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maw
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About maw
Bostonian by birth, Melburnian by conviction, Chilango for a lack of other options.
maw at pobox.com
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Comment #47124255
No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.
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Comment #45205491
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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Comment #43872653
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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Comment #43658647
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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Comment #43627373
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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Comment #43494984
Indeed. It made long walks with my dog seem all too short.
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Comment #41861278
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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Comment #41845027
That makes it make more sense. Thanks. You're right that there are big regulatory issues still.
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Comment #41844886
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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Comment #41451529
Fortunately his surname is not Deacon.
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Comment #41034222
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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Comment #40814207
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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Comment #40706463
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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Comment #40089166
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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Comment #40007853
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…