coddingtonbear

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by coddingtonbear 11mo ago
Forgive me, but by what possible metric: miles traveled in it?
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by coddingtonbear 1y ago
There’s a clear difference between deciding not to eat something for cultural reasons than deciding not to eat something because it’s an intelligent, thinking creature.
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by coddingtonbear 2y ago
This would, if the system is working, be the blood that future regulations are written in. That these kinds of things happen so rarely came to us at a cost of past lives.
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by coddingtonbear 2y ago
I'm a little surprised to hear that some folks hate being inside such buildings -- my apartment is in one, and I specifically selected it for its floor-to-ceiling windows in every room. My brain is apparently a little different from y
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by coddingtonbear 3y ago
Although I can sympathize with the story, this particular aircraft had been in their hands just a couple months. Its first commercial flight was just a couple weeks back. Maintenance isn't the issue here, clearly.
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by coddingtonbear 3y ago
Although I see somebody else suggesting otherwise, I promise you that you can send/receive iMessages (and SMS messages) via your phone number if you have an iPhone. You do have to select your phone number as your "Default Alias&q
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by coddingtonbear 4y ago
If you give the 13th amendment a read, it contains this clause: > except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted It does otherwise end slavery, but provides the above loophole for continuing similar pr
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by coddingtonbear 4y ago
I don't really want to get involved in this argument, but I think this is a situation where there's just a little bit of missing historical background that might help you two understand one another. What the upstream commenter is
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by coddingtonbear 5y ago
The Omicron wave was really kind of enormous: https://www.google.com/search?q=covid+cases+usa
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by coddingtonbear 5y ago
If you ever get to Seattle, you owe it to yourself to check this place out. I went here a few years ago while on a trip from Portland expecting to spend an hour or two glancing at out old, dead vintage telecom equipment, but... most of the
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by coddingtonbear 5y ago
For what it's worth, I do use screen scaling (in fact: different scales on different screens) and haven't had trouble with screen sharing on Zoom on Ubuntu in over a year.
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by coddingtonbear 6y ago
As a person who lives in Portland, I can tell you “burned down” is an incredible exaggeration. Somebody did set a desk on fire, though.
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by coddingtonbear 6y ago
Just by the way, "corn" in british english is a generic term meaning "cereal crop" -- usually "wheat". They'd refer to what we call "corn" as "maize".
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by coddingtonbear 6y ago
In that time, it was thought that rapidly building a nuclear deterrent against the soviets was important enough that the environment could be sacrificed. You can see this effect throughout the defense industry throughout the cold war, prob
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by coddingtonbear 6y ago
On the HIV front, you might not be aware of how well that was solved, actually: there are drugs available and in regular use that prevent you from catching it (~99% effective), and in the extremely unlikely event that they do not, we have d
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by coddingtonbear 6y ago
Unfortunately you can't ask Oscar Grant, Ahmoud Arbery, Atatiana Jefferson, Breonna Taylor, Jordan Edwards or the other countless POC who are killed disturbingly regularly by our police whether they'd count their deaths as the mod
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by coddingtonbear 6y ago
I recently decided to scratch an itch I've been having and put together this tool to help me (and you, accidentally), run complex Jira queries. Hopefully others find it as useful as I do. - Project: https://github.com/c
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Show HN: Jira-select: a tool that lets you run queries far beyond JQL(github.com)
3 points by coddingtonbear 6y ago|1 comments
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by coddingtonbear 6y ago
I usually respect the Jacobin as a publication, but am I misreading something if I still read those figures as absolute improvements - especialy given that the world population increased by 2 billion in the noted time frame? I absolutely a
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by coddingtonbear 7y ago
In countries having overwhelmed healthcare systems, most recently: Italy, the rate is much higher than the 3.4% estimated by the WHO. It’s still too early to say what the actual figure will turn out to be in Italy, but 6% was the raw resul
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by coddingtonbear 7y ago
https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/mar/17/donna-brazile...
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by coddingtonbear 7y ago
Might be a mermaid graph, I think. https://mermaid-js.github.io/mermaid/#/
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by coddingtonbear 7y ago
Although it's possible to make nuclear weapons from commercial reactor waste, they're really not a very efficient way of accomplishing that if it's your goal. Typically, at least historically, dedicated production reactors w
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by coddingtonbear 7y ago
There could be, of course, confounding factors; I can't read German, but I can say that in the US at least, cancer rates are elevated in industrial zones in general -- exactly the places that nuclear reactors are constructed.
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by coddingtonbear 7y ago
Questioning superstition is important. What you are offended by is identical to what you would expect to experience were you to suggest that you want to avoid vaccines for 'whatever reason'. Leaving scientifically unsupported op
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by coddingtonbear 7y ago
The point being made is that a properly funtioning nuclear power plant emits very little radiation when compared to a coal-powered plant. Coal power plants, even with emission regulations, are very dirty as far as radioactive emissions are
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by coddingtonbear 8y ago
I hear people say this sort of thing all the time, "All we need is bigger batteries", but I think the thing folks don't realize is really how small even the worlds biggest batteries are when faced with the actual amount of el
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by coddingtonbear 8y ago
Is it really, though? I'm honestly struggling to think of a non-currency situation in which fractional customer data necessarily be handled as a decimal value -- and, honestly, even if the availability heuristic might make them seem m
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by coddingtonbear 8y ago
Is that really true? In my experience, 99.9% of the time I don't need an exact number; the vanishingly few times when I have such a need (almost entirely calculations involving currency), using a fixed point representation is simple e
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by coddingtonbear 8y ago
It's interesting to me that you've had trouble using the 1password browser plugin on linux; it isn't quite as handy as having a native app as you do on OSX, but I've never had any trouble at all with it.

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