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niloc132

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    Comment #47838152

    Or perhaps obvious parody content, such as the type The Onion might publish.

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    Comment #47310908

    JSON is slightly worse than you describe - the JSON language doesn’t restrict you to 64bit floats, but most implementations do as you describe. On the other hand, the JSON language…

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    Comment #47232087

    If you count by threes, the ones place is unique until you pass each multiple of 30 - 3, 6, 9, _8, _1, _4, where was I? I hadn’t made it to 30, ends with a 4, must be 24. 27, 30, 3…

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    Comment #47110566

    The meteorite believed to have killed the dinosaurs was about 66 MYA, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous%E2%80%93Paleogene_e... - which is more recent than 124 MYA.

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    Comment #43600961

    I find them vital for side projects - especially if they get set aside for a week/month/year, I sometimes will lose track of assumptions I’ve made or use cases for apis that tests …

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    Comment #41258840

    Lower case headers are required for http/2 requests and responses.

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    Comment #40922752

    Thanks - they opted to melt both down and poured around a synthetic opals for a new set. Plus a new "can't hurt myself with this if I tried" ring for any time spent outside.

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    Comment #40915418

    Another anecdote for your collection: my father fell off a ladder last year - not far enough to sustain any injury, but far enough to catch his ring slightly in trying to regain hi…

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    Comment #39652827

    I believe we were explicitly told that attention is all you need.

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    Comment #39260694

    Note that the neighbor’s dad does eventually get a name, as he assists as a birthday party and then grumbles about how they aren’t doing it correctly.

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    Comment #37243758

    “43. If it's stupid and it works, it's still stupid and you're lucky.” https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Quotes/SchlockMercena...

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    Comment #35128454

    I like it as a single appliance to replace a rice cooker, crock pot, and simplify a few things that might be made on the stove. * hard boiled eggs * rice * cheesecake * yogurt * ch…

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    Comment #35073540

    Ah thanks, that does indeed line up the numbers I had misunderstood.

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    Comment #35064531

    > A gallon of gas is 8887 grams/gallon. That doesn’t seem right, gas is 20-30% lighter than water and water is only 8lbs~=3600 grams.

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    Comment #34939265

    I couldn’t drink it every day, but I can’t imagine a better solution for backpacking.

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    Comment #29351733

    We are mostly targeting enabling GWT applications to be able to (relatively seamlessly) update to J2CL as a compiler, but are definitely interested in apps or libraries starting th…