dointheatl

> everything's been looted and burned down

There may yet be hope that a few stores survived. Possibly even a village or hamlet. In the vast rubblescape that is now France.

it is bad to see 'good thing / bad thing' as the only available frame

Rejecting the premise: who says they fixed it properly?

I read it as an acknowledgement that while improvement is possible, the requisite effort will in reality never be expended

I don't think you get it, OC tried the trackpad in a MicroCenter. It's game over.

> what's the deal with making the distinction between domestic mass surveillance and foreign mass surveillance? Are there no democracies aside from the US?

I think it's just saying that spying on another country's citizens isn't fundamentally undemocratic (even if that other country happens to be a democracy) because they're not your citizens and therefore you don't govern them. Spying on your own citizens opens all sorts of nefarious avenues that spying on another country's citizens does not.

You know this isn't the only thing Michelangelo painted, right?

It doesn't seem to know how to handle pawn promotion. It told me it was an illegal move and that I'd lost the game.

> Also, it's pretty clear that cities are too large for our social apparatus

Citation needed? Humans have been living in cities for thousands of years.

Highly recommend The Border Trilogy as well as No Country for Old Men. The Coen Brothers did a fantastic job adapting the latter, but it just can't compare to the book.

> Even if you read the code, you have to trust that the code you read is the code a service is actually using.

Don't forget to verify the code for the compiler to ensure that hasn't been compromised in order to inject an exploit into the binary at compile time.

I want to know more about that pen sculpting tool they're using.

I was listening to a podcast with Jason Sudeikis and he said that they specifically brought it up several times because they knew that later in the same episode they would be doing a riff on the Allen Iverson "we talking about practice" speech.

The implication being that Boeing wanted to ship this plane on time, even if that meant cutting corners on safety, except that it isn't an implication because it is literally what happened.

Unlikely to be the same blanket, as Amazon did not request that I send it back to them as I recall.

Oh wow, I had literally the exact same thing happen to me last June: https://imgur.com/a/qzVDuJr

"Are employees allowed to wear dresses and high heel shoes to work?"

"Well, that depends."

"What does it depend on?"

"..."

I believe that in this hypothetical there is only a single checkbox [Either Catholic or Black/Neither Catholic nor Black], such that the employer will have learned neither the applicant's race nor their religion with certainty.

I just tried it and my watch gave me the time in London, KY. I live in Atlanta.

I've recently had success using https://github.com/rematch/rematch for a small project. Significantly less boilerplate, though admittedly the documentation is a bit sparse.

Because reading from a script for five minutes is likely to require multiple takes for someone who isn't a practiced voice actor, while text to speech requires no extra effort on their part?

Except that is not the comment you replied to.

> I believe Rob Pike and Ken T are firmly in the 'add prints' and think camp rather than use a debugger so you're in good company.

And that comment doesn't make any mention of Rob Pike never having used a debugger.

I do! I remember my first project with it was cracking WinRAR to stop it from showing the nag screen.

>You got too emotional when reading my response.

I'm not sure there is any stronger interpretation available here. You're baselessly speculating on gp's emotional state. That is the opposite of "assume good faith."

And you just responded to the weaker interpretation of his argument (which is easier to criticize) when you called it "too emotional."

Even better, do this with a card that has a higher likelihood of being chosen by the spectator—the ace of spades, for instance—and you'll see the trick work far more frequently than simple probability would suggest.

That's also the reason that you can't play poker with multiple decks shuffled together, despite this being common in blackjack. The rules of hold 'em don't allow for the possibility of two players both having the nut flush, nor is there any concept of "five of a kind," which would of course at some point happen with multiple decks in play concurrently.

Puerto Rico != Costa Rica, which is the country this story took place in.

Yes, no and no, at least in the USA.

11:15, restate my assumptions: 1. Mathematics is the language of nature. 2. Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers. 3. If you graph these numbers, patterns emerge. Therefore: There are patterns everywhere in nature.