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> The problem is that bass music travels through everything. It’s not just bass tones—low-frequency vibrations travel through everything. I live in a five-story pre-WWII building, …

There's nothing wrong with your reading. It's a misleading, clickbaity name at best.

The TheJeffDeanFacts repo contains no issues. (TRUE)

Side note: as of now, I have 14 various "travel" apps installed on my phone. Buses, trains, local buses, etc. In every EU country and city there's something else being used.

Reserved seat in a missing cart is boring - 95% of the time you'll find an empty seat. Much more fun is a reserved bicycle rack in a cart that's missing. The number of bicycle rack…

I think the Russians probably realized, "We don't even need to fund them - they will glue themselves to the roads for free."

Good point. What a great society it must be, where school shooting has become normality - a part of everyday experience.

"problems is [..] with Germans requiring to use their hard language [..] nobody bothers to learn German anymore, (some small percent still learn, ok) everyone who I know rather wor…

Yes, "windshadow" one is more descriptive than "slipstream". (At least for me.)

I wonder how he managed to reconquer his castle. By, uh... besieging it, maybe? Probably? Now repeat that eight times - and honestly, I’m struggling to see where and how exactly he…

Have a look at "Code is Data / Data is Code" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoiconicity And then see how it's done in real life: https://guix.gnu.org/

What about "If things don't go my way, I don't mind starting civil war?"

Apparently that's the case.

We need to understand that such people want to be distracted and entertained. Give them the show they want, promise them something and they happily make you their king. They don't …

> that flipped upside down my accepted method of thinking about types and type system paradigms. Could you please write where in the video is Rich talking about it?

That idea `function can return multiple values` was a bit of `Wait what? Ah I almost forgot :facepalm:` moment for me. (The quadratic formula function for solving quadratic equatio…

Honestly, "norms of warfare" is just a rather ridiculous concept imposed by the winning side.

The international court of justice is irrelevant if you don't have nukes or guns to support your cause.

This story is not about viruses and vaccines, but what about the 1949 Nobel Price for lobotomy? https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1949/moniz/articl... "Sure. We're smart, …

> Anything that can put a dent in that is going to far outweigh any potential risks and side effects. Ha! Explain that to the anti-vaxxers.

> Because at the end, it's all just graphs with vertices and edges. That's not the end. At the end there are just objects and morphisms between them. Graphs (with their edges and v…

Check out "Guix patch review hacking session" on meetup.com: https://www.meetup.com/guix-london/events/299176148/?utm_med...

I'm sorry, that doesn't work: $ echo "foo" > access.log # create the access.log with some content $ This works: $ cat access.log | head -n 5 foo $

Thanks for the snippet. Now I have a recipe how to calculate the size of a binary file, plus the shared objects, i.e. the so-file(s), it requires directly. Now I just need to exten…