brianary

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[–] brianary@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago

I'm just waiting for the Damnation Alley or Ark Ⅱ references.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

LD and SNW are easily some of the best Trek series.

How would TNG have fared if people dipped out at ep 2?

[–] brianary@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Your "proof" is that there isn't a position that will win approval with everyone?

[–] brianary@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago

That, and Troy McClure's house. 😄

[–] brianary@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

This would be better with a more accurate projection, like Dymaxion. That black area is so much bigger than it looks here.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

You get used to it sooner than you'd think. There are libraries to convert between regex and English. Maybe it deserves a Unicode code block like APL?

[–] brianary@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

Not something I've encountered.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Wait until you see what they do to avoid learning SQL or Regex or JSON Pointer or XPath.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

She said she didn't have space to move over.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago

If you want everything bundled instead of à la carte, that sounds more like eclipse to me. But then, I don't understand how anyone can program in Java.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think that aphorism is about authority-respect rather than basic-human-decency-respect.

This thread makes me wonder how much contemporary American English is to blame for people being able to exploit ambiguities surreptitiously. Dog whistles have to start somewhere, they don't seem to be prearranged.

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