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by cuttysnark 3y ago
Ah, the ol' papal endorsement—that'll encourage the kids! /s
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by cuttysnark 3y ago
I tore my acl and meniscus by jumping from what I thought was a reasonable height. Evidently all my weight landing on one leg was too much. Did indeed hear a "pop". I remember talking with doctor and they mentioned to me that foot
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by cuttysnark 3y ago
What you're selling can be sold without racially-charged memes. Thanks for understanding.
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by cuttysnark 3y ago
My issue is with the implication of a skin color. I don't need a book to know that's wrong. Can't be hand-waved away, I'm afraid.
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by cuttysnark 3y ago
> why the meme "have the audacity of a mediocre white man" is so important. Important? I avoid people who are comfortable speaking like this. If someone said this to me in real life, I'd make a mental note that they'r
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by cuttysnark 3y ago
Some of the classrooms in my high school had TV/VCR mounted in the corner from the ceiling. Used for the odd VHS, usually by a sub. As such, no one dreamed they had cable —we learned on 9/11 they did. I guess the teachers were w
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by cuttysnark 3y ago
There's a recycling plant not far from where I take the train. In their yard, they have large (5' x 3') concrete blocks that are "stackable" in that they have voids in their bottoms that fit their counterpart's
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by cuttysnark 3y ago
AOL had a 45 minute idle timeout, meaning you'd be logged out regardless of what was happening on your screen if you weren't moving the mouse or using the keyboard. This was a problem if you wanted to download files and have the
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by cuttysnark 3y ago
how it started: > made using stem cells, looks like a textbook example of a real 14-day-old embryo. > It even released hormones that turned a pregnancy test positive in the lab. how it's going: > The researchers stress it woul
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by cuttysnark 3y ago
Bed bugs can go for ages without feeding; the only real way to kill them en masse is extreme heat—e.g. the dryer. There are services that come and seal your house up and then essentially pump 125F heat into it, to kill the bedbugs (bugs @
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by cuttysnark 3y ago
I was humbled and inspired by the creativity and resourcefulness of some prison inmates. There's a Youtube channel[0] where they recreate "dishes" that can only be sourced from the commissary or leftovers from a provided meal
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by cuttysnark 3y ago
IME: "giving a pass [to]" is synonymous with "making an exception [for]". Whereas "passing up" or "passing on" (or as you said "passing over") would be closest to "not taking" or &
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by cuttysnark 3y ago
> natural continuation of being able to Photoshop people's faces This is where I'm at as well, where it differs IMO is: the throughput/variety and the zero barrier to entry—even the most gifted 'shopper could only wor
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by cuttysnark 3y ago
all they are saying, is give beans a pass (from canned vegetable jail)
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by cuttysnark 3y ago
Funny memory from childhood: kale used to be used for decoration on buffets and on served plates—you weren't expected to eat it. Kale had an incredible PR campaign that turned it from scraps to leading leaf.
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by cuttysnark 3y ago
> Since the library is meant to be used in a web app, how would the app be accessed without internet access If a website still works when wifi is disabled, it's because the entirety of the application has been downloaded and cached
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by cuttysnark 3y ago
Good luck to you. Coup d'etat isn't something everyone can say that they participated in. This will either work out well and you'll be high-fiving the remaining team—or you're all getting fired. Simple as. FWIW, I'v
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by cuttysnark 3y ago
> Forgive me if I don't exactly take "I can't commit crime as easily" as a good justification for anything. That was half of it—the other half was some businesses would prefer to not have a credit card processor party
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by cuttysnark 3y ago
I like your analogy, but it excludes a reason I've heard from at least a few candid bar owners in NYC: "Do you know how much money you can hide in these drawers?" Which is to say "do you have any idea how peaceful it is
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by cuttysnark 3y ago
> Meta faces a penalty of one thousand euros per day, up to a maximum of one hundred thousand euros, if it fails to comply with the court's decision. Well that settles that, then.
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by cuttysnark 3y ago
The difference in deodorant application frequency amongst participants was the most interesting take away for me. Some tracked as many as fourteen applications to their counterpart's zero . That alone should create a subcategory.
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by cuttysnark 3y ago
> ... such little hardware (just a small PCB) in the Nest. > ... have usable and rootable hardware on them to run custom LLMs All the heavy-lifting is done on the server, hence the board replacement—no need to root. Install your own b
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by cuttysnark 3y ago
> are taught (poorly) Anecdotal. Here's another: my language teachers from year 3-12 were above average if anything—most of my peers were at least conversational in Spanish (or their selected language) by high school. At the time, t
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by cuttysnark 3y ago
Firefox will always have a special place in my heart, because of Firebug, which I credit to helping me whilst I was learning webdev in the late aughts. A colleague of mine at the time quipped that "Firefox is my workhorse; Chrome is my
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by cuttysnark 3y ago
The best CEOs avoid sitting in chairs such as those chairs specifically. If you're sat there on behalf of your company, suit and tie, starting every sentence with "Senator, I.."—you have somehow messed up, big time.
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by cuttysnark 3y ago
> You are not entitled to sex with anyone, but people can have preferences that are problematic . I read the whole article, but at this sentence I reached for Cmd+W, which was done via muscle memory as my eyes were rolled so far back in
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by cuttysnark 3y ago
This makes perfect sense now, thanks for explaining.
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by cuttysnark 3y ago
> Everyone in my department is making the same, my boss included I'm curious—how does this work? More responsibility ought to mean more compensation—what incentive is there to be a boss if you'll make the same as your reports?
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by cuttysnark 3y ago
> they are simply detecting user agents with ad-blockers The browser's user agent string doesn't change based on plugins installed, or at all--unless end user changes it purposefully. The ad-block detection is likely and usuall
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by cuttysnark 3y ago
I won 6 (3 human, 3 bot) in a row and thought "this is cake, everything is fine" — then got absolutely blindsided by a bot who I was most certain of all 7 was a human. Gonna take a walk.

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