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GrantSolar

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    Comment #41338817

    These are criticisms that are leveraged against stack overflow all the time. I'm more lenient on SO's stance because it at least wants (or claims to) to be a repository for truth, …

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    Comment #30388475

    While this looks fun and beautiful, what disappoints me is that it seems like almost entirely symmetrical gameplay. A large part of the universe and themes of Dune is differing cul…

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    Comment #29470864

    I use oolimo ( https://www.oolimo.com/guitarchords/analyze ) for this as it gives you the notes, intervals, and chord names on the fly with easy inversions

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    Comment #25882680

    What makes you say that? People against Boris's policies are not to be conflated with anti-maskers. We are currently the worst performing nation per capita.

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    Comment #25568424

    I bought an EZ Flash IV last year for around £35.

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    Comment #25505236

    For a long time, Reddit moderators did not have the tools to do this. Regardless, whenever bad-faith argumentation is removed, the person whose comment was removed paints the event…

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    Comment #25168481

    It's a pretty interesting approach to the website and there's some features I never would have discovered on my own, but the author's reasoning seems pretty poor. The premise being…

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    Comment #24384898

    That hierarchical structures became dominant after the invention of agriculture does not imply that agriculture necessitates hierarchical structures. > And even if it was acceptabl…

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    Comment #24384780

    If a population does not tend to follow expert advice and a politician is incentivized by an upcoming election, it seems more of a negative incentive for them to act according to r…

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    Comment #24384481

    >In my country (but I guess it's the same in most, except perhaps some Nordic countries) bars, pubs and discos only reduce seating or close indoor spaces when forced to by law, in …

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    Comment #23858467

    >It’s similar for a journalist. Your job is to set aside all beliefs about what’s right or wrong and do the best job of executing a record of eye witness observations, quotations a…

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    Comment #23677118

    This is really neat - useful and beautiful. My only minor concern is that thicker/thinner is ambiguous and my first thought would be that they carry out the heavier/lighter functio…

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    Comment #23145378

    I've been working on something similar for the past couple of days, but the trouble comes with wanting static types. There are a few projects out there that offer either a microdat…

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    Comment #22700883

    This lead to some interesting issues when porting PC to PlayStation https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/132500/dirty_coding_t...

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    Comment #22603311

    Sorry, I don't follow. Could you expand?

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    Comment #22602973

    >the implication behind that critique, that the poor should rather be kept poor until... I think it's more that UBI will result in at best a brief reprieve from poverty. It won't b…

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    Comment #22602825

    This is one of the bigger leftist critiques of UBI - instead of enacting meaningful change to the system, gifting the people just enough money to keep them docile and prevent upset…

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    Comment #21690780

    I think the image is not meant to show the problem but show a case where if the Cyrillic A had been stylised the same way that the English A is in the English version, the two dist…

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    Comment #20134724

    Does that really matter though? A difference of 2px for something temporary doesn't seem like much concern. While I understand the implication is that these can accumulate and caus…

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    Comment #18533057

    I've found this to be a good resource: https://www.coranac.com/tonc/text/

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    Comment #16536485

    For anyone interested in the inner workings of Doom[1], I can't recommend Fabien Sanglard's blog enough. He also released a book on Wolfenstein 3D which goes into tremendous detail…

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    Comment #16281603

    >And no, the problem probably isn't guns. The biggest factors do revolve around guns though. Not just numbers, but the culture which feeds into itself and the perception that guns …

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    Comment #16123251

    >Break tasks down to granularity of 1-8 hours. No more than that. I do this for sub-tasks that are relevant to myself only (for example, "create function to do X"), but my minimum …

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    Comment #15514563

    They may not need to, but that doesn't rule out it happening