blargthorwars

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by blargthorwars 7mo ago
Imagine needing a government licence to look at a screen.
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by blargthorwars 7mo ago
Here in the Pacific Northwest, the catch-and-release of car thieves drove up costs for everyone. If I change my address away from the craziness, my policy drops by half.
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by blargthorwars 7mo ago
The weird bit is that the UK is the inbreed/incest hot zone of Europe: "It is estimated that approximately 55% of marriages within the Pakistani community in the United Kingdom are between first cousins. This practice, often refer
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by blargthorwars 7mo ago
I'm supposed to like They Might Be Giants and Talking Heads, but I just can't. Even after a Terry Gross marathon of Fresh Air.
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by blargthorwars 7mo ago
"He shot two people in the legs and served three years in prison." Would you expect other countries to put up with people like this?
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by blargthorwars 7mo ago
Here in Washington Statue, we hardly elect Republicans. There are several reasons, but one of them is that the Republican Party runs really weird candidates. The two people who could have gotten Donald Trump elected ran against him. That&#x
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by blargthorwars 7mo ago
I lived through this, and it captures the era well. I'm trying to see through young eyes, but I can't stress how new things seemed every year during this era. Nowadays, there doesn't seem to be as much progress, just better
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by blargthorwars 7mo ago
For me, phonics was a lifesaver. Sure, you have to learn a corpus of typically common words that don't follow the pattern, but that's ok. I went from functionally illiterate to loving language.
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by blargthorwars 7mo ago
Wait? Are borders a thing now?
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by blargthorwars 7mo ago
Computers are better at chess. Humans invented chess and enjoy it. I think humans have the advantage.
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by blargthorwars 8mo ago
We've had quite a few large Samsung SATA drives fail or start to fail. 4TB and up seems especially suspicious. Not back to spinning levels of badness, but we had a 3% failure rate. Previously, two years ago, it would have about an orde
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by blargthorwars 8mo ago
I found usage really helps you learn how to WAG (Wild Ass Guess). It also scares the crap out of me to think about what infinity is: you see your slide manipulate incredible numbers, then you imagine a slide that is twice as big. Or a few f
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by blargthorwars 8mo ago
You have to account for Ram getting swapped to disk now and then if something else needs pages.
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by blargthorwars 8mo ago
White people and passenger planes tend to get along well. They invent them.
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by blargthorwars 8mo ago
I learned this with new pronouns. What I think... isn't what I say.
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by blargthorwars 8mo ago
Rebellion nowadays is living like a sterotyped 1950's family.
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by blargthorwars 8mo ago
There will be a bot/human CAPTCHA economy trading with eachother. This will be how WW4 starts.
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by blargthorwars 8mo ago
Don't even need quantum to worry: Satoshi's wallet could be a massive rug pull by the CIA/FBA/NSA when the time comes.
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by blargthorwars 8mo ago
Some medicines work better or worse depending on race. Based on the scientific methodology, your statement is incorrect.
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by blargthorwars 8mo ago
Assume good intent. If Microsoft didn't escrow the keys, the next HN post would be "mIcR0SofT Ate mY chILDhooD pHOTos!!"
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by blargthorwars 8mo ago
It's definitely a balancing act. I have a friend with whom I try gently help him fix his spiraling life. That would let me help him if he's open to it. But for my own sanity and the health of my family, I can't make it a year
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by blargthorwars 8mo ago
How about we arrest, convict with due process, and incarcerate criminals? Pushing predators around from job to job doesn't solve the problem.
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by blargthorwars 8mo ago
The US has a military base on Greenland now, and has had more in the past. We also have experience in Alaska and the South Pole. The US understands cold.
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by blargthorwars 8mo ago
This would be bad for the EU. France has a first-strike doctrine. It's unique in the world, and it scares the shit out of everybody. An EU arsenal would be a typical retaliatory-strike doctrine.
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by blargthorwars 8mo ago
You’re absolutely correct! I was totally hooked by the intro—the kind that promises Forbidden Wisdom™—and then I made it about halfway before my attention quietly left the chat. The random bolding of almost every other word felt like gettin
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by blargthorwars 8mo ago
Our kids lived the change: school meals went from decently school-made food with lots of variety to prepackaged stuff from a distributor. The intent was good....perhaps... but the processed food manufacturers made bank.
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by blargthorwars 9mo ago
Great question! Programmatically copy your snippet to a module, then call it: Public Sub AppendCode() Dim cm As Object Set cm = Application.VBE.VBProjects(1).VBComponents("GeneratedLogic").CodeModule cm.InsertLines c
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by blargthorwars 9mo ago
Friendly reminder for MS Access fiends: It's ok to store code in tables and then pass it to VBA for evaluation via Eval, or to ASF via the engine.Compile
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by blargthorwars 9mo ago
Remote role? Why would anybody pay UK wages instead of $developing_country wages?
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by blargthorwars 9mo ago
May his name be remembered and on our lips for ever, and may his memory be a blessing for his family.

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