cucumber_sandwich

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We used to have standardized package sizes in the EU for things like butter, chocolate, etc. So stupid to give that up

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Critical mainframe legacy banking software runs on Gameboy color!

Programming term. Variables in programming languages can hold different types of data, such as whole numbers, floating point numbers or strings of characters ("text"). Untyped languages figure out on the fly what can and cannot be done to the content of a variable, while typed languages strictly keep track of the type of content (not the value) to catch bugs and improve performance, for example.

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American History X. I wasn't ready for the curb scene.

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What you don't get is a feeling for how common these failures occur though.

Ludicrous: the word Ludacris: the rapper

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And what "serious psychiatric care" do you even think there is for it? Unless you also believe in gay conversion camps, we have nothing. We don't even really know how sexuality actually works in the brain, we definitely aren't anywhere close to being able to treat it.

There's programmes that focus on how to deal with it in a societally acceptable way, mainly on how not to become a predator. That's a pretty good start.

Just a few weeks ago helldivers was one of the poster child dev teams that got gamers and therefore deserve their success. What a turnaround...

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It's much easier to suppress farting than the involuntary reflexes of coughing and sneezing.

There is a difference however. The techno feudalists are no longer about the means of production. Instead they increasingly show rent-seeking behaviour. Businesses looking to own "market places" and becoming brokers of other people's services is a techni feudalist trend. Take Amazon for example. They sell top spots in their search directly to business customers. An app store monopoly is more akin to land ownership than classic factory capitalism.

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There's dozens of us

It was in the name of customer convenience and individualism of course. Think of the singles!

Maybe being bombarded with cookie banners and bullshit popups teaches you to ignore dialog boxes.

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This shit has been a thing in Germany for a while. Usually the controversy around the accusations of plagiarism cause enough trouble for the accused person, even if after investigation the claims turn out to be bogus.

The relationship between a grad student and their professor is generally characterized by a profound power imbalance.

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Might be red 40. Colouring agents are highly regulated in the eu. Maybe the mineral oil.

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Call it cultural inertia if you prefer.

That applies to most fields, doesn't it? Any heuristic will be a simplification and becoming an expert in any domain involves knowing when you can apply a heuristic or approximation or model and when you cannot.

Benefit of the doubt it is a reference to this meme.

Used to work as a data analyst for a global logistics company and this has me a bit worried.

You should be the one answering the question for us laymen. If you don't know nobody does

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Yes... but the money goes to the ad network tracking you and building profiles. So I would disregard the cost aspect.

You would also port the tests, right?

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Ironically students of foreign language often cling to these grammatical structures and are less confused by the same word in different contexts.

Until recently the reason was waterproof ratings.

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I'm guessing wasm

It's just so intense and realistic. I've learned to cope with splatter, but this is personal and cruel.

Is there a newbie guide to reputable brands on AE?

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Lol, are you 15?

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I just had my first child and discovering the world with him has really been eye-opening to the "small things" again.

It's she staying in the race just as the remaining candidate in case Trump can't join the general election for judicial or health reasons?

Nobody is doubting that. The code in the meme is python...

Video Just has fundamentally different hosting cost for processing and bandwidth. Amongst the big streaming providers only Netflix makes a profit. Twitch is not profitable, either.

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It was a Simpsons reference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaXigSu72A4

Bass is what travels best through mixed media, so during our time in the womb it is what we get from the outside (and inside for that matter)

There was a study on Facebook that showed that they could predict with between 80-95% accuracy (or some crazy number like that) your gender, orientation, politics, and so on just based on your public likes. That was ten years ago at least. What is this even showing?

Advocates diabolo: that a large language model can do it without extra training, I guess. The Facebook study presented a statistical model on "like space" while this study relies on text alone, a much less structured type of input.

I'm not saying it's a good study. Just pointing out some differences.

I had the same impression until I dusted off my banana pi one last month and there was an up-to-date armbian image for it. Totally pleasant surprise.

Die Bart, die

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Ah, i think i misunderstood your comment.

In terms of archiving I agree, in terms of restoring a running copy from an archive, maybe not.

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So it's a hollow half-shell

Alien 3 on snes