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by eadmund 2y ago
> Student loans make it quite difficult to pay for daycare and childcare - especially for infants. Add in the pressure for launching and establishing careers and the whole "baby thing" is being pushed off until the ladies are i
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by eadmund 2y ago
> The OCI Distribution Spec is not great, it does not read like a specification that was carefully designed. That’s par for everything around Docker and containers. As a user experience Docker is amazing , but as technology it is hot g
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by eadmund 2y ago
That was my point: it used to be possible for those who wished to smoke in their rooms to do so, but that choice has been stripped everywhere I am aware of. Free smokers!
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by eadmund 2y ago
> drop-shipping, are permitted as long as you designed the item Isn’t drop-shipping when a seller has the manufacturer ship an item to a buyer directly without designing it?
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by eadmund 2y ago
> there used to be non-smoking dorms for students and visitors who preferred to live in a smoke-free environment. What do you mean ‘used to be’? To my knowledge, every dorm in just about every college or university is now non-smokin
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by eadmund 2y ago
> One of those "not everyone doing it is up to no good, but everyone who is up to no good is definitely doing it" things That applies to breathing, eating, sleeping: not everyone who breathes is up to no good, but everyone who
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by eadmund 2y ago
> More than anything, HyperCard made personal computing personal again, in a way it hadn't been since computers would boot straight into a BASIC interpreter And in a way it hasn’t been since , either. Web browsers and Javascript
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by eadmund 2y ago
> Note that hardly anyone has actually used those "dive" watches for diving in decades. Yeah, the line about them is that they are ‘desk divers’! I have the idea that plenty of folks do still use them for diving, but of course
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by eadmund 2y ago
A fake looks like an original, and is something which wrongfully and illegally misuses the original’s logo or other marks: it lies about what it is. A homage is something which looks like an original, but does not use the original’s logo or
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by eadmund 2y ago
Has Hermès trademarked the design? I would love to get my wife an homage Birkin, but every time I google for such a thing I don’t really find anything. The only thing that makes sense is that they aggressively shut down every competing ma
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by eadmund 2y ago
A sport watch is not a dress watch, not a dive watch and not a field watch. It’s typically water-resistant, but not hugely water-resistant (swimming, rather than diving). It typically has a metal bracelet or a tropical rubber strap. A d
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by eadmund 2y ago
The only real advantage of this seems to be the ability to disable the chime during quiet hours. Otherwise it seems like a much more failure-prone doorbell (more components means more things to break). Why not go the other way entirely? D
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by eadmund 2y ago
> If you want to show progress while the reader is somewhere in the middle of a page, you could use a page progress bar. There used to be a great feature available in every scrollable window which showed one’s position: the scrollbar. T
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by eadmund 2y ago
> Any more levels and you have now reinvented GraphQL Sure, but reinventing the wheel can be good, particularly when the existing wheel technology is oblong, lumpy and constructed of stone and cheese. I’m just bitter than GraphQL endpoin
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by eadmund 2y ago
No, of course not — but the correct English third-person nominative singular pronoun for a human being of unknown sex is ‘he,’ just like the correct English third-person possessive singular pronoun for a building is ‘her’ and the correct Ge
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by eadmund 2y ago
> > but he will > I can't help but point out this use of "he" What about it?
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by eadmund 2y ago
> When the definition of death changed in the late 1960s, making it possible for a person to be ‘brain dead’ but with organs still very much alive and available for donation, a bridge appeared and a sixth class was created in the early 1
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by eadmund 2y ago
> My problem with prefix, is simply that my mind does not think in prefix. Mine, neither, for maths. But for everything else, we’re both already used to prefix: fprintf(STDOUT, "foo %d", 3); is prefix, just as much as
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by eadmund 2y ago
> They've stopped this after too many incidents with the dogs relieving themselves on the merchandise. Out of curiosity, how does one housetrain a dog such that it respects building interiors other than its own home? Every dog I’ve
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by eadmund 2y ago
> The end result is a gatekeeping cargo cult, where you have to go through the (expensive, exhausting) motions of asking someone’s permission, without the process really filtering out good from bad applicants. I am reminded of https:&#x
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by eadmund 2y ago
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 states: > It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer - > (1) to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual with respect to h
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by eadmund 2y ago
I had the same immediate reaction that you did, but the key here is that the age of dependencies is not absolute but calculated against the latest release. So a one-day-old dependency with no succeeding version is 0 libyears old, not 1&#
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by eadmund 2y ago
What’s the best price/performance for a home lab server running Linux with ECC these days? Bonus points if it is rackable. Sadly, my go-to Linux hardware manufacturers either don’t offer ECC RAM, or only offer it as an option on their
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by eadmund 2y ago
I wrote this quick little program on my laptop: (ql:quickload "cxml") (defclass finder (sax:default-handler) ((in-location :initform nil) (count :initform 0))) (defmethod sax:start-element ((fi
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by eadmund 2y ago
$40,000 is $480,000/year, which is 11.3% of $4.25 million; if one borrowed that $4.25 million at a significant discount to 11.3% then that might be a very good financial decision indeed. If it’s at a floating rate, it might still be a
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by eadmund 2y ago
> > it's okay to make financial decisions that don't make any sense on paper if they work for you I consider that to be (mostly) pernicious nonsense, like ‘it’s okay to walk off of a cliff, if that works for you.’ To a very
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by eadmund 2y ago
> outside of a potential rise of property taxes, my "rent" payment will not exceed a certain number of dollars And home insurance, too. But generally, yes: over the course of decades an American fixed-rate mortgage really is a
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by eadmund 2y ago
Yup, part of what I enjoy about meat is precisely that it is a real food, and part of what I enjoy about coffee is that it is a real food too. Both can be relatively minimally processed, and recognisably the thing that they came from. I do
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by eadmund 2y ago
> the health impact of secondhand smoke Which is Ø. ‘Secondhand smoke’ is just an excellent reframing of ‘smell I dislike.’
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by eadmund 2y ago
Without liability limitation one would need even more (an order of magnitude?) capital, and given the risk it might not be worth it at all. > Nobody's going to loan money to an LLC with no assets without a personal surety. I think t

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