Tao3300

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by Tao3300 3y ago
The drought is probably just bad luck. They should have had a couple hurricanes go through there. Sometimes you just don't get the rain. AFAIK from news people freaking out every time there's a hurricane (good source, I know) clim
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by Tao3300 3y ago
I'm not sure you could pay me enough to go around Cape Horn in a container ship.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
Is that what they pay Mozilla too? I know that that deal is one of the things keeping the lights on for them.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
> [Search] kinda works when you generally know what you need or how a feature you want could be called I mean, that's how I feel using the GIMP menus. I never know where anything is, and my first guess is usually wrong.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
> if it's on CD it might as well be a download anyway Unless you mean FLAC or something, CD is still higher quality than other formats, and they keep longer than vinyl or cassettes. Inb4 the "only audiophiles with high end equi
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by Tao3300 3y ago
Worth it. Boss hugged me when we found out the camera caught an echidna.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
The blackmail was threatening her into thinking she'd be in legal trouble too. That's not true, but a terrified child isn't exactly running an optimal risk calculus. Even without that the content itself is blackmail materia
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by Tao3300 3y ago
A stitch in time is worth two in the bush
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by Tao3300 3y ago
Turns out Thrasymachus was right after all.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
I'd never heard of it either. And the comments make it sound like there was a big difference between what it started as and what it turned into.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
Waiting outside someone's house for 7 hours, running after them, and spouting accusations through the door doesn't sound like my idea of "trying to have a civilized conversation". The BBC should be deeply embarrassed.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
> You: > what was your name before it was Bullet? > Bullet: > I don't have a previous name. I was created by Anthropic to be called Claude.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
Just wandering around the hub map is a freaky liminal space experience.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
> the engine really just lends itself to these environments So I used to think "this would make one hell of a Quake level" in places that it would be really inappropriate to think that: government buildings, hospitals, a school
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by Tao3300 3y ago
Yeah, a lot of greenfield projects fail, and the road to that failure is fraught with pain and burnout. Cities are legacy projects, colonies are greenfield. Both have their pros and cons.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
> You will almost certainly experience a layoff in your first few years of post-college work. Or you'll get hired on the cheap right after the layoff, and everyone left behind will hate your fucking guts for it. Especially when you
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by Tao3300 3y ago
Forbes has been reduced to a blogging platform for a long time now. Exhibit A: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2016/07/09/level-up-...
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by Tao3300 3y ago
> XNUMXth Someone forgot to go back and Find/Replace...
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by Tao3300 3y ago
Select 54000000 from DUAL
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by Tao3300 3y ago
"Part-time clown" even makes for a better headline IMO
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by Tao3300 3y ago
> I feel that broad overgeneralizations like this are often just self-revelation. That's how I feel about "I know it when I see it". It's the kinks of the proverbial seer.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
I've been way into decorative knots lately. Putting turksheads and coxcombing on everything, and I've come up with a nice way to use some lanyard knot trickery to tie a ukulele strap to the headstock in a way that looks like a tin
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by Tao3300 3y ago
Mike Johnson is on HN?
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by Tao3300 3y ago
Folk music. Digging up weird old ballads and learning about how they've changed over centuries. I'm putting together a version of Captain Kidd (Roud 1900) for my repertoire right now.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
Whoa. You guessed my other rule!
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by Tao3300 3y ago
Heyyyy Boo-boo! Here comes that iron pic-a-nic basket!
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by Tao3300 3y ago
Well now you're just swapping one inconvenient squirrel fluid for another.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
Glad to hear that. Notice I said > rule of thumb Not to be confused with a universal law. See also that the other comments pointed out that the USDC recommendation didn't even make a whole lot of sense. Hmm...
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by Tao3300 3y ago
Guess I touched a nerve. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by Tao3300 3y ago
Averaging 1.5 bears a year since 1980. Is that a lot?

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