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    Comment #21729203

    On an unrelated note: why are you no longer on keybase? Are there any problems with the service?

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    Comment #21729146

    Maybe that's because the website already has a serialized state - the HTML?

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    Comment #20112556

    That's about 3cm. Pretty close ;-)

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    Comment #18602612

    Simple, just enter insert mode

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    Comment #17063817

    to quote the letter: There are two ways to mitigate this attack - Don't use HTML mails. Or if you really need to read them use a proper MIME parser and disallow any access to exter…

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    Comment #17019670

    So the author makes some good points, but i have a hard time taking him seriously: 1) He writes a long blog post about problems that men have, specifically, and how there is unfair…

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    Comment #16829043

    That is true for china, iran and saudi arabia as well...

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    Comment #16797220

    You can install it on any kind of hardware that runs debian. They even have some links to suggested computers: https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/QuestionsAndAnswers#HARDW...

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    Comment #16797209

    freedombox is actually based on debian - so they select some packages and configure them to work nicely together, and add a nice web configuration page. Still a lot of work, but no…

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    Comment #16745782

    > I really don't believe I'm any kind of expert in negotiation. That means that transparency works _for_ you, not against you.

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    Comment #16744511

    > Society needs both nurses and engineers. Yes. And if more people want to become engineers, and if becoming an engineer is easier, then engineers will end up getting less money th…

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    Comment #16696705

    The "drop" is not a statement terminator or separator. There is a stack. You push values on the stack, then you call a function. The function takes its arguments off the stack, and…

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    Comment #16646389

    Firefox reader mode. I activated it after 15 seconds...

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    Comment #16624494

    Yes i get that. Even so, the request is pretty... weird.

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    Comment #16624446

    "Second, I want to see a VHLL defined by an XML DTD. Doing this will allow me to put as much information into my program source as my niece can put into the email messages she comp…

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    Comment #16613408

    ... and they are about as good a substitute as tofu is for real meat.

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    Comment #16543153

    To be fair, the original article does not contain the word "unit" - it just talks about tests, which is arguably more general. In my personal opinion, tests that are "non-unit" tes…

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    Comment #16514104

    I presume that a big part of these 40% are single or single-parent households. I'd wager (a little) that if you only consider (heterosexual) couples, then you will have mostly men …

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    Comment #16436443

    Well, _if_ you need that feature, you can wrap the trait into another trait that allows a write to the pin, but discards it. However, by default, nonsensical operations should not …

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    Comment #16436218

    They do that in a prior post: http://pramode.in/2018/01/31/ti-launchpad-with-rust-new-io/

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    Comment #16436213

    The state of the pin is encoded in the type of the variable that is used to access the pin. This kind of encoding prevents you from making the programming error of writing to an in…

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    Comment #16413776

    Yes, but hardware is easier to replace...

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    Comment #16384152

    > Garbage disposal is not what people usually call a cognitively demanding field. The gender imbalance is still worse than CS. Well, it's more physically demanding, isn't it? But y…

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    Comment #16384121

    > Wages or positions in companies are fundamentally different to medicine. We can decide how our companies look like. We can't decide how our body works. Well, for the most part, o…