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Comment #47393927
Have you tried L-theanine? I also get panic attacks with weed, but L-theanine seems to help keep them at bay.
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Comment #41507277
I miss working at a place where that was encouraged. Now if I do that the testers complain that it’s not in scope for the ticket and to split the changes into another ticket with a…
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Comment #41105144
I clicked and bought something via an online ad once. I needed a new jacket and the one in the ad was exactly what I was looking for. I overpaid because the jacket fell apart after…
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Comment #40866538
> Sometimes things take time, and can't be delegated This is something I keep saying to our team, but we have some members who want to keep breaking things into more and more ticke…
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Comment #40802749
This ruling just shifts when a bribe occurs. If I had the money and wanted to affect gov't policy I'd start by "gifting" gratuities to all sorts of politicians "for your past servi…
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Comment #40265942
As the article says, Ancestry wasn’t selling this data and was linking back to where it had come from. Ancestry also says they will honor robots.txt with instructions not to scrape…
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Comment #40249798
I doubt it's still used much in web programming, but for backend data processing there are plenty of systems that output XML. XSLT is a great resource when you need to simplify a g…
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Comment #40161940
Congress was destined to this fate when they eliminated earmarks. Earmarks, or pork barrel spending, were derided as gov't waste, but in reality they were the grease that kept legi…
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Comment #40121253
That same article says she was born in 1989 and graduated MIT in 1987. I knew she was driven, even before conception!
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Comment #39816885
You're upset that a fantasy world that is based on a real place, but isn't that place mind you, added a black character? In a world with ice magic, animated snowmen, and singing re…
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Comment #39804144
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion. Basically the right wing’s latest boogeymen to scare up their base. Think how “woke” has been co-opted and used by pundits to make people angry.
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Comment #39481612
That would be argued in cross-examination. A witness can be shown to be not a good witness. Perjury is very specific to knowingly lying while testifying under oath. We really don't…
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Comment #39159059
11 hours = 39,600 seconds Max signed int16 = 32,767 Maybe a signed overflow?
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Comment #39157586
I loved Pebble. My wife and I had multiple watches and I was very active in the dev community. If Pebble were still around I’d still be a customer. Pebble’s problem wasn’t the Appl…
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Comment #39028665
But if you're writing in English, or really any language, you should attempt to follow the rules of that language, especially if you want wide readership. Grammar rules might be ar…
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Comment #39028281
Readers have different expectations for poetry than other forms of writing. We don't expect technical docs to be in the form of epic verse.
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Comment #39028097
If we could beam our thoughts directly into each other's head, we would. It would be the easiest way to convey information. Alas, we don't have that ability, so we resort to the wr…
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Comment #38648434
It’s mostly for time purposes. Nobody wants to wait another hour for the round to end because someone is trying to draw their game, which means those players potentially have to pl…
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Comment #38647975
The Magic tournament rules cover this: “Some loops are sustained by choices rather than actions. In these cases, the rules above may be applied, with the player making a different …
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Comment #38647738
It depends. If the game state changes, say like a change in one player’s life total, then the loop won’t usually end in a draw. In the example above the opponent will eventually di…
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