Zandikar

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by Zandikar 3y ago
They'll complain/look bewildered but little will come of it (probably) if you just do it once and weren't rude. However they can (not necessarily will, but can) revoke your membership for it, which you'll discover when y
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by Zandikar 3y ago
It uses power like everything else.
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by Zandikar 3y ago
I rearranged the clauses for clarity here: "The problem is ... with expectations that it’s part of the job ... that academic leaders should have a 'foreign policy'" > administrators should shut up and do their job I
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by Zandikar 3y ago
Dashboard in what sense? Is this what you had in mind or no? https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#per...
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by Zandikar 3y ago
Interesting, may I ask why/how/in what scenarios? Is it a trackpad thing? I was assuming it was an accessibility thing. That key's always been strange to me, never could figure out who used it and for what.
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by Zandikar 3y ago
Yes, and? Mandate != Trend. There's a very important difference, and logitech et al following suite is a choice, just like there will plenty of enthusiast/premium/higher end offerings that will let you customize it in all num
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by Zandikar 3y ago
> What I mean is that if aesthetics is the only goal then people would exercise optimizing for aesthetics exclusively. In that case, apologies for misunderstanding, and agreed fully. I was saying the same. The only part of your comment I
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by Zandikar 3y ago
It's mouse-right click but on the keyboard (context menu). I believe it's an accessibility thing now that I think about it, which might be why MS is saying "maybe" and considering other keys to replace instead - though t
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by Zandikar 3y ago
Honestly, my initial reaction to this was my typical jaded, cynical, anti-MS self, but after consideration - and the key fact that they're replacing a key, not adding one necessitating a new layout - I'm honestly okay with this. d
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by Zandikar 3y ago
> If the only reason people work out is for aesthetics then everybody would just be a bodybuilder. You're assuming that the body builder aesthetic is everyones desired aesthetic, it's not. Also, working out for your health and
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by Zandikar 3y ago
Never having heard of the hanger trick before (Though I have seen them used, just never gave it any thought), is there a reason for cedar specifically, or is that just one of those economics+keep-it-simple = it works, don't fix it norm
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by Zandikar 3y ago
Depends on the environment. The simple fact of the matter for many students (In America at least) is that it's not a lack of time in class that's leading to a lack of education. One of if not THE primary function of primary school
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by Zandikar 3y ago
It seems to be the life cycle of digital communities. There's a certain threshold of critical-mass popularity where quality of content almost seems to become inversely proportional to quantity of people in the community. That threshold
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by Zandikar 3y ago
Damn, learning new tricks everyday, thanks for the tip.
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by Zandikar 3y ago
Ah, misunderstood, my apologies and agreed.
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by Zandikar 3y ago
I fail to see how being strangers excuses the behavior. You don't have to know each other to cause offense.
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by Zandikar 3y ago
> does anyone else feel sad that their operating system has effectively turned into some weird social media marketing tracking data harvesting hybrid of a thing? I'm just surprised it took them this long tbh. Windows used to set the
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by Zandikar 3y ago
Why are we linking to reddit posts and not just the actual source anyway?
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by Zandikar 3y ago
The context of the post you're referring to contextualized "Everything" as related to the subject of groceries. Trying to move the goalposts to "but he said everything" and ignoring the context of his comment is not
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by Zandikar 3y ago
Like all the other food, along with energy expenditures, and housing? Yeah those are all up too. Thankfully, those don't count either. TV's are cheap though!
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by Zandikar 3y ago
You shouldn't assume remnant means "non significant", just "fewer"/"less than" what you started with. If only 5% of the substance remains (aka, the remnants) is still enough to cause problems, those a
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by Zandikar 3y ago
I get the impression that if this comment chain continues we're just gonna reinvent UDP
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by Zandikar 3y ago
FTA's conclusion: "If you are handling thousands of messages a day, a simple database-driven queue might be better than Kafka." They're not trying to say "thousands of messages a day" is a lot, but rather not.
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by Zandikar 3y ago
> Have you already completely forgotten the launch of the Wii U Didn't everyone?
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by Zandikar 3y ago
> Sorry, who are these people that don't have a GPU Literally millions of people. Especially circa early 2000's when this started. > GPU that literally everyone has access to? They don't. (Money is a barrier to access).
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by Zandikar 3y ago
my dumb comment was dumb
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by Zandikar 3y ago
That highly depends on the franchise/gas station in question. Gas stations are typically more dangerous because there's far more foot traffic in close proximity, and it's more socially acceptable and expected at night at a ga
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by Zandikar 3y ago
> You have completely missed the point. Incorrect. I'm strongly disagreeing with the core point of what you're trying to say. > I literally could not care less what you choose. Therein lies the problem. Your definitions are
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by Zandikar 3y ago
> The actual problem is that “tolerance” is undefined in that statement. Disagreed. You can be pedantic about semantics and doublethink your way out of anything, but that's not productive discourse, so I'll dismiss that out of
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by Zandikar 3y ago
> Do any dynamic webpage exists if no one requests it Matter of perspective/semantics. A more general thought experiment in the same vein: Can you stand in the same river twice? To answer the question: "does it [exist]?" y

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