CRConrad

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by CRConrad 2y ago
Got invaded by the sassenach[1]? --- [1]: Yeah, I know, but I don't know.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Didn't help, même moi l'ai compris.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Yeah, if that -- the semi-fake "interaction" of algorithm-mediated "likes" and comment flamewars (or endless streams of vapid cat pictures) -- is what you're after, fine. This article was about another Web (like all
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Yeah, my kid wastes far too much time on CounterStrike.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Did you misspell 2020...?
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by CRConrad 2y ago
I don't think that was entirely missed: AFAICR, I pointed out somewhere that in that case, it's up to the app developer not to screw it up. If they set the foreground colour but not the background, or vice versa, they risk getting
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by CRConrad 2y ago
100% what I too thought it would be about.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Another way of looking at it is that it is indeed quite true. Only, with "at-will employment", you get to live in that same fear whether or not you take any vacation.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Ownership of problems is worth a lot of money, thats why CEOs get paid so much. But CEOs don't seem to "own" any problems, do they? However bad they fuck up, they still get to sail away into the sunset on their "g
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> I think metabolic differences leading to higher/lower IQs is a stretch (and smells weirdly eugenicist! I read it the exact other way around: Wasn't GP saying that higher IQ leads to a slimmer body? (Presumably because the br
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by CRConrad 2y ago
The humanitarian tone of your comment clashes nicely with your AynRandish username. ;-)
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> ...why someone earns a low wage is because they have chosen not to improve themselves and they have a large amount of envy about other people's lives. The takers... Tell us you haven't grown out of your teenage Ayn Rand-fan L
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Company A(CA) [...] was quite wonderful and remarkably effective. I miss that job, actually. > Company B(CB) did the opposite. [...] The company suffered and the customers suffered more, but under all that was embitterment between t
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by CRConrad 2y ago
More YouTube videos about the eCVT... 1) Better -- much simpler, and above all shorter -- video explanation of the Toyota system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jofycaXByTc . 2) Another, a little longer, but very pedagogic
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Why not use androids to colonize Mars...? Because the closest thing humankind has come to a working android is the (often somewhat glitchy) OS on most of the world's phones.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
A quick Web search seems to indicate that's either a) not actually a CVT at all, or at best b) a planetary gear used as a power-splitting device to connect electric and ICE power sources to a conventional CVT. So this compares rather
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Headshot? Hm, hope they aren't billing the family for the bullet...
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Never name your variables foo and bar if you plan to share your code with Nordic countries, because it can be confused with slang for excrement. Eeh... Where did you get this from? Neither "foo" nor "bar" sound like
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by CRConrad 2y ago
That's only a "real concern" if... I don't know, if you're somehow exceptionally clumsy? But then, you'd be much more likely to drop the old-style cap while trying to screw it on, so the new one would probabl
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Yeah appealing to that book is literally conspiracy nonsense when you're talking about a group of engineers trying to do good engineering. How is yelling "HOOBY, antisemitism!" about a perfectly innocuous title "try
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Maybe nobody can see the missing piece because there isn't one? Your whole scenario requires making up some additional incident. The more economical alternative is to go with the pieces we do have. A old medieval monk I've heard o
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> I banned you, so I like to think I'm an authority on why you were banned. Seems logical... (But when you think about it, it presupposes that you know and admit to yourself your actual motivations.) FWIW, as a rather occasional red
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> The author of the paper is not competent in the subject matter. Yeah, sure, quite possible (I have no idea). But then he needs to be kicked out explicitly for not being competent in the subject matter. Because kicking him out (at lea
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Most people haven't had any genuine exposure to the cultures that exist on the extreme ends of the political spectrum. You would have to be familiar with them to understand what emotions that dredges up, otherwise you're goin
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> >It honestly makes me sad to watch a guy who went to Stanford and worked at Apple and Google get involved with drama like this. > So, these people are indoctrinated to cow in the face of censorship based on insanity. Got it. Well
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Yeah, that's what makes it a "Combo" box: a combo of Editbox and DropdownListbox. If you can only choose items from the dropdown, it's not a ComboBox but a DropdownListbox.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> It used to have darkmode++ back in the day, because windows allowed you to just choose all the controls colors in any way you wanted. It's amazing how almost nobody in discussions like this ever acknowledges that. Are all the GNOM
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by CRConrad 2y ago
For precisely this reason, only idiot developers ever did that.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Black-on-black is a big problem. You can't make an app use a dark mode unless it's painstakingly crafted to support it. Maybe not now, but back in the day, that was utter BS. You pretty mucch had to go out of your way not t
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Let me restate the problem: I set my system-wide window background to black and text color to white. An app developer sets a label to dark gray text and default/transparent background. Yeah, that's a moronic developer. So wha

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