earthboundkid

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A beach bum based primarily out of Waikiki, the earthbound kid has cleverly deceived friends and acquaintances into believing her self-stylings as a would-be philosopher and raconteur at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
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Comment · 18 days ago
Not always. Before Jobs II, the apps would have credits in the about section.
Comment · 6 months ago
We don't even know how to get someone to be 130, but sure, let's waste time talking about this.
Comment · 8 months ago
In terms of deliberate attacks on a DC, an adversary that can bomb a blast resistant bunker can easily bomb the data lines going in and out, to say nothing of external power supplies. I guess you can at least repair the lines after the attack, but it's pretty easy to knock it offline if that's your goal. I just don't see the value in making a DC blast resistant compared to the huge costs.
Comment · 10 months ago
They are pretty well founded. You can read old rhyme dictionaries and see how the words evolved eg when borrowed by Japan at one time and then when borrowed again a couple of hundred years later. We can’t ever know 100% but it’s not idle speculation either.
Comment · 10 months ago
Different field, but it drives me crazy that people talk about Chinese philosophy and insist on using Mandarin pinyin for it. Mandarin is language that evolved from Classical Chinese thousands of years later! There are other, equally valid contemporary derived pronunciations like Cantonese or even Japanese and Korean. The reason to use Mandarin is because it is the most widely spoken language derived from Classical Chinese, but it's 100% not how Confucius or any of them spoke!
Comment · 1 year ago
I've seen this movie. It's long and boring and ends with the blue fairy resurrecting Haley Joel Osment.
Comment · 1 year ago
The main problem with frames is that you need to use JS to get it to be responsively sized. If they would fix that, frames would be perfect. They actually do what people just think Web Components do. I.E. they are actually isolated from the styles of the host page and have an actual security boundary preventing malicious execution.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
My Kindle was bricked by an Amazon OTA update. Checkmate, atheists.
Comment · 1 year ago
You can do it using gofmt, by writing

gofmt -w -r '"github.com/abc/def" -> "github.com/abc/def/v2"' .

That won't do subpackages though.

Comment · 1 year ago
Python has None, which frequently caused me problems in production, so that's not different, except Go can at least tell between a string and nullable string pointer.

Reversing a string is not a basic operation. A) why would you ever need to do it in the real world? B) reversing Unicode is non-trivial due to composing characters. There are packages available for Go that implement grapheme segmentation. If you need it, you can import one.

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