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maw

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About maw

Michael.

Bostonian by birth, Melburnian by conviction, Chilango for a lack of other options.

maw at pobox.com

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    No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.

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    I use restic + rclone to back up to onedrive, where I have 1TB space included with my subscription. My main backups are on rsync.net, though.

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    A codebase that's formatted notgivingashittily is an accessibility issue. It's not just deranged control freakism. Maybe Yelp's codebase was otherwise clean, but aside from golang …

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    And what about the people who sometimes post interesting things and sometimes post distilled insanity? They're incentivized to do so.

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    I have memories of a similar escalator, probably at or near Downtown Crossing. I don't remember it being made of wood, but I remember it being narrow and slanted downwards and kind…

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    Indeed. It made long walks with my dog seem all too short.

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    But are these truly exceptions? Or are they the result of subtler rules French learners are rarely taught explicitly? I don't know what the precise rules or patterns actually might…

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    That makes it make more sense. Thanks. You're right that there are big regulatory issues still.

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    If you can pick up goods directly from a customer on one side and deliver them directly to a customer on the other, you can actually beat today’s air freight service on delivery ti…

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    Fortunately his surname is not Deacon.

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    Whenever this comes up, I'm reminded of section 5 in https://cr.yp.to/qmail/guarantee.html which among other things says "Don't parse" and "there are two types of command interface…

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    I tried to make some sort of joke or pun based off of shipping containerized software, I couldn't make it work. Oh well.

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    What's wrong with the poem? Thirteen days have November April, May, and December. All the rest have thirty nine except for February when the weather is fine. Works for me.

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    How do you know that there's a drummer at your door? The knocking speeds up.

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    It's mentioned in the first sentence of https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A0%CE%AC%CF%81%CE%B9%CF%82 , the first sentence in the corresponding English article, and early in the cor…

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    I'm not really sure what you're getting at. A lot of figures in mythology have multiple names. Paris/Alexander was one -- but today he's far better known as Paris. The characters u…