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onestay42

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About onestay42

Henceinelsewhere is how you know I’m me.

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    Comment #48997665

    IIRC things like this were why so many companies were called ACME.

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    Comment #48939843

    Not all humans are in their right minds, unfortunately.

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    Comment #48929778

    Excuse me if I'm wrong, but since that's postfix wouldn't it always come out false?

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    Comment #48868103

    I think what happened was that it became his full time job, and he started to need to be able to make money from it. At least, that's what I remember; I haven't seen much about it …

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    Comment #48678331

    You could say... it trumps them

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    Comment #46950083

    AFAIK listen used to be used therefor[sic] but it has fallen out of use nowadays. From wiktionary: > Listen the watchman’s cry upon the wall. Edit: formatting

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    Comment #46770258

    I've seen some overheat themselves even in open air!

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    Comment #46393852

    BSD would like a word.

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    Comment #46023576

    Do you mean therefore or therefor? I only ask because I have never seen an AI say therefor. (therefore ~ due to that; therefor ~ for that)

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    Comment #45647410

    This is also preventing kids in my school from logging into their chromebooks.

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    Comment #45642474

    dd an company require if= and of=, if that counts

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    Comment #45457967

    "Cattle labeling meat labeling supervision task transfer act" is just as bad as Rinderkennzeichnungsfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz, English just gets t…

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    Comment #45311841

    I suggest you look into the origin of eukaryotes.

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    Comment #45157631

    I know this is quite tangential, but I never realized that Discworld's thud was so close to an existing game(Hnefatavl)

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    Comment #45153370

    I suppose it is how this kind of tool generally works. I think it's just some subset of the feeling I get when someone writes(implements?) $LANGUAGE in $LANGUAGE(e.g. brainf*ck in …

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    Comment #45151506

    It's amazing to me that a python program can be written to make sure another python program is pythoning properly.

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    Comment #45151438

    I'm sorry! I'm quite new here, so I guess I don't have the rules internalized. Thank you for the reminder.

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    Comment #45144386

    [flagged]

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    Comment #45121493

    Those are very good points. I suppose it depends on one's view of IP. I think your comment has actually changed my mind—at least a little bit. Thank you.

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    Comment #45117070

    "Yes the company did steal all the wood from the forest—illegally—but at least they're selling us furniture!"