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by blep_ 4y ago
Most Americans have never heard of Reading, PA.
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by blep_ 4y ago
And therefore, "fish" is also silent!
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by blep_ 4y ago
The three of these I have done have communicated with me via SMS or email.
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by blep_ 4y ago
My group has gone through a few systems and we still refer to it as a "D&D" group and just understand that as referring to TTRPGs generally. I wonder how many there are like us.
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by blep_ 4y ago
The limit is per depositor * bank, not per account.
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by blep_ 4y ago
I'd point the burden of proof the other way, tbh. I don't see any reason one would be riskier than the other.
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by blep_ 4y ago
Yep. I have a few of them, that I bought specifically because I fell for it. In fairness, they can be configured that way (as an RTSP streaming host that you can directly connect a client to to watch), but the rest of the cloud bullshit s
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by blep_ 4y ago
Usually you get somewhat more warning than this, though. I'm an employee of one of these companies and I joined with the knowledge that it might fail, but with plans to bail quickly if it looked like it was heading that direction. Give
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by blep_ 4y ago
You swapped your two links, btw.
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by blep_ 4y ago
I take no offense to respectfully asked questions, just as a general principle. I have no idea, though. I've never considered that before, or even heard of it. It's hard for me to comprehend why anyone would care what race they ar
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by blep_ 4y ago
I read Kiev with an /ɛ/ sound, and Kyiv with an /ɪ/ sound. In my head, at least. I've just realized that I haven't needed to verbally refer to this place since I became aware of the renaming. In fact, I don&#x2
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by blep_ 4y ago
I've seen people using -@ as a suffix in Spanish to cover both the -a and -o forms of gendered words. I have no idea how it's pronounced, and it's probably comically inconvenient in actual use, but I have to admit it looks mi
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by blep_ 4y ago
(hi, I'm a trans people) Your understanding is largely right, though I'd expand "look like one gender" to "be perceived and treated as one gender". I regularly confuse the hell out of people with my obviously f
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by blep_ 4y ago
> At least my [...] Windows licenses are still working—but could the school revoke that access too? This, at least, is a thing I have never even had to consider as a remote possibility on Linux.
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by blep_ 4y ago
I am the one emacs user who uses it as a text editor and nothing else.
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by blep_ 4y ago
Someone proposed adding telemetry to the compiler. People reacted to this as they usually do to telemetry. Google reacted to this as they usually do to criticism.
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by blep_ 4y ago
From the linked tweet: > we use bespoke items to ascertain that it didn't see them before
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by blep_ 4y ago
To me, what matters most about the media I consume is my personal emotional response to it. Whether a sentence is generated by an AI or a human, it has an equivalent impact on my feelings. -- For me, at least, the important part of media I
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by blep_ 4y ago
That's actually a great example of why I agree with that person. It is totally reasonable to say "you may use AI tools in this class", or by comparison, "you must do research in this class, here are some ways you can do
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by blep_ 4y ago
> file tabs going somewhere I'm going to guess this is the "preview" misfeature, where if you open a file in certain ways (e.g. by jumping into it with one of the go-to-something commands) it gets opened in a weird transie
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by blep_ 4y ago
Conspiracy theory: their front-running bot also scrapes news sites and automatically stops for a few days if it sees a major story about them, specifically to produce this effect. (I do not actually believe this.)
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by blep_ 4y ago
Interesting. It's like a piece table[0] but for audio. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piece_table
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by blep_ 4y ago
Well, you see, I think it's valuable informational content, and therefore anyone who disagrees is objectively wrong.
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by blep_ 4y ago
> as long as they don't depend on the Google services A surprising and hilarious number of things, including some of Google's own apps, show "X won't work unless you enable Google Play Services" popups and then c
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by blep_ 4y ago
I do not understand how teams work without source control. I don't mean that (only) in the "WTF are you doing, I don't understand why you would do that" colloquial sense. I literally cannot conceive how they work. Do peo
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by blep_ 4y ago
If essentially everyone uses it to mean one thing, that's what it means now. That's how definitions work.
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by blep_ 4y ago
This sounds... not actually that much better, just bad in different ways? Healthcare should be a thing everyone just has by default, not a thing you have to (in practice) get by joining a group that comes with tradeoffs for other parts of
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by blep_ 4y ago
I've been waiting for a good time to ask this oddly specific question: why does everyone number VLANs 10, 20, 30, etc. instead of 1, 2, 3?
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by blep_ 4y ago
As someone in another often-politically-attacked group... yeah. It sucks when it's things that actually do affect you. Those are the times I'm glad I saved my mental energy so I can properly deal with it. I'll admit to some
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by blep_ 4y ago
Not that person, but I'm the same way. You just... stop caring. The only two good reasons to pay attention to news are if it affects you in some way, or if you can do anything about it. The vast majority of news is in neither group. Th

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