eckmLJE

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by eckmLJE 10mo ago
I appreciate what you've posted here. Valve fanboyism is widespread (I'm guilty of it too) and while they are shoulders above the alternatives, it's a good reminder that no one's perfect and I'll be sure to take a c
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by eckmLJE 1y ago
"The enemy's gate is down"!
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by eckmLJE 1y ago
Thank you! I scanned the text and scrolled through all the pics, and searched for `tenoch` and didn't get any hits. "The urban sprawl caused the lake system to dry up" glosses over a super interesting sequence of decisions th
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by eckmLJE 1y ago
I kept hoping they'd provide a reference of Tenochtitlan. Possibly the most striking thing I learned when visiting Mexico City. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenochtitlan
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by eckmLJE 2y ago
To hedge against increasing electric utility prices, maybe. I installed solar recently and the cost of batteries to cover a decent power outage didn’t make sense to me. I just got a transfer switch and a portable propane generator instead.
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by eckmLJE 2y ago
Silk road had a policy against selling items with intent to harm like guns. While occasionally some weapon listings would slip through, they would be taken down. The focus was drugs (and a lot of legal media). There were plenty of other bla
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by eckmLJE 2y ago
No, silk road did not sell weapons. There was legal content like pornography and other media on there, but Ulbricht was an idealist and excluded material with "intent to harm".
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by eckmLJE 2y ago
Web accessibility describes specific requirements for people with disabilities to be able to use your website. If you don't implement these features, blind people, colorblind people, people who can't use a mouse, etc., won't
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by eckmLJE 2y ago
Sure, they could be lazy in a lot of ways in how they execute this survey leading to unreliable results -- indeed, fielding it through something like qualtrics could be said to be "lazier" than attempting to solicit and engage rea
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by eckmLJE 2y ago
> we need to assume that the survey was done of reviews.org visitors. That's pretty unlikely. Reviews.org likely engages one of many vendors (like Qualtrics[1]) that will solicit responses online for a survey you design and provide
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by eckmLJE 3y ago
Vacancy is for rentals. If you own a condo and leave it empty / don’t live in it, that doesn’t show up in a vacancy rate.
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by eckmLJE 3y ago
I disagree. There are plenty of folks who would rather see the natural world preserved for its own sake, even at the expense of human growth and survival. And plenty of folks dismissing environmentalists as treehuggers who love nature more
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by eckmLJE 3y ago
https://www.w3.org/WAI/fundamentals/accessibility-usability-...
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by eckmLJE 4y ago
Tailwind classes are a syntax (especially since you can set arbitrary values e.g. `top-[-113px]`) and they still represent CSS. So really you're using a DSL with its own syntax, functions and directives on top of the CSS you should sti
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by eckmLJE 4y ago
What if you need to render your button component as an anchor element? Or as a div with role="button"? You will want to abstract your button styles somehow so that they can be shared between these three (or more) use cases. Sure y
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by eckmLJE 4y ago
I think you may be misreading this. This isn't about some person becoming a new Christian. It's about a member of high society wearing a cross during a turbulent period of competing peoples within Britain shifting from paganism to
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by eckmLJE 4y ago
I respect that you feel safe in taking the lane and following the law. I agree with what you say about riding on the sidewalk. One of my greatest fears when riding a lot in the city was being run over from behind. This is more common on cou
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by eckmLJE 4y ago
Here is a grossly simplified illustration: I'm approaching an intersection on my bicycle and the light ahead is red. The motor vehicle traffic is stopped at that red light. I pass by that stopped traffic and get closer to the intersect
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by eckmLJE 4y ago
This person wasn't performing an "Idaho stop" if they failed to yield to a pedestrian. They were just riding recklessly. Are you also against using cars for commuting, since they kill pedestrians all the time?
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by eckmLJE 4y ago
Completely agreed. There's plenty of existing cyclist behavior that is not scalable and should be discouraged in whatever bike-specific rules of the road are considered.
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by eckmLJE 4y ago
In my experience, most people don't have a great understanding of what keeps cyclists safe in mixed traffic (i.e. not within a protected lane), and how opposed those things often are to the law. As a former professional urban cyclist,
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by eckmLJE 4y ago
I would play it!
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by eckmLJE 4y ago
It's not a good example -- he's implying that you're irrationally upset over not liking a book while other people do like it, not that the book itself was too difficult for you. If this is what you're interpreting as peo
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by eckmLJE 4y ago
I believe Massachusetts is suffering critical drought: https://www.mass.gov/info-details/drought-status
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by eckmLJE 4y ago
"It is one of those books that is either complete rubbish or a work of consummate genius; Nothing in between! Probably the former, but I'm hedging my bets." - Richard Dawkins I think the theory's genius lies in its radic
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by eckmLJE 4y ago
It would be nice to keep the technology/medicine that keeps mothers and babies alive through childbirth, though.
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by eckmLJE 4y ago
Great story, thanks. I wouldn't say that role-playing a pirate in a game where players willingly submit to the risks of low-sec space is not nice. You were providing an important service that made the game feel exciting and interesting
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by eckmLJE 4y ago
The faster and heavier you are, the more capacity for harm you have, and the more you must pay attention to just the road in front of you instead of the world around you.
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by eckmLJE 4y ago
Some people feel in control of their life, have a support system, etc. and believe that such things could never happen to them.
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by eckmLJE 4y ago
Where did you apply that being an Eagle Scout counted against you?

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