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by brimble 5y ago
As someone who took a lot of political science and economics classes once upon a time, and has an ongoing amateur interest in these things, MMT is the first time I've looked at one of these macro-level explanations/descriptions an
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by brimble 5y ago
From Wikipedia: > 1985: The original Star Wars film was re-released on VHS, LaserDisc, and Capacitance Electronic Disc (CED) with an improved audio mix. The LaserDisc and CED sped the film up by 3% to fit onto a single disc.[10][b] >
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by brimble 5y ago
Cool. I need to roll back to a version from last year, with entirely different versions of daemons (PostgreSQL, et c). Then run that side-by-side with what's currently deployed. I may end up needing to git-bisect and repeat this proces
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by brimble 5y ago
> We live in a similar (or even higher) acceleration now, with a lot of us born during floppy disks, magnetic tapes and punch cards and we're witnessing having the entirety of world knowledge in our pockets, anywhere in the world, f
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by brimble 5y ago
Chemical weapons are expensive. Consider the logistics and training required to effectively deploy them, plus any specialized equipment. Meanwhile, they're only useful as long as your opponent doesn't know you're planning to
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by brimble 5y ago
It'd also be a pretty shitty first strike, since you'd be limited to the count of starships scheduled to launch (and likely only ones headed generally in the direction of your target if you really want to mask it) at about the s
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by brimble 5y ago
I can't believe they autotune so much kids' media these days. Daniel Tiger will teach your kid that their amazing singing voice sounds wrong, because all the singing on DT is auto-tuned like crazy and doesn't sound like act
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by brimble 5y ago
> "The author talks to the “fellows” who wrote him letters and uses the pronoun “he” and “him” throughout the book. Reason #1 to weed it." JFC. This was taught as standard usage until very recently. It's silly to fault a
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by brimble 5y ago
Complete with thinking normal businesses are somehow involved in crazy underground child-sex cults. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_panic [EDIT] That is, it's a trait shared by the '80s moral panic, and
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by brimble 5y ago
> I mean, just based off personal recollection, 2 VCRs was rarer than two TVs, since the second TV would be a small 15 inch in the kitchen permanently tuned to the Andy Griffith show or an old TV in the garage for football games. This is
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by brimble 5y ago
The first film has a lot more going for it than V. It's not great if you go in expecting a Star Trek movie, though. Scratches a very different itch.
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by brimble 5y ago
> And for some reason you could see the masks around the TIE fighters against the star background. You can in all versions from before the "THX remaster" release, AFAIK.
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by brimble 5y ago
> I think a lot of us who were 80s kids who can practically recite Star Wars got that way cause we had a very small collection of movies cause they were so expensive. We had the 3 SW movies and Superman 2 and I watched those over and ove
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by brimble 5y ago
I've found programming language differences less and less interesting the longer I do this. They all do the same thing. Everything's pointers and stacks, usually not that far beneath the surface. Some are more or less ergonomic, b
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by brimble 5y ago
> I do however have no idea what discord is. Isn’t it some kinda forum? Budding Slack competitor that started with a focus on gaming. If you couldn't guess from the context of its eating battery like crazy, it's a webtech &quot
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by brimble 5y ago
Discord in particular is a horrible battery hog—we used it a lot over the worst stretches of the pandemic in my social group, and it was constantly killing laptop batteries that could reasonably last 8+ hours, in like 3 hours flat. I&#x27
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by brimble 5y ago
> And the 10 movies or so I watch per year is cheaper than a subscription service. Libraries (and the free-if-you-have-a-participating-library-card Kanopy streaming service) exist, too.
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by brimble 5y ago
Physical presence of media in one's space is underrated. The cost (in space, being a pain in the ass to move, et c.) is high but there are significant benefits.
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by brimble 5y ago
Yeah this paints most of the Southwest as having a worse climate than where I live, which... yeah, for anyone who hates humidity (which is most people, I think?), that's not remotely true. I'd take 95F and bone dry over 82F and so
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by brimble 5y ago
Simply choosing what gets reporter time or page space or air time or whatever introduces huge bias, even if the coverage itself is meaningfully "objective". Listen to NPR (let alone anything else) and you'd think there&#x27
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by brimble 5y ago
Civics and history education (at least in the US, I dunno about elsewhere) is astonishingly, dangerously bad. Is the reason these notions are so common, I think.
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by brimble 5y ago
I think it's fair, considering the sky-high salaries at the top end of our industry are almost solely due to ad revenue. We'd all see significant downward pressure on wages without that—we're basically accountants by social
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by brimble 5y ago
That they've put off doing the obvious for so long ("obvious" because one of the key selling points of the browser at initial release was, de facto , a form of ad blocking—namely, popup blocking) makes me think we're mo
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by brimble 5y ago
I don't have to instruct my computer to display everything you decide to send to it. Period. That's the end of the moral argument.
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by brimble 5y ago
Then there's all the social science research or pop-business/pop-psychology crap that's been disproven or failed to replicate, but nonetheless will seemingly be treated as fact by most people... I dunno, forever, at this rate
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by brimble 5y ago
"The Census ACS 1-year survey reports that the median household income for the Boston-Cambridge-Quincy Massachusetts metro area was $94,430 in 2019, the latest figures available. Boston median household income is $8,587 higher than the
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by brimble 5y ago
Stephenson is an excellent author of the first thirds of novels.
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by brimble 5y ago
I think it bothers people when they're not getting to choose when or where they drive, which is much of the time (commute, taking kids to school, that kind of thing). It feels like being punished for decisions other people made.
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by brimble 5y ago
And a Flat Earth take on how to chart a flight path isn't relevant because...?
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by brimble 5y ago
When you think about it, it'd really suck to be failing to prove what is in fact your complete innocence and not be able to advance other defenses that could at least get you a reduced sentence (or even acquitted—correct outcome, w

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