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redmorphium··on A History of the Sentence "Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo." (1999-2015)
I agree with you. This is the most profound way to interpret these kinds of sentences, and it exemplifies a consequence of how English allows you to omit the "that" in dependent clauses.
redmorphium··on Ask HN: What are some of the best technical talks you've heard?
SVG can do that?! (Sarah Drasner) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADXX4fmWHbo
redmorphium··on Kubernetes Is a Surprisingly Affordable Platform for Personal Projects
You don't need to run the gcloud command to connect to a Cloud SQL instance. You can run the cloud_sql_proxy as a background process on your machine and then you can use mysql or psql to connect to it instantly.
redmorphium··on Project Gutenberg blocks access from Germany
They still have to comply with the court ruling, i.e. at least block those 18 books in Germany, as they aren't The Pirate Bay. The website's move is smart because it avoids future complications coming from the Urheberrechtsgesetz, the German copyright law, and draws much-needed public attention to how easy it is for bully firms to abuse it.
redmorphium··on Infinite Loops
I may be mistaken, but I believe that behind the scenes, it's the token bucket algorithm that does rate control.
redmorphium··on A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes English-Speakers to Learn Foreign Languages
Fascinating thing about the Unabomber.

Reminds me of when an Indian friend in high school played a prank on another friend by impersonating me through instant messages (we were sharing a hotel). My friend was able to figure out that it wasn't me because my Indian friend used the phrase "today morning" instead of "this morning."

redmorphium··on A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes English-Speakers to Learn Foreign Languages
Quite complex, actually :(. Ich hätte ihn fragen können.
redmorphium··on How to solve a hard programming interview question
That's not the optimal solution by runtime complexity, which is often the point of these interview questions.
redmorphium··on Markdown Here – Write email in Markdown
Not some companies. All companies, including Google for Gmail, Yahoo for Yahoo mail, Microsoft for Outlook, etc have very limited support for HTML in their HTML rendering engines.

Instead of using floats and margins, you have to revert to using <table> for layouts. Otherwise, your emails just won't render correctly, much of the time.

It's not possible to support HTML fully in Webmail clients, either. Even without scripting, you could write an HTML email that overlays a malicious button on top of Gmail's web interface itself, and it would be too easy to phish people.

redmorphium··on Markdown Here – Write email in Markdown
The thing about HTML emails is, different email clients support different things.

It's not HTML5 at all. If you want to do layouts, you must use tables. There are hacky things you have to do to display things correctly across all different types of clients.

You have tools like this: https://buttons.cm/ which generate abominable code for the sake of compatibility.

Also, Outlook uses the Word rendering engine to process HTML. It's janky, at best.

redmorphium··on Alphabet considers Lyft investment of about $1B
Uber gave me that, too, but only for last month. Lyft have me a flat fare deal for this month, so I use it now.
redmorphium··on Will minimum wage hikes lead to a huge boost in automation? Only if we're lucky
If I were replaceable by automation, I would be.
redmorphium··on A static_cast is not always just a pointer adjustment
A small nitpick, your code is incorrect because the add operation will set ZF.
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