“confabulate” is, imo, the closest we have (i don't remember who originally used this analogy, unfortunately)
mawhrin
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why is it always programming dot dev?
they also stored this thing as a fucking string. looking up strings is costly.
i'm not doing databases for living but the idea of stringifying a perfectly cromulent unique number in order to store it in the database comes as slightly weird to me.
don't be the annoying pedant; we're fully capable of understanding that the “national socialist german workers' party” was not a socialist party (and that a “nazi” is a pejorative and was from the start), that the phrase “marxist-leninist” is generally used to mean “left-authoritarian but want to pretend it isn't”, that the “communist party of the soviet union” was actually presiding over a project of building an authoritarian state capitalism, and that the “republican” party in the united states is trying to make the united states a theocratic dictatorship.
i implore the tech nerds to learn a modicum of biology before making very confident statements.
oh ffs. one goes voting in the european elections, as one does, and all the fun passes by, unread, deleted, non-existing.
well, they are fascists, being obnoxiously racist is par for the course.
The imminent arrival of their fourth child, a girl they plan to name Industry Americus Collins
ah well, at least when they transition they won't need to change the masculine-gendered second name.
that gives a whole new facet to the meaning of “cold upbringing”.
she's literally paid from an EA grant for the work at vox, so she can hardly compromise her journalistic ethics more.