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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Cats and dogs are the same thing, except that dogs are dogs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Alternating feet requires that each leg's muscle groups work in complete opposite to each other. Your brain has to process doing two different things at the same time.

Hopping is probably closer to whatever the first fish to flop up on land and breath air did.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am annoyed that I can't think of an argument for this. I don't want to believe it

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Whereas many languages make functions first class citizens, via the use of this javascript turns execution contexts into first class citizens as well.

You can build up an object of key value pairs and then proceed as if those were named variables in the code.

Obviously it has its pros and cons, but it’s a powerful tool.

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