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I'm really surprised at the appeal of matcha and matcha flavored items and question how lasting of a trend it'll be.
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>what do you use Word for that it's hard to find a replacement? Opening files created by other organizations and expecting them to load correctly and accurately, and then editing them and expecting them to load correctly and accurat
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>What we ended up doing was giving a Windows VM with Office on it for those Linux users that needed to produce documents and the like. and at that point, you might as well just use windows, you aren't getting any advantage out of li
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>I suspect I am looking at this through a mix of optimism and naivite. For sure.
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Good idea but shouldn't be necessary if the roof was done correctly.
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It's not a huge deal, but on google devices, setting a timer is different from setting an alarm. the end result is more or less the same thing, but it uses different underlying functionality and I have to remember to say timer instead
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I remember having read this forever ago, but for the life of me can't remember anything about it. The author was big on K5, which is apparently not a site anymore.
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Seems like a good idea. Sort of disappointing that U of I isn't included, but they are constantly over-enrolled already, so I suppose the hope is to get students applying to the other schools in the state. Would be interesting to see i
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>There's no reason to expect it to be cheaper. Sure there is, the raw materials have to be mined and transported across the country and such, it's ridiculous that it's cheaper to do that than to shred existing material and
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>"It is cheaper to just make a new plastic product than to collect it and recycle it or reuse it," says Kristian Syberg, who studies plastic pollution at Roskilde University in Denmark. "That’s a systemic problem." Th
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Usually when an article title ends in a ?, the answer is no, but I'm pretty sure the answer is mostly yes in this case.
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>I'll also use this post to wish that more people would edit Wiktionary. If it's anything like wikipedia, there is probably a reason more people aren't working on it, and it's because the existing people discourage it
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> There are lots of lines going on meandering routes through the suburbs. Not enough routes with going between dense areas with high frequency. My city did a hub and spoke type system, but the flip side is that you need to go downtown an
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>I'd disagree with that. People build wild shit in Excel that only they can understand. It makes sense to them because they built it. Nobody else can use it. I think the parent comment is talking about using excel as a grid based la
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>And that's useless for actual math. Agreed. The schools always seem to have these learning adjacent things that are theoretically supposed to make subjects engaging, but in reality are so disconnected from the subject that they are
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Namecheap has all the information they need to get to the bottom of it (ie they can see the actual person that registered it, instead of seeing that it's hidden), the fact that they haven't proves it's either them or someone
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Yeah, never use a registrar to check if a domain is available, they'll snipe it and try to sell it back to you.
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Definitely worth having something other than the ground to sit on after a long day. I have a couple of light weight 3-legged stools, although they likely wouldn't be considered ultralight, that are light enough for the camping and hiki
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Even though they are African in origin (perhaps as birthing chairs), a lot of people know these as 'viking chairs' or sometimes as 'bog chairs' and you see them at SCA events and various sorts of old timey reenactment ty
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IME, most people that complain about brutalism don't know what it is anyway and even if they roughly do, are only familiar with decades old ran down versions and not the original vision.
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>It will deform very quickly, changing the angle of the recline. Nah, I've seen a bunch of these over the years, they basically last forever.
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I read a lot, and just use FBReader on my phone. I like e-ink displays, but I read a lot more with my phone since it's always in my pocket. I imagine if I read on the kindle app, I could switch back and forth between a phone and ereade
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>IMO Kindles were best when they had hardware buttons so I have no interest in buying these new touchscreen ones. I'm really surprised the cheapest one is $100 now, they used to have a little one for ~$50 that physical buttons on ei
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A lot of those android tablets are essentially manufactured e-waste that aren't compatible with the common stores and apps though.
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I keep seeing that proposed as a theory, but are companies actually outsourcing this work to Nigeria or is that just an assumption someone made because they know delve is more commonly used there? A lot of these posts can't even decide
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>$80-100 is incredibly cheap for any mainstream tech device when you factor in design, manufacturing, marketing, shipping, software, support. Not to mention that you can just buy an old generation, or used/refurbished, if you want c
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>its just that they would already be hired by other higher paying companies and what is left for the ones that are looking for the lowest paid possible workers are the incompetent ones Reminds of me working in IT. One company tried to ou
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>For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. Sadly, that's why I don't start a lot of things that would interest me. You need to get into things when you're a kid and don't realize how junk you
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I don't know anything about Africa, but I assumed it's because dictionaries define it to mean "to make a careful or detailed search for information" and "to examine a subject in detail" and LLMs seem to latch o
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>What's the issue with 'delve'? It's hardly Old English It's used a ton by LLMs for some reason despite being rarely used by real people. I think it's mostly a byproduct of LLMs having their training data b
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