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aaronchall
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About aaronchall
linkedin.com/in/aaronchall
I've been active on Stack Overflow for more than a couple of years, and now have my Python gold badge and am in the top 0.1% of all time by reputation, and consistently in the top 100 (.05%) for recent measures by month/quarter/year, and they say I've reached about 150 million people.
I'm now an elected moderator on Stack Overflow, and I try to consistently do the right thing for all users.
stackoverflow.com/users/541136
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I'm sure the day after Russia withdraws from Ukraine they're going to demand the pipeline from Russia be restored and everyone they suspect involved involved in the Nord Stream bla…
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Comment #46612288
I clicked through hoping you were wrong, saw the first page, and thought, ah, this is legible... then I got to the code blocks and was completely blinded. I'm not sure what to tell…
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Comment #44214301
> Hitler was akshually a leftist Have you not read his very consistent and personally defended party platform? He also said that the communists were close enough in ideology to joi…
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Comment #42143680
Ok, then for this you need minimum of two bits - one for kingside Rook and one for the queenside Rook, both would be set if you move the King. You also need to count moves since th…
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Comment #42143633
Castling requires no prior moves by either piece (King or Rook). Move the King once and back early on, and later, although the board looks set for castling, the King may not.
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Comment #38947041
On these sites the idea is that answers belong in the top-level answer posts where they can be voted up and down for the purpose of sorting the competing ideas and forms of respons…
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Comment #37634348
True
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Comment #34939486
Perhaps close in absolute terms but still less than half the total price. I have never had to replace a screen before, but I have bought new batteries to replace on my own. An easi…
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Comment #32400626
Just reading the comments, I also was thinking this was about Python's tornado library until I recognized it wasn't that. The title needs improvement. CC @dang
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Comment #32240554
This. And then escalate to senior management, all the way to Sundar Pichai. Additionally, write your congressional and local state representatives, and give them the facts.
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Comment #32240324
There is plenty of anecdotal evidence in these threads about how friendly Googlers used to assist with these issues before management prevented it.
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Comment #32239738
Categories are mutually exclusive. Tags aren't. I much prefer searching in intersections of tags to searching for needles that may be in different haystacks.
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Comment #32047550
I agree we should probably say "licenses" and not "medallions" when talking about policies all over the world, it's just that medallions are known as the worst example of corruptio…
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Comment #31949504
I homeschooled in 8th grade and I loved it. - No commute to middle school, which returned me an hour of my day right there. - No bullying from the soon-to-be dropouts. - No gross s…
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Comment #31941362
I'm using i3, specifically i3-gaps and I'm rather interested in switching. I don't have nvidia. Where can I learn more?
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Comment #31625232
So a company isn't allowed to raise the bar?
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Comment #31619794
Isn't "Made in Germany" Hetzner's thing?
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Comment #31371350
A 0% financing bakes the seller's profit into the price paid and just makes it less rewarding to pay it off early.
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Comment #31157956
This is what I use, and it works really well on a simple site like this one. In Chrome, go to chrome://flags and search for Auto Dark Mode for Web Contents and select "Enabled" (or…
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Comment #31097063
That's the problem when a slippery slope becomes a landslide and next thing you know, the sky is falling.