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by cwnyth 3mo ago
We Japanese importers also knew it as Pang.
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by cwnyth 3mo ago
I still have two, a Trinitron and an RCE. For a while, you couldn't give these away. I sadly had to part with a 52" projector TV that had s-video inputs. Classics games on that was a thing to behold.
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by cwnyth 3mo ago
I disagree. Time and time again, it's been shown that people are more moved by a single emotional instance, not the broader statistics. Not everyone has a mind for numbers or scale. What can actually inspire change in them if not a sin
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by cwnyth 3mo ago
Fair! Chronologically, at least, Diocletian's time is closer to us, though not technologically or population-wise. And by Diocletian's time, inflation was already out of control. If anything, the political stability that came with
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by cwnyth 3mo ago
Everyone points to Ea-nasir, but that's a meme. Meanwhile, Diocletian outlawed price gouging and standardized prices across a variety of goods: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edict_on_Maximum_Prices From Polanyi, F
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by cwnyth 3mo ago
Yeah, this is the same in the US. If you tell them ahead of time, there's no issue in splitting the bill. I was doing that 20 years ago when I was a waiter at both higher-end and mid-range restaurants.
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by cwnyth 3mo ago
Europe is a continent. In all the countries I've been to in Europe, the service was indistinguishable from that in the US, where the bill is brought to the table and paid there. Can you be more specific as to what country's restau
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by cwnyth 3mo ago
The unfortunate part is the lack of anything else therein, not that it's Epicurean philosophy.
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by cwnyth 3mo ago
Not all machine learning is generative AI.
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by cwnyth 3mo ago
I think you are misconstruing what I said. I'm not talking about other cultures, I'm talking about the youth who turn in essays that mimic their texting style. I should know: I spent years grading their essays and helping them fas
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by cwnyth 3mo ago
A lot of obvious LLM speech is obvious, but please spare us academics and former academics who learned how to use an em- and en-dash properly. Proper writing in general is being derided by younger folks who are too uneducated to tell the di
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by cwnyth 4mo ago
For anyone who wants to take a real scaled vocabulary test, you can't beat the one given with Johnson O'Connor's aptitude tests.
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by cwnyth 4mo ago
No one said for the laws to be disregarded!? Why are you lying about what people are saying? Does it feel good to win against your own imagination?
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by cwnyth 4mo ago
Did I say it was a jailable offense? You might want to actually read what people write instead of arguing with your imagination.
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by cwnyth 4mo ago
Yes, but public minds are not made up by edge cases. Surely a better example could be used rather than a divisive criminal. Also, not sure how anyone except bad actors or sloppy readers could have gotten that I was defending the US here ins
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by cwnyth 4mo ago
The same Kim Dotcom who was arrested in Germany, extradited from Thailand to Germany, and most recently has been parroting Russian propaganda points about Ukraine? The same one whom the New Zealand legal system has allowed to exhaust every
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by cwnyth 4mo ago
Yes, that's why they specifically were talking to an Australian person about their experience in Australia.
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by cwnyth 4mo ago
Isn't Firefox on the iPhone just a Safari skin? Unless you're in the EU and Japan, all web browsers on the iPhone have to use Webkit. https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/
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by cwnyth 4mo ago
I'm reminded of Eduard Norden's quote on how he does research, to which I relate completely: > When asked how he did research, the great Latinist and Historian of Religion Eduard Norden (1868-1941) explained: "I keep all m
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by cwnyth 4mo ago
ublock Origin works decently well on Firefox on Android. I think I saw that something worked on iPhones, but I never investigated it myself.
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by cwnyth 4mo ago
Firefox + ublock origin and voilà, no more ads.
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by cwnyth 4mo ago
Perl is only as scary as its coder can make it.
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by cwnyth 4mo ago
I remember strongly disliking Flash before 2005, and many tech-minded people I talked to agreed. It was an awful install, always needed an updated, was a memory hog, and was a pain in the ass to use without it crashing. Yes, it must have be
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by cwnyth 4mo ago
23 skidoo.
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by cwnyth 4mo ago
One can dream...
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by cwnyth 4mo ago
I also happened upon this discussion, which claims the exact opposite of the original claim: Massachusetts, despite not having rent control, is dead last in building new housing. https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/com
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by cwnyth 4mo ago
Great analogy. Why is it only food that gets this treatment? Are Italian clothes only made from Italian fabrics, grown from Italian plants? Is every part of an Italian car sourced and made completely within Italy? But people have an irratio
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by cwnyth 4mo ago
Where I work, management hasn't considered integrating AI at all, yet some clients are very vocal about it being the future and worry we are going to be left behind. Most people just don't care, and I worry the squeaky wheel will
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by cwnyth 4mo ago
What exactly are you trying to go for with status? It seems it mostly records filiation, but I don't think that's an intuitive use of the word. Knowing what you're actually going for would be helpful. Also, you might want to
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by cwnyth 4mo ago
This is why you need a two prong approach: city-led redevelopment or redevelopment incentives on top of rent stabilization. Boston is not rapidly growing new housing relative to the number of people who are trying to live there. The median

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