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Why would you load an entire userspace environment just to manage a Python package's Python dependencies? Seems a little heavy.

Nope, that's not how WoW works. It might feel close enough for you but if that's the case then you aren't careful enough with the analogies you make. Think harder, aim for more cla…

If you read the article and considered the argument it makes, you'd see that, in fact, it is not redundant at all. This is indeed the point of the article!

From a data compression/language efficiency standpoint, both sentences in both languages actually rely on a (potentially large) amount of unstated context to sort out these ambigui…

> Note: my file manager even identifies the mime type without extension. That is how it should be, changing the extension should not make the file harder to use. To this day, AFAIK…

> App Store/Google Play/Windows Store/macOS Store are not and never have been curated for software the user can trust, only things that do not harm the perceived interests of their…

The history of Linux peripheral autoconfiguration is a long and very tangled story. Please don't lecture other people on the Internet before you commit to further understanding eit…

Netflix can calculate their equivalent to Nielsen ratings preposterously easy and with far more accuracy and they can get far more data than Nielsen will ever be able to produce fo…

> Well, for example I definitely need it for analytical purposes, so I have to try. Try accepting the inherent limitations of trying to analyze something so unruly and take your an…

Addresses are first and foremost a social convention. Simple mathematics will not help you understand something with so much implicit complexity and contradiction.

> Additionally the American convention seems to assume all addresses are pretty simple, with there being an XOR relationship between street number and building name. It doesn't ass…

No.