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by fizzled 6y ago
> 1) Litter needs scooping every day. Blows my mind how many people let it go for days and days and then complain. Literally sub-20-seconds every morning to scoop into a small office garbage can (with a foot pedal) fitted with a plastic
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by fizzled 6y ago
Is /proc as portable as `ps`?
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by fizzled 6y ago
I think this is a bad idea because remapping keys has significant consequences with compatibility as you develop across more platforms. A good vi user is trying to build universal muscle memory, and making personal exceptions kinda ruins th
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by fizzled 6y ago
I'm a ~50somethingish white male experiencing bone loss (via DEXA scan). My two doctors (general and specialist) both said: let's try OTC vitamin D, even though it probably won't do anything because you aren't deficient;
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by fizzled 6y ago
Man, if ever there was a proposition that need to be repealed. I lived in NorCal for 22 years. Prop 13 is why schools in non-rich neighborhoods are literally collapsing. There are schools in South Sacto that have been holding classes in &qu
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by fizzled 6y ago
In Portland, Radio Cab has an Android/iOS app. I switched to them once they modernized. In this case, Lyft/Uber caused taxis to improve infrastructure. That's a win.
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by fizzled 6y ago
Ever heard of this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp... In an nutshell: USA auto manufacturers purchased and dismantled the streetcar business to force people to have to buy cars.
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by fizzled 6y ago
All of these people saying: switch to Windows, its better than mac! Have you really done that? REALLY? Because I work on Mac, Win10 and Linux every day. And Win10 doesn't even come close to the other two in terms of reliability, stabil
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by fizzled 6y ago
Hah! No, it's not. I was playing on stereotypes. There is a stereotype that local farmers-markets are for "liberal hippie" people (see: the television sitcom "Portlandia"). Based on my travels to other countries, lo
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by fizzled 6y ago
Thanks, that makes way more sense.
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by fizzled 6y ago
Rights are something you need to constantly fight for, otherwise they absolutely will go away. Portland isn't just bored, they're ahead of the curve.
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by fizzled 6y ago
Money talks.
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by fizzled 6y ago
This is my biggest fear: no longer being able to create individual accounts that are not Oauth'd through social media. I don't think my bank will require facebook any time soon, but I hope laws are in place to prevent it when the
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by fizzled 6y ago
how does the avalanche photodiode provide more electrons that required to generate the external field?
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by fizzled 6y ago
> Surprising to me that year-round veggies is so hard even with modern methods/greenhouses. You are correct: it is not so hard with modern methods, but none of the small communities I know of (15-50 people) have invested in a greenh
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by fizzled 6y ago
Oh, I forgot to mention one other weird thing: this isn't just liberals. There is a frightening large contingency of white supremacists who are into this, and a few showed up at Portland farmers market until they were outed. Regardless
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by fizzled 6y ago
There aren't any articles I can point you to, but I live in Portland, Ore., and between here and Vancouver and Camas, WA, there are a number of collectives that are doing exactly this. They don't publicize, it is word of mouth. Th