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anothername12

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    Comment #42951912

    The article outlines some reporting changes (from OMB to White House chief of staff??) to get around that apparently

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    Comment #42872117

    Why is it that Lisp family macros are easy to implement and use, but not so in other languages?

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    Comment #42794908

    I don't think billionaires should even be a thing.

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    Comment #42743730

    They took my porn in Texas an now this wtf

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    Comment #42705403

    Unfortunately, I spent more than a trivial amount of time wondering what an Einstein of Adtech looks like.

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    Comment #42700655

    You're not getting fired now, you're getting "moved out" or "exited"

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    Comment #42653624

    You’ll be fine. It’s like laundering money.

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    Comment #42647338

    Does not even seem to be a valid PDF according to Preview.app

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    Comment #42596886

    I would like to use Kagi if it had some kind of anonymous searching

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    Comment #42503938

    I think I will take another look. I recently helped my grandson with his university C++ assignment. It was a lot better than I remember C++ in the 90s. Fun wise though, I get the m…

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    Comment #42421589

    Well now I know what I’m sinking time into this Christmas break!

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    Comment #42421114

    You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

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    Comment #42367100

    > Deterministic evaluation - Executing the same code twice will give the same results. What’s this all about? Don’t most languages?

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    Comment #42359546

    Is it possible for my/my employer’s insurer to convince my employer to fire me if my or my dependent’s health needs are “too expensive”? Could they eg. Give my employer a lower rat…

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    Comment #42347548

    I would add Bash Forth to that. String-threaded concatenative programming!

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    Comment #42314807

    I've been through the rabies protocol after a bite from random homeless dog I tried to help. In the US with insurance it's about $5K out of pocket, and 3 or 4 (can't remember exact…

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    Comment #42279941

    I have quit places because of their PR process.

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    Comment #42269176

    And classical music gets proper special treatment! People have been begging for that for ages on Spotify’s forum…

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    Comment #42248212

    I would like to know what folks are doing that requires a high performance terminal. I don't think I'm much more productive at Terminal.app in 2024 than I was in 386 Linux console-…

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    Comment #42173385

    It’s the trolley problem https://neal.fun/absurd-trolley-problems/

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    Comment #42167118

    I think we'll blow through these limits. Humanity has never ceased to disappoint me.

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    Comment #42167096

    Are you wondering if epidemiologists are doing climate science?

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    Comment #42155126

    Pffft, I’d just #. that factorial call and it’d be a normal defun.

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    Comment #42154988

    We tried this and it was an absolute shit show for us.