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Is that a thing? I don't seem to be able to do that with 18k+, so if it exists there are only a couple dozen people that can.

Hmm, good catch, I didn't notice when that was published.

That rationale may be a bit revisionist, here is Olin Shivers' take on RMS's justification for elisp's dynamic scoping: "Some context: Common Lisp did not exist (the effort was jus…

Ideally anything that you reject for should also be conveniently baked into the build system so that you can do things like `make validate` before pushing to save yourself the emba…

pre-commit would be a bad idea. You would have to ask all of your developers to install the hook, instead of just installing it on your 'official' repos and it would quickly become…

A braggart might construct a humble persona, but would a true braggart maintain such a persona for long? If they could, is there really any basis for calling them a braggart in the…

My understanding is that they do use such magnets for microgravity experiments. Here is a cool video on diamagnetic levitation from the University of Nottingham: http://www.youtube…

The presentation is pretty good (fairly minimal, which I like), but I think that some autocompletion in those search forms would go a long way. Things like showing autocompletes fo…

Hmm, it looks like you are right, but I think they can't start actually selling until January 1st. I'm not quite sure there. In Washington it will still be a few more months, since…

Barring the possibility that you are in a jurisdiction with unusually draconian drug laws, sure it's legal. This site is just telling you how much different strains cost at differe…

Nowhere in Washington or Colorado is selling recreational weed legally yet (although many businesses are partially through the licensing/application process). fwiw, Leafly seems a …

Fun graphene fact: As the article mentions, graphene was first isolated at the University of Manchester using sticky tape. For this discovery, Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov w…

You have just rediscovered the reason that some people talk about "free software", and some people talk about "open source". The sort of access to source code that is being expecte…

@dba7dba You are hellbanned. This means that most users cannot read your comments.

[Disconnection the discussion from something that we are personally connected to...] Is it preferable for a newspaper to report on a new medical study and publish Yet Another(tm) "…

That isn't the complaint about this particular article. The complaint about this article is the botched reporting on what happened, and what MITM attacks are. This criticism was de…

When the pot calls the kettle black, the pot is not incorrect.

> "Yes but to make sweeping complaints about the French as an American is absurd." I'll repeat what I've said elsewhere in this dicussion: "Insane laws in one place do not make law…

I want to get a decal for my pickup truck's back window with an image of the White House burning and a crying bald eagle, backdropped by an American flag, and the words "1812, Neve…

Both are bad (although obviously there is a discrepancy in seriousness here) . We should not fail to criticize one because the other also happens.

> And then he has the sheer cheek to talk about insane French law. Hello USA? The go to place for mad law? Insane laws in one place do not make laws in another place any less insan…

Camus2 seems to be French. You would not be at risk of making embarrassing mistakes like this if you made an effort to find actual arguments, instead of attempting to criticize the…

The line between criticize and insult is so fine, I can scarcely see it. It's like the line between the ocean and the beach. Can a French person say "The president is illiterate." …

Probably easier to fit a passenger on the back of a motorcycle.

> "yelling fire in a movie" is the famous example of speech that is not protected by the First Amendment, right? It is an example of nothing of the sort, since that scenario never …