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jjgreen
10,159karma·4,124submissions·February 7, 2014
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I live my life by the Latin dictum carpe diem: seize the carp.
https://jjg.gitlab.io/en/
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Brit here. No, there will not. The government have appealed, the thousands of people who were arrested for the terrorist act of holding a sign bearing "I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Ac…
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I rather like Python and have used the C API extensively, "nice" is not the word I'd choose ...
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Drug dealer, probably cheap drugs (since everyone is out of work).
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All even years are leap years ... aren't they?
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Earlier discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47193563
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Those that survived were lucky that the civilised Srilankans reached them first, the Americans would have shot them in the water. https://theintercept.com/2025/12/05/boa…
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It is prepping for advertising, you can't watch their adverts when you go to another site.
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The BBC's reticence to report this is notable; the website has a report (hidden fairly deep) dated a few minutes to midnight GMT Sunday night, breakfast news on Radio 4 had a mention in an interv…
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I've know a few edge-case physicists who have unconventional approaches to relativity ... oh Epstein ...
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Easy, "For legal reasons, this OS is not available in California"
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Less French wine going to the US, more for me, yay!
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When you're 10, a year is a long time, when you're 60 it is not. There's an implicit "relatively" here, which is unusual but not unknown in English. Almost poetic, I like it…
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... the single-most evil and successful companies in the world, and ... like a tick with a law degree, cannot be removed without some degree of bloodshed. Splendid, well worth a read.
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This guy is reading my mind ...
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Well played
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Micro$lop then.
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No, that's already here. It will make it cheaper and more effective though.
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Leaves some broken links on their contributing page: https://www.python-httpx.org/contributing/ …
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Back to PostScript! (and not before time)
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Huge wangs? https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/scientists-aghast-at... …
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Do you think this will be on TV news?
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> UK customs shits in you shoes?? WTF! >> EU customs also shits in your shoes
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Huh? I've always understood that the clause after the semicolon is peripheral; the meaning of the whole sentence does not change without it.
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Sitting on a British Airways flight heading to NYC, tucking into a full-English which was tolerable but not great, I had a tap on the arm from the Japanese businessmen sitting on the same aisle, "…