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mwcremer

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    Comment #49063177

    Appears so: https://beyondloom.com/decker/lil.html

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    Comment #49053910

    Reminds me of The Beer Game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_distribution_game

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    Comment #48652911

    Might also be a reference to the Homestead strike et al. Pinkertons were often employed as strikebreakers.

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    Comment #47212698

    “I work hard to avoid ~~even~~ only the appearance of impropriety.” —-Not Rep. Richard Hanna

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    Comment #45985962

    Sorry, did you mean "Summers unironically wrote" or "capitalist economist types unironically believe" ?

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    Comment #45689887

    Proclamation 4311.

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    Comment #45496644

    And the baby food jars of Parmersan and chili flakes, with nail holes poked in the lid.

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    Comment #45496610

    To point 2, even regular user interface can be hazardous: https://www.folklore.org/Do_It.html

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    Comment #45282318

    https://folklore.org/The_Grand_Unified_Model.html

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    Comment #45080571

    At least it gets you out in the fresh air.

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    Comment #45054339

    For the record, the movie was comedic but the book was not.

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    Comment #44928551

    Reminds me of Jef Poskanzer’s micro_http: https://acme.com/software/micro_httpd/

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    Comment #44147388

    I had a calc prof who was in the middle of a lecture, "...and as any fool can see, X is..." He stopped, turned around, and said, "You know, sometimes when I say, 'It is intuitively…

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    Comment #43033173

    Reminds me of https://collinpark.blogspot.com/2009/06/east-coast-to-west-c...

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    Comment #42629938

    Maybe it is harder than it seems: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

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    Comment #42477899

    The title refers to the distance the _Nautilus_ traveled while submerged, not the depth it reached.

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    Comment #42151017

    Interesting paper exploring possible causes: https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.36.1.151

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    Comment #41371380

    As @kabdib says, "You can't grep paper."

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    Comment #40891902

    "Perl combines the power of sh with the speed of awk and the clarity of sed."

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    Comment #40646828

    Recipes generally cannot be copyrighted. But the filler text, that definitely can be, and is. So if I wrap my recipe in a pointless anecdote, I make it that much harder for The Uns…

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    Comment #40078822

    This is one of my favorites: https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/i-am-unable-to-accept-your-...

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    Comment #39587905

    I see what you did there.

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    Comment #38607570

    That same thread seems to indicate Repose's code is mult15.a, which indeed holds the cycles record at 206.60.

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    Comment #38561891

    Somewhere I saw a clip of David Duchovny revealing the never-before-heard lyrics of the X-Files theme song: The X-Files is a show With music by Mark Snow The X-Files is a show With…