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twangist

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    Comment #49157579

    First translate it into English: the word is "resumé", just one diacritic.

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    Comment #48541692

    I realized too late. I mistook you for a tankie, apologies!

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    Comment #48541636

    > Britain sponsors attacks on Putin’s personal residence. Citation needed.

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    Comment #47177616

    The caption on the photo is clearly wrong. No way the other two are Mitch Mitchell (not "Mitchel" (sic)) or Noel Redding, not at any time when Jimi was alive. Even after The JH Exp…

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    Comment #46907720

    C was never a gateway to any flavor of Pascal, a "police state language".

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    Comment #45960261

    Protecting Hebrew hate speech, in short. On-brand for Elmo.

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    Comment #45882213

    Somewhere less loathesome.

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    Comment #45381304

    Let's not, and say we didn't and won't.

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    Comment #44893073

    The West Bank is of course a horrible model for any society, including the West Bank.

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    Comment #44609373

    Allies want to know what, if anything, US would do in event of Chinese invasion of Taiwan. Answer: bluster, lie, nothing.

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    Comment #44556353

    [flagged]

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    Comment #44427126

    From Sept 2020

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    Comment #44189163

    Because the whole rest of the world is crazy, of course.

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    Comment #44189149

    Why would you need to "generate" emails 200+ times faster? Brush up your typing skills.

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    Comment #43395361

    Unplug Elmo.

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    Comment #41978432

    [flagged]

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    Comment #40839275

    Here, "text editor" means Emacs or Vim, mostly Emacs. (No thanks.) Page last updated March 2024 but looks very 1990s.

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    Comment #39425990

    That sounds like a horrible way of living.

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    Comment #37731638

    > it's very hard to write code anywhere that's not linux. Oh nonsense -- in fact, bullshit. No, it is not. This is a personal problem; seek help. >Also I truly hate using windows o…

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    Comment #37731602

    "To the man who has only a hammer, everything looks like a nail." Imagine, expecting Linux to provide a productive, frictionless music creation workflow, using programs that aren't…

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    Comment #37317103

    Neither Python nor Ruby is "English-like", and neither wishes to be. AppleScript is English-like, COBOL is English-like.

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    Comment #37105549

    Are you his mom? agent? H himself? "a tad trollish" is really a hoot. So is the notion his upcoming book "has a good chance of becoming a bestseller": its commercial performance wo…

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    Comment #37030289

    Such as the four composers named in the very next sentence. The platform gives each a playlist, while ignoring four other composers at least as worthy of attention, and named in th…

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    Comment #36989981

    It's not even optional, it's wrong. One believes in people, causes, dogmas, etc; one believes propositions.

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    Comment #36621365

    Elmo can use all the money he saved by firing critical staff and not paying rent in four cities.