brianary

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[–] brianary@startrek.website 2 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] brianary@startrek.website 12 points 9 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 10 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] brianary@startrek.website 4 points 10 months ago

That, and Troy McClure's house. 😄

[–] brianary@startrek.website 1 points 10 months ago
[–] brianary@startrek.website 6 points 10 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago

Not something I've encountered.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 8 points 11 months 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 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] brianary@startrek.website 5 points 11 months 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 11 months 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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