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by brimble 5y ago
I'm pretty sure the only reason we don't recognize this, while we do with movies, is that there aren't rules governing who's credited and what their credit looks like, as there are with movies. You don't get "S
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by brimble 5y ago
Exactly. "We're still an effective government, and here's our grand plan for the future, if we all hold together and get through this."
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by brimble 5y ago
I don't think anyone expects the EU to move forward with this until the war is over. It's more a statement of intention.
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Because the hourly rate you have to charge if you're actually counting every hour you work, to match the rate you get for actually-productive salaried hours, causes serious sticker shock.
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by brimble 5y ago
Cool, thanks. Yeah, I'm pretty sure there's something fundamentally incorrect about how I draw, even though it feels fine (but the results are terrible).
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by brimble 5y ago
> You think you can see things, but what you are really doing is recognizing things. Any normal adult has the motor skills to make a controlled mark. I have reasonably nimble fingers and at least average overall motor control, and real
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by brimble 5y ago
Yeah, reading TFA prompted me to finally go figure out how to do that :-) Much better. No more wild recoloring of my browser chrome because I switched tabs. > FYI you can disable the coloring as well as the "compact" layout tha
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by brimble 5y ago
The EU collectively outclasses every likely regional aggressor or likely regional coalition, and can project power better than any but a handful of other states (most of which are unproven against that challenge). Throw in Britain and only
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by brimble 5y ago
It screams "non-technical manager" (or journalist, or politician, et c) to me (though that doesn't seem to actually be the case, here?)
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by brimble 5y ago
Yeah, the post indicates that the author might be Doing It Right, but then there's stuff like: > Surprisingly, only a few people knew about the dir attribute in my interviews No. Most of those few people who "knew" it are
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by brimble 5y ago
Expecting people to know meta tags is ridiculous for all but very specialized roles. It's the kind of thing you rarely touch once it's set up. I'd expect most developers to be able to guess correct or near-correct answers jus
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It was long one of those "surprising fact" sorts of things.
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Seems like he just doesn't adhere to the principles you'd like him to. That doesn't mean he has none.
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by brimble 5y ago
Yeah, having trouble thinking of one since '57. Examples abound from the first half of the 20th century (and certainly before then), but less so in the latter half. Smaller states, though, yes. But not major powers. This may have mor
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by brimble 5y ago
By the time kids are old enough that suicide starts to become a serious risk (6th grade and up, mostly) I'd need to see some serious data to convince me that socializing at school isn't net-harmful. In fact I'm surprised rate
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by brimble 5y ago
> American kids rarely learn about most of the dozens of conflicts that have taken place since WWII, including the ones the US was involved in. Added some emphasis. Granted I graduated about 18 years ago, but my experience, and one sha
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by brimble 5y ago
I'd expect lots of Russian targets outside of Russia proper to receive some ballistically-delivered nastygrams if Russia attacked a NATO member. They'd all have to be treated as hostile. Forces in Syria, in Belarus, ships outside
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by brimble 5y ago
American kids rarely learn about most of the dozens of conflicts that have taken place since WWII, including the ones the US was involved in. Unless this gets a lot bigger, it's not gonna be taught in the US, except university-level co
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by brimble 5y ago
Speaking of design trade-offs, I've found it's really hard to get stakeholders to appreciate the cost of implementing designs. Design cost should be part of the trade-off give-and-take of figuring out what can fit in a release o
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by brimble 5y ago
> While Parliament had a restricted franchise (as did the USA until the 20th century) it was an elected body with full powers. Indeed—one of the key factors for the US war for independence was that rich Americans wanted to expand the fra
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by brimble 5y ago
Now is a good time for everyone to double-check their backups and go over their disaster recovery plans. I know I am. I mean, yesterday was a good day. But today's the best you've got if you didn't do it then.
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by brimble 5y ago
Looks like generic "vegetable oil" is soybean oil. That explains it.
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by brimble 5y ago
I checked, and the Tanis fossil site is, in fact, named after the ancient Egyptian city of Raiders of the Lost Ark fame. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanis_(fossil_site)#Discovery_...
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by brimble 5y ago
We already need it. That's just the modern economy/world. So we get shitty ad-hoc solutions with bad security that waste tons of time and money, instead of a good one, because people are afraid of the good one. Not having a soluti
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by brimble 5y ago
Oh the quality may be crap, but there's a much higher likelihood of learning something you can act on, even if it's just "oh, that band I like is going to be in town".
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Timing's about right for the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, since that news broke at the beginning of '98. And we already had multiple 24/7 cable news stations by then. :-(
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Nearly all of it is, for most people, when it comes to national and international news. It's little more than low-value entertainment. Which is fine, but people get all kinds of crazy ideas about "needing" to follow the news
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by brimble 5y ago
I buy that it might be A Thing but have a strong suspicion that 90+% of modern "night people" are just addicted to the 24/7 casino-bright circus that is modern home entertainment and nighttime lighting (as most of us are) and
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What really sucks is that Greitens at least seemed to give half a damn about responsible governing. I'm very much not a Republican, but I'd much rather have him back, if those are my options. That sort's rare in either party—
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by brimble 5y ago
> It's probably rather have neither of the story can be progressed some other way. Journey, Abzu, Minecraft and Valheim manage with minimal or no text and they are among my favourite games. Offtopic, but if you haven't yet, you

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