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by cout 5y ago
What happens to wooden tools after they are used? In my experience they end up in the dishwasher where they get ruined.
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by cout 5y ago
I wonder if that applies to children who are growing up isolated from their peers during toddler years due to the pandemic, whose only social interactions are with their parents.
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by cout 5y ago
"Orders of magnitude higher" levels of mercury concentration sounds bad, but is it high enough to be concerning? How much of that mercury would be left in a tea bag?
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by cout 5y ago
Hmm, I used to compost my tea bags many years ago when I had a compost bin. It never occurred to me that it might not be paper; they broke down completely enough that I couldn't tell.
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by cout 5y ago
AFAIK vbdos came after the Windows version. It was fun to play with but a little slow.
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by cout 5y ago
I've never made eggnog, but lately I'm starting to learn to make other things with eggs, such as mayonnaise and lemon curd. You can buy pasteurized eggs at the grocery store, and some people claim you can pasteurize eggs at home (
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by cout 5y ago
Think of it like dithering. Not all of us could afford full 24 bit color displays and had to make do with 256 or 16 colors or 8 colors instead. Sometimes the right color brick isn't there and it's better to have the odd colors s
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by cout 5y ago
The kits I got in the 80s and early 90s often came with instructions for alternative builds. It was like they wanted you to know you could build things other than the picture on the box.
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by cout 5y ago
I don't see any specialty pieces in there that I would be unable to use in another build. The problem is that the ratio of specialty pieces to generic pieces is too high; you would need a lot of generic rectangular bricks to build any
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by cout 5y ago
What makes Firefox seem less polished to you than chrome? When I use chrome, the feeling I get is one of standing in an unfurnished office space with white walls and few windows. To me, that is the opposite of polished. Firefox in compari
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by cout 5y ago
I thought firefox was supposed to be a simplified interface (compared to the older mozilla suite).
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by cout 5y ago
I have hand-written asm for use in production code, and I would do it again. I also knew exactly what cpu my code would be running on. If I were publishing the code to run on a variety of hardware, I would be very cautious. Writing your o
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by cout 5y ago
I remember when 60 seconds was the target time to finish loading a web page with images over a 14.4. I remember scrolling on an unaccelerated SVGA card and watching the screen repaint. I remember being impressed at how gopher would only red
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by cout 5y ago
The best part of this is that someone took the time to explain how remix is different and why that can be good. I wish more projects would do something like this. There are plenty of tools I never learn about because no one bothers to exp
405.
by cout 5y ago
I've done that before and found that my comment got reordered by a tool that thought the order of objects didn't matter.
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by cout 5y ago
Many years ago, I had the idea of using Ruby as a configuration language. It lends itself nicely to representing tree structures and has some convenient features like ranges. It all worked well as long as we stuck to the subset of Ruby I
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by cout 5y ago
Very thought provoking. A few of my thoughts: A GC does not obviously cost memory. It might, or it might not. Both a GC and a traditional memory allocator have hidden costs. A GC with movable objects can sometimes do better, because it
408.
by cout 5y ago
Either Objective C or Ruby, yes (imo). One could also make an argument for javascript being a Smalltalk-derived or inspired language.
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by cout 5y ago
Redundant array of inexpensive RAM?
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by cout 5y ago
It also makes me think of the phonograph in Godel Escher Bach. One character made a record player and the other made a record that always caused the record player to break. The crux was that a record player cannot be built that can play a
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by cout 5y ago
The date on this says April 2. Is it possible that the timezone where it was published it was April 1 at the time of publication?
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by cout 5y ago
How would those compare to using a box fan and square HVAC filter with activated carbon? HVAC filters can be purchased for a lot cheaper than $100.
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by cout 5y ago
Large amounts of whitespace became vogue around the same time as skinny scrollbars. I don't mind the whitespace -- it makes it easier to see how things are grouped on the screen. But give me back usable scrollbars on non-touch device
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by cout 5y ago
For me, material design evokes feelings of being in kindergarten making crafts with colored construction paper. Material UIs are not perfectly flat; there is usually a shadow, so I can tell an element is distinct from the layer below it. T
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by cout 5y ago
Different people may have different definitions of "ready to use". For me, pipewire works mostly great; it fixes more than a few issues I never could solve with pulseaudio. But pipewire-pulse has crashed more than a few times fo
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by cout 5y ago
On Ubuntu 10.04 (iirc), I measured it at closer to 50% of one core, and I only had one core. It was unusable for me, until I got a faster computer.
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by cout 5y ago
I disagree that Latinoaméricain follows convention. Most other contracted demonyms in French do not use -o- as a connecting vowel; hyphenation seems to be more common. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:French_dem
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by cout 5y ago
As someone who is very slow to adapt to new language and social trends, I came away disappointed. I was hoping for more explanation of how ideas travel from a small group to the mainstream, but the only explanations given seemed aimed at d
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by cout 5y ago
Correct, the majority speak Haitian Creole, though that is a language derived in part from French. I don't want to debate whether Creole-speaking and French-speaking Haitians should be considered Latin, only point out that many people
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by cout 5y ago
In English, we often use the word Latin with no gender suffix (as in the term Latin Americans). As I understand, Latinx is not an attempt to be gender-neutral but gender-inclusive and language-inclusive (as Latin lacks the gender suffix us

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