moshmosh

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by moshmosh 5y ago
In certain crowds you could also get away with still water w/o ice, since it looks like a vodka-water, especially if you're a woman (tends to be a women's drink—not pushing that norm, just observing it). In either the still-w
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by moshmosh 5y ago
I thought soda water (or sparkling mineral water) with lemon or lime was the official no-I'm-not-drinking-but-I-am-familiar-with-bars-and-don't-bug-me-about-it drink. Fake-sipping a beer would be bizarre.
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by moshmosh 5y ago
I make 102g of alcohol about 1 bottle of 14% abv wine (so, strong-ish, but not exceptionally so) per week, or about 3 cans of 10% stout. Unless my math's wrong (1ml ~= 1g [not quite since it's not pure water, but close enough], 75
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by moshmosh 5y ago
For those playing along at home, regulator "drinks" always seem to convert to 0.25-0.75 actual drinks a normal person might call "one drink". I'm not sure why they do that, unless it's to confuse people on pu
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by moshmosh 5y ago
Legitimately very interested to see a comparable study for cannabis, in adult users. [EDIT] everything I could find with a quick search is about heavy, long-term use only, which evidently has little effect on white matter, and uneven effe
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by moshmosh 5y ago
It's not as bad as it used to be. The "drawers full of devices", all terrible and broken in unique ways, gave me flashbacks to the Android 2.x days.
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by moshmosh 5y ago
Yes, in fact the details vary some depending on which state you're in and how you're related to the deceased. In general , though, I'd treat unsolicited calls attempting to get you, personally, to pay for a dead relative&#x2
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by moshmosh 5y ago
I'd assume that, as long as they're careful about how they pressure you, it's not fraud if you decide to pay. AFAIK they're under no obligation to volunteer that you don't have to pay them anything, or to otherwis
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by moshmosh 5y ago
> Creditors can only go after the assets of the estate. One does not inherit debts. They sometimes do go after the family, hoping to trick them into paying. I'm sure they get a lot of folks to pay, too.
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by moshmosh 5y ago
I put quite a bit of effort into doing things "right" when I tried to board the cast-iron train. Pan was pre-seasoned, but I did one of those elaborate multi-step seasoning rituals online, using the expensive oil they recommended
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by moshmosh 5y ago
If this happens to you: 1) The creditors are full of shit. Don't accept the estate, don't acknowledge that you owe any debt, and you don't owe them a damn thing. If no-one accepts it, they're simply screwed. They'll
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by moshmosh 5y ago
Flyover country checking in. Non- or semi-technical bigcos of the sort with big IT departments who take most of a week to get you your laptop when you start, are almost all Windows but may tolerate some macOS. Technical bigcos are mixed Win
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by moshmosh 5y ago
> If you gave europeans those 25% as an extra net pay, there would be a lot more new cars on the road, a bit more savings/investments, and a lot more problems when people get old. "Smart" people would save and invest, and
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by moshmosh 5y ago
Last time I was an Android user (and, for quite a while and for a couple different spans, an Android developer), that button was a ton of fun for when I wanted to see what random-ass crap the OS or application would decide to do when I pres
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by moshmosh 5y ago
I not-infrequently see Google UI on major consumer-facing products that would have gotten me (gently) slapped down by "third-tier" designers, product managers, and UX folks—hell, even some of my fellow developers— instantly if I&
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by moshmosh 5y ago
Should be easy enough to look up what was happening that motivated those rules in the first place, for anyone who cares about them enough to consider removing them. I tend to find "argument from reality" more compelling than argum
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by moshmosh 5y ago
> Google’s stuff isn’t bad, but it’s simply not exceptional. Disagree. I've repeatedly had to help my older relatives out with awful UX failures on Gmail or basic apps (think: the phone app) on their Android phones. As recently as a
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by moshmosh 5y ago
There's a trend of "new, revolutionary Internet protocols" having reference (and, chronically, sole actually-useful, but with other ones always at various uselessly-incomplete stages of development so they can point to those
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by moshmosh 5y ago
Similar story. A couple years ago I tried to set up Synapse. I've set up and administered IRC before. I've twice gone from nothing to having an XMPP server (different daemon each time) working and hooked into web services and cust
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by moshmosh 5y ago
More generally, I've noticed being reluctant to ask others to do things for me even when it's their job is an attitude I have that's hard to shake, and is probably a result of my low-ish social class upbringing. It feels ru
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by moshmosh 5y ago
You don't have to get too far off the beaten path to hit material that's only even mentioned in books, and you'd never even know exists if you only used the Web. The Web is pretty damn shallow for, especially, history and s
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by moshmosh 5y ago
I mean this question sincerely, am not trying to troll or provoke anyone, and engage only with the greatest hesitance: Can someone please explain to me what things like the Jones & Okun list of "white supremacy characteristics&quot
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by moshmosh 5y ago
Real estate's different, obviously, especially in this market. It's not the same when time actually is a factor. Salespeople pull this crap with all kinds of things that don't really have any actual time-pressure on them, t
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by moshmosh 5y ago
So true. I remember how big a bummer Android keynotes were when I did lots of mobile dev. "Oh, cool, that'll be fun to use... in three or four years".
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by moshmosh 5y ago
We definitely have more of everything data-related and have a much better idea of all the stuff we can buy. I'm skeptical how far that's actually moved the happiness and life-satisfaction needles, in general. [EDIT] specifically,
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by moshmosh 5y ago
These get an instant "no" from me. I don't care how good the offer is. If you try to keep me from thinking about my options, I'm not inclined to do business with you. Salespeople take me from "maybe today" to &
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by moshmosh 5y ago
IME the answer to "how did they make [hard to scale thing] easily scalable?" is usually that they introduce limitations in how you can use [hard to scale thing] so you can't use it in ways that are hard to scale, then autom
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by moshmosh 5y ago
It's a hosted DB, and as far as I can tell the Killer Feature is that it makes schema updates less painful. How it does that without significant performance trade-offs or caps is unclear to me. [EDIT] on reading further in their docs,
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by moshmosh 5y ago
USB-C would have been a great replacement... for DisplayPort/Thunderbolt ports. It's finally, years later, getting merely not infuriating to be stuck with only USB-C ports. Single port for display + charging is very nice, when
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by moshmosh 5y ago
I maintain that most of what we get from the Web and computers, as individuals, is barely better than what we had before, and not enough so to justify its costs. Shopping very much included. For some context, I grew up very much "OMG

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