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by brimble 4y ago
I remember my dad talking, in the 90s, about how silly the solar panels were and how good it was that Reagan took them off. It's how I became aware of that having happened, in the first place, in fact. Whatever the intent behind removi
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by brimble 4y ago
Carter was probably exactly on track for when we needed to start taking it seriously if we wanted to avoid significant warming entirely, given how long even relatively fast action on these kinds of things usually takes, and considering ener
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by brimble 4y ago
That moment when you go "surely not..." and then see the little glint from the portal opening is way up on my favorite moments in gaming, ever.
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by brimble 4y ago
Guys make up for it by doing the majority of the household tasks with the highest likelihoods to kill or maim the person doing it. (Mostly joking. But only mostly.)
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by brimble 4y ago
Most people find programming brain-meltingly dull. Socially, we're much closer to accountants than the real professional class—lawyers, doctors, and the professional-adjacent groups like professors—and also closer to accountants (and
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by brimble 4y ago
1000% this, it's my default solution for most things. I always make sure "change the environment" can't work before I go to "change behavior" (mine or others') Trash accumulating somewhere? That spot needs
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by brimble 4y ago
Again, part of the trouble is it's hard to gain enough certainty that the thing you switch to—self-hosted, or another service—won't be at least as bad. You can look at their past record, but then, when's the last time Atl
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by brimble 4y ago
> I'd not be surprised if the husband intends to (or would) reuse it from its position on the counter, hence the entire dishwasher->cupboard cycle is superfluous from the husband's point of view. Indeed. From the article: &g
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by brimble 4y ago
That seems very neutral to me? I'm struggling to think of a term that's not worse ("allowance") or less accurate. [EDIT] It just means money that's expected to be spent, but not budgeted specifically for anything, a
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by brimble 4y ago
> An addition to this unrelated to marriage - if it takes 10 seconds, why isn't it already done instead of considering whether to do it or not? "I might re-use it" is in the article. It's a matter of preference, and w
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by brimble 4y ago
I'm pretty sure people absolutely do get divorced because they disagree about how to handle several trivial things. Those can be insidious. To the one annoyed by the status quo, it can feel like the other person doesn't care abo
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by brimble 4y ago
The solution is obvious: have the camera watch you even when it's "off". :-)
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by brimble 4y ago
Some hardware up there must be active and sending data even when the light's not on. It's how they make the (excellent, can hardly live without it now that I'm used to it) automatic monitor color temp adjustment work, AFAIK
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by brimble 4y ago
Lots of the mutes for external mics still do it in software. The software may run on the microphone itself and not the host computer, but still. I don't trust it. Give me something that interrupts a circuit. Many laptops (notably inclu
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by brimble 4y ago
If I could pick one hardware feature that I'd love on all my i-devices and laptops, it'd be physical shut-off switches for the mic and camera(s). Or, in the camera's case, maybe a cover, since that way you're less like
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by brimble 4y ago
You may as well just delete it, then. I guarantee a high percentage of users won't save that key and be able to find it later. GH (edit: or similarly nerdy sites) might (might!) be able to get away with that, but as soon as part of y
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by brimble 4y ago
If they don't lose data, two weeks of downtime every few years might be cheaper than the cost of switching. Plus, it's not like you know the thing you switch to will be any better, if it's another SaaS.
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by brimble 4y ago
IBM effect. If you don't care a whole lot about your ticketing system, you just pick Jira because everyone'll nod along with the choice and you won't personally be blamed if/when it sucks, you won't make enemies o
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by brimble 4y ago
"I'm just so confused that you don't want to go back to 1950s mores around marriage and divorce, it's tested and it works" Are you really confused, though? [EDIT] To be clear, I'm not uncertain about that, an
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by brimble 4y ago
Software culture plays a role. If there's one big dog successful project around that everyone's using for a particular purpose and that crowds out and de facto kills other libraries that might do the same thing, but that project
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by brimble 4y ago
Sometimes a customer suggests one little feature for the site and you have to gently point them to the entire business employing 25 people that just does that one feature as an entire program/service on its own, so no, they won&#
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by brimble 4y ago
I'm not sure that kind of multi-decade analysis gets at what you're trying to. Too many confounding factors. Meanwhile, money trouble is often reported as a major factor in marital/relationship struggles. Better might be to
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by brimble 4y ago
I truly wish they'd at least separate out the whale-seeking IAP or subscription shit into its own section, which I could then totally filter out of my searches. I don't even bother to look at games on iOS anymore, because it'
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by brimble 4y ago
I can still cancel all my subscriptions on iOS services in one place, very easily, all the same way. I still only have to trust one big, reasonably competent & responsible entity with my money when making a purchase decision, rather t
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by brimble 4y ago
You can still structure the IAPs to account for that, no? There's nothing stopping you from creating arbitrary bundles of IAPs, and pricing those bundles separately. One's an upgrade and presented to people who've already bou
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by brimble 4y ago
The trouble is that divorce, and even relationships turning bad, isn't something that necessarily happens in a vacuum. Very few marriages would really survive all changing circumstances, no matter what the vows say. A relationship th
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by brimble 4y ago
A review's not just a review, and that's that: a review has an angle ; a philosophy ; a purpose . Is the film good art? Does it approach the sublime? Does it achieve what seems to have been its goals? Will it probably please mo
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by brimble 4y ago
Ah, good point and basically in-line with what I was pointing out in my post. That is possible.
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by brimble 4y ago
If they're not planning on unifying much of their desktop/mobile dual-platform stuff as soon as the M1 is sufficiently widespread (so, another 5ish years, when the last of the x86 machines are aging out of active support?), I&#x27
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by brimble 4y ago
Yeah, absolutely, I liked several of the photos quite a bit. They didn't really say "church" to me, mostly—maybe a really cool library?—but part of it's just that most "nice" churches are really pretty, so th

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