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  • xylogxtoMicroblog MemesCats
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    3 days ago

    Our big brains take a lot of care and feeding for sure.

    We also adapted for endurance hunting and fine motor control in our hands. A Chimpanzee could tear your arm off, but they could not throw a curveball.


  • xylogxtoComic Strips'Strongly Typed' - The Jenkins
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    4 days ago

    Just to add to this all data is ultimately stored as ones and zeros. In order to translate it to a piece of text or some type of number the computer needs to determine what type of data it represents. If the computer guesses the wrong type you just get garbage. Languages like C allow you to store data without rigid type definitions, it is up to the programmer to make sure the code gets the type right. In a strongly typed language you are not allowed to use variables of one type as some other type without some explicit conversion. It is safer but a little annoying.



  • xylogxtoLinux@lemmy.mlLibreOffice is pretty damn good
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    5 days ago

    Not sure why you got downvoted, it is a fair question. Real time multiuser editing is a powerful feature. That said it is really only needed a small fraction of the time for specific types of collaboration. Also, it can cause problems as well. Libreoffice Calc meets most of my home spreadsheet needs: calculating mortgage rates and future value of investments and such.










  • xylogxtoVegan@lemmy.mlThis Speech Turned My Family Vegan
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    16 days ago

    When asked why are you vegan, I usually just say its better for me, better for the environment and better for the animals who dont have suffer.

    I have never converted anyone to be vegan. When I say that, it just kind of ends the conversation, which is kind of what I am shooting for.




























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