Clamchop

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by Clamchop 2y ago
English has borrowed French words a lot. It has often imported the same word multiple times, and they frequently have different meanings. Including entrée, incidentally, which gave us the entrée and the entry. Even in France, in the context
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by Clamchop 2y ago
This example at least sounds perfectly natural to me, in California. I can remember my dad saying it, who was also a born and raised Californian. No German around whatsoever, shrug.
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by Clamchop 2y ago
Anecdotally, I grew up playing outdoors on a farm, not much computer time until I was 11 or 12 or so, which is also around the time I had to get glasses with almost the same prescription strength as my father. Either computers are quick to
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by Clamchop 2y ago
You don't smell particles, you smell volatile compounds, mostly organic, aka VOCs. These are in their gas phase. This is true of anything that smells. Food, flowers, the forest, breath, body odor, rain on dry ground, your car... Many i
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by Clamchop 2y ago
Even if you did, "no strings attached". That's goodwill that's rare to see these days; these offers are usually a trade of a meager (relative to potential damages in a successful lawsuit) but expedient and guaranteed pay
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by Clamchop 2y ago
I never noticed on my own that the sea level at the coasts is visibly much lower than it should be, because the Combine have been stealing the water. Such an interesting detail and I totally missed it!
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by Clamchop 2y ago
They did say they like it, despite it breaking so many "rules".
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by Clamchop 2y ago
The article goes into almost tedious detail about where it came from, and whether it constitutes a "proper" font. I think you may have skimmed too fast.
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by Clamchop 2y ago
That's been my impression, interesting to see it confirmed. They are very well represented on the roads here in SoCal. They manufacture a lot in Canada and Mexico, though. I guess we'll find out what current events have in store f
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by Clamchop 2y ago
To be fair, the biological mechanism for motivating behaviors is usually by making it rewarding. They both have to and like to!
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by Clamchop 2y ago
The iMac turned so many gizmos into various fruity colors that there was just no hope for color coordinating them. Our HP DeskJet with translucent blue accents didn't match the Compaq Presario next to it one bit, nor did it match the
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by Clamchop 2y ago
Installing a codec pack was one of my first tasks when setting up a new Windows installation in that era. K-Lite was a popular choice. Then WMP would play ogg, though you'd probably have switched to MPC and Winamp.
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by Clamchop 2y ago
At what point does a public promise carry any legal weight whatsoever? If it carries none, then why not leave it in place and lie? If it carries some, for how long and who has standing to sue? Genuine questions. Unlike "don't be e
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by Clamchop 2y ago
Does it? Monochrome printers exist. It must either be the case that it's not viewed as necessary in this case, or there's some other way of encoding this information in black and white that color printers could use when not printi
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by Clamchop 2y ago
I think this rationale is defeated by the existence of monochrome printers. Anyway, users also report this problem when running out of cyan or magenta. Either rich blacks are enabled or the printer is just a bad product.
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by Clamchop 2y ago
I've looked into it before and I didn't find anything suggesting that it's a law. It appears to be willful collaboration with the feds and other nation states, possibly to avoid the attention of regulators, but it's all
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by Clamchop 2y ago
And yet, it is obviously true.
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by Clamchop 2y ago
There is no upper bound here. The eradication of smallpox is money saved and suffering prevented every day for as long as humans are around. Border screening clearly has a high failure rate, our recent experiences with this should be fresh
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by Clamchop 2y ago
I don't know why you're asking me to answer questions that are clearly personal to you, and have no objective answer. All I can say is, probably not none. And maybe a note on diminishing returns, in that we might want to reflect o
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by Clamchop 2y ago
Less disease in the world benefits everyone. Very much a social good. It makes me a little sad just reading your criticism.
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by Clamchop 2y ago
I've got an OXO that has worked great since I bought it in 2014. It's an ugly piece of white plastic, but it's efficient, unfussy, ergonomic, and adjustable. https://a.co/d/609d3IX
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by Clamchop 2y ago
Rights holders are pretty good these days about notifying your ISP so they can send nastygrams threatening to terminate service. Usually there's something like a three-strikes policy. So, safe torrenting involves either paying for a se
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by Clamchop 2y ago
I've read that there are HDMI splitters and other devices like that that incidentally also happen to strip HDCP. Maybe you can scrounge up one of these to carry?
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by Clamchop 2y ago
Illegal emulation is not a fair play here. Nintendo's "moat" is their exclusive IP and single-screen multi-player party games, which other platforms have largely forsaken. Their competition is still mostly PlayStation and Xbo
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by Clamchop 2y ago
> It's strange to me everyone acting as like TikTok's algorithm is completely unassailable and will always be better than the competition for years and decades to come. I'm not seeing this sentiment. More that none of its
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by Clamchop 2y ago
Seismic activity appears to be at least one problem. The entire West coast of the contiguous US has lots of it.
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by Clamchop 2y ago
Way less than they used to. The Mac "premium" has been declining for decades. Stands to follow that many of their new customers are price-sensitive.
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by Clamchop 2y ago
They are but in my experience, they're not very good at chilling the water. They usually dispense ice, too, of course, but sometimes you don't want ice, or the bottle neck is too narrow. Not to say I would put one of these machine
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by Clamchop 2y ago
Windows Phone OS was really slick actually, I used a Lumia with it for a long time. I loved live tiles, very good idea on a phone. Microsoft's stewardship over their entire smartphone campaign, however, was so miserable, it's kind
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by Clamchop 2y ago
I think the latency of satellite is very much tolerable as it is for most stuff. The use cases where it starts to be a problem is usually when humans are interacting with each other or humans/machines with financial markets. Maybe othe

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