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What is the use-case for such a function?

Perhaps because the same part of the moon always faces the earth which 'shields' the moon somewhat? Just a guess

When I ask people to code FizzBuzz I: - give them ~30 minutes on their own machine - they get to pick the language they code in - I leave the room for large parts of it - I bring t…

No but I permit internet access as long as they don't search for the solution (I trust them not to do that, and don't monitor what they do)

I've also used FizzBuzz at several companies, and the insane amount of people it filters out continues to boggle my mind.

Just upgraded my small homeserver sysupgrade; sysmerge; pkg_add -u; Done! What a delight!

Key bit from the article translated: There is no connection to recent problem with the 737 MAX 9 where a door plug was not installed correctly. Instead, this occurred on an older (…

To answer my question for The Netherlands, it is my impression that cops are held to a higher standard and are punished equally—if not more harshly—than normal citizens when caught…

This sounds super insane, I thought stuff like this only happened in 3rd world countries. Is this applicable elsewhere in “developed” countries as far as anyone else knows?

They mention this: “Access to blockchain based secure storage” What does that even mean? And do they completely destroy the sampled data from all their systems incl. backups? Can’t…

What browser do you use? Afaik there is no good suckless browser

Amazing

You've already lost, best recourse in this case is to `rm -rf ~/repositories/`. Then make yourself a cup of tea, take a deep breath, and start over.

If you want one there are MANY second hand (cheap!) ones for sale on marktplaats.nl as we speak -- for reasons that don't need explaining :)

"We are going down" Really? That's no way to live man, cheer up. No one can predict the future, and doomsayers have always been around and will always be around. Sure: things might…

Thank you, this is helpful!

I've become comfortable with using vim /within a file/, what I'm having trouble with is using vim while having multiple files open (keeping track of which ones I've saved, switchin…

Most of Western Europe is unwilling to fight for their country https://preview.redd.it/of-europeans-who-would-fight-for-the...

I can achieve independence from food. Question is: at what cost?

Our Constitution is neither a self-actuating nor a self-correcting document. It requires the constant attention and devotion of all citizens. There is a story, often told, that upo…

Parrhesia Parrhesia means literally "to speak everything" and by extension "to speak freely", "to speak boldly". It implies not only freedom of speech, but the obligation to speak …

“Owing to the significant amounts of electronic waste caused by unused chargers …” Really?

It will probably run for many more years to come :)

Don't be; look up some of the founders[1] of OpenAI: Ilya Sutskever - born in Russia Wojciech Zaremba - born in Poland Andrej Karpathy - born in Slovakia [1] according to wikipedia…

What happens to us when AI becomes better than us at every mental task? Ignoring the economic factors, what does that mean for our self worth? If we know it’s easier to ask a machi…