WhyCause

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by WhyCause 6mo ago
The slowness is a feature, not a bug. It gives your brain time to chew on it a little bit, digesting the information and storing it away instead of just copy-pasting. Speed-hacks like shorthand and stenographers' machines are for copy
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by WhyCause 1y ago
Also, MS Word auto-corrects <space>-<space> into an em-dash just like it fixes quotes. Depending on which software was used to write it, it's very likely that's what happened. I'm never suspicious of only one em-
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by WhyCause 1y ago
I'm just picturing me watching their stupid ad, then opening the door and permanently disabling the locking mechanism, with a sawz-all, if necessary.
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by WhyCause 1y ago
> ...you can't control what others send you. Of course not. You can, however, control what you then do with said data. If a courier accidentally dropped a folder full of nuclear secrets in your mailbox, I promise you that if you do
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by WhyCause 2y ago
PyInstaller-made executables also used to have a habit of getting flagged by security software as malicious (maybe that's why you couldn't run it?) -- apparently, so many malware writers used it that it ruined the party for everyo
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by WhyCause 2y ago
> The most successful exception I've seen are books by Joe Klassen (of I Want My Hat fame)... If you haven't read it The Dark[1] (his collaboration with Lemony Snicket) is also great; my kids absolutely love the voices I do for
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by WhyCause 2y ago
In the article, they mention that they are working with the crawling company to be reimbursed for the download costs. Naming and shaming the company while you're trying to work with them is a real good way to not get what you want.
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by WhyCause 2y ago
Seinfeld was "a show about nothing."
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by WhyCause 2y ago
I would argue that the fast part isn't optional for web apps (where "transpiling"), but it can be in many other instances. I write a lot of data-pipeline code in Python that mostly runs once a day. Does it matter if it takes
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by WhyCause 3y ago
It's not necessarily wealth that governs price changes, but access. Anyone with a car and 'enough' money for gas can go to the store across town if it's cheaper, but if a store is isolated enough by geography or neighbo
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by WhyCause 3y ago
I think it's more that once you get rich, the political machine becomes obsessed with you and your donations. That attention can be kind of addictive.
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by WhyCause 3y ago
I worked for a power company that had something like this. Except it was two F4 Phantom jet engines (modified to use natural gas) per generator. I believe there were two sets in that plant, and boy, did it get loud.
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by WhyCause 3y ago
It's not just Moonlite and Owensboro; it's common further downriver too. I end up in Paducah at least once a year, and I always try to make it to Kountry Kastle for a mutton sandwich. I'd say that mutton and burgoo are the d
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by WhyCause 3y ago
> Many tools shipped python as an embedded scripting language. I had dabbled with Python before encountering it (in its embedded form), but once I started using it inside ESRI's ArcGIS software, it became my go to language for many,
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by WhyCause 3y ago
Or Firefox Focus, which is what I use. It does a pretty good job.
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by WhyCause 3y ago
That was impression I got from the article as well.
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by WhyCause 3y ago
> I wind up revisiting it every year when the derby comes around As do I. It's tradition at this point.
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by WhyCause 3y ago
Bingo. I find the styling of Teslas to be so boring and same-y. I also hate the design laziness of "only a central display panel", and I really, really want buttons and knobs.
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by WhyCause 4y ago
Out of curiosity, are the GIS dependencies the proprietary ones ( cough ESRI cough )?
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by WhyCause 4y ago
There is the Planet Gemini [1]. My understanding is that the company was founded by some ex-Psion folk, and the keyboard on the Gemini is supposed to be pretty close to the one on the Series 5. The Gemini runs both Android and Linux. Havi
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by WhyCause 4y ago
I've made a few "games" that go a step further, including images as SVG or base64 encoded binary. I use them mainly for learning / testing new (to me) concepts.
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by WhyCause 4y ago
Cupping is probably a better analogy. Also, there was a long stretch of time there where we didn't use leeches, at least in part due to the stigma associated with the older practice.
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by WhyCause 4y ago
Lucky. When I was in Engineering school, the Mechanical Engineering department had one catalog. We couldn't get any more - something about limited numbers printed (though, I'll confess I never tried to get my own). It was passe
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by WhyCause 4y ago
I want my Psion Series 5 back.
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by WhyCause 4y ago
Odd; when I do that it just rotates the same map (back and forth, between a horizontal alignment and about 30 degrees). I do agree that hijacking ctrl-r is not ideal.
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by WhyCause 4y ago
They are tasty in chili.
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by WhyCause 4y ago
I have had iOS tell me I needed to "unlock the phone to enable accessories" (or something to that effect) when plugging in the charger that came in the box with the phone. This has usually been when the lightning port has been fou
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by WhyCause 4y ago
You're assuming that the daily commute is short for most people. I live in a fairly dense US city, and there is a fair percentage of downtown office workers that live more that 40 miles out, which given the routes they have to take and
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by WhyCause 5y ago
I too recall that. I suspect it was a boon for the carriers, eating into your MMS quota. At the time though, my plan was unlimited SMS/MMS, so it didn't really matter to me.
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by WhyCause 5y ago
Not generally, no. Most of the time, it's software that goads you into a subscription after your 30-day trial, like anti-virus packages or HP's ink subscription.

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