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by ashark 9y ago
I'm not even saying it's a bad idea , just that I think it's entirely understandable that people are a little confused and upset that a decade plus of best practices suddenly did a 180 and they're being looked down on f
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> If for some reason I am not able to block them then I just do not watch them and I am not listening to them (I look elsewhere, say a lalala mantra in your mind). Ah yes, the realization that all the spy-economy-supported content provid
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We went from anything like JSX getting you laughed out of the room (LOL 'onclick' properties, hello, 1998 called! Also code doesn't belong in markup, so markup certainly doesn't belong in code, are you insane? Templates!
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> I wonder if there are low power alternative to vacuum, depending on the surface of course. If the famous vacuum cleaner repairman Reddit AMA is to be believed, the overwhelming majority of vacuums purchased are so in name only, produci
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In Class , Fussell cited think-tanks' kind-of-ridiculous adoption of academic titles and trappings ("Fellow" and such) to make themselves seem respectable and trustworthy as evidence of the social and class standing of acade
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> except for a malfunctioning electric window lifter on one side. There's probably a Youtube video that'll walk you through how to replace it. I replaced the one on the driver's side door of our 2001 Honda Odyssey last yea
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I think we probably disagree about what good design is. I think that precisely > static, vastly simpler is the right way to go. This is mere consistency on my part. I hated (most) Flash sites back in the day, and wasteful giant images, e
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It's a skill you get better at. Correctly guessing most of the time, looking a little ahead when you can, that kind of thing. Like sight reading music, really. Combination of well-trained intuition that mostly gets things right and sne
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The fun for me's in getting all the intonation and emphasis just right. You don't have to "do the voices" or anything over the top, but just try to read it how a good narrator might. Try reading them adult books (if yo
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> 2) There are certain books that I really enjoy reading aloud and others that I don't. And its not the content, but just the feel of the words coming off my tongue. I've read a bunch of novels to my young kids, and some I woul
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Is there some meta-miner project you can use to mine a few of every not-obviously-garbage new coin, then stop, just in case they turn out to be worth something?
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> IMHO, the cause is a combination of commercialism and of visual designers being inculcated with inappropriate values and training from traditional print design. I judge that it got a lot worse around the time the print-trained designer
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> We simply need laws against data brokerage. This is the right answer. Collecting, retaining, using, and selling all this crap should simply be illegal. For Google, for Amazon, for Target, for Visa. Any of 'em. The more pragmatic l
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by ashark 9y ago
It gets more difficult when you're cooking for/dining with your family and not everyone's on board with sandwich and egg dinners all the time. Kids, yeah, they'll eat what you give them (sooner or later) but a spouse&#x2
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by ashark 9y ago
Same in the grocery stores in the US midwest. If you're lucky, the available options are 80% non-fat ( loaded with sugar), 15% low-fat (most sugary, but not all), and 5% full fat. In smaller stores there's no full-fat option at
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I'd go farther: I'm unsure that communication technologies past approximately the telegraph have actually improved quality of life more than they've harmed it. At least in developed countries (simply don't know enough ab
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I think it's less about outside regulators than organizations/individuals optimizing to cover their own asses. I assure you, I'm not in the "gov'ment regulators ruin everything" camp.
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My best guess is that it's the result of 20-30 years of never accepting "shit happens, we looked and everything seems basically fine, we're not changing anything" as an answer when something bad happens and someone asks
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I think it's a consequence of taking away individual judgement and becoming, it seems, terrified of letting a person make a decision, because sometimes they're bad at it, or have biases, or whatever. Organizations are afraid of in
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Western works (especially cinema) use this in individual scenes all the time, right? The first example wouldn't be at all out of place in the first act of a film to show us that two people know one another, or (even more effectively) l
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by ashark 9y ago
What? Atlanta, Fargo, You're the Worst, Bojack Horseman, Rick and Morty, Kimmy Schmidt, Hannibal, Review, Twin Peaks (The Return), Stranger Things, The Good Place, Santa Clarita.... and probably three dozen other ongoing or started-aft
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French wine I've purchased in the US has never been anything but disappointing. Italy, Spain, and S. America are far better values. However, I once spent a week in Paris buying mostly the cheapest not-obvouisly-bad wine I could find, d
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by ashark 9y ago
I'd say that at our best we might claim to be Hephaestans . Wikipedia gives him all of "blacksmiths, craftsmen, artisans, sculptors". Basically a god of engineering and the more construction-ish arts. The literary and music
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Apple's needed for some time to create a "demo" category and/or feature for apps, with upgrades to those distinct from consumable or add-on purchases. Mixing all that together is part (though only part) of why I avoid br
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> I wasn't speaking of fiction in my original post. The purpose of fiction is to create an experience in the mind of the reader rather than to convey information. As such, you can't judge a work by an absolute standard, really
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> I'm of the opinion that if you have to be "trained" to find a work aesthetically appealing, it isn't inherently aesthetic. I don't see how this is tenable, given how much aesthetic taste is learned regardless.
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> The problem of low information density isn't new. Most of the "classics" of western literature have the same problem. I would submit that you may not be tuned into the value in them, if you think that. Maybe it's tr
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Anyone whose jaw is on the floor in horror at this post, be advised that it's not some hyper-connected techie outlier: this is absolutely the norm now . My wife teaches in a mixed lowish-to-upper-middle school district in (what I&#x27
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> And what sort of things do you use for prep that can't go in the dishwasher? All knives, plastic chopping boards, bowls - all goes straight in the dishwasher. The only things I don't put in it are my frying pans since I have
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In Vonnegut's case I remember seeing it at or near the beginning of a chapter of Bluebeard , a book notable for being a kind of whirlwind tour of all of Vonnegut's major ideas and themes (and one of my favorites of his—but I&#x27

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