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by eszed 10mo ago
Huh. I may be younger than you are. By the time I got online in the early to mid-nineties the very strong zeitgeist was never to use your real name, nor to post identifying details into (the resultingly anonymized) fora. This was the &quo
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by eszed 10mo ago
"If". [Edit, because one-word replies are uncivilized: one reason to be suspicious about binding arbitration is that the company against whom you'll be pleading is a repeat customer of that arbitration service. It's a no
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by eszed 10mo ago
Yes! Search for "mushroom ketchup", and you'll find various examples for sale. Whatever kinds I've had are nice on bread, and really nice with eggs, but I wouldn't want to eat with chips / fries.
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by eszed 10mo ago
In a previous life I was an English major, and (more important to the subject at hand, I think) a professional actor / voice actor. I endorse everything you say - including that it's maybe like the kerning issue. I damn sure, thou
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by eszed 10mo ago
Maybe so, but it was my time at a British university in the late-nineties that taught me how to write simply and precisely. Maybe I'd been infected (as described in sibling comments) with American "Business English"?
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by eszed 10mo ago
> simpler is almost always better Yeah, a lot's hiding in the "almost", there. I've said this on this board before, but I have to write a lot of documentation for non-technical users, and the maximally-straightforward
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by eszed 10mo ago
Yah. The first clause is still true, though. (Signed, Hemingway fanboy.)
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by eszed 10mo ago
I don't know about that. I've only ever been properly good at one thing in my life - I'm a dilettante at everything else, including my current career - but in my experience (in common with even more talented artists with wh
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by eszed 10mo ago
> when there are other cars around that would need the indication This has a failure state of "when there's a nearby car [or, more realistically, cyclist / pedestrian] of which I am not aware". Knowing myself to be fa
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by eszed 10mo ago
Not the person you asked. In those statistical roundups homicide is treated as a proxy for crime in general, so the best we can rigorously say is that homicide rates have decreased - which is, obviously, great. Researchers treat homicide
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by eszed 10mo ago
I personally agree with everything you say, and am equally frustrated with (years later) not being able to find MacOS settings quickly - though part of that's due to searching within settings being terrible. Screen mirroring is the wor
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by eszed 10mo ago
Ditto, plus 1pass / BitWarden.
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by eszed 10mo ago
Beyond that, if you do get into the specifics of force projection (and basically anything logistical to do with NATO), you see that the entire alliance was built on the assumption that the US would contribute the capabilities that kept th
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by eszed 10mo ago
Indeed, me too. If I didn't have a family, I could even deal with that: living in a closet, eating mush, and studying the golden age(s) of humanity would be... fine , I guess. I'm too old for a revolution, and I could pass what t
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by eszed 10mo ago
Interesting. I kinda skipped that era of cars. Went from a mid-nineties Miata - which I still have, mostly maintain myself, and will never sell - to a 2015 CX-5, which I like, and seems well-made, but isn't exactly friendly to DIY. I
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by eszed 10mo ago
Negative, ghost rider: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/prosy
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by eszed 10mo ago
English major here, and your post is great . It's not complete, of course, but you've hit everything a beginner needs to know to get over the first hump of understanding, in a way that "expert" knowledge sometimes gets
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by eszed 10mo ago
That'd be great, particularly your second suggestion. If AI ushers in a utopian age of post-scarcity gay space communism, I'll happily spend the rest of my life in graduate school.
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by eszed 10mo ago
Of course: "No one" is an obvious exaggeration. It wouldn't surprise me, however, if a great many members of Congress didn't understand much about other countries' healthcare / welfare / transportation &
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by eszed 10mo ago
Back when I was an artist, the pieces of creative writing I'm most proud of - broad ideas, and individual lines - mostly came to me from within this state. I've had a few technical (ie, to do with [dayjob] technology) insights com
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by eszed 10mo ago
Yes. They run public DERP servers. I'm no longer on an ISP with CGNAT, but never had an issue - marginally (like 10%?) throughput penalty, but not enough to notice with only a few users. I understand you can run your own DERP, though I
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by eszed 10mo ago
I am grateful to every pharmacist / pharmacist assistent who's sotto voce ignored that immoral "rule". On the flip side, before I transferred my prescriptions to my (excellent) locally-owned small pharmacy, I checked t
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by eszed 10mo ago
> The public option works to set a roof on what private insurance can charge. Exactly! This is what no one in the US seems to understand. My encounters with private clinics and hospitals in the UK (all 10+ years ago, at this point) were
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by eszed 10mo ago
On BA I typically order the vegetarian option, after seeing my vegetarian (then) girlfriend's meals look repeatedly better than mine. I don't think the airlines much care which of their standard meals you ask for.
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by eszed 10mo ago
I like your spirit, but the thought of trying to persuade a faculty senate to trust a computer solution more than the lady named Carol who's "always" made the exam schedules [adjust for local conditions] gave me my first good
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by eszed 11mo ago
Frame damage apart, brake lines (in general, though I haven't worked specifically on a Dodge) are a reasonably straightforward DIY job. Not at all saying you made the wrong decision abandoning that particular car, just encouraging othe
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by eszed 11mo ago
Entirely agree, although I think it varies by make / model. Roughly look for whenever a particular car got OBDII, which makes diagnostics way easier (and was kinda the perfect level of digitization, again in my opinion), through (as yo
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by eszed 11mo ago
Lol! I did that (sometimes) when I was in hospital in the UK. If you requested a halal meal they sourced it from a takeaway down the street, which was excellent, and a wonderful break from the usual dismal fare. I wasn't a dick about i
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by eszed 11mo ago
Yep. That's exactly what I did when I taught at the university level. Mind you, I was single then, and had no family responsibilities, and the school was small enough that I could ask for the last test slot of the day and always easily
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by eszed 11mo ago
I agree with your point, but you picked a poor example. Have you met any credit reward min-maxers?

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