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by bevr1337 9mo ago
> Gifts do not confer obligation. Remind me, which Ferengi Rule of Acquisition is this? There's not much argument to be had. You've created a logical justification for a myopic, misanthropic world view. > My friend bought me
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by bevr1337 10mo ago
> or move on to a different career otherwise. Folks rarely have this choice. What industry wants a barista outside food service? This is why we get stuck wearing a green apron for a decade, or working call center jobs, or any other crapp
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by bevr1337 10mo ago
In the JS example, a synchronous function cannot poll the result of a Promise. This is meaningfully different when implementing loops and streams. Ex, game loop, an animation frame, polling a stream. A great example is React Suspense. To su
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by bevr1337 10mo ago
> The overwhelming majority of computers in the entire world, used by our entire species, have windows as their OS The majority of computers in the world run Linux. Windows only has majority share in the desktop space .
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by bevr1337 11mo ago
You're a) projecting, b) astroturfing, c) both, d) both (unconsciously) This capitalization been AP style for years now. https://apnews.com/article/archive-race-and-ethnicity-910566...
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by bevr1337 1y ago
I spent a good minute thinking of the best reply. You're right, the truth was immaterial to them and they were posting in bad faith. Proving that this is the result of cooperation, to me, was the quickest way to unravel the rest of the
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by bevr1337 1y ago
Georgia has some of the most active ICE presence. According to ICE, there is no bureaucratic resistance movement. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-atlanta-announces-resu...
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by bevr1337 1y ago
> Shouldn't it be possible to encapsulate something like this with SQLite and produce an accounting engine Indeed! https://www.gnucash.org/ > that can guarantee consistent numbers It was consistent, and now it&#x
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by bevr1337 1y ago
That doesn't seem to be the case. The UN has a legal definition of genocide, and the assertion is that the criteria are met. So what's the change in definition?
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by bevr1337 1y ago
I'm a wet blanket, but I despise documentaries that lie about the sound of their recording. I was pretty far into adulthood before I realized most nature docs have fake audio. The backing track of this video helps me know there is no u
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by bevr1337 1y ago
I'm going to assume soldering on the main board is far outside the ability of most users. They're not through hole, big green boards like I learned on. It is certainly awesome for those that can, of course!
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by bevr1337 1y ago
> Why did the stock market go up 20% relative to pre pandemic levels? Have another explanation? Who was buying these shit coins? These are rhetorical questions and frankly kind of silly. You're implying that the poorest, unemployed
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by bevr1337 1y ago
> Congress passed an expansive relief package with an unprecedented $600-per-week supplement for jobless workers. The goal was to replace their wages so they could survive the economic lockdown. > As a result, though, many people may
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by bevr1337 1y ago
A/B testing the removal of a browser standard gives me pause. Is there precedent for that?
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by bevr1337 1y ago
TiddlyWiki can replicate itself. All users can freely edit any TiddlyWiki and save their changes to their filesystem. There's a few options for exports. It is a common gotcha that new users will lose some of their work while they learn
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by bevr1337 1y ago
> What's the target market of your business? > It feels like every commercial offering I've seen is for extremely rich people's "dream houses" You nailed it! I don't want to say much more because I do enj
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by bevr1337 1y ago
> In an ideal world this should incentivise... > An ideal world... > We don't live in an ideal world though... Yes. That was thoroughly established in the original comment and my reply. Have you come to look for an argument? O
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by bevr1337 1y ago
An ideal world doesn't look like land owners building moats. I work in energy/home automation. I'm burnt out.
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by bevr1337 1y ago
Shitty reply and this critique isn't helpful at all. You assumed the most interesting part; the thing you personally want. Harsh? Maybe, but you're posting this to a site with some of the most jaded developers on the planet. Not s
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by bevr1337 1y ago
Thanks for sharing your experience. A different one, but the spotted lanternfly finally found my grapes. I'm at a total loss for how to protect them. The local university is studying oils and sprays, but they don't have any guidan
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by bevr1337 1y ago
Might be off by a few orders of magnitude there. Even 10,000 trees would represent 0.006% of the trees in my state. (Hint: it's the smallest one.) There are estimates that 13-25% of tree growth in our state has died over the last decad
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by bevr1337 1y ago
A basket maker might see an exchange beneficially. Splints are a great resource. I suspect the outer splints to be a little worse for wear.
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by bevr1337 1y ago
Can ash splints still be made from the trees they infest? Do you burn the trees? Very curious to hear more about your experience
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by bevr1337 1y ago
From a fellow classically trained artist, I too feel disenchanted with my BFA. I'm surprised so many folks defend the university system for fine arts. It's a relatively modern notion, as in only a few decades! Historically, arts e
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by bevr1337 1y ago
> There is existing technology to extract co2 Source? As I understand it, co2 sequestration is still in R&D and not viable at scale. We can hit neutral, like a tree does, but that doesn't improve the situation. Like desalination
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by bevr1337 1y ago
> And, by various universality theorems, a sufficiently large AGI could approximate any sequence of human neuron firings to an arbitrary precision. Wouldn't it become harder to simulate a human brain the larger a machine is? I don&#
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by bevr1337 1y ago
> but that is misleading in an educational context where there are much simpler computers that are definitely fully understandable. Are there any other projects or resources in this space that you'd recommend? A friend and I cut our
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by bevr1337 1y ago
> Fully understandable by a single person Riddle me this, Batman. What's the scope of "fully understandable?" How much of this home PC could be reasonably audited by individuals or small teams? I've got no exceptional
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by bevr1337 1y ago
> Preference disagreement: I absolutely need my workspace to be different from my gaming space, or I’d go totally nuts Preach. I made this wonderful office for myself. It's got name brand monitor stands, I only need one cable, the d
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by bevr1337 1y ago
Did anyone convince you to pay for a remarkable? ;) It's managed to fill a niche for me, but no magical experience and probably not worth the price. In retrospect, I was "keeping up" with wealthier coworkers.

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