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A man walks into a bar, the second ducks.

I would imagine this would be difficult to translate, unless "bar" has the two same meanings in language it is translated to. There might also be confusion where aquatic birds fit in, or if there a reference to the passage of time?

Apart from Trump and Brexit.

> The problem in an infinite universe is every possible location in the sky eventually terminates on a stellar surface - a star.

Isn't that only true if the universe is infinitely old as well as infinitely large?

The first is in regards medium/long term maintenance. Whereas time to market usually refers to the first version of a product.

There is a browning where the head would be, but there are twigs and other leafs in the brown area but no head that I can see.

Yes, it looked like a woman to me but I was going by the title of the thread "man's head".

Anyways, the image I was commenting is the one clicking on the thread title takes you to. The head is definitely missing:

https://twitter.com/mitchcohen/status/1476951534160257026

What image do you see the head as being "clearly visible"?

The leaf turns out to be real but hasn't the guy's head behind it been removed? Unless the guy has such a small head its completely hidden!

What is wrong with clavicat's comment? He is pointing out the hypocrisy of Intel claiming not to tolerate any form of racist. Genocide is by definition racist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_genocide

My comment was in response to his assertion that "the primary reasons which caused Japan to become imperialist are directly tied to Western imperialism".

Is it safe considering the 1000 square miles of Ukraine that Chernobyl made uninhabitable? How safe are they against terrorist attacks, an attack by a rogue state or in a conventional war?

As it has been said democracy is rubbish, the only thing going for it is that it is better than the alternatives.

Are you forgetting the 1592 Japanese invasions of Korea which had the intent of conquering the Korean Peninsula and then the whole of China?

Overly complex code is more difficult to modify than elegant simple code. A 10x developer will produce simple elegant code. That is one reason why they are a 10x developer. Ten 10x developers will create a much more simple solution than 100 standard developers. Standard developers usually create a mess. That is what always happens, we have all seen it. So 10 10x will be much more productive than 100 standard developers.

Or use an antiseptic cream which does not have the downside of antibiotic resistance.

A call out to Solar2D, previously Corona2D

https://coronalabs.com/

How effective would such a vaccine need to be? A vaccine of say 70% might be effective enough for herd immunity for a disease that is contagious person to person. But you don't get Lyme disease from other people so herd immunity is not possible, unless the intention is to inoculate deer, (no pun intended).

There are the Channel Islands, but perhaps you could claim that the Channel Islands were the ones to occupy England and not vice versa since they were part of Normandy!

Perhaps, or perhaps it is a meta-rule, i.e. a rule about rules. Either way it is just obvious common sense IMO.

The prefer "outcomes to output" is not a "How do be successful? Step 1: Be successful. Step 2: Be successful at purple". I can see the use of such a list for example on a team wiki as a reminder that you don't get credit for writing a 3 page email when a 6 liner would be as useful.

I can see the use of such a list for example on a team wiki as a reminder of what the team considers good practice.

Not false.

Sure there are exceptions to most rules, but break them only if you know what you are doing and are able to justify doing so.

There are a number of agreed bad practises: long functions, deep nesting, obtuse identifiers, unrestricted use of gotos, global variables, no coding standard, premature optimisation, C macros, raw pointers...

"agreed upon deliverables" is one definition of output. I think he is talking more generally, e.g. lines of code, over-long email, unnecessarily verbose documentation, ..., I could go on indefinitely.

But you are really arguing in general against such lists like this, that don't "examine the nuance". But perhaps they are useful discussion point or memory joggers. And shouldn't the senior members of a team or managers explain to novices the importance of meeting such milestones that you mentioned?

>> Outcomes matter more than output. A focus on output yields sub-par outcomes.

But isn't this just stating the obvious, e.g. don't measure success by lines of code written, number of commits, number of bugs fixed...? And there is nothing wrong in stating the obvious, especially as when it is not obvious to some people.

"Would you feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever? If I offered you £20,000 for every dot that stopped - would you really, old man, tell me to keep my money?"

They would be wrong then. The great majority of unionist are of Scottish descent and have been in Norther Ireland from the 1600s.

FYI the term "unionist" refers to those in NI who want the union with Britain to be maintained, not as someone looking in from outside would assume those who want a union with Southern Ireland. Those are "nationalists".

However Blair's electability and legacy was fatally damage, and when Cameron next wanted to go to war, to bomb Syria, parliament did not allow it.

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Yes, and it is not releasing fossil carbon.

Can't there be a concept of negative happiness?

Interesting point. Is there any country that has system tending towards this?