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Comment · 1 month ago
People who died in an accident, think car accident or fell off a roof. Otherwise healthy people who didn’t die of a disease.
Comment · 2 months ago
What are the chances that a small C program uncovers a bug in the C compiler, maybe in its type checker?

What are the chances that a very large C program uncovers a bug in the C compiler?

Comment · 3 months ago
Evidently this cute comment was not understood by some.

@iso1631 is saying that wind farms (and by extension, their supporters) think Trump is ugly and noisy. So, they mutually think this of each other.

Comment · 5 months ago
It needs to read the repo under .git; that’s a lot of files that may not be synced, depending on local disk space, frequency of use, etc. The local disk is just a cache.

There may be an option to Always keep on this device, which might help.

Comment · 6 months ago
Maintain quality but raise prices to throttle demand to a sustainable rate? Hard to do instantaneously of course; easier said than done etc
Comment · 10 months ago
Barry Nalebuff’s Intro to Negotiation is pretty fantastic. Had you negotiating against strangers in well-designed scenarios, then getting feedback from others on the recordings.

Perry Mehrling’s course on Money and Banking is good too.

Comment · 1 year ago
That’s the parent’s point: a same-day flight may be expensive for the detainee and look bad for ICE.
Comment · 2 years ago
But compilers are deterministic, no?
Comment · 3 years ago
I cook eggs every morning with a pat of butter in a well-seasoned cast iron pan. Works great.
Comment · 4 years ago
In Canada, furniture pillows always come with a New Material Only tag, indicating that recycled textiles have not been used. I assume this is regulated and has been in place since the dawn of time.
Comment · 4 years ago
That gut-wrenching feeling.
Comment · 4 years ago
But the question was "how does the pricing work in this situation?" and I would expect a repair shop to know how their pricing works.
Comment · 4 years ago
Potable water for drinking etc. The sea there is pretty salty, I think.
Comment · 5 years ago
"tortuous" is the word you're wanting there. :)
Comment · 5 years ago
Natural gas is very likely unavailable in remote areas. Usual fuels would be propane or diesel, which can be trucked in.

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