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by eszed 1y ago
That's interesting, but really broad. Does anyone have anything that goes into the technical details of these new techniques? I'm interested in these "£20k devices": what they do, how, and who makes, sells, and maintains
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by eszed 1y ago
That's what Chromecast has been for, for over a decade. I understand that's going to stop working(?) soon, and am very sad.
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by eszed 1y ago
I agree with everything you wrote. Including > I wish these sites would voluntarily try to put some age-gating, but considering that a huge percentage of their traffic is underage, they have no incentive to do so. That mandating a self-i
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by eszed 1y ago
Thank you. That's really good. I'd say in response that he's missing (or, at least, gestures towards but doesn't explore) an element of post-modernism - at least in literary criticism, which I know more about than specif
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by eszed 1y ago
Damn. That kid in Omelas story bites hard. Thank you! I wish it'd existed back when I used to teach the original.
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by eszed 1y ago
Ha! Shout out to CSS Zen Garden. I didn't go as far down the rabbit hole as you did (noped out before XSLT made its way into my mix), but around that time I made sure all of my html was valid XML (er, XHTML), complete with the little v
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by eszed 1y ago
Can you give me an example or two?
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by eszed 1y ago
No expertise in the field, but that makes sense as far as momentary output is concerned. The amount of power generated over a period of time, however, would be entirely by the quantity of water stored behind the dam. At some point it would
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by eszed 1y ago
I've sometimes been able to get a cash discount by asking for it. This won't work with corporate places, obviously, but sole-proprietor sorts of shops - like my local car mechanic, and a print shop I used to use occasionally - hav
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by eszed 1y ago
Thank you for pointing this out! I think we'd get along well, because one of my hobby horses - in real life, and occasionally on this site - is exactly that: if you're dependent on a paycheck, no matter its size, you're Worki
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by eszed 1y ago
Agreed. If this also raises the social status of blue collar work / workers - I mean that someone with a college degree won't feel ashamed to work in the trades, or that, say, a diesel mechanic wouldn't feel out of place at a
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by eszed 1y ago
I promise you someone making minimum wage will not be trusted to make deposits! Ask me how I know....
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by eszed 1y ago
If I'm following correctly, then it would move its own goalposts to whatever else in its training data is considered most taboo / evil.
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by eszed 1y ago
Cash handling isn't free! You have to pay someone's time to count + reconcile + deposit it, or If you're dealing at any volume, you'll pay an armored car service to collect it. There's inevitably "shrinkage&quo
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by eszed 1y ago
Doesn't the house take a percentage of the pot ("rake", isn't it called?). Not a poker player, just thought that was a thing.
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by eszed 1y ago
Not to dismiss bee_rider's sibling comment, like at all , but: Wikimedia's nature and purpose might be distinguished from your generic "American" tech "company".
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by eszed 1y ago
> concert hall full of rich, fancy people Not to harsh your schadenfreude buzz, but this is not the right image. Classical music was mass culture at the time. Opera, in particular, was popular with all classes. (There's a delightful
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by eszed 1y ago
That book - first published in 1998 - was one of my favorites for a while. An overt theme was the the astounding parallels between early-internet culture and the social practices of telegraph operators. At night (particularly) they'd s
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by eszed 1y ago
Sure, and if you bulk-order 5k hamburgers the restaurant will honor the price, but they'll also tell you "we're going to need some notice to handle that much product". Perfect analogy, really. This guy handled the situat
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by eszed 1y ago
I'll submit in the second case (already read something similar) that, properly speaking , we should read both, and upvote (or submit, if not already here) the better of the articles. Not that, you know, I often take the time to do tha
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by eszed 1y ago
> Talk [alternately: listen] to your users Oh, how I wish the companies I work with did that. When I find one that does I'm immediately loyal for life... Or, well, until they IPO / exit - which, in my now repeated experience, i
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by eszed 1y ago
I'm really sad about this, because I'm a word (and punctuation) nerd and use em-dashes in my own writing, because they're correct , dagnabit. Now I'm reconsidering the practice.
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by eszed 1y ago
The same applies to drug manufacturing, so far as I'm aware.
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by eszed 1y ago
When I was a kid my family spent a day on a Native American Culture experience at Yosemite National Park. It was really cool! Flint knapping, and brain-tanning, and basket-making, and beadwork, and dancing, all led local tribe-members. Pitc
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by eszed 1y ago
I think the further down the supply chain of "NSFW things" you go the more closely it resembles "human misery trafficking".
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by eszed 1y ago
Same with gutters, for a long, long time. My parents built their house nearly forty years ago, and the day the gutter guys showed up with their machine was young-me's favorite day of the whole project.
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by eszed 1y ago
Not the guy you asked, but I steelcut oats I mostly eat with butter and salt - I think they're delicious on their own. If you haven't tried that, you should!
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by eszed 1y ago
My history is pretty wack. I have a graduate degree (MFA) in physical performance, and my work history until I was 40 was entirely in theatre: acting, writing, directing, and teaching. (And, you know, waiting tables, and selling shit, and a
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by eszed 1y ago
Heh. I only knew that because my uncle had gone to high school with him - not from anything he ever said! I gathered he let slip some things to chem majors (which I wasn't) in upper division classes, but not much. He was very religio
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by eszed 1y ago
That is axiomatically true, but both harsh and useless, given that (as I understand from HN articles and comments) the choice is "play the publishing game as it is" vs "don't be a scientist anymore".

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