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by walterlb 3y ago
The countries that have "developed" have increased pressures on less developed nations, and caused or exacerbated problemsin the areas they have exploited in order to develop.
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by walterlb 3y ago
This Is It, by Alan Watts also describes some of the same feelings. I picked it up recently and am still trying to digest the concepts he describes.
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by walterlb 3y ago
Thank you for this. I've been dealing with these issues more than usual lately and this was helpful to read.
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by walterlb 3y ago
You can bring food into a movie theater without too much trouble in my experience.
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by walterlb 4y ago
It would be cool to learn if there are other easter eggs like this in Google search. Is there a list somewhere? [edit] Yes! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_Easter_eggs
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by walterlb 4y ago
I noticed the "only one on sale" thing too. I suspect the author meant it was the only one for sale at the store, period, not that it was the only one with a sale/discounted price.
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by walterlb 4y ago
I saw "The Ashley Book of Knots" mentioned on another post, and it has some interesting history of knots. Especially that the introduction of books led to sailors spending more time not knotting.
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by walterlb 4y ago
I wonder if there's some link to rate of footsteps? The step rate of an approaching/retreating human or animal would have been relevant to survival.
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by walterlb 4y ago
> Today at another McDonald's I observed the entire bootstrap process and can confirm that the kiosk indeed is responsible for installing “custom firmware” on the card reader If this part is correct, it seems like an attacker could
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by walterlb 4y ago
It's also supported in Azure Devops wikis
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by walterlb 4y ago
We just started smelling/tasting some fishy flavor with eggs from one of our hens. We suspected flaxseed in the feed we were giving, and switching feeds seems to have fixed it. Brown egg layers are apparently more prone to this issue
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What Can Africa Learn from the Progress Made by Vietnam?(institute.global)
2 points by walterlb 4y ago|0 comments
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by walterlb 4y ago
If Musk fails, are there likely to be any lasting effects to Twitter or more generally to the market?
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by walterlb 4y ago
Failing to answer Leetcode questions doesn't mean anything is wrong with you. Many will be difficult without spending a lot of time practicing similar problems. If they were "easy"-ish Leetcode questions, it might not be a ba
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by walterlb 4y ago
OT, but this era of WP website was quite nice looking and readable. Refreshing!
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by walterlb 5y ago
Your username also tells me you have gotten over the "holy shit WTF is Kubernetes" part. I think I'm headed somewhere similar shortly. Hopefully I have the same success as you!
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by walterlb 5y ago
I'm not sure what 'all consuming' would mean exactly. But excess complexity might also indicate fragility, in which case breaking an entire system/subsystem might come fairly easily
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by walterlb 5y ago
Never got around to playing it, but I probably spent 10+ hours trying to get the demo to run on the family PC. Unsuccessfully.
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by walterlb 5y ago
The picture at the top of the article has the caption "Setting Windows 11 to one of its dark themes also darkens the background of the Settings app—but not the background of most traditional apps, like Resource Monitor". This does
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by walterlb 5y ago
That's my number one gripe. Searching message history is absolutely terrible.
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by walterlb 5y ago
This was oddly fun.. It inspired me to keep writing a stream of thought that I normally wouldn't do anything like: hello, my name is sublime text, and I don't know what I'm doing. I have to keep typing to listen to this song
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by walterlb 5y ago
Former smoker here, and I miss the time to relax/reset, plus the social aspect. Lately I've been taking small breaks to just sit outside, and this has some of the same benefits for me.
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by walterlb 5y ago
This was very helpful. Thank you
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by walterlb 5y ago
Hell is exactly how I would describe this. Well-made, cool video though!
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by walterlb 5y ago
Great! Legacy underground mazes full of decomposing human heads are such a pain.
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by walterlb 5y ago
This reads like one of those cookie cutter mass produced "Article about a Thing" you find when searching for almost anything these days
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Count the cost of disability caused by Covid-19(nature.com)
1 points by walterlb 5y ago|0 comments
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by walterlb 5y ago
Imagining a backyard infested with turtles made my day :) But I totally agree with you.
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by walterlb 5y ago
F1 definitely does NOT keep things balanced. Though they do try, but they have to balanced engagement from fans, well-funded teams, and teams with less financial backing.
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by walterlb 5y ago
I disagree. Nerfing classes/weapons in games still gives everyone the same toolset to work with, and more skilled players can still excel with the different toolset. To use another games analogy, this is more like "rubber-banding&

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