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richie_adler

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    Comment #49256501

    Thinking is NOT overrated. Most people go through life never doing it at all.

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    Comment #49256492

    As opposed to have kids because "is the thing to do", "it's time", or "I have to give grandkids to my parents"? Those are much worse reasons to breed.

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    Comment #49139567

    What's the Android option?

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    Comment #49139496

    This whole affair has the dirty shadow of a society like the one depicted in Jennifer Government.

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    Comment #48846389

    Richard Hipp says he doesn't care how anybody pronunces it. That said, he pronounces it "S-Q-L-ite".

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    Comment #43302682

    Very positive attitude. Beware the sealions, but keep up!

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    Comment #43302676

    Your approach (which I share) requires thought and discernment, which is a scarce resource nowadays. People intend to turn their brains off when they doomscroll. (I'll never unders…

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    Comment #43120824

    > Should we encourage abortions for single mothers because their child might not have a happy life? Yes. > Should we abort fetuses who have some disability? If the parents are unwi…

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    Comment #43057690

    People enjoy dealing with simpler software and hardware as a hobby. Why does it bother you so much?

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    Comment #42851098

    Even after the first Trump presidency happened?

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    Comment #42851083

    It's redshifted already.

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    Comment #42354033

    For me is not needing to chain a lot of commands with && to ensure that it fails with the first command that fails. With just, if one of the commands of the recipe fails, it stops.…

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    Comment #42354012

    My favorite feature is the ability to decorate the recipe name with the OS and then write relevant code for each recipe that does the same in each OS.

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    Comment #42167982

    > that state cannot be expressed in words or cognition, because it isn't part of your mind What else can it be, if not a part of the mind of a state of it?

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    Comment #41225317

    Nah, I love Calibre but he has lousy opinions that he has to eat over time (he migrated Calibre to Python 3 after all).

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    Comment #41155116

    > Powers of two are a sign of divine intervention A little weak, though. I'd rather have something more impressive, like the message embedded in the decimals of Pi as found in the …

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    Comment #41155104

    > For most people love of God assumes the existence of God. Its far more important than any feelings about a fictional character can be. And that's actually a problem. For them, th…

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    Comment #41155071

    I find this curious. Were you able to identify the cause of your anger and angst?

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    Comment #41155056

    Thank you, I wanted to express this but you did well already.

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    Comment #40946738

    Regarding 2, IIRC they guarantee that backward compatibility to their supporters. So it's very unlikely the desires expressed elsewhere will be fulfilled by the SQLite team. The co…

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    Comment #40946708

    It will never happen. Please, move on.

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    Comment #40916836

    The numerous countries submerged in misery due to US intervention certainly would welcome a lessening of its power.

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    Comment #40271228

    Forbidding the expression of whole categories of feeling and encouraging falsehood in the expression of affection is revolting.

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    Comment #39916288

    I worked with an old LJ 5siMX. It was a pain to set the static IP configuration but other than that, amazing. Printed a buttload of insurance policies for years, plus simple text r…