andjd

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by andjd 5y ago
> We basically can't have a decent court system unless appealing to it is extremely rare. This is a defeatist attitude, and one that allows bad actors to thrive. Landlord-Tenant law is a particularly relevant example here because m
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by andjd 5y ago
"Right to speak to a human" seems tangental to the right you're actually asking for. It is just as possible to have a that human bound by a rigid set of policies that makes them as frustrating or useless as getting automated
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by andjd 5y ago
If the client has told his lawyer that s/he is guilty, the lawyer is very ethically and legally constrained. They are not allowed to present evidence to the court that they know is false ... which includes not calling a defendant to t
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by andjd 5y ago
May just be the prices on their website, but they strike me as being quite expensive. They also use anglicized names with very little information about the tea, so it's hard to know what you're buying.
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by andjd 5y ago
My suspicion here is that black tea, especially when prepared in the British style, has more caffeine per cup because it's brewed to be much stronger than green teas typically are. So both can be true, black tea typically has more caf
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by andjd 5y ago
Thanks to Maddie for giving such thoughtful answers. I too share the initial concern of introducing GMO trees into the ecosystem, but I appreciate that they don't seem to be taking this concern likely. I have a few questions regarding
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by andjd 5y ago
I've always wondered if anyone would combine similar technology with inkjet printers, allowing you to print something out, and then reuse the paper when you were done with it and wanted to print something new.
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by andjd 5y ago
> wiped out Really? Yellow taxis are alive and well in NYC. The drivers who were 'wiped out' are the ones that bought a medallion at the peak of a bubble. They were victims of predatory lenders as much or more than Uber or Lyf
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by andjd 5y ago
I'm really happy they're not going with a iMac pro form factor for these. Having a separate display and computer is great for avoiding e-waste. There are a ton of iMacs out there that have obsolete hardware but a screen that sti
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by andjd 5y ago
I don't work in the relevant space, but what makes coding for multi-cpu substantially harder than programming for multiple cores? Is it just having to manage separate memory for each CPU?
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by andjd 5y ago
Agreed. They showed it being used for pro audio, but that's a niche that still uses expansion cards a lot. Keeping the current mac pro form factor enables a lot of niche use cases. One question is whether the M1 chips have enough conne
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by andjd 5y ago
I'm not sure that explains it. The article asks why the Russian air force wasn't used to destroy Ukrainian _military_ targets. If bombing an air base causes substantial civilian casualties, then it's because that country bro
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by andjd 5y ago
Anyone else find the copy inconsistent? > Built to Last for Decades, Not Years > If you do find a[n original] Model F, it will be some combination of dirty, broken and/or expensive, requiring hours of work to get it working again
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by andjd 5y ago
My take is that this is a counterpoint to the dominant media narrative that covid and lockdowns have been detrimental to the mental heath of nearly every child, usually based on anecdata. So even if these results _aren't_ different fro
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by andjd 5y ago
If you read long enough, they start a section with "Cornelius undoubtedly committed fraud." I think the bigger takeaway is the lack of the rule of law. The crime he committed only carried a three-year jail term. This was later in
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by andjd 5y ago
Related-unrelated. Does anyone know of an english 6-letter Wordle clone?
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by andjd 5y ago
How does it benefit the Swedish consumer to ban a game that uses their native language because it's a clone of a game in English?
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by andjd 5y ago
Like "Wurdle" which did get through?
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by andjd 5y ago
I'm going to hop on my hobby horse again for a second: One of their first points is this: >Designing a monospace font is much harder than a traditional, proportional one: being constrained by the same width of all glyphs can result
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by andjd 5y ago
My reaction to this was how would this ever be a common issue? When would you naturally have a line break in the middle of a ligature. The screenshots show the answer: auto hyphenation. But at the point you're dropping a hyphen betwee
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by andjd 5y ago
Anyone else find it odd that the colors are (somewhat) customizable, but the skin tones aren't? I know that there's more to making a set of illustrations like this properly inclusive beyond just skin tone, but that seems like a s
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by andjd 5y ago
I know that you're not copying the wordle vibe necessarily, but the animations seem too over the top to me. They're pushing into candy crush territory, and to me that a strong detractor. One of the thing I appreciate about wordl
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by andjd 5y ago
This is probably and edge case you don't need to worry about. For the most part, you can rely on the user agent for a scraper that cares about these meta tags to identify itself as a bot (e.g. twitterbot). Since meta tags are machine,
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by andjd 5y ago
Note also that most soda fountain syrups also use saccharine instead of aspartame. This is probably so the syrup doesn't go bad as quickly. The transition to aspartame was driven by a study that showed that saccharine caused cancer in
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by andjd 5y ago
The company buying the patents is new with no history. Do any of the parties involved in financing the deal have a history of being litigious over patents? If the patents are generating royalties, this could just be a boring financial mov
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by andjd 5y ago
Exactly this. There may not be a 'standard' that does any of this already, but the goal of this being portable across websites requires all of those websites to support this 'new' standard -- so there probably isn'
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by andjd 5y ago
> On average, over 90 containers compromised per day. > 160% increase in criminal rail theft Combining these statistics indicates that UP was experiencing over 56 containers compromised per day before the policy change. Compare that w
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by andjd 5y ago
Related unrelated comment. Is there any effort to make Darwin itself user friendly? Everything I've heard anecdotally is that Darwin is a world of hurt unless you really, really know what you're doing. It seems like that might
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by andjd 5y ago
This is an interesting example of the 80-20 rule (or some variant of it) The vast majority of businesses/projects are small, and will only have one or a small number of developers working on it. So Ruby on Rails (or PHP or Wordpress)
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by andjd 5y ago
I realise that this is a thought experiment, so refuting the premise is besides the point, but . . . I feel the need to call out the casual assertion that > The suburbs has [net] benefits for your gifted son The zeitgeist has a knee-jerk

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