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by eloisius 6y ago
Also watch out for mangos. I can’t handle them without having an itchy breakout because the skins contains urushiol.
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by eloisius 6y ago
I’ve seen lots of protesting over the last decade. The strange thing is that it never, ever amounts to anything other than completely trivial placation in the US. It seems like the Europeans are willing to burn their cities down to get some
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by eloisius 6y ago
Not nice to me. I like to be able to see what the link is before I click it.
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by eloisius 6y ago
Off topic: is it new for HN to elide urls this way? I’ve never noticed it before but it really annoys me. I like that HN is just text, and preprocessing it this way adds no usability. It makes it harder to copy a URL, if anything, and it ce
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by eloisius 6y ago
That makes sense, and you’re right. I’ve never worked or lived anywhere that bribes or “facilitation fees” were the norm. The closest I’ve come is a public bus in Vietnam where the driver and fare collector guy made up their own rates contr
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by eloisius 6y ago
I had corporate training, annually, that said to do the exact opposite. We were not even allowed to give or accept innocuous gifts like tickets to a game without getting it approved by our legal department.
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Apple head of security accused of offering bribes for concealed gun permits(theverge.com)
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by eloisius 6y ago
I see what you mean. I always get this feeling that all the changes are better for people in general, but power users get screwed in the move. I used to love how difficult power powerful UIs were. Back in the 90s and 00s, tools like photosh
969.
by eloisius 6y ago
You think we’re too far afield now, I think we were several levels ago. Tomato, tomato.
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by eloisius 6y ago
I guess. I mean, it’s not like I want things to be a big spreadsheet of information or something. A simple example is the semi-recent redesign of Strava. It used to be more of the old school Rails server-generated HTML variety and then they
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by eloisius 6y ago
I don’t understand the aversion to information density that designers have. In my experience, old school server-rendered sites tended to be jam packed with more information and richer tooling than most of the SPA-type sites you interact wit
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by eloisius 6y ago
Pagan is merely derived from the Latin word for “rural” or “rustic” because Christianity took hold in Roman cities first and non-Christian Roman gentry held out in the countryside.
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by eloisius 6y ago
They make sense to me. Especially early or pre-establishment Christianity. They were a “cult of Jesus” within the context of both Judaism and Roman religious life.
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by eloisius 6y ago
I don’t think the modern usage of the word cult is the only one though. In literature about polytheistic or shamanistic cultures you’ll often encounter the word “cult” without it being derogatory. Like “Cult of Dionysius” or Mazu cult. It’s
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by eloisius 6y ago
Yep. My comment was 90% tongue-in-cheek but ‘small’ in the way you used it also accurately describes my lived experience with being small: unimportant, you probably won’t even notice, easy to ignore, etc. However, it’s not a big deal. If
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by eloisius 6y ago
If “small” change offends me because of my tiny stature would you please consider being more precise and saying “inconsequential” or “trivial” change instead of making a spatial analogy for its magnitude?
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by eloisius 6y ago
What you’re saying is really tone de— I mean insensitive
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by eloisius 6y ago
I’ve had to use perforce before and was not a fan. Granted, I didn’t have to use it full time and can’t claim to be an expert, but I hated the notion of locking files, change lists, yuck. All of it felt so clunky compared to git.
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by eloisius 6y ago
No. Private citizens are entitled to privacy and their rights to such should be guarded by both law and responsible security practices at the companies they entrust with their information. Private citizens shouldn’t be shielded from privacy
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by eloisius 6y ago
That’s a false equivocation. Private citizens having “nothing to hide” in their personal lives is disimilar to public officials having nothing to hide in relation to their official duties. Blackmail related to embarrassing sexual procliviti
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by eloisius 6y ago
I assumed these were using some kind of iframe trickery.
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by eloisius 6y ago
Rarely will you run into anyone with this “we’re the real China,” 外省人 identity that would be offended to be called Taiwanese. Descendants of mainlanders that came to Taiwan after 1949 are a minority and Taiwanese identity is very popular he
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by eloisius 6y ago
Why bother with all that? Isn’t it easy enough to pair a keyboard and mouse to an iPad?
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by eloisius 6y ago
Same with me. I’ve had my computer prominently in my living space for my whole adult life. Try doing a prolonged activity that makes computing impossible. I went bike touring for a month a few years ago and felt like I had reconnected with
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by eloisius 6y ago
They’re out there. ssb-git is git over the scuttlebutt protocol.
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by eloisius 6y ago
> if you had learned calculus by 8th grade Joke's on you. I still haven't learned calculus.
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by eloisius 6y ago
Yeah, that's the narrative I fed myself since I was a teenager, and I had plenty of validation for it from family members that loved me. I was just "too smart" to sit in class bored all day or whatever. I'm trying to que
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by eloisius 6y ago
I'm not gravely worried about the ads themselves. They definitely bother me, but I'm more worried by "organic" content. It's really the algorithmically curated feeds that I see being harmful. My dad has always been
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by eloisius 6y ago
I'd love to hear more. I've definitely lived with the downsides, but my experience with medicating for it as pre-teen was so negative that I have been extremely reticent to seek treatment since.
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by eloisius 6y ago
I agree about sunlight being the best disinfectant, but I think social media like Facebook is a little more insidious than just "increased exposure." Facebook is designed for targeted messaging to people who are likely to engage w

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