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   by acheron 3y ago

   Meat usually has "use by" (or "use or freeze by") which is an expiration date.
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   by acheron 3y ago

   Hexcells is nothing like Hexxagon. Other than the hexes.
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   by acheron 3y ago

   This varies highly by where you want to work. Government and adjacent places love certs.
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   by acheron 3y ago

   I actually laughed out loud at that headline. Fantastic. AFAIK those still can’t be used as file system names, so I’m assuming it’s related to that. Tim Paterson’s Revenge.
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   by acheron 3y ago

   And yet by your voting patterns, that’s exactly what you did. Democracy is the theory that the people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
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   by acheron 3y ago

   Saying “me too” like some brain dead AOLer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpMvS1Q1sos
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   by acheron 3y ago

   And if you're interested in buying an old toaster, this guy refurbishes them: https://www.toastercentral.com/ I have not actually bought a toaster from him, but I did buy a Sunbeam 1960s waffle maker/electric grid
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   by acheron 3y ago

   That’s why you should see movies at Alamo.
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   by acheron 3y ago

   ha. I still use separate URL and search bars in my browser. My 11 year old asked me awhile back "why do you have two search bars?"
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    by acheron 3y ago

    I thought it was just the whitespace.
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    by acheron 3y ago

    What? Butter is one of the main things I get from Costco. It actually is cheaper than my normal grocery store in that case (I agree with the earlier post in the thread that Costco isn’t always the cheapest.)
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    by acheron 3y ago

    Also related to “celery”, known as the fastest of all vegetables. (Joke of course, celery comes from Greek selinon )
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    by acheron 3y ago

    I wish I had jobs where people cared that I knew DNS.
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    by acheron 3y ago

    A mean green mother from outer space.
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    by acheron 3y ago

    At the same time Joni Mitchell was making it up the charts there was Motown and the Brill Building (famously employing Carole King whose songs were often sung by men, n.b. to the “article” authors) and the Monkees and so on. And the Tin Pan
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    by acheron 3y ago

    I want peace on earth and goodwill towards men.
17. 467.▲
    by acheron 3y ago

    Yep, that’s the one. I think about it a lot.
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    by acheron 3y ago

    "If you can't be part of the solution, there's a lot of money to be made prolonging the problem."
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    by acheron 3y ago

    Google wanted more control over the Internet, so they created a browser that they controlled and pushed it on people by leveraging their monopoly in a separate area. You know, the kind of thing we used to think was bad in the 1990s.
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    by acheron 3y ago

    Related book I liked: “Lost Languages” by Andrew Robinson.
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    by acheron 3y ago

    Twitter has never been good for this purpose. Back when blue checks were unusual, you could tell who Twitter cared about: government accounts were “unverified”, but of course every 22 year old Gawker intern had one.
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    by acheron 3y ago

    Makes sense, thanks.
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    by acheron 3y ago

    > Anchor was established in San Francisco in 1896 and was the country's first craft brewery. So what definitions are being used here to claim this? Yuengling is quite a bit older, for example.
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    by acheron 3y ago

    Somewhere my dad has a newspaper clipping showing an ad for my great great uncle’s grocery store in a small midwestern town from around 1890-95. The ad prominently mentions that they have a telephone, and gives the number as something like
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    by acheron 3y ago

    (It’s Diablo.)
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    by acheron 3y ago

    pretty much. I sometimes vaguely remember when I used to like programming.
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    by acheron 3y ago

    I’m guessing he’s referring to the Roger Penrose stuff — https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Mind , etc.
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    by acheron 3y ago

    I’ve used DDG regularly for over a decade now, but unfortunately it’s gotten noticeably worse in the past couple years too.
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    by acheron 3y ago

    Station ID is every hour. Also you have to say it in a very specific format: Call letters, city; or call letters, frequency, city. No additional words in between: “WKRP in Cincinnati” would be invalid. TV stations are allowed to do it visua
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    by acheron 3y ago

    > yank(?) To be clear, it’s not a real problem in the US either, but some people like to pretend it is. Don’t believe things you read on Reddit or wherever.