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by brimble 5y ago
> It wouldn't work because what would happen would be a mass reapproval of all regulations. Sunset provisions are an idea I tentatively like until I consider what happens with the fucking stupid, pointless "debt ceiling" c
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by brimble 5y ago
> What a crappy intro. There was nothing about feces in the intro.
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by brimble 5y ago
"The company's hosting a nominally-optional-but-not-really hammer-thon this weekend! Aren't you just so excited! You'll get to swing those hammers any way you like, not just the exact way your manager tells you to! Fun
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by brimble 5y ago
Something really changed when the Internet stopped being a physical place you had to go to (a computer, at a desk) and remain at to keep using it.
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by brimble 5y ago
Doesn't take very many more calories per day (on average) to pack on a lot of pounds over a few years. And soda doesn't fill you up.
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by brimble 5y ago
Heinlein wrote it, his character Lazarus Long presents it. May or may not mean Heinlein thought it was true. It's oft-quoted but I think it's silly posturing. I guess everyone's just insects after all, since 99.99% of people
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by brimble 5y ago
I miss when I could put Wireshark on an interface and nothing would show up until I pressed a button somewhere.
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by brimble 5y ago
Not only a new language, but one that, once in use, doesn't really look like something built for this purpose, if that snippet's representative. That is ugly .
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by brimble 5y ago
In another HN thread just the other day (paraphrasing, but the tone is accurate): "macOS is shit because cmd+Q kills my programs and it's too easy to hit accidentally while trying to strike cmd+A"
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by brimble 5y ago
Some interfaces will sort 10.mp3 so it's directly under 1.mp3, instead of under 9.mp3. This could be a totally sensible hack to evade that problem.
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by brimble 5y ago
I had the same reaction. I've forgotten most of it, but that's because there have been zero times in the ~18 years (oh god...) since I had a calculus class that I've seen anything I could use it for, without just making up
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by brimble 5y ago
Unlimited free refills on sodas at restaurants didn't become normal to the point of being the expected default, IIRC, until the mid 90s or later. I think the effects of the unlimited-refills thing, and (relatedly) of to-go soda cup siz
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by brimble 5y ago
Or, indeed, anywhere in your query. "test !g query" will search Google for "test query".
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by brimble 5y ago
Yes, national security is a good reason to subsidize food production. I might agree with keeping all those bridges open, on those grounds—though I suspect overall economic efficiency could be improved by removing some fraction of them, wi
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by brimble 5y ago
It hasn't been true since the job (and education) market adjusted to the GI Bill.
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by brimble 5y ago
Yeah, it's those, I just couldn't recall the term for it. Much of the ugliness seems to be a choice, though—lots of weird, haphazard nooks and crannies and bump-outs, and bizarre color schemes that seem designed to dazzle you into
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by brimble 5y ago
> BTW, those bridges that service 35 vehicles oftentimes keep the more densely populated areas fed I assume if it's vital infrastructure to a couple mega-farms they'll happily take over maintenance. They're not gonna just
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by brimble 5y ago
Expect? I'm pretty sure they pay for it.
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by brimble 5y ago
> “Ruralia” is already entirely ecologically sustainable. If you live largely "off the grid", grow much of your own food, don't go out much (since any going out means a lot of driving, if you're in the country), and
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by brimble 5y ago
The US has historically, and continues to, invest a lot of money into improving or maintaining rural life. Without those efforts I guarantee there'd be fewer people living that way.
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by brimble 5y ago
Few new starter homes in my (non-trendy) city. However, once builders started working again around '12, they started putting up both McMansions and spectacularly ugly apartment buildings (partially fills the role of the starter home, I
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by brimble 5y ago
In my experience, PMs and middle managers drive a fair amount of unnecessary design work. Looks better in a PowerPoint than most things do, I reckon.
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by brimble 5y ago
> My experience in Australia is that there are basic standards of decency that can be expected. This is not the case in the US. This varies, perhaps regionally but definitely from individual to individual. I can assure you that some of u
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by brimble 5y ago
SMS is like email for me, these days: only used for transactional messages that I'm expecting, and spam. Both are almost exclusively ways for computers to send me messages.
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by brimble 5y ago
Agreed on the overreaction thing. When I explain America to non-Americans, I tell them that most of our weirdest behaviors and practices make sense if you assume everyone's main concern at all times is never to ever be, personally, bla
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by brimble 5y ago
Oh, I don't think it's an especially good idea, I just think that's the notion behind it. I expect most of what goes on with these is marginally helpful in a real situation, at best, and few measures pass even a very genero
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by brimble 5y ago
That's true, but it's also true that, separately, the responses and mitigation efforts often aren't rational and are preyed on by opportunistic business people with an interest in misleading folks, just like anything else.
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by brimble 5y ago
It's to prevent someone from aiming shots through the door by looking through the window. They could still fire through it randomly, of course.
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by brimble 5y ago
It started after Sandy Hook, I think. It's normal at all the schools in my red-state city. AFAIK it's the norm most places now. And yes, it's batshit crazy.
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by brimble 5y ago
It's insane, especially since the kind of serial shooter thing (not an attack targeted at a specific person, not an argument in a parking lot that turns deadly but then stops there, none of that) it's meant to defend against is ra

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