baroomba

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by baroomba 7y ago
I'm not sure the government failing, for whatever reason, to hold private organizations and individuals to account for their wrongdoing is quite a clear, blanket argument against government power, in favor of the power of private org
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by baroomba 7y ago
> So what's the United State's excuse? Massive, continual, and ongoing failure to capture any significant part of the outgoing and diminishing value of the ground under our feet for the future needs of citizens, thereby reducin
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by baroomba 7y ago
A lot of the time I'll see recipes call for heating non-stick on a medium- or medium-high flame with so little fat in ("one teaspoon of oil" or some similarly-way-under-enough quantity) them that it only covers like 1/4
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by baroomba 7y ago
- Most of the most-valuable parts aren't supported by 3rd party ads. - We've seen what a Web with few/no ads or uselessly-low-paying ads looks like and it was totally fine.
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by baroomba 7y ago
If you try reading poetry and get something out of so reading, does it matter whether they "have meaning"? It's the practice, and its effect on you, that matters. Like Zen. You've missed the point if you think there&#x27
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by baroomba 7y ago
Heh, I run into a lot of recipes where they have you cook in a tiny amount of oil and dump the pan out a couple times but you're still supposed to be "sautéing" whatever's in the last batch. Yeah, OK. Double the initial
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by baroomba 7y ago
I find it pretty hard to get cooking down to 30 minutes of actual clock time spent working, not counting cleanup (I do a decent job of cleaning as I go anyway). Most recipes with short nominal "hands-on time" achieve it by not acc
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by baroomba 7y ago
I stopped using it about two years ago and started... oh, four or so years before that. If it's even slower now than it was then, whoa . It was already probably the generally worst-performing "web app" I knew of at the time,
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by baroomba 7y ago
Same, intuitive way I think of it since learning the school and pop-culture explanations are basically wrong—and for reasons that are unclear to me, because why make up some unintuitive BS when the intuitive and obvious explanation is close
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by baroomba 7y ago
The feature I most wanted out of Asana, back when I had to use it, was a way to open links to individual issues as some kind of basic, plain HTML page so I'd rarely have to load Asana itself. I dreaded opening it every time, couldn&#x2
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by baroomba 7y ago
Same. It was incredibly slow and loved to eat most of a GB of memory if I left its tab open. I once had it pop up a "would you recommend this product to others?" form that managed to introduce ~3 seconds of input latency on each k
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by baroomba 7y ago
English includes a lot more words than most people use regularly. I imagine that's the same in any language. Just expanding one's working vocabulary in one's native language would probably be quite helpful for thinking and ex
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by baroomba 7y ago
I’m pretty sure CSS, JavaScript, and the way both interact with each other and with HTML are the main reasons writing a useful browser engine is rapidly becoming impossible—and we’ll end up replacing it with Wasm rendering to a canvas for m
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by baroomba 7y ago
HTML clients & standards have stagnated badly because we know javascript and heavy-handed CSS can work around any problems—even if those solutions are almost always bad (usually: highly janky, at least). Example: Table sorting. Hell, ma
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by baroomba 7y ago
Earth after most disasters short of getting hit by a full-on planetoid that liquefies the entire crust is still much easier to live on than Mars, and hardened Earth-based bunkers are a lot cheaper and easier to make than a Martian colony. R
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by baroomba 7y ago
There’s something to be said for the pedagogical value of furniture. A sense of literary chronology, at least, can be absorbed by way of a shelving order, just living life in a house with books so shelved. A selection of books can and almos
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by baroomba 7y ago
Supposedly Propeller Arena on the Dreamcast was cancelled over the 9/11 attacks, though I suspect the game was already struggling or being killed for other reasons. There's a leak of the fairly-complete game and it's a hell o
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by baroomba 7y ago
I think the harm done by long, painful, dangerous releases and complex onboarding or different experiences and expectations for how to effectively test and get a good dev feedback loop going in various components of a system (usually these
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by baroomba 7y ago
Looks like grasshoppers generally live 50ish days as an adult. That's gonna put some serious limits on your max per-grasshopper-leg-rubber total accumulated grasshoppers.
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by baroomba 7y ago
A production rate of 32 locusts per person per 16-hour workday isn't enough to matter unless you have a small army of people rubbing grasshopper legs together all day, I'd think. Though it is a pretty funny image.
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by baroomba 7y ago
I didn't until some time in my childhood when one suddenly developed (I remember feeling puzzled when it happened, though I don't remember exactly when it happened). I still don't know if mine's "normal" or eve
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by baroomba 7y ago
I think cloud's way harder than managing actual hardware (and/or your own VMs and such on actual hardware, or even traditional VMs on someone else's hardware) since once you're beyond the trivial it quickly becomes a s
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by baroomba 7y ago
Cross-reference with school quality and you’ve got a map I’ve wanted for some time. Difficulty: it’ll be less useful the more people have access to it :-/
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by baroomba 7y ago
Yes. Literally every other healthcare system in a state with an advanced economy. (I'd love to see a counter-example, I've gone looking and failed to find one) [EDIT] to the downvoters: no, seriously, please post an example of, sa
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by baroomba 7y ago
You're aware that (AFAIK) every single other OECD state uses implicit (monopsony) or explicit price controls as a key part of controlling healthcare costs and maintaining access to healthcare, right? In fact it's maybe the one fac
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by baroomba 7y ago
They're much, much better, and extremely useful, for just about any work that involves building or fixing things in the real world, to pick one large category of work. I'd personally find a laptop maybe 1/10 as useful as an i
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by baroomba 7y ago
Bricklayers may not use tablets for work, but I bet they use smartphones a ton, and not just as communication devices. I know I use mine constantly when doing "real world" work—my laptop's a much worse camera, flashlight, lev
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by baroomba 7y ago
The "i-devices are just consumption devices and toys LOL" viewpoint, which is shockingly still common in programmer circles, seems to rely on a bizarrely narrow idea of what "doing real work with a computer" looks like
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by baroomba 7y ago
I went about seven years without ever getting more than my “annual cold”—about 12-36hrs of very light sniffles with no fever or sore throat, about once a year. I was was also trim and looked and felt awesome. It’s far and away the healthies
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by baroomba 7y ago
Nice. I’ve thought for a few years now that this is the next big thing I want out of an OS and software ecosystem—suspend work session, resume book research session and personal communication session, suspend research session leaving comm s

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