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I don't like lukewarm either! But it's okay, there are bigger problems to worry about

My name is Luke, and I do not approve of "Lukecool" Nb: this is a shitpost, although I suspect other Luke's would feel the same way :)

I wonder how this new approach compares to serializable snapshot isolation (SSI) https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/SSI I'm not familiar with these technologies, but when I was study…

I made the same "assumptions", along with another commenter. So maybe you should clarify your post.

Agreed - this is a great documentary. When considering the scale and brutality of the meat industry, it opened my eyes that this is probably the greatest crime humanity has ever co…

I've been using Emacs Evil mode for years, and I find it much better than the better defaults. https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Evil

Requiem for a Dream. Since I saw it as a teen ~15 years ago, it hasn't slipped my mind. It's has an effective anti-drug message, probably more than any other movie or documentary I…

>As to C, nothing better has come around. >The kind of languages people see under active development aren't for low-level system programming. I found it interesting that he didn't …

That's funny :) But note that this seems to be a cheaper, ascetic equivalent, of the classic meditation retreat, which is already popular in both the East and the West. Marketing i…

This seems to be a cheaper, ascetic equivalent, of the classic meditation retreat, which is already popular in both the East and West. Marketing it as a prison puts a quirky twist …

This is a great comment. I live in Seattle, and I think the Seattle Freeze is largely a tragedy of groupthink. If you want to break out, there are a ton of opportunities to learn a…

I like your reasoning, and I agree that we need more effort toward social programs that provide basic needs for the population. One argument against such programs is that they coul…

Can coffee still be more beneficial than harmful if you suffer withdrawal effects? I have some co-workers who get headaches if they try to have a morning without coffee.

In my early stages of learning to program, I had numerous issues with running Linux desktop on my Nvidia chipped laptop. I remember the frustration very clearly - I hardly slept fo…

What's ADP? Are you referring to this company: https://www.adp.com/ ?

"They’re men of integrity." Not having or addressing any of the women on your IT staff sounds like a systemic issue as well.