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by douche 9y ago
The Mongols captured all of modern China, but couldn't master all of the indian subcontinent. Until the EIC, nobody else came closer.
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by douche 9y ago
Trying to force a teenaged boy to read books intended to be from the perspective of a pre-teen girl, written by a middle-aged woman, was predictably a disaster. Too many layers of indirection there. Stephen King on the other hand... besides
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by douche 9y ago
Good lord, suffer yourself to Belle Prater's Boy or Out of the Dust, and come back to me. Granted, that's just late 90s Newbury's, maybe they sucked less going forward. If I wasn't already reading Tom Clancy and Robert L
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by douche 9y ago
I've cooked brook trout by cleaning them, putting them in a plastic bag, and accidentally leaving that ziplock bag in the sun for a couple hours on an August afternoon.
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by douche 9y ago
No shit. If you've ever gone deep sea fishing on the New England coast, and taken home some cod or pollock or haddock or hake filets, then when you skin them, you've doubtless noticed some litle round reddish worms under the flesh
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by douche 9y ago
I wonder how broken our astrophysical models will prove to be once we are more and more effectively able to peer outside our home system. There is a universe of examples out there, and I would find it slightly depressing if all of that comp
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by douche 9y ago
I was probably ruined by reading a few hundred good science fiction novels before hitting that in a freshman lit class. It's basically Newbury-level dreck. It reminded me far too much of The Giver - wildly implausible dystopian socie
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by douche 9y ago
If the Handmaid's Tale is anything to go on, I don't want to see any more Atwood. It takes a lot for me to toss a book in the trash, but there was one...
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by douche 9y ago
Maybe if they can't invest in proper native apps, they shouldn't exist. Electron is a scourge - clock speeds are not getting any faster, and tying a user application to a single-threaded execution model would have been recognized
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by douche 9y ago
If only we could scrap the whole ecmascript thing and force everyone to implement a language that wasn't fundamentally broken for anything more complicated than slapping event handlers on buttons.
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by douche 9y ago
That's largely a self-imposed problem. People don't save even when they have the ability, they just buy more shit
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by douche 9y ago
The lead-violence correlation is very, very interesting. What always makes me wonder is how much historical effect environmental factors like this must have had. Lead used to be ubiquitous, between paint, pipes, roofing, glass, solder - t
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by douche 9y ago
It's probably easier today to buy a bunch of components and snap them together to build a desktop tower than it is to put together an erector set. If I recall, the trickiest part of the whole process was putting the right amount of th
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by douche 9y ago
Generally, in the US, we have the same. The catch is, that if you are leasing or have a car loan on your vehicle, you are usually required by the financing company to carry comprehensive coverage - so that if you total the vehicle while th
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by douche 9y ago
I miss steel bodywork. This kind of "collision" in a 1980s vehicle would require a little hammering to pop out the resulting dent, and a little touch-up paint. Modern cars, it seems like you breathe on them, and they shatter and
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by douche 9y ago
Those ancient Greeks, spoiling the native landscape with their olive groves, and vineyards, and sheep gazing on the hillsides \s
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by douche 9y ago
The Silmarillion might be Tolkien's best work.
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by douche 9y ago
I wouldn't mind if the N.Y. Times crawled up itself and disappeared. The main loss would be the crossword puzzle.
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by douche 9y ago
DirectX fostered multiple generations of gaming on PCs. I dunno what you're talking about with referencing it in a web development context, but it was, and still is, miles ahead of dicking around with broken OpenGL.
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by douche 9y ago
If you are used to python, and think that VS Code is very nice, you'll be blown away by the tools and functionality that proper VS offers.
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by douche 9y ago
Windows is, and has always been, king. There's some halk-baked shit that doesn't behave nicely on Windows, but that's largely self-inflicted.
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by douche 9y ago
Exactly. I have been infatuated with F# for over a year, but it is very hard to abandon C# for my work projects. At least, it's a way of jacking the bus factor to one, which makes me nervous
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by douche 9y ago
Ultimately, McDonalds will have to transition to being a full-service vending machine. Realistically, in an automated world, their flesh-and-blood employees provide negative value. I wish dearly that I could just enter my own order on the P
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by douche 9y ago
One of my favorite underappreciated tv shows, is Code Monkeys, which had a great episode about the ET game https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.dailymotion.com/vide...
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by douche 9y ago
Haha, that is always an option... but I'd rather the drunks be able to use an app to get home, than fight the larger, and largely self-defeating battle of trying to convince or cajole people into not getting out of their heads.
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by douche 9y ago
You're not entirely wrong. Opium reversed the flows of silver specie that was the lifeblood of the China Trade. Before opium, most of the European trade was Mexican or Peruvian silver for tea, or china, or what have you. After opium, i
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by douche 9y ago
I'm constantly amazed, as vulnerable as we are, that in 20 years, there has only been one significant terrorist action within the United States.
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by douche 9y ago
I'm so grateful that Uber exists, precisely for those places where those alternatives don't really exist, and so the choices are trying to bum a ride, or god forbid, driving drunk.
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by douche 9y ago
It's becoming a race of the tortoises to see whether Valve or George RR Martin will release a much-rumored, eagerly-awaited new work first...
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by douche 9y ago
> Oh boy, this again. Are you not able to watch movies with guns because Rainbow Six taught you how guns work and now you're just too woke to suspend disbelief? A fun game to play in most action movies is count how many shots are fi

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