Clamchop

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by Clamchop 2y ago
TFA literally already says what you said. They're making a reasonable distinction between chewing coca leaves for mild stimulant effect and huffing a fat rail of the pure stuff. It gives the wrong idea to say these 17th century people
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by Clamchop 2y ago
> The infix is weird and footgun-y. If it's a foot gun, then I'm not seeing how the gun is loaded? > Extension methods on int/double serving as constructors smells funny. It doesn't feel meaningfully different from
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by Clamchop 2y ago
> Lots of writers keep using [typewriters], they became trendy in the 2010s and, to escape surveillance, some secret services started to use them back. It’s a very niche but existing market. At first blush, this sentiment appears to also
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by Clamchop 2y ago
One very direct consequence of CO2 pollution is increased ocean acidification, which interferes with the chemistry for building shells and other calciferous structures that many marine animals depend on. A warm ocean can dissolve more CO2,
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by Clamchop 2y ago
So says everyone online but McDonald's remains popular.
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by Clamchop 2y ago
I feel like the essential property of the resurgence of tapes and records is simple joy and fascination with the technology and its aesthetics. As such, it bypasses any tests of practicality or superiority. We don't need to talk about
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by Clamchop 2y ago
NewEgg was terrible to deal with back in 2020 when their third-party sellers misbehaved. I haven't gone back yet. Maybe things have improved.
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by Clamchop 2y ago
Handwaving away all the additional utility seems unfair to me. These pipes are a lot fatter, more accessible than ever before, and there are many more ways to use them. Working from home, eliminating shopping trips, telehealth, video calls,
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by Clamchop 2y ago
Lots of ICE cars these days shut the engine off anytime they come to a stop, to conserve fuel, so I guess it doesn't amount to too much wear and tear.
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by Clamchop 2y ago
The article says beaked birds were more fit for the new situation not because they had beaks per se, but because toothed birds were obligate carnivores and beaked birds evidently weren't. What I've read up to now is that the mamma
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by Clamchop 2y ago
TFA appears to agree with you.
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by Clamchop 2y ago
I'd replace at most with at _least_. Archiving is the minimum that they have promised; what can be disseminated when, to whom, how, and for what purposes is unsettled business, clearly.
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by Clamchop 2y ago
I wasn't really sure what OP meant by VHS being "totally obsolete". It would have been getting there for new camcorders by the mid 90s (replaced by 8mm and eventually DV), but VHS itself would remain relevant into the mid 200
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by Clamchop 2y ago
Video and Hi 8 enjoyed a significant fraction of the camcorder market as well. They were better in every way than VHS and S-VHS, respectively, but more expensive.
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by Clamchop 2y ago
The advice for video 8 when I did this was to buy a quality camcorder for the desired format (note, there's Video 8, Hi 8, and Digital 8 , all using the same cassette form factor), in good condition, and capture the S-video output. Res
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by Clamchop 2y ago
I've built you a toilet with a collection bucket that smells, needs regularly scheduled emptying into the other toilet, and it overflows anyway when you throw parties.
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by Clamchop 2y ago
I wonder under what legal theory it was decided. They'd seem to lack standing for not being party to the arrangement, but I'm not a lawyer and this was in Costa Rica anyway.
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by Clamchop 2y ago
The point of the person you're replying to is that JVM software has far fewer vulnerabilities than it would have otherwise. The number of CVEs reveals that there is a lot of Java software and that there's a strong culture of impor
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by Clamchop 2y ago
I signed up for team sports precisely because I have a lot of social anxiety, a tendency to be a loner, and a fear of being publicly not very good at something out of the gate. Experiences may vary of course but I've been doing it for
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by Clamchop 2y ago
They have lots of problems: 1. Incomplete copies with missing dependencies. 2. Old software and their file formats with a poor virtualization story. 3. Poor cataloging. 4. Obsolete physical interfaces, file systems, etc. 5. Long-term co
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by Clamchop 2y ago
The article's predicate is that rollercoasters have no purpose, but then seems to explain what their purpose is. There are far more things in the world that are "purposeless" than rollercoasters, if amusement is insufficient.
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by Clamchop 2y ago
I'm not sure what you're trying to say about TFA. Where monospace was pragmatic for the typewriter era because of the limitations of the technology, proportional is the pragmatic _and default_ styling of the web. Choosing monospac
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by Clamchop 2y ago
I don't really like "bloated" as a descriptor, because it's so unspecific that it's hard to argue against. Does it mean the software is slow? Too cluttered and disorganized? Too feature-heavy? Compromised by backwar
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by Clamchop 2y ago
Monoculture and lack of genetic diversity are related but not the same thing. If banana farms were mixed up with other varieties or species, the cloned Cavendish plants would still be at risk, because they have no genetic diversity, though
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by Clamchop 2y ago
I don't have experience with Texas but there are plenty of interchanges as you describe in California. Sometimes you even see momentarily more lanes just before and after an at-grade intersection. While more permanent lanes seems more
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by Clamchop 2y ago
> No. A book should capture an author's intent/concept/idea at the time it was written and those intents/concepts/ideas should be frozen. This doesn't suit the concept of all books, particularly non-fiction
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by Clamchop 2y ago
What I think they were saying was that NT and Unix workstations were peers (running on "comparable computers"), and that NT shouldn't be conflated with 9x ("similarly named products"), which had to run well on much
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by Clamchop 2y ago
Such a thing is unfathomable to me. I remember being frustrated that my $600 digicam only took quite alright-looking photos. You had to reach into the DSLR space at the time to get the good stuff. Those digicam photos really don't have
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by Clamchop 2y ago
I'd say GPUs and the things descended from them and how they're being used now is a pretty big development. You can still be reductionist about it, but it feels materially different from the mundane calculations and algorithms tha
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by Clamchop 2y ago
Blackberry is wildly invasive in the Pacific Northwest. It forms dense thickets that choke hillsides and watercourses, and interfere with the movement of wildlife. It's a small perk that you can head out with a few bowls and fill them

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