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Comment · 1 year ago
This whole mess started because we haven't been doing #1 when it comes to immigration.
Comment · 1 year ago
It never ceases to amaze me how poorly catechized the majority of cradle Catholics are. I don't intend this to be directed at you, but it's a standing joke among traditionalist Catholics that "I was raised Catholic" is the preamble to a statement of either ignorance or heresy.
Comment · 1 year ago
Around 1994, when I was a nerdy, homeschooled 8th grader teaching myself coding I came up with something I was inordinately proud of. I had gotten a book on PowerPC assembly so using Metrowerks CodeWarrior on my brand-new PowerMac 7100 I wrote a C function with inlined assembly that I called debugf. As I recall, it had the same signature as printf, called sprintf and then passed that resulting string to DebugStr. But the part I was proud of was that it erased itself from the stack so when the debugger popped up it was pointing to the line where you called debugf. I'm still proud of it :-).
Comment · 1 year ago
Yes! I was looking for this comment. Maybe because I didn't grow up with the metric system, but 60 feels like a much "rounder" number to me than 50.
Comment · 2 years ago
I graduated high school in 2000. I knew 2 kids in that school with pagers, and the only reason I paged them was to buy weed...
Comment · 2 years ago
Hell Yeah!!
Comment · 2 years ago
I see your extended response now. Well, I'm happy to do some ironclad moralization.
Comment · 2 years ago
Well, whether or not fatherlessness is the actual cause (and I believe there is abundant evidence that it is), it seems very likely that partially rewinding the societal changes that have led to widespread fatherlessness are going to have a positive effect on crime. And yes, I'm talking about the sexual revolution.
Comment · 3 years ago
"threatens neocons on their unipolar powertrip"? I haven't noticed that the primary opposition to nuclear power is from the right...
Comment · 3 years ago
Wow, you don't have very many windows.
Comment · 3 years ago
When I worked at one of the tech giants that develops a certain suite of office apps, the C++ class they used to model URLs in the cross platform layer had a flaw around escaped characters. I worked in the group that developed the iOS/macOS versions of the apps and we had a number of kludges in place to deal with conversion between these C++ classes and NSURL and CFURL. In my time on different occasions devs discovered the flaws and composed lengthy emails explaining the fixes that needed to be made, but the C++ class was too entrenched to be fixed. That was about 5 years ago, I doubt it has changed.
Comment · 3 years ago
Surely you need to provide some details to justify such an accusation.
Comment · 4 years ago
So if 5% of extra-legal searches result in dirt, then extra-legal searches are worth it?
Comment · 4 years ago
I agree somewhat. Also, it's not always clear who the most legitimate heirs are in these cases. For example, why the Egyptian government and not, say, the Coptic Church? I don't have a source but I seem to recall reading once that Copts are genetically more similar to Ancient Egyptians than other modern Egyptian, who are predominantly of Arab descent.
Comment · 4 years ago
I must admit, I don't know what games are out there these days, but I want an adventure game like the original King's Quest, Space Quest, Hero's Quest, etc. but with modern graphics, of course. It is important that they be language-driven, like the originals, but taking advantage of modern nlp.

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