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841.
by bregma 3y ago
According to CEO of my company, if your bum is not in your chair in the office and you fingers not clacking on the keyboard you're not working.
842.
by bregma 3y ago
> Why can't Canadians open their browsers and type in www.news-site.com if they want news? Well, it turns out news-site.com requires a paid subscription. The clickbait headlines and slugs on Facebook were free. No paid subscription
843.
by bregma 3y ago
Traffic is not money. Traffic is exposure. Ads are money. Facebook keeps the ad revenue and the media are left with the expense of creating content. Exposure my bare behind.
844.
by bregma 3y ago
But that's what came up in their Facebook feed so that's the truth they know.
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by bregma 3y ago
I live maybe 400 km from Toronto and when people from that city come by with their "Torontoww" accent they're pretty easy to distibguish from the local lads from up the line as soon as they open their mouths. My wife's r
846.
by bregma 3y ago
It's not the effort of learning, it's the effort of tolerating all the know-it-all newbies that increases.
847.
by bregma 3y ago
Politicians would never break up Standard Oil or Bell Telephone either.
848.
by bregma 3y ago
I sometimes have to use Microsoft Teams at work. Microsoft Teams requires Microsoft Edge to run. I was forced to install Microsoft Edge on my Ubuntu machine. Microsoft is pushing its Microsoft Edge product even on GNU/Linux. There are
849.
by bregma 3y ago
"It took me ten years of hard work to become an overnight sensation."
850.
by bregma 3y ago
Give two very different things the same name and soon enough many people will believe them to be the similar in nature. If you repeat the lie often enough if will become the truth.
851.
by bregma 3y ago
I take it you don't cut your spaghetti into short strands before cooking?
852.
by bregma 3y ago
Squash are notoriously promiscuous and rarely breed true. You might get plants coming up from the seeds you scatter, but the edibility of their fruit will always be a surprise.
853.
by bregma 3y ago
You don't have to like it. You just have to eat it.
854.
by bregma 3y ago
"Squash" is a broad term referring to many kinds of fruits, including both summer (zucchini, courgette) and winter (Hubbard, acorn, spaghetti, butternut, pumpkin). It's related to cucumbers and loofahs. "Pumpkin" is
855.
by bregma 3y ago
I think the thing that makes this death stand out from the usual run-of-the-mill fatal accident was the fact that the victim was normal and healthy when the accident occurred but could cognizantly look forward to his inevitable death over t
856.
by bregma 3y ago
Rhubarb pie. Rhubarb cake. Rhubarb bread. Rhubarb cookies. Rhubarb crisp/crumble/grunt. Rhubarb jam. Rhubarb chutney. Stewed rhubarb (used anywhere you'd use applesauce including standalone in a bowl, with plain yogurt, swirl
857.
by bregma 3y ago
When your must or wort gets contaminated due to lack of sterilization it's unlikely to become poisonous. It's more likely to become vinegar. It's the fact that you're using uncontaminated fruit juice or boiled wort that
858.
by bregma 3y ago
You have to boil the wort for hours otherwise it's not beer, it's porridge. It's that process that kills any pathogens, not the fermentation (obviously, since fermentation requires the presence of pathogens).
859.
by bregma 3y ago
AH yes, John Snow and the Broad Street pump. A well-known source of drinking water inside a city.
860.
by bregma 3y ago
Othar than word size (eg. i386 vs. x86_64), endianness (eg. PPC vs. x86), alignment (eg. ARM vs. x86) there's plenty of other low-level issues like parameter passing conventions, call frame handling, exception handling, presence or abs
861.
by bregma 3y ago
I work in safety-critical embedded software. I live in a log cabin in the back woods with no thermostat, no doorbell (or even locks). No smart TV. Everything is as low-tech as possible. I have seen how the sausage is made.
862.
by bregma 3y ago
So it's really just a refinement of Wikipedia, but with custom answers to more explicit questions.
863.
by bregma 3y ago
It starts with "self" and "other" and goes analogically from there.
864.
by bregma 3y ago
No. I've been dragging my small (106 line) .vimrc around pretty much unchanged for at least a couple of decades. It's mostly just setting different colour schemes for different filetypes. I've been a vi user for about 4 decad
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by bregma 3y ago
We are stardust, we are golden We are billion year old carbon And we got to get ourselves back to the garden Well, then can I roam beside you? I have come to lose the smog, And I feel myself a cog in somethin&#x2
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by bregma 3y ago
The uses need to be kept separate. Separate but equal.
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by bregma 3y ago
> We as a species have only ever voluntarily demolished like 30 or so building above 35 stories because it’s insanely expensive to do so The designed lifetime of yer typical neopostmodernist glass box office tower is about 25 years. Man
868.
by bregma 3y ago
Ah, yes, the old fallacious trope of "if they didn't spend the money on X they would have spent it on Y". It is, of course, true as long a Y is luxury yachts or maybe the enforcement of personal power such as weapons of mass
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by bregma 3y ago
It was more mercantilism than capitalism. The same ism that resulted in the American Revolution in which one set of mercantilists overthrew another set. Capitalism was arising at the time but was not yet ascendant.
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by bregma 3y ago
I've had them come back after at least 10 years. Anywhere within about 100 m of a previously infested area.

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