Why “Either” is being discussed
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Thank you for the nod to Metamorphosis of the Prime Intellect! I’ve been meaning to revisit it for dog’s years and now I have the impetus :) Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom co…
by alwa · Oct 31, 2026
That's the problem, though. One of my books costs more than $100 USD and that's even on the cheaper side, and as you rightly point out, I had zero choice or saying in the pricin…
by jonathanstrange · Oct 31, 2026
Shared code repositories for OSS are much older than npm. See at least maven central for Java. What makes npm a more relevant target is a much smaller standard library and thinn…
by hibikir · Oct 31, 2026
> … and the Spotify algorithm is either bad in finding new stuff I like or always pushing the same 20 songs that I've listened too much. yeah, it’s terrible. just plain none of…
by toofy · Oct 31, 2026
Nitpicks about CLI coding agents: Many times, while they are doing something, I’ll be typing a prompt, and then all of a sudden I get a question with Y/N options, and by ac…
by nico · Oct 31, 2026
As a person who almost certainly has ADHD, AI has done wonders to my social skills. You can either analyze what went wrong when you accidentally blurted out something somewhat i…
by vovavili · Oct 31, 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