WalterGR

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by WalterGR 1y ago
Thanks for your contribution. What brand do you recommend?
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by WalterGR 1y ago
It’s the Mid-Atlantic Accent. “Good American Speech” is some weird neologism somebody must have invented for the Wikipedia article. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent is now a disambiguating page. I
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by WalterGR 1y ago
The prompt… er, well, prompt doesn’t appear in portrait orientation on iOS 18.
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by WalterGR 1y ago
What’s the flight altitude of blimps vs. the clouds they’d need to rise above?
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by WalterGR 1y ago
It’s fun to make new file formats! After reading the above, it’s worth reading https://www.sqlite.org/appfileformat.html - “SQLite As An Application File Format”.
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by WalterGR 1y ago
That’s usually referred to as the Sapir-Whorf or Whorf-Sapir hypothesis. See “Linguistic relativity” on Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity . Try the search bar located (non-obviously) at
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by WalterGR 1y ago
Every week or two. And machine drying, on the lowest heat setting possible. Jeans used to stand up to that. Maybe I’m washing them “too much” (wars have been fought over the Right Way to do denim care) but since they used to handle it j
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by WalterGR 1y ago
What brand of jeans? Every pair of new jeans I buy wear out within a year. Even Levi’s.
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by WalterGR 1y ago
> The writer claims that a command economy gives them an advantage over a free market economy. The author doesn’t claim that anywhere. China doesn’t have a command economy. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of
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by WalterGR 1y ago
> I've noticed a lot more entitled behavior, like drivers blowing through red lights or cutting up on the shoulders. Where are you located?
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by WalterGR 1y ago
> Everyone's using it on their steamdeck with no problems. How is that relevant to someone switching to Linux desktop? Android is also Linux and also not relevant.
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by WalterGR 1y ago
Well, my understanding is that localized prostate cancers tend to be slow-moving. Hence, depending on patient age, treatment is more likely to harm the patient than the cancer itself, and this has been the situation for some time. Obviou
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by WalterGR 1y ago
330+ comments 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44009999
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by WalterGR 1y ago
490+ comments 4 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43996307
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by WalterGR 1y ago
Different source, same subject, 55+ comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44000724
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by WalterGR 1y ago
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44021824
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by WalterGR 1y ago
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44024784
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by WalterGR 1y ago
That's something that you can look up. Not "you" in the "some person" sense, but literally you . I suggest doing that. Your ‘arguments’ are falling flat because you don't have any facts, don't seem to
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by WalterGR 1y ago
Okay. Well, I'm sorry your feelings are so hurt. I'd suggest that you donate to the Salvation Army and not go to Harvard, then. It also sounds like you don't like education, so you could try looking for an organization tha
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by WalterGR 1y ago
Heresy! It should have ended up at Berkeley - Woz went there. Not that school down on the peninsula.
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Well, right. In that case, all non-profits are "tax dodges" using the literal interpretation of the words. But tax dodge usually implies something unsavory... Is the issue that you don't think that any university - or per
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by WalterGR 1y ago
> it's a tax-dodge, and nothing more. Same thing with non-profit hospitals whose administrators pay themselves seven-figure salaries. What do you mean by tax dodge, in this context? How familiar are you with taxes? Off the top of m
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by WalterGR 1y ago
Because they know what an endowment is, how they're used, what a 501(c)(3) nonprofit is, and very generally the tax rules around such nonprofits. I can provide links if you'd like to learn. I'm just on mobile right now and
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by WalterGR 1y ago
Where is it being non-publicly shared?
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by WalterGR 1y ago
People in Sacramento and to and from the Bay have driven like they're trying to kill each other for the past 2-ish years. Driving has suffered since the pandemic, certainly, but there's been a marked decline more recently. The c
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by WalterGR 1y ago
I'm curious how this will play out with states' latest revisions to their educational requirements, especially with respect to history, civics, "social studies", etc. (And how much of that is driving this 'moveme
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by WalterGR 1y ago
> FreeBASIC is like Microsoft's QuickBASIC. Except that it doesn't emulate Microsoft's QuickBASIC, or ... ?
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by WalterGR 1y ago
> a co-op body-part swapping third-person shooter So "co-op" and "third-person" and "shooter" are obviously terms of art. Is "body-part swapping" one as well, or just descriptive for this particula
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by WalterGR 1y ago
Thanks for this. There are already dings in the edges of my not-yet-five-months-old MacBook Pro. I've been treating it like a baby: the most severe damage it could have sustained was from dropping it at an elevation of 2.5 feet ont
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by WalterGR 1y ago
Area 5150 is a demo. More about it: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=89435 (For those unfamiliar with “demo” in this context, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene ) Interesting submissio

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