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541.
by eszed 2y ago
US buyer here, and I'm incredibly grateful to the EU for pushing this rope in a consumer-friendly direction.
542.
by eszed 2y ago
Fair point. I should have posted this as a reply to the post that invoked cultural thought-patterns. Specifically grammatical conventions harder to break, they are.
543.
by eszed 2y ago
Did you get there in the end?
544.
by eszed 2y ago
"So, I'm in this hotel, right? And there's this shop across the street, yeah? And it's got this suit , man - and I'm, like, I really wanna try that on." Order of information is mainly prescribed by formal ru
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by eszed 2y ago
I kind of agree with you, much as I loved them when I first read them (and maintain a fondness based on that). I am looking forward to reading at least the first two books to my son in a few years time. That apart, have you read the Dirk
546.
by eszed 2y ago
> making black powder as a child Storytime, please?
547.
by eszed 2y ago
OK, good to know. It's been a couple of years since the last time I made a serious effort. I may give it another try. Who's your host, just in case that's the difference?
548.
by eszed 2y ago
:-) I was aiming for juuuust subtle enough for the joke to land, if you know the reference. Now I know it did, here the rest of y'all go: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Sandwich
549.
by eszed 2y ago
Indeed. I'd like to. Except Google also make it nigh impossible for anyone hosting their own email (the original-internet ideal) to get email into gmail reliably enough to be useful. I have my own address on my own domain, but can&#x
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by eszed 2y ago
To be fair, that's consequent to the Netherlands' well-known love of soda-bread sandwiches.
551.
by eszed 2y ago
They don't have power, but they do have influence. Every Prime Minister has a weekly meeting with the... King (still hard to type that, isn't it?), an off-the-record discussion of what they're doing and thinking, with someone
552.
by eszed 2y ago
I think if you pronounce it as "GORE-a-vel" it rolls off the tongue well enough. "Go-RA-vel" - which arguably better fits English orthography -> pronunciation conventions - sounds terrible. But... Yeah: I prefer &quot
553.
by eszed 2y ago
Goatse was shock, not porn. Kid sees that, gets mildly traumatized and figures it out later and laughs about it when they're an adult. I'm far more worried about them internalizing mysogyny from mainstream porn; that shit sinks de
554.
by eszed 2y ago
How many PhDs can you afford for $20k a month in your field?
555.
by eszed 2y ago
Fair point. I agree that everyone should have an introductory background in both. The tide at the moment, though, is STEM, STEM, STEM... Which I don't think does society any favors. I emphasize Humanities because that's the correc
556.
by eszed 2y ago
Apart from the points made by sibling posters, markets reveal preferences. The eye-watering price of urban land suggests that many, many more people would prefer to live in cities than currently do. (Full disclosure: I am one of them. Reluc
557.
by eszed 2y ago
> The new Settings panel is pretty much universally hated Data-point of one, but: the new Settings panel is very much appreciated by the non-technical users I support, because it approximates the iPhone settings panel they're accust
558.
by eszed 2y ago
> Higher marginal income taxes discourage investment I'm not persuaded that this is true. They discourage investment in the stock market , and inhibit a venture capital model, but I think they encourage internal investment. I don&#
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by eszed 2y ago
Historical nitpick: the Spanish civil war kicked off when the right - most of(police + military + church + rich people) - rebelled against a constitutional republican government. I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader whether that
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by eszed 2y ago
Oh, forgot to say: the new list only repeated about 2/3 of the (real) suggestions it gave me. (I naively expected it to reproduce the list, with all the repeated output pruned, which would have been fine with me.) It also gave me a f
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by eszed 2y ago
> it will often recommend things that are already in my library. This is going to be a really dumb suggestion, not because I think you are dumb, but because LLMs are. This happened to me the other day: Me: "I'm going to upload
562.
by eszed 2y ago
Nifty! As an idea for a paid product: I want to be able to print these out and mail them on actual paper. Let me define variables - maybe in the header row of a .csv file? Everyone can use Excel - and build messages that include them. Creat
563.
by eszed 2y ago
That's pretty darn cool. I can see all of your services and endpoints without having to click through a bunch of menus in a gui, and discover some I might not have thought to ask for on my own - like "There's a PostMan collec
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by eszed 2y ago
Are you saying that if I limit the Spotlight search space then Alfred will follow? Makes sense, if it's relying on Spotlight's index. I'll give it a try.
565.
by eszed 2y ago
I mean... I hope so? Nothing I've seen so far suggests anyone is playing 3d chess, but if this turns out to be true, then I'll give full credit.
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by eszed 2y ago
Wait... What? That application-window trick is awesome. How have I been using been using Macs for twenty+ years and never found that? Discoverability = not-awesome. As repetitive as these top-tips threads can be, we need one every now and a
567.
by eszed 2y ago
I have no problems with Spotlight search. I use Alfred for the plug-ins, it's extensibility, workflows, clipboard history, everything else it can do. Alfred search, in fact, really irritates me in that I've not found a good way
568.
by eszed 2y ago
Well, the people advocating it are bearish on Tesla and trying to win a bet on that, while "hedging" it with their ETF portfolio. I mean, on the fundamentals I'm bearish on Tesla, too, but there's a not-inconsiderable ch
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by eszed 2y ago
OK. Other people (probably not you) in this thread were talking about this strategy like it was basically risk-free. Compared to a naked short it's, um, obviously a better idea, but I still think others were over-selling it by not ment
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by eszed 2y ago
I love your brother's site, so much . It looks like the web counter is still working, and that I'm not the only person from here checking it out, so I hope angelfire is ready for a bit of a "hug".

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