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by 13of40 2y ago
I've met people who were born into enough money they never needed to work, and a lot of them are just pretty normal people sans jobs. I think the interesting question here would be how would you live if you had enough without working,
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by 13of40 2y ago
Built-in aliases are guarateed to be present, so you can depend on them. There are other features, like shortened parameter names that might become ambiguous when new parameters are added, that aren't guaranteed backwards compatible,
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by 13of40 2y ago
IMO, the problem isn't that you can't use it in a terse way, it's that even though it gives you lots of options for terseness (type, cat, and gc are all aliases for get-content, for example) people naturally try to code in th
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by 13of40 2y ago
Over the last two decades we did a huge social experiment where porn availability went from occasional access to highly restricted printed material to every imaginable flavor being anonymously available 24/7 on a handheld device people
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by 13of40 2y ago
The place I live has a fairly simple grid system with numbered avenues that run north-south and numbered streets perpendicular to them. Avenue and Street differentiate those pretty well, and they also add NE/NW/etc. but use it as
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by 13of40 2y ago
Apparently they use a jamming-resistant GLONASS receiver module: https://mil.in.ua/en/articles/kometa-challenge-for-ukrainian...
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by 13of40 2y ago
I never attended a DARE class, but in the early 90s the t-shirts were everywhere so my memory of it was people wearing the shirts "ironically".
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by 13of40 2y ago
The annoying thing about these articles is it feels like someone is trying to shape my political opinions, but I'm not sure to what end. How am I supposed to finish the sentence, "I'm mad as heck at the b-b-b-billionaires, a
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by 13of40 2y ago
When I think about it, there's literally not a single thing I know the true cost/value of. Everything comes with a trailing asterisk or an 'ish'. A Sandwich: Sales tax and tip or service fee (the latter being taxed) Car
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by 13of40 2y ago
They're actually steel, and if you keep an eye out you can find them all over the place.
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by 13of40 2y ago
Home ownership goes like this: 1. Find a place you like and can afford. 2. Buy it for whatever they're willing to take. 3. Pay on your mortgage several times. 4. Sell it for whatever someone will pay. As a virtuous person who just want
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by 13of40 2y ago
Why do you want to own a home? I'm guessing it's something like you want to save/invest money every month rather than tossing it down the drain on rent. In other words, it's the “a home is your piggy bank and retiremen
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by 13of40 2y ago
Not sure about Toronto, but there are a lot of places like that on the BC side. I don't know if it's true or not, but I heard once that leading up to the handoff of Hong Kong from Britain to China there was a lot of immigration t
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by 13of40 2y ago
Let me tell you about my grand scheme, circa 1991 or thereabouts, of downloading small images from BBSes and embedding them inline with the text.
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by 13of40 2y ago
When the cartoon image of the db 800 scrolled into view, I couldn't help poking it a few times to see if it was "live" since programming that would be a few hours' work for someone these days. I guess we can move mounta
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by 13of40 2y ago
Not to nitpick too hard here, but you can't know whether I'm talking to a US citizen without first eavesdropping on the conversation.
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by 13of40 2y ago
I've participated in day-long and multi-day interview events for job candidates, and I see the same effect. At the beginning you don't have a frame of reference and you're more likely to question your own decision or give so
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by 13of40 2y ago
I worked the kitchen at McDonald's for about six months once, and I think a better application of AI in this case would be to keep track of the number of customers queued up versus the amount and kinds of food already staged, then tell
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by 13of40 2y ago
Valid point, but let's tease that apart: We're talking about seashells and coral, not the sort of bones you'd find in a mammal, but still the skeletal structures of animals. So maybe "skeletons" not "bones&qu
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by 13of40 2y ago
The magic ingredient in concrete is cement and the magic ingredient in cement is limestone, so our cities are literally built out of bones. Sleep tight.
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by 13of40 3y ago
Example: Everyone knows how to use a Dictionary. It's not worth anyone's time to know how it works under the hood, because only a fool would actually implement one from scratch in production code. Niche embedded cases possibly
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by 13of40 3y ago
I was in the one in Seattle around 2000 on the 5th floor of a building, and I distinctly remember walking down the hall with the building swaying like a boat in a storm, wondering when the whole thing was just going to snap and crumble into
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by 13of40 3y ago
Not to go too meta on this, but if you buy two of something to get past the free shipping threshold, then do a free return on one of them, have you gamed the system?
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by 13of40 3y ago
The relative value of money and goods is changing. It might be prudent to shift some of your savings from one to the other. Luckily we have a system available which abstracts that so you don't actually have to acquire a pile of corn
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by 13of40 3y ago
How about mandating a big orange safety ball on the spout of the neti pot to prevent it going into nostrils?
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by 13of40 3y ago
One thing I wonder about: My dad had dementia and ended up pretty batty toward the end, though it came in waves and he was pretty lucid when he decided to "go". As I get older, I notice myself forgetting things more, but it most
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by 13of40 3y ago
Sorry I wasn't clear: I don't hate my old name, I hated being named that. Likewise, I don't hate every name in the list, but I would hate to be called those because they aren't the name I think of as "me".
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by 13of40 3y ago
That's a bit like if the government said I had to put a crucifix on my front door, but it's OK because I can pick from over 100 different colors.
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by 13of40 3y ago
The same rules apply for an adult changing their name: https://www.skra.is/english/people/names/name-changes/ As someone who spent half my life with a name I hated, to me this is more "human rights
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by 13of40 3y ago
The same sort of "scam" has helped me immensely in getting visas from countries like Russia and India, where the official process seems like it's geared toward supporting a cottage industry for third party agencies. For Indi

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