lostapathy

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by lostapathy 3mo ago
So what do you actually recommend?
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by lostapathy 3mo ago
Perhaps the kids that could be soccer superstars stick with basketball until they figure out they aren't tall enough for the NBA, but are too old or just never developed enough interest in soccer to become a pro at that. But if they d
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by lostapathy 3mo ago
This is probably less true than you'd think. Freak athletes are great athletes no matter the sport. There's kind of a soft cap on NFL player height at about 6'5" or 6'6" - hardly anybody is taller than that.
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by lostapathy 3mo ago
> Women's soccer is relatively popular, however. This may be a function of the fact that no other women's team sport is at all popular in the US?
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by lostapathy 4mo ago
Honestly, I'd debate this. The problem is the "handyperson" may "know" (but not actually) and do what they think they know. When I encounter the same task, I don't know I stop and try to learn the right way fi
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by lostapathy 4mo ago
The other trouble is that every handyman thinks they have a great handle on everything but have at least one blind spot where they do really, really stupid stuff.
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by lostapathy 4mo ago
Self hosting a mailbox is easy - getting email back out is the hard part.
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by lostapathy 4mo ago
Relatedly, it's a skill that goes with positions that are clung to such that nobody else gets to practice and learn said skill.
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by lostapathy 5mo ago
I think this varies with the type of film. If it's a film with real fans and excitement is thick, a packed theater is amazing. OTOH, films where the audience isn't engaged, or dare I say invested, having a crowd can often just b
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by lostapathy 5mo ago
My 9 year old got verified as 21+ somehow. He obviously doesn’t have a photo id, so there is no way to verify him as a child. Support refused to help. The whole system is insane.
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by lostapathy 6mo ago
Did perl5 to perl6 actually happen? I feel like perl mostly fell out of favor along the way.
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by lostapathy 6mo ago
So much of this - never would have guessed how much code I wouldn't write doing this as a career.
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by lostapathy 7mo ago
You're complaining about things that were changed years ago.
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by lostapathy 7mo ago
What's the "somehow" about the mouse? They've supported that for a while now.
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by lostapathy 8mo ago
At which point if you're short on capacity (but who knows how your demand might shift over a decade) it's not like you need to replace the original batteries to get that 20% back, you will probably be able to just expand the pack
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by lostapathy 8mo ago
This right here - I have been investigating getting my own contractor license for DIY work on a property I own that must be permitted but city will only issue permits to licensed contractors. Took a practice test for the exam on a whim and
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by lostapathy 10mo ago
Yes, let’s solve a tricky problem the hardest way possible.
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by lostapathy 10mo ago
Is it really "accepting a concession" if the "alternative" is so expensive as to not be an option anyway? This is like telling someone who doesn't like that they have to wait in traffic they should just take a helic
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by lostapathy 10mo ago
The "you can just not agree to it" argument is so bogus. You can only buy good/services that are for sale, and when they all have the same crappy terms, you have to agree to somebody's to live in the modern world. That&
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by lostapathy 10mo ago
Who exactly would you ever ask to find out that the samsung fridge you were looking at was going to get ads in the future? Certainly not the appliance salesman, they don't know samsung's plans. And good luck calling samsung and a
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by lostapathy 11mo ago
Dental insurance is even worse. My dental insurance has ridiculously low limits, but it gets you access to the "real" negotiated rates rather than whatever silliness "retail price" is. I tried going without when I switc
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by lostapathy 1y ago
I've been in the hospital more than once for a week at a time. At no point did I ever see the same doctor more than once in a 24 hour period - from that perspective, it seems irrelevant to continuity of care how long their shift was.
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by lostapathy 1y ago
Perhaps if we didn't expect superhuman schedules from doctors, doctors wouldn't command as much of a cost as they do now. From the doctors I know, it seems like most don't get into it for the money, but they put up with it lo
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by lostapathy 1y ago
Might be an opportunity to make such a site?
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by lostapathy 1y ago
> It just says injunctions should only apply to the actual parties in the case. So every person wronged by the government should sue individually?
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by lostapathy 2y ago
Hard disagree. I have replaced hand written reports that were total nightmares to reason about and maintain with fairly trivial activerecord implementations that were quite literally hundreds of times faster. Activerecord may not give optim
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by lostapathy 2y ago
Correct - I wasn't trying to normalize obesity upthread, at all. Bears are an example that shows very clearly it's normal for animals in nature to become very much "not lean" to survive, and the drive to put on fat store
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by lostapathy 2y ago
Bears that go into winter slim aren’t bears at all come spring.
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by lostapathy 2y ago
I maintain those pallets might be more valuable to other sellers with other stuff instead of strollers. If I'm running a business selling small stuff in flat rate postal boxes, and I don't want to deal with being a stroller mecha
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by lostapathy 2y ago
If you're just buying pallets of random returns, removing one category of items from that random pallet may not even devalue the pallet for that customer either. Heck, it might even make the pallets more valuable to have less variety

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