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fyolnish··on Int a = 5; a = a++ + ++a; a =? (2011)
Seems fitting in a thread about undefined behavior
fyolnish··on DOJ seizes $15B in Bitcoin from 'pig butchering' scam based in Cambodia
Makes you wonder if not blowing the country to bits and helping the Khmer Rouge gain power would have been better for its development
fyolnish··on How Apple designs a virtual knob (2012)
Same here
fyolnish··on Car tires shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment
Why couldn’t the other teams change tires as often?
fyolnish··on Choosing solitude
A single anecdote proved your point?
fyolnish··on Show HN: Retcon – A macOS Git client for instantly rewriting history
If that developer bothers to go have their boss pay for it.

I’m not going to subscribe to something that ‘may save my ass someday’, but I would buy it for my arsenal because that someday might be a year and one day from the time of purchase

(Also: Fork has a decent interactive rebase with drag and drop and is a one time purchase. Probably not as slick as this though)

fyolnish··on Comma 3X
Regulation making you responsible for reckless behavior before you cause an accident.
fyolnish··on A Tiny Digital Camera Stripped Down to the Bare Essentials (2017)
For what it is
fyolnish··on FiiO M3K review – a pocketable-high quality audio player (2018)
I bought and sold a zx500. It basically got rid of everything good about the 300 except for the form factor.
fyolnish··on FiiO M3K review – a pocketable-high quality audio player (2018)
It’s been out a while, You can get them used below 300.
fyolnish··on FiiO M3K review – a pocketable-high quality audio player (2018)
The Walkman ZX300 (appearance of which the M3K copies pretty well :) is by far my favorite player.

Although in a perfect world I'd just have an iPod with a headphone amp as good as the current Walkmans/Fiios.

That said, why is an audio player review from 2018 on the front page? o_O

fyolnish··on Lou Ottens, inventor of cassette tape, has died
The loudness war was not about making music audible over road noise
fyolnish··on Max: Boeing 'inappropriately coached' pilots in test after crashes
Yeah, that's just as bad as the Max.
fyolnish··on Why Japanese web design is so different (2013)
Why’s it so hot today?

何でこんなに暑いの今日?

Where in the US are you from?

出身は米国の何処ですか?

Japanese sentences are usually shorter than the english translation.

fyolnish··on Zoom Acquires Keybase
They also replaced their CEO with NeXT's
fyolnish··on Oslo had 0 pedestrian, 0 cyclist, 0 children and 1 driver trafic deaths in 2019
Well, if you can live like they do in Oslo and have 1 death. That seems worth it.
fyolnish··on The Cult of Homework
We had homework when I was in school.
fyolnish··on $1.2T in risky corporate debt showing similar warning signs to subprime crisis
Which is kind of the point
fyolnish··on A million-dollar drug
But that doesn’t have much to do with the price. Your comment sounded like you were saying the eu was being cheap.
fyolnish··on Hubble is back
You can probably train them using dwim
fyolnish··on New York inmate's golf drawings lead to exoneration in murder
Lets assume each of those prosecutors sends >1 person to prison. Then imprisoning said prosecutors would likely result in fewer prisoners.
fyolnish··on Skype rolls back its redesign by ditching stories and squiggles
As in beer.
fyolnish··on Interrobang
ies indeed vuhai can’t vee just use tvoo gliphs

Is a much more readable example I think.

fyolnish··on Japan Fights Crowds of Crows (2008)
It’s only murder if it’s unlawful. It’s a killing, a slaughter though.

Edit: never mind, you tought me a new definition.

fyolnish··on Face recognition police tools 'staggeringly inaccurate'
definitely the latter.
fyolnish··on Face recognition police tools 'staggeringly inaccurate'
It’s a bit ironic that America both reveres that quote and has the largest prison population in the world.
fyolnish··on Oni – Modern Modal Editing
Don’t they move the wrist that moves the hand/fingers which then move the mouse?
fyolnish··on Report of Active Shooter at YouTube HQ
When is it appropriate to shoot a politician?
fyolnish··on [dead]
Slamming out apps I won’t use.
fyolnish··on Venezuela Is Collapsing. Could a civil war be next?
And capitalism is against public ownership of the means of production. Any country that does both, has an economy that is neither purely socialist nor capitalist. I personally would not want to live in a purely capitalist, nor a purely socialist state.

(Sidenote: State capitalism and market socialism are essentially the same thing)

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