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by Veen 5y ago
I'm in my early 40s and have never heard of it either. Maybe it's a Southern thing.
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by Veen 5y ago
The article is not about whether there was a lab leak, but whether scientists believed a lab leak was a possibility and chose to deny that belief for non-scientific political reasons. The article makes no claim at all about whether there wa
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by Veen 5y ago
It's the UI latency that annoys me. I just opened it on my phone and had to wait 8 seconds before the "Listen Now" screen appeared. Same wait when I click on the "Browse". Plus lots of irritating UI deficiencies, es
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by Veen 5y ago
In my experience, Sonos hardware is great but their software is woefully bad: slow, buggy junk. But then, the same is true of Apple's stuff: HomePod hardware is very impressive, but Siri and Apple Music are crap.
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by Veen 5y ago
You know that you can change a browser window's size? The alternative is a thin strip of text with enormous margins, which I find about as annoying as overly long lines. Written pages aren't really mean to be displayed in very wid
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by Veen 5y ago
A company I work with was recently acquired by a US company (I'm British). I was quite confused when, in a meeting, all of the Americans suggested that the company should implement mental health days several times a month. My thought w
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by Veen 5y ago
I tested that by turning off Apple's autocorrect on my Mac. It turns out I'm a less accurate typist than I thought. Now, I'm happy to let autocorrect put right all "teh" mistakes I make. It's annoying when I wa
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by Veen 5y ago
One factor you are missing in that analysis: TSMC is very profitable—about $5 billion per quarter. Better working conditions don't have to mean more expensive products; it could instead mean reduced profits. https://focustai
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by Veen 5y ago
There's a pretty good Netflix Dark Crystal show too. Also made by the Henson company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Crystal:_Age_of_Resis... Unfortunately it was cancelled after one season.
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by Veen 5y ago
dd deletes the line under the cursor. "dd deletes something into the d register (the " is part of the command that selects the register). "d selects the register. The second d is the delete command. So you could do something
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by Veen 5y ago
The Ovsiankina Effect mentioned in the article you linked seems more like it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovsiankina_effect
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by Veen 5y ago
It's not an unreasonable opinion where small children with no comorbidities are concerned. Extremely low risk from COVID; tiny but not non-existent risk from the vaccine. It's a different matter when you're in your early 70s
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by Veen 5y ago
> It’s heavily biased What does "heavily biased" mean in this context? It's a straightforward article that puts forward a position, a series of propositions supporting that position, and a potential solution. It's bi
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by Veen 5y ago
You may not be aware, but the written word can be used for more than product reviews.
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by Veen 5y ago
> Why not try writing a search engine specifically for some category dominated by SEO spam? Back in the olden days, there were lots of organizations that collated high quality content from the best writers. They nurtured expert writers a
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by Veen 5y ago
Yes, but that law is made by Parliament and the government has asked Parliament to change it.
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by Veen 5y ago
> I still don't know what about Wilson's work was supposedly "problematic". To oversimplify slightly, his detractors have a deep ideological commitment to the blank slate theory of human development, largely because
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by Veen 5y ago
In 2019, their share was larger than any other party (Labour got 31%). Under which reasonably fair system would they not have ended up with a majority large enough to form a government? You may not like it, but the Tories were the choice of
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by Veen 5y ago
The law has allowed the government to remove citizenship for decades. It's not new and this law does not change the government's powers in that regard. It merely makes it possible to remove citizenship without giving notice, somet
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by Veen 5y ago
Elected officials shouldn't have to rely on Twitter or other social media platforms to communicate with their constituencies. This woman seems like a loon to me, but she's a loon with a democratic mandate. If social media is going
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by Veen 5y ago
Further details of the Nationality and Borders Bill can be found here, including information about the right to appeal. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nationality-and-b...
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by Veen 5y ago
As the article hints, I think it's more to do with a tension between the Government and the courts. Home Secretaries are frequently blocked from removing citizenship or deporting terrorists/terrorist sympathisers by the courts, la
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by Veen 5y ago
> The poem "If" is, largely, an endorsement of traditional norms of masculinity Yes, and all the better for it.
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by Veen 5y ago
It's quite amusing though that so many brain cycles were wasted trying to figure out how ML image processing was to blame. I don't recall anyone in the previous thread saying: maybe there's a leaf between the camera and the w
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by Veen 5y ago
I have a word you may want to add to your vocabulary. chippy ADJECTIVE informal 1. resentful or oversensitive about being perceived as inferior
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by Veen 5y ago
The initial post mentions FUD and top-level management, so it's possible management associate Tor with dark net drug dealing, CP, and assinations and so on. Non-tech people aren't likely to have heard of Tor in any other context.
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by Veen 5y ago
The mental model of windows having a consistent spatial location is deeply ingrained into MacOS because it's been done that way for decades. There are still old Mac users who complain that the Finder switched from a spatial model to a
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by Veen 5y ago
You're probably aware of this already, but if you command tab to an app you can use the up and down cursor keys to display all open windows for that app. You can also use command+` to cycle through open windows of the focused app.
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by Veen 5y ago
Kurz is 35. Someone with the drive to become leader of a country in his 30s is not going to want to spend the next 5 decades gardening.
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by Veen 5y ago
Farming is not like copying a book. I just wasted a fair bit of time commenting about how farming is not like copying a fucking book and the implications that arise from that. But apparently you didn't bother to read it, are too thick

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