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by eszed 2mo ago
Numbers is essential, because it understands dates, better handles CSV files, and doesn't corrupt long numeric UIDs. But, you're right: Excel is for the complicated stuff. I recommend Numbers to the vast majority of users in our c
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by eszed 2mo ago
> Reddit recently blocked access to old.reddit.com for users who are not logged in They haven't for me (just tested before posting this comment), which I realize might be temporary. Have they published a policy, or did you get caugh
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by eszed 2mo ago
I was going to point out the same thing. At least in the UK, it's a bit of an urban vs rural, or maybe urban vs village, divide. Small communities can rely on names; larger polities need numbers. This was pointed out in TFA, but not th
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by eszed 2mo ago
I rather like "man of many turnings", on the page. The problem I have with Claude's version - same as Lattimore, in fact - is that it's really hard to read aloud; the rhythm just doesn't hit right. Fagles is the bes
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by eszed 2mo ago
What's this unavoidable YouTube video that activates on-scroll? I that doesn't become a design pattern, because it's horrible.
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by eszed 2mo ago
You are correct, and deserve the up votes. I hadn't seen the actual photo. At the same time... How dumb is that? As the commenter above points out, $5-10B would be a drop in a bucket.
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by eszed 2mo ago
I believe that would mean 5- year or 10- year , as in the terms of the bonds. No amount disclosed.
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by eszed 2mo ago
I agree that attestation is the biggest deal. My current hope is that the upcoming GrapheneOS phones will be able to achieve that. It's really up to a manufacturer being able to strong-arm third-parties - banks and such - into acceptin
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by eszed 2mo ago
Ben and Jerry's enshittification makes me sad. Interestingly enough, I was told when I visited the Vermont (original, and now theme-park-ish) plant that they still use the original recipes there.
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by eszed 2mo ago
Eh. I've been working (at $job) with an electrician I will be thrilled to see the back of, and whom (the feeling is general) we will never hire again, and... The screws are aligned, but eldritch horrors lurk beneath. That might once
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by eszed 2mo ago
> it is imperative to study this molecule’s environmental fate and impact before pressing it into service. Yes, let's do that, this time. Sounds like a super-cool and useful molecule, but externalities can be killer.
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by eszed 2mo ago
I'm with you on all of that. There is, nevertheless, a strong argument that IP protection (particularly for creative / "culturally significant" works) is too long . Twenty years - interestingly enough, the original time
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by eszed 3mo ago
Not challenging your marketing presumption; I've noticed, and seen pointed out, the same thing. As a side note, years ago Häagen-Dazs was better (high milk-fat, etc) than the other widely-available brands. It's now owned by Nestlé
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by eszed 3mo ago
> I like feeling every word as I read. I know what you mean. I don't typically sub-vocalize, but when I run across a particularly beautiful bit of prose I slow down in order to hear it in my head. If I'm on my own I might read
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by eszed 3mo ago
Absolutely. On the other hand, Russia's previous conquests / adventures (Chechnya; Georgia, 2008; Ukraine, 2014) were shrugged at by the west. It's wasn't insane to expect that taking over the rest of Ukraine, if quickl
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by eszed 3mo ago
Funnily enough, I am (was) an actor. Public speaking and telling stories are my jam. So... I do all that. I love making wacky analogies to help people understand complex systems. Higher-level decision-making, I find, isn't so much li
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by eszed 3mo ago
Yes. Furthermore, when I write precisely - because it's an important subject (read: will cost the company money) where we must be on the same page - people's eyes glaze over, and they ask for a meeting or a phone call instead. S
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by eszed 3mo ago
I have a friend whose dad finished his engineering career at SABRE (he retired some years before it shut down). According to him, the original concept wasn't far-fetched, but that they didn't crack some manufacturing / materi
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by eszed 3mo ago
Static (relatively, at least) battle lines? Think of WWI: you knew where the danger was, and where it wasn't. Not that I know anything in particular about this piece of military jargon, but that's my contextually-informed supposit
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by eszed 3mo ago
Add to all of that: this started as a war of conquest . Putin seems to have believed that Russian forces would quickly take Kiev, depose the government, and install a client regime in its place. You don't want to destroy property you
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by eszed 3mo ago
https://archive.is/PTWaB
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by eszed 3mo ago
https://archive.is/LWo4A
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by eszed 3mo ago
At least that would be honest....
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by eszed 3mo ago
I got that notification a few days ago: "Reserve your username!" Every username I tried - based first of all around my very-uncommon real-name" - that did NOT have numbers at the end of it was either already taken (fair enoug
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by eszed 3mo ago
Of course. Regions and cultures and families varied all over the place - and still do today. I wasn't trying to make any kind of universal claim, just explaining how our social group handled the "but what do you do about younger k
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by eszed 3mo ago
If that's a serious question, it's because as printed scores are also communicating the game situation. It could be as simple as End of day three: NZ 558 - Eng 354 That's factually accurate, but wouldn't tell
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by eszed 3mo ago
I'm of an age to have grown up like that, and one of the real drags was having to take my 3-5 year-old sibling along on whatever activity the rest of us were up to. ("But mom, we're building a fort - do I have to ?") Th
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by eszed 3mo ago
Hell, yes. (Not GP.)
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by eszed 4mo ago
The defense and security-related sector is legendary for this. I had a friend who worked at a three-letter agency ~20 years ago who saw multiple colleagues quit, get hired by contractor firms and sold back to the agency to work on the exact
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by eszed 4mo ago
What's your last local news source? I'm jealous of you that you have one. The place where I live had their local newspaper bought out and (in effect) shut down by Alden Global Capital (google them) nearly a decade ago. There'

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