antibiotics (U.S. Residue Program). Farmers, processors, and regulatory agencies work together to get this number to zero.”
Please challenge the thoughts you carry around. Sometimes it’s isn’t so.