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basil-rash
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About basil-rash
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Comment #41674369
Yes, the top chain in the talk page is exactly what I’m referring. And, as expected, the fair critique of the article for violating wiki guidelines has been shot down by passionate…
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Comment #41671693
For mainstream folks, perhaps. The second you even go slightly outside of what the media has declared kosher it goes off the rails. Take RFK’s page, for instance, which is just a c…
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Comment #41053995
Or… a geyser? Kinda the one thing absolutely known for going up and down.
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Comment #41042494
Wild. How soon until the standard housing lease boilerplate contains clauses like “you may not transmit any electromagnetic radiation at all under any circumstances whatsoever” as …
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Comment #41028657
Except here the grocery store pricing is “name your price” and folks are free to pick the price that suits the level of service they desire/receive. It’s a leaver we have, and it’s…
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Comment #41025471
Personally I love tipping. I’ll tip even for ridiculous things like buying a bag of coffee bean. Guy seemed nice and smiled and tried to answer a question I had - sure have an extr…
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Comment #41025312
McDonalds does not allow tipping: https://www.mcdonalds.com/gb/en-gb/help/faq/why-are-staff-no...
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Comment #41010092
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Comment #40942316
One rather significant yet under appreciated difference between human and computer path finding in general is that humans cannot BFS. The closest we can get is a sort of modified b…
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Comment #40885312
It’s all as compared to the week prior, so the take away would be that folks from NI are slightly more likely to be offline on election day after 4pm than folks from other areas, w…
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Comment #40883550
Scott Aaronson’s take on this is certainly worth a read for anyone interested in consciousness , quantum mechanics, comparability theory, etc: https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.0159
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Comment #40879002
> Even though my area code is XYZ, I'm in the same city as you The area code wouldn’t be a red flag for me, but this absolutely would.
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Comment #40875508
By far the worst offenders when it comes to neighborhood car sound are EV’s. They have decided across the board to blast the most bone chilling drone imaginable every time they are…
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Comment #40842666
? You can answer however you like. Don’t feel limited by following the prompt to the T, they’re more interested in big picture impressions than strict prompt following ability.
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Comment #40826555
Odd example - VS Code already has an outline view, and it’d be very easy to build one yourself as an extension if you wanted. (TreeViewProvider API). With the addition of Webview E…
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Comment #40826494
The only thing you can probably get out of a “guarantee” is a piece of paper you can submit as evidence in a court of law. How much you value that depends a lot on what it says and…
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Comment #40789103
Awful summary. There is very clearly a LV logo right in the middle of the wallet. LV is famous for their leather being absolutely covered with their logo, it’d be rather difficult …
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Comment #40752088
The funny thing is I’m almost certain everyone here has been exposed to the term “jerk”, in the exact technical meaning, but didn’t make the relation that the colloquial meaning an…
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Comment #40730412
The first one comes up in control systems: you have two displacements, the target position and the real position. You subtract them to get the error, also a displacement. You can t…
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Comment #40730289
Yes. “an illness he was being treated for suddenly worsened”
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Comment #40718115
Indeed. One should always disable extension auto updating. Besides that, there’s not really any less security than NPM packages. It’s the open secret of the whole industry that we …
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Comment #40654443
Number 9 is more than sufficient alone. Everything else is ancillary.
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Comment #40654363
Don’t forget the unconstructive meta-analysis.
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Comment #40612211
Is that how you treat all your users? “Using my product is better than a bullet in your brain so shut up and take it.”
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Comment #40604703
Just “Forgot” then reassociated the pods and saw no such animation. I did see some animation the first time I connected, but I may have skipped through it because I was excited to …