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Dying of BBS and XMODEM fame sounds painful.

Can dang or another mod move the parenthetical modifier?

That merely makes them stupid AIs.

You're never going to win a suit against policemen not doing their duty.

* https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=910846825412517...

* https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-supreme-court/545/748.h...

It has allowed that for a long, long time.

Also known as the Kzinti Lesson, from Niven's "Known Space".

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WeaponizedExhaus...

> "surge protector" is what Americans call a passive device that splits one outlet into several, yeah?

Technically different, but often combined functions. The splitting bit is a "power strip", or sometimes a "power bar". The surge protection is switching off when there's a short or overvoltage in the supply, or other larger than expected power draw.

But are they at all discoverable from the code base? Those PR messages, jira tickets, and slack history ought to be linked to in the commit message, and that requirements document checked in.

(None of those links help when you switch to different providers; but that might not be too bad, depending on timescales of those changes)

Peanut Butter and Radishes?

It is the formula for an exponentially weighted moving average.

Which is not appropriate here...

> when the mechanisms used to ensure privacy actually work most of the time.

Privacy was indeed preserved -- at the cost of communication.

They of course the minimum out of the set of the real roots.

No, they were trying to figure out if they had isolated where facts like that were represented.

This is widely believed, and of course Ukrainians prefer no article, and I'm happy to accede to their preferences, just as with their preferred transliteration of Kyiv.

But the theory that this has any impact on how English speakers view sovereignty is also completely bunk. While English does indeed use "the" for some geographical regions and features (but not universally; English rarely is so simple), in international contexts and sub-regions, that's swamped by more salient examples. Look right there at your use of "the" USSR. We don't talk about "the Scotland" and "the England" as part of "United Kingdom", nor about "the California" and "the Texas" as purely internal regions of "United States", but quite the reverse, reserving. In keeping with groups of smaller units, there's also the EU. There are also many examples of full names that include qualifying adjectives that take "the" -- i.e. the Central African Republic, the Dominican Republic, and historically the Czech Republic (now Czechia is preferred, of course).

There are also, of course, countries named after geographical features that traditionally do have the definite article, but this is rarely taken as a slight against their sovereignty or an accusation that they're not a real country: the Ivory Coast, The Netherlands, many, many island nations.

And why would the Russians even think to use articles to make this distinction? Neither language even has a definite article! There is a history of using different prepositions in these languages ("in" vs "on", roughly) which does have this suggestion, but it really doesn't parallel English usage of articles.

You're assuming a symmetry that doesn't exist.

In exactly the same way that a torque measured in newton-meters can as easily be measured in joules.

Can you elaborate how?

Why code is needed is different than why change is needed.

The git history will last longer than the platform hosting the PR.

I don't understand why moving walkways aren't called slidewalks.

Ignorance motivated by financial interests is a type of malice.

I'm not! Averages should normalize the weights. But there are plenty of reasons to define convolutions where neither signal is normalized.

Averages are normalized. Convolutions only are if they integrate to 1.

Weighted sum, sure. (Average is normalized).

But it's not just one sum, but a _collection_ of weighted sums, and those have a particular order for reasons.

What about the FingerWorks TouchStream? sigh

It is quite common. Still not cool.

The planarian result was probably insufficiently sterilizing the maze, and following previous scent-trails.

It's covered with a vague line that would also cover merely having a disagreement with.

They are not on the board of a company. They're on the board of a non-profit that controls a company.

That's literally not the job of this board.