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by corrral 4y ago
> I'm not sure what to make of that. The point of the ban was to keep lead out of the environment and people's blood levels which we did successfully. Lead isn't some sentient being looking to find it's way into our s
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by corrral 4y ago
Sure, maybe, but the better automated tools get, the higher standards will be before submissions are considered. I bet slush-pile readers were a lot more tolerant of the occasional tranpsosed letter before spell check existed, for instance.
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by corrral 4y ago
> Sorry about that. I don’t know how it happened, but it’s fixed now. No problem, shit happens. > My first draft is better than the finished product you’ll find in most publications (not bragging, it’s just the truth). Before it’s pub
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by corrral 4y ago
Yes, editors are wonderful and ought to be paid well (even if authors aren't...) but authors who can't afford editors (i.e. all the ones trying to break in to writing but who don't have substantial financial backing) bene
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by corrral 4y ago
Page is blank for me and I couldn't find a version though your site's search. Your experience is that editors are cheap and that publishers readily supply substantial editing services, not requiring that practically all editing
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by corrral 4y ago
Editors are expensive and publishers don't really provide that service to authors, anymore. You're expected to have that all taken care of before you submit, even to publications that barely pay (or even some that don't pay
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I like to say that Apple providing a much better experience than the competition has less to do with Apple being amazing and more with the competition being shockingly bad.
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> (yes, the lead in gasoline was part of a particular molecule, too—which just proves my point, if we'd outlawed the specific molecule/compound that would have opened the door to finding other technically-different ones that st
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It's not moving the goalposts, the two actions are meaningfully different. Lead is basically always dangerous, so "no lead" is an easy call and has the desired effect. The lead, specifically, was causing the entire problem, a
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Very little news needs to be followed to be a good citizen of a democracy. Local news, sure, on perhaps a weekly or monthly basis (i.e. you probably don't need to check in every day). National, state level (at least for states that a
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That's an element. These are compounds. There are a lot more compounds than elements, and it's a lot easier to find one you can sub in to do the same thing. (yes, the lead in gasoline was part of a particular molecule, too—which j
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by corrral 4y ago
I just know that a couple years back when I had a couple "free delivery!" coupons from DoorDash, I struggled to make use of it in a way that wasn't a rip-off, because the food prices were so much higher than their usual menu
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I've noticed that the prep-school-to-Ivy pipeline is great at producing people with that quality. I just checked and, sure enough, that's exactly what she did. [EDIT] The quality of being a confident, engaging conversationalist an
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This is nonsense unless you're ready to go deeper on what "true" and "natural" mean here. Beware: it'll be easy to run into tautology.
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> According to whom? This letter. Unless mere mortal workers staying focused is more important than the God-CEO staying focused. In which case, maybe compensation needs a serious re-think.
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DoorDash costs have always been absurd, they just hide a lot of it by pricing the food higher than it normally is. I've noticed our grocery delivery services doing that, too, giving us prices on items that are higher than they are if y
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by corrral 4y ago
Rising wages are a very small part of cost increases, except for a few things like on-demand quick-response delivery services (food delivery and the like) and even there, fuel costs are a lot of it.
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Exactly—it's entirely infeasible to live in the modern world and keep up with every step of the supply chain for every product and service you use, even if the information were readily available, which it very much is not. It's
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I'm going to bookmark this post to point people to when someone asks me what Poe's Law is.
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by corrral 4y ago
Most recipe sites include a microformat for recipes, so are trivial to strip of the fluff. Lots of recipe apps can do it for you (I use Paprika 3—browse to the page in the app's webview, hit "add recipe", works like a charm 9
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It's worth noting that this is such an old problem that traditional news-writing styles incorporate a solution: they require that the author cram the most important info into the first few sentences, then expand on it for the rest of t
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We shouldn't let people obtain CS degrees until they've had to write at least one fairly-complex program on a platform with little enough RAM that the amount of code in the program starts to be something they have to optimize (b
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Somewhere around IIRC Win8 Microsoft must have gotten really lax about minimizing disk access. Windows started being slow as molasses on an HDD, even for stuff like opening the start menu. This hurts performance a ton on SSDs, too, it&#x2
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Drag & Drop is an action I had to consciously work to start using when I switched to macOS, a little over a decade ago. Windows and Linux had trained me never to use it, aside from moving files around in Explorer or whatever, because it
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> Ikea also sells nice, solid wood, furniture. And they typically do so at a price that is much more affordable than their competitors. I've seen (and own) some solid wood furniture from IKEA. I'm usually an IKEA defender (see
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Seen the kind of furniture you can get in the same price range as IKEA? It's usually most or all of: hideous; difficult to assemble (why people complain about IKEA when basically every other player in their market is far worse, I do
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by corrral 4y ago
So many potentially-interesting channels have lost me because two minutes into the first video I try, they're still talking about previous videos or irrelevant personal stuff or their subscriber count or WTF ever. Close tab.
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The difference between them and most YouTubers is that they came at it backwards—they understood video production before they became YouTubers.
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Confession: I'm nearly 40 damn years old, and I still second-guess month numbers enough that I usually just count starting from January, ticking them off on my fingers, and going through them one by one, to reach the one I need.
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> Hospitals aren't allowed to deny care (obviously). They will bill people outrageous amounts and know that they will only ever see a fraction of it. So prices for people who do pay are raised considerably to make up for it. They ab

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