Why “Either” is being discussed
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> but unless you're defending against some sort of denial of service attack, in practice it rarely matters. That "rarely" contains most sites/webservices. Before programmin…
by Good4boothee · Sep 11, 2026
I don't understand how this or all these magic skill bundles and methodologies get traction and why they are so popular. It's either plain worse or has serious trade offs.
by fleetfox · Sep 11, 2026
What I've found difficult with harness design is deciding which features are actually going to be useful, and which ones are cool-sounding ideas that get people talking, but nob…
by julesrms · Sep 11, 2026
I think individually and when used sparingly, writing tropes can be fine, but when the article has every second sentence being a writing trope, it becomes pretty obvious that ei…
by embedding-shape · Sep 11, 2026
Well, not quite. Not showing your hair or not eating in public may have meaning in somebody's culture/religion, but it doesn't hurt anyone else either way. Playing video&#x…
by jhbadger · Sep 11, 2026
Why are we glossing over the fact that it's all trained on stolen code, stolen art, stolen books? It's unethical to use it, it's unethical to take money for it. It should be eit…
by czpl · Sep 11, 2026
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Either/or and related terms may refer to:Either/Or , an 1843 book by Søren Kierkegaard Either/Or , a 2022 novel by Elif Batuman Either/Or (album), a 1997 album by Elliott Smith Either/Or, a 1999 British comedy game show written and presented by Simon Munnery either...or and neither...nor, examples of correlative conjunctions in English Exclusive or, the logical meaning of "either ... or ... but not both" Logical disjunction, the logical meaning of "either ... or ... or both" Either-or fallacy, another name for false dilemma Either–or topology, a structure in mathematics Read more on Wikipedia