buttercraft

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by buttercraft 9mo ago
Notepad was basically the "Hello world" of win32 apps. A kid in highschool could have "maintained" it.
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by buttercraft 10mo ago
> mostly at the same time Mostly? If you can update A one week and B the next week with no breakage in between, that seems pretty independent.
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by buttercraft 10mo ago
From the author's comment up thread: "when they learnt to run on the ball and how that influences their reward, they got hooked. I believe they enjoy not just the reward, they get a sense of how their actions influence the game an
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by buttercraft 1y ago
Same for me. It has led to some awkward moments in public where it looks like I'm staring at someone from across the room, but I'm just thinking/visualizing and am only vaguely aware of what my eyes are looking at.
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by buttercraft 1y ago
AFAIK only if you are booked into jail, and also for some licenses. For example, a beer and wine license for a restaurant requires fingerprints, at least in my state, not sure how it varies. Probably some types of firearm licenses as well.
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by buttercraft 1y ago
What the... Is this some sort of joke I'm not getting? "The participants who did ultimately enroll, agreed with the knowledge that the aircraft were stationary and on the ground."
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by buttercraft 1y ago
If you put measures in place to prevent someone from accessing a computer, and they circumvent those measures, is that not a criminal offense in some jurisdictions?
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by buttercraft 1y ago
"Many people have a fear of flying, or get claustrophobic or motion sick on planes, and windows give them a greater level of comfort in an otherwise stressful environment."
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by buttercraft 1y ago
I, for one, will remember the "m" at the end of your username and not associate you with the hate-filled, sociopathic screeds of the other poster. Probably not much consolation, but, hey...good luck
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by buttercraft 1y ago
Yeah, I also think you're mixing up pleasure and happiness.
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by buttercraft 1y ago
>> never participated in good faith > aren't in lockstep with liberal/progressive ideals These aren't the same thing
42.
by buttercraft 1y ago
I'm guessing you didn't get invited to the meetings where all of HN gets together and decides how to comment on the topic of the day.
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by buttercraft 1y ago
Those costs are factored into the rent.
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by buttercraft 1y ago
Yeah I don't trust their accuracy at all. Last winter my gas heater was out of commission for about a month. I plugged in 3 oil filled electric radiant heaters. I had guests at the time so I kept the temperature up higher than usual i
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by buttercraft 1y ago
> he ends up paying more for the labor, because he is competing in the same labor market as everyone else You'll have to explain that more. Ship builders aren't competing with plumbers. >Don't you think spending the wor
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by buttercraft 1y ago
"Consume" labor hours? What does that even mean? Those laborers get paid, and then they spend the money they get. That money is circulating through the economy.
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by buttercraft 1y ago
Maybe this: "In 2021 he was found to have libelled a 15-year-old refugee at a school in Huddersfield and was ordered to pay £100,000 plus legal costs. After breaching an injunction about repeating the libel, Robinson was sentenced to 1
48.
by buttercraft 1y ago
What about the flooding?
49.
by buttercraft 1y ago
What if they're the ones who survive and rewrite history
50.
by buttercraft 1y ago
> college is a privilege We, as a society , need doctors, lawyers, scientists, and engineers. College is a requirement for that.
51.
by buttercraft 1y ago
> it only works if everyone follows the rules. That means it will not work!
52.
by buttercraft 1y ago
It sounds like you are describing people with strong beliefs. Religious people may have strong beliefs, but so do non-religious people.
53.
by buttercraft 1y ago
But how do you know if you are gaining wisdom if you don't even know when you're wrong?
54.
by buttercraft 1y ago
Who, exactly, is being censored?
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by buttercraft 2y ago
Okay, but you can also take the company's well-deserved reputation into account when deciding whether to do business with them.
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by buttercraft 2y ago
The implication is they can't be trusted
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by buttercraft 2y ago
> reading from right to left, bottom to top - from inside out I don't understand why you think this. Can you give an example?
58.
by buttercraft 2y ago
> in your system you rely too much on file metadata your need more engineering Except sometimes it's a 3rd party's app whose data you have to restore, and you don't have control over their engineers.
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by buttercraft 2y ago
Yeah, as if we're all going to be riding dire wolves and mammoths to work in a few years...
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by buttercraft 2y ago
Easy: evil lacks empathy. All it takes to not be evil is... empathy.

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