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by blahedo 4y ago
I recognise the current truth of this, but I feel a deep wave of sadness as I remember that the computer to have in the 90s if you wanted to customise evvvvvvery little thing was a Mac. A ton of custom aspects were available right in the
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by blahedo 4y ago
> ...at any time without appointments or permission and unescorted? Does your home sound pointless and terrible without an open culture? How about your place of work? I have lived and/or worked on university campuses for going on
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by blahedo 4y ago
Hmm. Can someone explain why there's no search function and the zoom only goes out to maplevel 16, meaning it's absolutely impossible to use without transmitting GPS info (and also effectively impossible to make edits on a place
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by blahedo 4y ago
CYOA books were how I independently discovered the concept of the Depth-First Search, and (because I had a finite number of fingers i.e. bookmarks i.e. active memory) the inclination to guess which branch would end in death or an already-
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by blahedo 4y ago
My mistake! I knew it couldn't be linear and got sloppy. (For those checking that link, see p38, section 1.7.2)
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by blahedo 4y ago
No, because 10 is not a power of 2, so any digit in the source (base 10) can affect any digit in the result (base 2). Converting from e.g. base 16 to base 2 is linear, because 16 is a power of 2.
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by blahedo 4y ago
Yes, I get how the A-series paper sizes work, and that they prioritise having all sizes be the same aspect ratio. That has literally nothing to do with what I'm talking about in my post. It turns out that paper "works" for
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by blahedo 4y ago
Less the "imperial" part and more the "almost whole"---it would work just as well if the pages were say 20cm by 30cm---but it is very convenient when doing layout (both electronic and physical) that both the content and
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by blahedo 4y ago
Depends on where. Probably not in Richmond, certainly not in Virginia Beach. But up in the mountains it gets chilly. Winchester apparently averages a little over one day a year where the low dips below 0°F.
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by blahedo 4y ago
Thanks for raising this issue—as you point out, it's often ignored—but I'd posit it's even worse than you (and others on this thread) indicate. When the issue is framed at all, it's usually boiled down to "landlords
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by blahedo 4y ago
The confusion of ſ looking like f is the basis of one of my favourite bits from The Vicar of Dibley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UySOpb64yc
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by blahedo 4y ago
Did you just explain to someone from a communist-bloc country, who had just said how badly the transition went in their country, that the transition had actually gone well? This is a cousin to both mansplaining and gaslighting, and if we wa
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by blahedo 4y ago
I remember 25 years ago in grad school, when I was getting my PhD and working on Natural Language Processing, a conversation with a fellow grad student who was studying and teaching French, and planning to work as a translator. She said: &q
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by blahedo 4y ago
What you describe is a perfect literal match for my town (Farmville, VA) up to your ask for a "mid-sized town". We're a town of 8000, half of which are the university students. I like it a lot (and you might well consider i
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by blahedo 4y ago
I regularly use gnumeric for my serious spreadsheet work because Excel can't keep up, and I'm always a little surprised when I have to send a spreadsheet to someone and I find yet another thing that Excel doesn't do; I haven&
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by blahedo 4y ago
> SaaS has replaced discrete sales as the go-to business model for software because it’s better for the customer, ... What. Does the author actually believe this? Every single example of a company that switched from something I could
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Glassdoor ordered to reveal identity of negative reviewers to NZ toymaker Zuru(theguardian.com)
2 points by blahedo 4y ago|0 comments
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by blahedo 4y ago
Most active breweries in the US will fill glass bottles in two standard sizes of 64oz ("growler"; a bit shy of 2L) or 32oz ("mini-growler", 1L). Sometimes they will only fill growlers you originally bought from them but
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by blahedo 4y ago
Great concept! Looks like the main focus for now was US and German states and territories, which probably is a good proving ground for the general system. One thing you'll have to contend with, that those two mostly won't be t
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by blahedo 4y ago
Yes! I've been saying versions of this for a while to people who dismiss Tiktok as just teenager dance and prank videos: > If a video seemed repetitive or shallow or snacky in any way, I skipped it, and I tried hard to do this wit
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by blahedo 4y ago
I came here to post this and should have known someone would beat me to it---I'll just add for others' reference that the suite already had 5309, under the 863 prefix, and when they split the campus all the dorms got switched to
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by blahedo 4y ago
Eurovision has been watchable on free livestream in the US for close to a decade. Originally directly from eurovision.tv, later via LOGO. I agree that NBC's rights purchase is probably due to launching ASC, though.
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by blahedo 4y ago
This is so cool, and I've just spent an hour reliving Prince of Persia, but there's some sort of sticky keys setting ( not Easy Access, I checked, it's off) made the gameplay _exquisitely_ frustrating since Shift is the key
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Ukraine is scanning faces of dead Russians, then contacting the mothers(washingtonpost.com)
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by blahedo 5y ago
> ...in English... Even in English-language contexts I've seen variants of the German-style transliteration on occasion. But more importantly, the author is not restricting himself to English, and indeed the musicbrainz link gets
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by blahedo 5y ago
I think this is an overstatement of the situation; it's true that you're supposed to keep the house from getting too cold, but it's within living memory in many places that in the colder parts of the winter, standing water
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by blahedo 5y ago
Mostly I just want websites to have some internally-consistent set of sizes so that I can Ctrl-scroll to set and then Firefox will remember what's the right size for that website and then I don't have to edit that setting again.
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by blahedo 5y ago
N.K. Jemisin is a currently-active author who is phenomally good at world-building. (Also, resists the urge to show off the world just-because, and instead reveals it organically as the main POV characters interact with it. Highly recom
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by blahedo 5y ago
> No software project cares what the calendar looked like during the roman empire. Sure, its quirky that OCTober is month 10 instead of 8. Doesn't affect anything at all. I take your main point, but its relevance is at least somew
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by blahedo 5y ago
IME the argument on bike helmets is a little different: it's not that requiring helmets will encourage riskier biking behaviour, it's that requiring helmets will shift people to drive instead (and that an extra car on the road is

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