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by corrral 4y ago
Oh wow. That's so much nicer looking than a typical suburban front lawn. What a shame. Though I can see how the same thing without constant upkeep would go to hell in a hurry.
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by corrral 4y ago
I prefer it to all of those that I've used, which is a lot of them—for the specific use case of managing the tools I use on my workstation.
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by corrral 4y ago
If the bigcos had any interest in this, they'd have created such a cert/license. At the very least, they wouldn't make candidates who'd previously passed their interviews, and perhaps those of similar companies, multipl
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by corrral 4y ago
> I think many people have moved to macports. I did the opposite. Macports reliably broke itself every three or four months under ordinary use, and Homebrew's package selection was much more useful to me, so I switched. I also think
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by corrral 4y ago
> 5. Britain nearly declared war on the Union (Trent affair), to the point that Royal Navy was just waiting for the go-signal to commence hostilities & Britain sent thousands of additional troops to Canada. I wonder how much the Un
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by corrral 4y ago
I don't think it's common now, but it used to be a really common type of job. Basically all those secretarial-type jobs—which used to be quite a bit of the workforce—went away, replaced by making experts use computers themselves,
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by corrral 4y ago
I'd love leetcode-type tests if you only had to do it once. Or even with a smaller every-five-years refresher to retain certification or whatever. And then not worry about it at all during interviews.
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by corrral 4y ago
Many—maybe the majority of—software development jobs aren't gated behind these kinds of problems. Or, if there are any, it's one or two from way on the easy end of the scale. But most of them merely pay very well, instead of ZOMGW
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by corrral 4y ago
It's my strong suspicion that the majority of computerized replacements for human and pen-n-paper predecessors are either a wash in terms of productivity, or actually make things worse, and it only looks like the computer revolution wa
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by corrral 4y ago
The solution my mother trained to perform: shorthand-using assistants, with further training in medical jargon and drug names and such. They'd follow the doctors around and take notes, so the doctor could focus on the parts of their jo
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by corrral 4y ago
> Washington, Lincoln, or the Queen How are those gonna do inside that surprisingly-small circle you can draw over Asia and Oceania that contains half the world's population? How about all of Africa ? Whichever face it is, it'
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by corrral 4y ago
I was thinking: 1) School (transportation to and from, parent home to see kid off to the bus and be there when it gets back, at least) 2) Child care (10-hour days, which are more like 11 when you factor in travel, would be... very expensive
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by corrral 4y ago
Looks like hell for trying to schedule anything kid-related.
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by corrral 4y ago
They screwed up scrolling on iOS (Google loves to do this—gmail is also terrible), they screwed up sharing links, and a lot of sites (notably Reddit) had joke-tier implementations that seemed designed to annoy the user. And that's befo
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by corrral 4y ago
> Do you live in a poor country where they don't have proper food protection agencies? USA. So, I mean, kinda. But, unless they're irradiating or freezing your rice before it gets to the store, there are rice weevil eggs in it.
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by corrral 4y ago
Interesting. Our (my part of the US) rice is mostly sold in small plastic bags (perhaps 1-2kg), or for some brands hard plastic containers; larger amounts come in either a much heavier opaque plastic bag (like pet/livestock feed, when
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by corrral 4y ago
Yeah, I'm not, like, put out by that one becoming verboten , I'm just surprised at the sudden change.
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by corrral 4y ago
"Two cheers for democracy", as usual, to borrow Forster's words. As he noted, it doesn't merit three cheers. Two, though? Maybe two.
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by corrral 4y ago
I became aware of the world just as seasonal food availability was becoming a thing of the past—I remember significantly more seasonal variation, but only when I was pretty young—so this really stuck with me growing up. All those colorful
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by corrral 4y ago
I always "!wiki http status codes", but I think I like your way better. May start doing that.
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by corrral 4y ago
I'd expect a couple years at least. A quick Google gives common wisdom that you still want anti-weevil measures (bay leaves in the bag, the aforementioned diatomaceous earth) with that method. My point with that part was just that you
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by corrral 4y ago
The original word (which: I can't keep up, is that really bad now? When did that happen, last week?) made more sense, really. "Vigilante" is way off from it.
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by corrral 4y ago
It keeps your variety and options up if rationing kicks in, and lets you stretch the rations farther. It's not a replacement for raw calories.
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by corrral 4y ago
The country folk solution's a Victory .22 and a bored child who can aim OK.
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by corrral 4y ago
Correct—it's doable, it just takes more material and planning than "buy bag of rice, stick bag in dry place in basement". Do that, you'll be sad when you try to use it in a year or three. The alternative is maintaining a
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by corrral 4y ago
It'd take a lot of trucks and train cars to move one ship's worth of grain. Consider that highways, train lines, and ports don't necessarily have a ton of extra capacity available, for reasons of economy, that upgrading tho
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by corrral 4y ago
Rice will be full of pest insect eggs. They'll hatch after a while (smallish count of months, likely). You've got to freeze it (to kill the eggs) and then seal it (to keep more pests from getting in) and/or add stuff that&#x2
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by corrral 4y ago
Interesting. More evidence that CoD copied the film, then, I suppose.
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by corrral 4y ago
> The Russian army also had some chilling tactics. Basically they had more soldiers than guns during the battle of Stalingrad. So they sent them in pairs where one person was supposed to pick up the gun in the (likely) case the other per
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by corrral 4y ago
My recollection from Cussler's version of the story was that the detachable torpedo on their bow (the idea was to ram a pointy torpedo on the bow of the sub into the enemy ship, detach, then it blows up on a delay so the sub could esca

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