JTbane

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by JTbane 4y ago
It's criminal how much a person can be charged for end of life care: I'd much rather have a single-payer system.
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by JTbane 4y ago
>Another potential factor: left lane highway driving. I drove in a 3rd world country this summer and they were very consistent about driving in the right lane and only passing in the left lane. No one at all drove in the left lane. I thi
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by JTbane 4y ago
It's kind of depressing that greenwashing is so effective: see companies like ConocoPhillips getting stellar ESG ratings despite their business models.
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by JTbane 4y ago
>Maybe unpopular opinion, but I think libraries should give up on best sellers or at a minimum embargo them for 12+ months. They'll end up with better terms from the big 4/5, and can be a discovery place for new authors in addi
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by JTbane 4y ago
Yep, those are some ridiculous restrictions when the library could (and should) just buy a retail copy and lend it out how they wish.
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by JTbane 4y ago
Could this result in false alarms, as people call for help accidentally or in non emergencies? I know PLBs in aviation have a very high false alarm rate (98%).
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by JTbane 4y ago
Agreed, also there were several high-profile reports of retaliation (Starbucks, et al) against union members. While they might have been settled out of court, it is not a good outlook for labor rights.
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by JTbane 4y ago
Yep, or gluing themselves to the floor of a VW factory
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by JTbane 4y ago
>it also triggers when you go down a steep parking lot onto a flat surface a bit too fast that's a great feature, I always have to remind friends and relatives to slow down when going down an incline onto the road (they invariably s
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by JTbane 4y ago
Interactions with cops be like: >here's the exact location of my stolen property I sleep. >obviously fake shooting threat at a popular streamer's home REAL STUFF SEND SWAT
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by JTbane 4y ago
boycott Snap!
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by JTbane 4y ago
For better effect, put the easter egg in a file and directory starting with "z" so it appears last in the pull request.
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by JTbane 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
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by JTbane 4y ago
I'd wager very few pickup owners tow anything- around here they are all mall crawlers.
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by JTbane 4y ago
>Going into a bike shop, I couldn't just purchase the cheapest bike. The person said maybe now I want to bike for 20 minutes on weekends for fun, but in 1 year I'll want to bike 50 miles. So I should consider buying bike that i
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by JTbane 4y ago
I kayak on a local lake and never considered strapping a camera to my head: I'm there to enjoy nature and get some exercise, not pad a YouTube channel.
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by JTbane 4y ago
I could not get Magisk working, so for me I cannot use rooted Android as I like to be able to access my bank accounts and credit cards.
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by JTbane 4y ago
The use of sniffer dogs in schools and airports.
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by JTbane 4y ago
At this point, I'm convinced sniffer dogs are the dowsing rods of our time: basically just serving as psychological salve to reinforce a feeling of safety.
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by JTbane 4y ago
Yep, Toyota has a pretty amazing manufacturing processes, and as a result their cars are some of the most reliable. If you don't have process gates, your end result probably sells more due to marketing and hype (looking at you, Ford an
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by JTbane 4y ago
>>>“RuntimeError: Did not find ENVVAR, ensure this is set to the proper value (see <internal wiki link>) and then restart this service” I'm laughing as you could not make it clearer if you tried. PEBKAC
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by JTbane 4y ago
Sign me up, so long as there's nap time and recess.
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by JTbane 4y ago
I immediately though of the GetTickCount win32 function, which, as you said, wraps around to zero every fifty days or so. A lot of programs would crash if you left them open for this long.
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by JTbane 4y ago
My greatest fear is the surveillance state, to be honest. The dragnet revelations mean that privacy really doesn't exist anymore, and police are always chomping at the bit to get more access to anything electronic.
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by JTbane 4y ago
STAR voting can be easily gamed- tell your supporters "vote MAX for me and 0 for everyone else". Anyone who gives more than a 0 to their second choice candidate will hurt their first choice.
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by JTbane 4y ago
Homeopathy usually refers to the claims that dilution of an herb makes the medical effects stronger, which is ridiculous. That poster wasn't denying that herbal medicine could be useful, as many herbs do have chemicals that are biologi
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by JTbane 4y ago
It's only inert if you're not transforming it (for example, calling toLower on all strings passed in) or doing equality checks. Many applications use these and it is a minefield in Unicode.
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by JTbane 4y ago
Pull Request: Remove "Don't be evil" from the Code of Conduct.
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by JTbane 4y ago
Could you use this to detect flatulence in adults?
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by JTbane 4y ago
That's pretty ridiculous, so you can't change a socket without calling a guy?

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