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What? Why not "One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison"?

Creatine breaks when cooked, so for the most part he's not gonna get too much from eating a steak or whatever. Taking 5g/day of pure creatine to satiate your stores might be too mu…

The "Past Lives" podcast just had an episode on the workers of Deir El-Medina.

It was cancelled by Amazon when they purchased Wondery, IIUC. He's got "Past Lives" podcast now!

Why? Just upgrade. Make it so that your org can deal with it.

I don't see the point, just increment it every release. Don't see what errors are prone either

Eric Cline has an interview on "Tides of History" podcast.

6 is pretty early to enjoy reading books, so I wouldn't worry.

Why are you being so condescending? A person wants to get into an open source project, so takes work he knows others won't finish before him, and you're talking to him like he's a …

I refused to connect my TV to the internet and use a Vero V for all of my watching needs. The Vero V is absolutely worse than most other experiences, but I'm happy.

Transparent windows look really cool, but do people actually use that in day to day use? I guess I've got old man eyes or something.

I'd say that Ukraine were very prepared for the invasion, though? They managed to survive for the first 2 weeks, leading to a long-term war. The Donbas war had already been going o…

It's quite unfortunate that traced references has to be wrapped in Gc , as this means that your types are bound to a GC allocator (right? Maybe I'm wrong!). It also means that tryi…

So, I get that we charge the capacitor up, and that it leaks so we must recharge it periodically. I don't get two things: 1. How is the value read? Is it reading the leak? 2. How i…

It's basically one card for everything, independent of company, in Japan. Only certain trips require tickets from specific companies.

Read the article.

There certainly was an OOP craze, that's not out of touch to talk about.

And it was all crap software, no? EDIT: If it was crap, then that is still good for AI.

Why did you let an LLM write this comment?

Maybe it's useful to consider it a way to practice being in different ways? To be good at being agreeable and assertive, neurotic (someone tell me why that's ever good), and so on,…

>Also Belgium fiercely resisting confiscation of Russian assets etc Isn't this literally them not wanting to be left holding the paper bag? What businesses are doing, I don't know,…

This is a crime to the Venezuelans, the US citizens, and the whole of South America.

It's probably because it was harsher that they did so.

> Deep currents indicate that as soon as it’s done with formal condemnations, it is desirable that business will resume as usual. What deep currents are those? As a European situat…