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by corrral 4y ago
I gave up on this years ago when I realized the only valuable things coming to my email were transactional emails, anyway. The rest is... newsletters and shit. If you're only checking your email to use the "search" function
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by corrral 4y ago
> Doctors and soldiers get such cool uniforms, but us programmers are just business casual. Programmers' uniforms are excessively-expensive hiking clothes, or selvedge jeans with flannel and full-grain leather boots, ideally in a wo
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by corrral 4y ago
Yeah but we can't expect them to be able to handle a problem that ( checks notes ) many other kinds of business have been solving since the earliest days of commerce.
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by corrral 4y ago
I'd be more sympathetic to this argument if all that info weren't a couple subpoenas or search-warrants away at most —in fact, the government can often just pay for access to these things, usually with the implicit threat that if
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by corrral 4y ago
If you want anyone to find your project, you're gonna need to at least mirror on GH regardless.
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by corrral 4y ago
This is a difference in attitude between Americans and French when describing their countries: the French tend to regard overseas territories as more vitally part of their country than Americans do. Not sure why, possibly it was a deliber
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by corrral 4y ago
Toys—even Lego—are damn near free if you aren't picky and will accept whatever you can find used. Often they're literally free. Kids often outgrow toys before they're worn out or broken, and for some reason people hate givi
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by corrral 4y ago
I don't get it either. Every single non-Ikea flat-pack thing I've assembled has had much worse instructions than Ikea. Plus usually been more expensive and lower quality than the Ikea equivalent.
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by corrral 4y ago
An aid for anyone else who found the usage "knowledges" unfamiliar and distracting: Knowl"edge (?), n. 2. That which is or may be known; the object of an act of knowing; a cognition; -- chiefly used in the plural. There is a
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by corrral 4y ago
> In fact, they (partly) ate passenger pigeons out of existence. Mann's 1491 suggests this may be a myth, as passenger pigeon remains are nearly non-existent in native refuse piles, so they don't seem to have been a normal pa
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by corrral 4y ago
Lakka boots Linux on an RPi and loads a (DRM—not X or Wayland) GUI in under 5s. Off an SDCard, at that.
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by corrral 4y ago
I wish I could figure out the secret handshake that gets you hired to one prominent, presumably high-paid, spitballin' and chattin' and "idea person" role after another, despite a track record of apparent mediocrity in a
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by corrral 4y ago
> Whereas I now struggle to find pictures I took 7 years ago. The only reasonable solution today with the current volume of photos is to put them all in some service and let it use machine learning to auto-tag everything for you, and com
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by corrral 4y ago
I took it as: Prove (?), v. t. 1. To try or to ascertain by an experiment, or by a test or standard; to test; as, to prove the strength of gunpowder or of ordnance; to prove the contents of a vessel by a standard measure. Thou hast proved m
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by corrral 4y ago
The new ones are much clearer than they used to be in the 80s and 90s. I'm convinced the old-style ones were the reason I buried the needle the one time I was given a cognitive test that specifically tested spatial reasoning. The o
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by corrral 4y ago
Worst-case for both as far as the effect of seeing the image(s) per se is very similar, which is that maybe you have an image in your head you wish you could forget. OK, not ideal, but also not the end of the world, and sure, the two are
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by corrral 4y ago
> There is now a feature that scans every photo you receive. There previously was not something scanning every photo you receive. 1) Seen the automatic-text-recognition-on-images features in recent iOS? It's already scanning ~every
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by corrral 4y ago
Right—I'm for it if we had universal free national IDs and services to ensure everyone had one . It'd actually solve a ton of other problems, too, so yes, please, do that and then check IDs at the polls all you like. But that&#x2
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by corrral 4y ago
Don't make me come over there again. I swear, I will turn this car around and no one's going to Disney World! - The USA. (I kid, I kid—I know we always just show up late then claim all the credit)
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by corrral 4y ago
I was about to explain, but from my selfish POV it's actually better if you keep posting like this. So... carry on.
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by corrral 4y ago
> It's not obvious to me that a system that raises the experience for mean, or even the bottom end, of the distribution would be a good thing for me in many respects Ah—I usually assume the Rawlsian "Veil of Ignorance" POV
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by corrral 4y ago
In part, I think it's one of the ways he mimics the form of books like Beowulf or Gilgamesh or other works of that sort—that kind of thing tends to be full of digressions and whole scenes that simply seem like mistakes —dragging down
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by corrral 4y ago
> Does that answer your question? Ha! Yeah. At least you're consistent :-) Lynch fills his works with characters and scenes that are—at best—plot-adjacent, whimsical/incongruous/uncanny, and full of often-unexplained and a
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by corrral 4y ago
I wrote a lot longer explanation but deleted it. Suffice it to say other systems are good enough that functionally no-one wishes they had the US system instead, and it'd sure be weird if every single other OECD state had been relying
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by corrral 4y ago
Notably: plot isn't the only factor at play in a novel (or film, et c.). At least in the good ones.
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by corrral 4y ago
How do you feel about the works of David Lynch?
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by corrral 4y ago
Not just Europe—price controls (de jure or de facto, the latter via e.g. establishing a monopsony) are, as best I can tell, the main unifying factor in healthcare systems in the entire OECD except the US. Those systems differ a lot, but a
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by corrral 4y ago
People also move a lot more than they used to. That could be part of it. Who gives a shit if anyone else likes the kitchen color scheme that you love, if you're going to be in the house 20+ years? If you're only going to be in i
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by corrral 4y ago
Yep. Currently reads like they're going to propose... something (marriage?) "in August ban on lawmaker stock trading". Problem is that phrases like "August ban" are common in headlines, but that's not what&#x27
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by corrral 4y ago
I think this is part of it. I don't think people (in real life, not in magazines) cared as much whether something "went with" the rest of the room. Like, I'm sure some people did, but it wasn't a normal thing for mi

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