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by eesmith 2y ago
I'm pretty sure when machine-made cloth started in the 1700s or so, people complained its quality was worse than handmade cloth by experts. The trend to fast fashion and now ultra-fast-fashion, driven by ever-increasing marketing press
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by eesmith 2y ago
While cars don't have access to your complete sexual history, note that https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/privacy-nightmare-on-... points out: "The very worst offender is Nissan. The Japanese car
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by eesmith 2y ago
That's because the opinion presents a strawman position. From the linked-to page : > I agree with the premise that consumer devices, such as mobile phones, should be as secure as they can by default. This can even go so far as shipp
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by eesmith 2y ago
Even back in the 1980s, my mother stopped making clothes for us kids when the price of fabric was more expensive than the price of the clothing it would make. Going back a decade, the 1976 children's book "Benny Uncovers a Mystery
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by eesmith 2y ago
PEP 722 was rejected. You are thinking of PEP 723, which was very similar to 722 in goals. https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-722-723-decision/36763 contains the reasoning for accepting 723 and rejecting 722.
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by eesmith 2y ago
https://peps.python.org/pep-0723/ is at the very least related. It's a way of specifying the metadata in the script, allowing other tools to do the right thing. One of the use cases is: > A user facing CLI that
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by eesmith 2y ago
(Ooops! RttP should be RttT, for Race to the Top, not toP!)
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by eesmith 2y ago
The use of: int high = a.length - 1; tells us that a.length-1 is supposed to fit into an int, so there is no need to handle 2³¹ or larger.
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by eesmith 2y ago
I could well be wrong on the details, but note that Bill Gates and his foundation funding enabled Common Core to meet RttP goals, in a way that https://dianeravitch.net/2014/06/08/the-inside-story-of-how-...
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by eesmith 2y ago
I don't know where the #4 is from, but I can point to https://kritisches-netzwerk.de/sites/default/files/homelessn... with a more complete breakdown: Types of homelessness | Living Alone | Long-term
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by eesmith 2y ago
You have no clue what you are talking about. For one, industrial settings are usually enclosed, and those extinguishers are for point sources. https://docs.johnsoncontrols.com/specialhazards/api/khub/doc... s
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by eesmith 2y ago
It's pointless numbers which don't provide any insight into a student's learning while on the school level are used to punish schools rather than provide more support. Since it isn't meaningful to learning, students won&
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by eesmith 2y ago
The billions Gates has dropped on "education reform", including support for Common Core, is the sort of thing a rich ass convinced of the rightness of his techno-managerial views would do.
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by eesmith 2y ago
There is no potential with CO2. Have you worked out how much CO2 would be needed? How to prevent mixing with air? How it will be stored and deployed? How many people might die should there be a container breach? The first two seem mind-bogg
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by eesmith 2y ago
There isn't enough information to judge. For example, the article doesn't mention if the training data was legally and ethically acquired.
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by eesmith 2y ago
That's an awful lot of CO2. You need it to stay there a long time, until the temperature gets below the ignition point, otherwise once the O2 comes back it will relight. You'll need it to get above the vegetation. You'll some
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by eesmith 2y ago
From "The Milagro Beanfield War", https://archive.org/details/milagrobeanfield0000nich_o3a0/pa... > With that, Shorty said, “Say, Ladd, why don’t you have Floyd and Carl here set a forest fire?” >
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by eesmith 2y ago
The linked page proposes to switch from behavioral ads to contextual ads: > Ads could still be targeted contextually—based on the content of the page you’re currently viewing—without collecting or exposing sensitive information about you
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by eesmith 2y ago
Yes, I know it is, I'm saying his argument is silly. Would you prefer 'disingenuous' or 'irrelevant' or 'meaningless'?
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by eesmith 2y ago
I agree they can do whatever they want (so long as it's legal). What's silly is comparing themselves to Congressional floor debates as if that's at all relevant.
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by eesmith 2y ago
That's silly. The Constitution says "Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly Behaviour, and, with the Concurrence of two thirds, expel a Member." For example, House Rule XVII (
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by eesmith 2y ago
Okay, but having all that is a progress bar plus additional functionality, yes? Even if that's what you need, isn't the idea that an HTML <progress> can replace: <div class="progress-bar"> <div c
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by eesmith 2y ago
Why not use the progress indicator element <progress>?
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by eesmith 2y ago
The title is "the iconic macOS Dock", which is not the same as "the dock." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dock_(macOS) comments "The classic Mac OS does have a dock-like application called Launc
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by eesmith 2y ago
They do not have to accept it. https://www.bep.gov/services/mutilated-currency-redemption > Lawful holders of mutilated currency may receive a redemption at full value when: ... > 1. Clearly more than 50% of a no
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by eesmith 2y ago
US Mint FAQ at https://www.usmint.gov/help-center/faqs/paper-currency-and-e... > Is uncut currency legal tender? > Yes. The individual notes on uncut currency sheets are legal tender.
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by eesmith 2y ago
I am appropriately corrected, thank you. After 20 years, I don't understand why that issue isn't at the forefront of the discussion, given how having a self-sustaining independent ecosystem here on earth is much more likely to hel
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by eesmith 2y ago
When was this time? I listened to "The Shadow" radio episodes from the 1940s, sponsored by "Blue Coal". At 0:45 of https://www.beyondthebreaker.com/the-shadow-of-blue-coal/ "All signs point to
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by eesmith 2y ago
This sounds like sour grapes after the dearMoon project folded last year. We all know 'self-sustaining colony' is a load of nonsense. No one knows how to build a self-sustaining ecosystem. As Bruce Sterling wrote 20 years ago: &qu
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by eesmith 2y ago
And when it didn't happen he wrote "Rise and Resurrection of the American Programmer", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rise_and_Resurrection_of_the_A... . > In the original, written at the beginning of

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