Clamchop

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by Clamchop 3y ago
Perfect income equality (which isn't going to happen anyway, nothing near it) would have cataclysmic consequences for economies. We can't talk about $12,000 or whatever per person as if that means something. Getting traction on th
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by Clamchop 3y ago
It's probably same as the ones that hang from the car's seats. Someone hanging it on the window to take a picture or whatever seems likely, maybe even advertised, but that doesn't mean anyone was driving with it that way. I h
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by Clamchop 3y ago
The majority of flavors, fragrances, medications, and synthesized organic chemicals of all purposes use petroleum as a precursor at some stage of their manufacture. It's a very cheap source of hydrocarbons and doesn't at all mean
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by Clamchop 3y ago
All articles presume that the audience has some knowledge going in, but I have no explanation for why dye needs definition but the even more specific FD&C dye doesn't. (shrug)
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by Clamchop 3y ago
If we had zero tolerance for risk, then cars and the roads they drive on wouldn't exist. Most things wouldn't!
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by Clamchop 3y ago
Maybe. My experience is that a lot of the unprimed recall gets weak very quickly without practice. There's irony in testing for skills that a fresh graduate may do better at than someone with substantially more experience. Primed recal
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by Clamchop 3y ago
I think for this to be generally effective for Windows software, developers on the whole not being consistent or wanting to invest the effort in little bits of polish like that, they would need an API into a system-wide implementation. Whic
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by Clamchop 3y ago
The screen was OK but a premium monitor at the time would have been an aperture grille Trinitron (or similar implementation). The iMac had a fairly dim shadow mask display that shipped with most budget computers of the era. They were also o
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by Clamchop 3y ago
I suspect, but don't know, that there's a healthy halo of synergy between consumer products and enterprise choices, where that at all makes sense. Can go in both directions, people wanting to also have the good products they use a
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by Clamchop 3y ago
Tangential, but the "setting up your account" shenanigans reminds me of one of the more amusing patterns, not necessarily always so dark: the "doing important things" delay. Usually a website that makes you wait a while
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by Clamchop 3y ago
That's not how carbon credits are supposed to work, but I can totally believe they got corrupted somewhere.
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by Clamchop 3y ago
I can get any outer ring to register depending on how fast I scroll. I think it's OLED schmearing.
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by Clamchop 3y ago
They're called essential oils because they are the extracted essence of something with an odor, not because they are essential to us. Although I have no doubt that the industry enjoys this misconception.
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by Clamchop 3y ago
There's no urgency to upgrade to Windows 11 so this doesn't make any sense.
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by Clamchop 3y ago
Could be read as humor, more charitably.
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by Clamchop 3y ago
It's faster for me to interact with IntelliJ's git porcelain using key bindings than it is for me to switch to a terminal and write a command. It makes fewer errors than I do. Besides forgetting syntax, fat fingering is a thing. C
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by Clamchop 3y ago
I'm looking forward to the Y2k69 hysteria.
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by Clamchop 3y ago
Pays to be imperative: TURN NOW. Needs more bright red blinkenlight, too.
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by Clamchop 3y ago
Uh, why are sh and derivatives the final word on how a shell must behave? Or at least it appears that you are saying PowerShell doesn't "act like a shell". Is this a No True Scotsman?
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by Clamchop 3y ago
Not every usage of files is going to be at a scale where we have to worry about collisions, and anyway it's tangential. Whatever the concern, the ship has long since sailed on spaces in filenames, it's not going to be undone, and
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by Clamchop 3y ago
I read a book, How to Clone a Mammoth, by ancient DNA researcher Beth Shapiro. If what she wrote holds true deep in these glaciers (which take a long time to form so they presumably weren't always buried so deep), then the answer to wh
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by Clamchop 3y ago
They might be referring to how clicks don't register with an app until it has focus (the first click being to focus it). On Windows you can, say, click once to pause on a video playing in a browser window that doesn't have focus b
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by Clamchop 3y ago
Sure are a lot of extreme opinions on operating systems when they all seem pretty damned similar to me on the fundamentals. Development work strikes me as maybe the least distinguishing kind of task to compare them on. Very few hard choices
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by Clamchop 3y ago
Weird. The topic was the phrase. Mercari replaced Intel with AMD. One x86 out, another in. Usage is correct if figurative. Article does not claim Intel is dead. States that they are "catching up". But for their nodes, Intel out (&
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by Clamchop 3y ago
The kind of stand I and many others I'm sure would like to take but I, like most people I imagine, fly to do important things in the limited time I have, for which air travel is one hell of a luxury that makes it possible at all. Famil
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by Clamchop 3y ago
Untested except obliquely but it is a compelling idea given the tests of the first that we've seen so far.
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by Clamchop 3y ago
I thought they were all similarly ugly. Thought so then and still do now. Drab grays and muted colors for miles. (Ignoring utility here.) Uglier stuff could be found off the beaten path, though.
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by Clamchop 3y ago
Reader mode to the rescue!
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by Clamchop 3y ago
There are other conditions. There's at least a cultural component in that we haven't always embraced mental health care in the US as much as we do today. Many other parts of the world still don't. Whether over or underdiagnos
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by Clamchop 3y ago
Got captcha'd and bailed. I have no patience for these things anymore and they increasingly don't think I'm human.

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