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by eszed 2y ago
Between your comment and others in the thread we've so far got: - Insurers won't insure you - Abortion activists will hunt you down - Religious fanatics will shame you - Credit rating Not to downplay those (very real) risks in the
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by eszed 2y ago
I use tape, or bluetack. Bluetack is easiest for the external connectors, but a wodge of tape, properly manipulated, can get the internal ones. Can be a bit of a pain, but it's never not worked.
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by eszed 2y ago
> put on their hazard lights when slowing down in traffic on the freeway I appreciate people who do that when the traffic ahead of them is stopped , not just slowing. It's hard to anticipate or evaluate a full-speed -> stopped s
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by eszed 2y ago
Further wrinkle: it only took a long time in your VCR, which (we all believed) was also bad for your VCR (I mean, maybe? But avoiding stressing the VCR's mechanism was why it took a long time). So, gadget catalogs sold standalone high-
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by eszed 2y ago
Fair enough. I'm enough not-a-mathematician that I didn't know it was well-known, and wouldn't even have known how google the proof! (Nor have much confidence I'd understand the real thing once I found it, lol.) Anyway,
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by eszed 2y ago
It's one of the regrets of my life that I didn't take start calculus my first term in college. I'd done pre-calc in high school, but I'm a Humanities guy, and maths - even when I "get" it (and I'd done fin
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by eszed 2y ago
That was also my experience with that experiment, as a professor, about a decade ago. Educational ideas always work in the ideal (imagined) environment, but not so well in the (actual) classroom.
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by eszed 2y ago
I had LASIK in 2012 (wanted to, but couldn't afford it ten years previously). It was amazing. Dry eyes persisted for about a year, which is longer than most people say. Halos? Yeah, a bit, I guess, but not enough to be bothersome. I go
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by eszed 2y ago
This is my (new) favorite answer. You've made something counter-intuitive seem simple and obvious. Fantastic! (I've never done this before, but: a pox on those down-voting my original question. Learning is the very essence of &quo
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by eszed 2y ago
Thank you, and everyone else who answered (I hope they see this reply). Your distinction between "sequence" and "number", along with the mathematics of 0.333... = 1/3, convinced me - and my mind is successfully blow
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by eszed 2y ago
Whoa! What? Not a mathematician in any way (in case that isn't obvious), but I'd have totally thought 0.999... asymptomatically _approaches_ 1, but never reaches it, and so is <1. Is there a short-form explanation (that I might
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by eszed 2y ago
> taking corticosteroids to cure an inflammation that thus allow athletes to train at higher intensity, but the former is medicine and the latter is forbidden medicine aka doping. Is that a UK-specific sporting regulation? In the US, pro
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by eszed 2y ago
FWIW, my Bacon number (so far as I know) is 3 - but I have it two ways, with completely different people in the middle. <shrug> I'm not on IMDB (never did any major major movies), so my connections go through theatre, which I did
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by eszed 2y ago
To change the physical tabs, sure. What about whatever drives the tab-switching? Wouldn't surprise me if it's a 1980s solid-state something-or-other with a baked-in 0-9 constraint.
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by eszed 2y ago
This is so damn cool. Thank you for building this. I last did hands-on (professional) development back in the jquery era, but have amassed a certain degree of familiarity with modern frameworks by contracting / PM-ing various projects
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by eszed 2y ago
Former San Francisco resident here. I pushed for building reform while I lived there. Will continue to vote for building reform there now, even though we got pushed out (kids....) by high prices, because we yearn to move back. I don't
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by eszed 2y ago
Not to pile on, but this article makes a fairly egregious history blunder, as well. Navajos (and athabascans generally) did originate in western Canada, but the Navajo and Apache people were resident in the US Southwest long before European
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by eszed 2y ago
That's a good insight, and I agree with everything you wrote. Side note about horoscopes, or something similar. My sister is pretty far out on the 'woo' side of things, and one of her side gigs is doing 'readings',
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by eszed 2y ago
That was last time.
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by eszed 2y ago
I'm intrigued by the analysis of emotions and dualities and priorities. (I didn't understand the concept of "beats", but maybe I would if I read it again.) I strongly affirm the framing that "all emotions [even the
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by eszed 2y ago
I made a more-substantive reply to a sister post, but... Have you seen what people buy? The front page of HN on any given day teems with posts about tech-sector equivalents to cardboard helmets. The buyers usually supply their own nails.
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by eszed 2y ago
Forgive me some exaggeration for comic effect. What we'd actually see are helmets which advertise themselves as safe, and which look safe to uninformed external examination, some (but not all) of which are very, very cheap, but any of
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by eszed 2y ago
We already do this in lots of areas. It would be "cheaper" - and doubtless more profitable; lots of people would choose them! - to produce / buy, say, bicycle helmets that are made out of cardboard and nails, but we collectiv
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by eszed 2y ago
> I wonder what was different in the 20s? I genuinely don't know. I have a history degree, but have mostly read European early-modern, not American or 20th c. history. I think you're right about manual / un-trained labor j
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by eszed 2y ago
> The staff in prisons are never motivated to run any kind of real rehabilitation programs We used to. I have an ancestor who worked for the prison system in Southern California, ~1920s - 1950s. I don't know what they called his rol
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by eszed 2y ago
A number that would surprise most of us in more-comfortable circumstances, I suspect.
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by eszed 2y ago
Do most people consider click-bait headlines to be a negative interaction? Arguably they should, but I don't think it's the case.
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by eszed 2y ago
Heh. When I try the line out in OP I'm convinced that pun was intended. It's in response to the women's cries inside the castle, no? That Mac, at this point in the show (and consciously or not), associates all women with whor
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by eszed 2y ago
I agree with everything you say. Are you North American? I found OP largely to be a curiosity to American performers and audiences, but a revelation and a revolution to people in the UK who have only ever associated Shakespeare with RP. At
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by eszed 2y ago
"Species" is an arbitrary designation. Maybe arbitrary isn't exactly the right term, but it's a label which says 'right now, this is different from that ' , whereas over evolutionary time actual organisms wi

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