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Georgelemental
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Comment #49209349
"point and sputter" is not an argument
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Comment #49198413
Well then, you would prioritize "fulfilling" in your utility function. Others might make a different choice; e.g. a single parent who needs to save time and energy for family might…
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Comment #49183959
See also https://noslopgrenade.com/
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Comment #49176872
> The search index won't only consist of lowercase characters any more This isn't the case anyway. Unicode case-folding has a few lowercase-to-uppercase mappings, e.g. Cherokee
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Comment #49170819
100% Boche, désolé
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Comment #49154550
Pin applies to the point er , !Move applies to the point ee .
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Comment #49154346
But you have to ask it to, and by the right amount for every line/sub-block. If you accidentally get one line wrong, it could be a silent bug. In a language without significant ind…
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Comment #49148729
The Seattle municipal authorities are entirely to blame for not allowing the police to preserve order. CHOP was a violent insurrection and should have been treated as such from the…
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Comment #49147964
Indentation based is a pain when copy-pasting between contexts with different indentation levels, as you have to fix it up manually, which is error-prone. In languages without it, …
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Comment #49146802
Bots pretending to be desktops?
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Comment #49143559
Homoglyph attacks and RTL work just as well in UTF-16. UTF-8 and UTF-16 are different character encodings for the same character set (Unicode). That being said, Windows permits unp…
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Comment #49137301
> Nobody from the Fukushima accident died from radiation sickness or radiation syndrome, and so far there's been no evidence of long term elevated cancer rates either. There has ac…
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Comment #49130767
> rooting a Pixel at my age Don't do that, that's a PITA. Put GrapheneOS on it instead—simple, no hassle, works great
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Comment #49125566
Maybe, but warm tint at night subjectively feels more comfortable
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Comment #49124865
I don't think I've ever seen someone do that
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Comment #49117507
> During that window, the package was downloaded and run on 15 real systems. One of these systems was a scanner belonging to a real security company (separate from the fictional co…
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Comment #49116943
A pack a year is unlikely to kill you, but as others have said lung cancer is not the only worry. I work in healthcare, I see COPD all the time. It may or may not kill you, but it'…
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Comment #49105283
Work in ER, can confirm
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Comment #49096007
> In response to this threat, the White House convened an executive branch interagency body with appropriate national security expertise, see 47 U.S.C. § 1601(c)(1), comprising age…
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Comment #49086671
Venezuela supposedly is a "friendly nation" now though, ever since the palace coup
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Comment #49064618
A duress pin is useful if the cost of the government getting mad at you because you wiped your data is less than the cost of letting the government have your data. Whether that hol…
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Comment #49044260
I use a Chromium fork (Brave) for this. No need to install the actual Google malware
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Comment #49039670
About my use of the word "genocide": genocide is defined not primarily by the scale of the killing, but most importantly by the intent behind it. The intent of the war on Gaza, as …