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My Grandfather was born before the days of safety razors and tells me that Navy personnel were able to petition to avoid shaving on account of delicate skin (something about the salt water and fresh air). I think anybody who could grow a beard would have done.
Gentrification as an effect happens when an area becomes more desirable to live in. That means here that people place a positive value on public transport.
To deny an area the benefit of public transport based on some weird altruistic and paternalistic motive doesn't really seem credible.
It's really tail wagging the dog too. To say we should just keep areas shitty or undesirable to avoid gentrification seems totally backwards.
for lots of people here it'll revisit some material you learnt at school but it does go further and the materials are fantastic and the exam at the end is no pushover either.
..analagous to how Amber died in season 4 of House?
http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbli...
(if (or cond1 cond2) (then) (else))
although i suppose it's not really hugo anymore..assuming an epstein drive is possible yeah it opens up more or less direct brachistochrone trajectories between here and mars. Just wait until the planets align and burn.
we've had slack and irc and hipchat. honestly I don't care which chat system we use as long as internally we can all come to some kind of agreement. That speaks more to our er diverse user-group than the quality of any given chat system though.
I haven't been able to log in from a linux system unfortunately. The browser user-agent detection barfs on both chrome and firefox for me.
Seems not completely unrelated to prior work to turn async networks into timed-async networks like with Spanner.
https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-observer-style-guide-e
It recommends dropping the dots. I know we were taught in school to treat them as abbreviations and therefore include the dots so I'm not sure where this new fashion comes from.
https://opencredo.com/introduction-to-akka-streams-getting-s...
this one looks good, but it's a big task to pick through all the divergent copies of the code and figure out which ones have genuine improvements and which ones are now rotting.
there's a rust one too which i recently added mingw/msvc support to. that's actually an example of how this splintering could be causing problems because we've just vendored some upstream version of the native c code and changes may be difficult to send back upstream.