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by dustincoates 2y ago
As does YouTube Music
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by dustincoates 2y ago
Those 8,461 hours were over five years, meaning he averaged more than four and a half hours a day. I couldn't even imagine doing that for something I loved.
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by dustincoates 2y ago
I moved into a new apartment with an induction cooktop and radiators with the same type of "buttonless button" controls and those continually give me problems. You can't just touch them, but you have to slide your finger over
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by dustincoates 2y ago
You're right that it was Mitchell, but Bezos wasn't referring to Eric Holder, but to Bob Haldeman, WH CoS under Nixon.
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by dustincoates 2y ago
Depending on whether it is a single message or not, Slack now allows you to embed messages from private channels or DMs and have them shown to people who don't have access to those areas.
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by dustincoates 2y ago
Congrats on that achievement! I'm on my second go of gzclp now (took a few months off due to a nasty case of pneumonia and then life got in the way), and I'm amazed by how much progress I've made through it.
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by dustincoates 2y ago
I'm reading that right now, and it's incredible the amount of rent seeking that went on. It was a system that wasn't great for anyone except those who got the bribes from people looking to work. (I also had a good laugh when
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by dustincoates 2y ago
> and although it's unstated and I have no evidence, I think this is where the actual money comes from The article links to a WSJ article that says this group of problem players provides more than 50% of revenue to the betting compa
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by dustincoates 2y ago
I loved MuchMusic, which is really weird considering I grew up in Texas. For some reason our local cable company didn't have MTV, and so that meant that so much of my adolescence was influenced by TV from Canada.
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by dustincoates 2y ago
I've given a ton of thought to buying an old iPod and setting it up for modern usage, largely inspired by this blog post: https://ellie.wtf/ipod/ The author is a bit wrong about one thing, in that you can add Blue
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by dustincoates 2y ago
> There is no political will to do so. I’ve never even seen it suggested even by the cringiest parties in any country in which I have lived. No, you've just got MPs proposing to strip "tax exiles" of their citizenship and
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by dustincoates 2y ago
Honestly? Because they can't. If any other country had control of the world's reserve currency, they would do it, too. It's the same reason why the US can place sanctions on Russian individuals in a way that, say, India canno
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by dustincoates 2y ago
The same thing with job titles happens in France, too. Also, back when tech meetups were more common, you would often have where the title and description were in English, and the talks in French.
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by dustincoates 2y ago
I moved to a Framework 13 (with Ubuntu) for my personal computer back in January from a Surface Pro (with Windows). I've mostly been happy with it, though, like the author, I'm not doing anything too demanding with it. My biggest
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by dustincoates 2y ago
Also a big fan of Yoto. Although, ironically, the greatest use for us is its use as a wakeup light it has around the base. My daughter knows that the Yoto is in charge of when she needs to stay in bed or when she can walk around. "When
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by dustincoates 2y ago
It's not just Americans that add sugar to yogurt. [0][1] If you don't want to translate that, the second ingredient in the listing is sugar. The second link says that 50% of French people add sugar to the plain yogurt they buy fro
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by dustincoates 2y ago
They have a paid tier, called insiders, although you can also "pay" through helping other users on the site: https://exercism.org/insiders
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by dustincoates 2y ago
> When the Japanese delegation protested – could they accept a botched surrender document? For some reason I find this a bit humorous. My dudes, you do not have much leverage.
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by dustincoates 2y ago
Just because it's one of my pet peeves, this is not what Dunning Kruger says. What it says is that people who are poorly skilled in a task will overestimate their skill and those highly skilled will underestimate, but not that the poor
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by dustincoates 2y ago
Is this why, when I'm reading text on a dark background, red will appear on a different plane than white? I was just wondering the reason last night.
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by dustincoates 2y ago
I mean, sure, if you ignore the rest, you might be left with the idea that video games were all we got out of the past fifty years. Not that it's a competition. The era between 1924 and 1974 being a big one for splashy technological ad
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by dustincoates 2y ago
You have access to as much knowledge as you could ever want in your pocket at all times and you can ask a computer to create a photo for you of anything you can imagine. We've sequenced the human genome. We've got video games! The
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by dustincoates 2y ago
> Obviously, I turned down the offer. I sometimes wonder if I'll regret that choice later on down the line. I could not tell you a single thing about my graduation ceremony.
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by dustincoates 2y ago
Yeah, even the Wikipedia article the article links to claims that the transition's at 2AM: > North America coordination of the clock change differs, in that each jurisdiction changes at each local clock's 02:00, which temporari
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by dustincoates 2y ago
Oddly enough, I much prefer recently used when switching windows and sequential when switching tabs. I'll note as well that Vivaldi offers the option to switch the behavior.
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by dustincoates 2y ago
Netflix offered this in France back in 2020[0], but appeared to have removed it in 2022[1]. 0: https://www.vulture.com/2020/11/netflix-linear-channels-dire... 1: https://www.numerama.com/pop-cultur
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by dustincoates 2y ago
Am I missing something? The Peru flag is a 2:3 rectangle, which is the most common flag shape.
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by dustincoates 2y ago
> Academia is its own kind of hell Reminds me of Sayre's Law: "Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%2
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by dustincoates 2y ago
Important to note: it's free because it's at the Olympic Village, not because it's in France. French people aren't getting free glasses, either. (Yes, they are sometimes cheaper than in the US. No, not always. Yes, usual
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Learning a Language When You're Bad at Learning Languages(dcoates.com)
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