LesZedCB

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by LesZedCB 3y ago
terrasite is a phenomenal nomination for AotY 2023.
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by LesZedCB 3y ago
> gerund: a form that is derived from a verb but that functions as a noun, in English ending in -ing, e.g., asking in do you mind my asking you?.
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by LesZedCB 3y ago
you could believe you're inhaling purified air but, lo! you are breathing impure air, muahahaha!
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by LesZedCB 3y ago
deniers do believe climate acceptance is dogmatic, that our modern epistemology is a deviation and largely a political ideology.
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by LesZedCB 3y ago
there are dozens of us!
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by LesZedCB 3y ago
increasing wealth inequality and unaccountable mega corporations. more of the same, basically. I don't "believe" there is a solution until enough people get really hungry.
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by LesZedCB 3y ago
not allow private companies to accumulate so much capital by breaking them up and taxing them fairly. then use the budget for things like single payer healthcare and affordable housing
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by LesZedCB 3y ago
convenient for you, less so for the partner, eh?
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by LesZedCB 3y ago
seriously these other people are missing out on the joys of working from home
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by LesZedCB 3y ago
oh my god when will js devs learn this cycle has been going on so much longer than 7 years? I mean it's almost funny if it wasn't so depressing that JavaScript is eating up all the web dev jobs.
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by LesZedCB 3y ago
yep reddit is now either bots or people so banal they may as well be bots
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by LesZedCB 3y ago
my current dd laptop is also an early 2013 MBP, which I had installed Linux on a few years ago. however recently I picked up music again and preferred to use Mac for certain software. oh man was the reinstallation process a nightmare. the r
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by LesZedCB 3y ago
summoning a lisp from the aether never gets old
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by LesZedCB 3y ago
but wasn't that the point of pdf? we consumers of PDFs are the downstream users, not the target demographic. PDF solved a problem for publishers and magazines, not for consumers needing to read properly typeset digital documents. we ju
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by LesZedCB 3y ago
> doesn't that slow down your thought process? probably yes. also, when being asked questions I rehearse and rephrase the answer in my head often stumbling or pausing uncomfortably long to actually get it out for fear of it sounding
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by LesZedCB 3y ago
norway is highly unionized and particular sectors do implement minimum wages. singapore is uh... ranked 149 out of 157 in the oxfam inequality index.......
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by LesZedCB 3y ago
printing money obviously can't be the "root" cause because it's not an independent variable - it's the product of a social institution implementing policy which was decided on. so, who decided? why? to benefit whom?
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by LesZedCB 3y ago
hacker news is social media
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by LesZedCB 3y ago
there's another one in Munroe (east side) http://www.letsplaycafe.com/
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by LesZedCB 3y ago
me three! it was the first video of his I watched, so good and one of the YouTube classics that make YouTube so extremely special to me
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by LesZedCB 3y ago
in seattle theres a chain called quality sewing and vacuum, which struck me as a very weird thing to sell together. turns out, vacuums and sewing machines share a lot of the same internal parts so for repairs they go together quite nicely.
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by LesZedCB 3y ago
this is why Amazon is doing it. netflix led the way and their membership overall stayed.
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by LesZedCB 3y ago
sadly instead of consuming less it seems amazon is losing its monopoly status to online stores like Temu instead which direct ship from producing countries to the US under the $800 import tax limit making it comically cheap...
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by LesZedCB 3y ago
> Well, it seems obvious that they can say "in exchange for sending you this video you must watch the ads". "you must watch" is bodily autonomy. currently what they can enforce technologically is "you must wait&q
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by LesZedCB 3y ago
holy fucking shit. no. you've been gaslit into this absolutely insane reality friend. bodily autonomy is basical human right number one, including the right the close your fucking eyes. there's no fucking "contract law"
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by LesZedCB 3y ago
everybody deserves a room of ones own. [1] ads are just a parasite pretending to provide it, manufacturing demand for overproduced commodities that are mostly harmful for humanity and our environment. so long as the public library remains u
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by LesZedCB 3y ago
it's weird because I think like others here, reddit has lost it's allure for me (after 12 years of devoted active participation). but I can't point out something specific that caused it. I knew many comments were bots and tro
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by LesZedCB 3y ago
yes this makes sense because ruby is a message passing language. even accessors are messages. only self can receive private messages. and the sharing a private instance variable between separate instances example is exactly what protected d
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by LesZedCB 3y ago
sure but cache warming works on the order of 30 minutes
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by LesZedCB 3y ago
I read this as "who prefers to work non-standard workday" e.g. 11-7 which I used to do to avoid traffic. I really enjoyed it and the slower morning was really helpful for me. early morning stand-ups post-pandemic really killed my

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