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961.
by eszed 3y ago
Yup! We tried to eat them. He's a scientist, and we were curious kids. Why wouldn't we?
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by eszed 3y ago
There are native-English dialect groups which make no distinction between the vowels in 'pin' and 'pen'. For all I rib my wife about falling on the other side of that line, it took my American ear a long time to hear UK-
963.
by eszed 3y ago
It used to be better. When I first lived in the UK, going on thirty years ago, it was brilliant. Even fifteen years ago both NHS and private were head and shoulders (and more) better than the US (I have intimate experience with both sadly).
964.
by eszed 3y ago
This is totally anecdotal, but I suspect this is a skill that varies across the population. A buddy in high school was uncannily accurate when guessing the time without access to a watch or clock. His error bar would increase with the amo
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by eszed 3y ago
> Can you really easily cross-bred modern specimens of broccoli and kale? I know that one particular pairing of broccoli and kale did cross-breed, in my father's garden, many years ago. At least, that's what he (a PhD biologist
966.
by eszed 3y ago
I think you'll find there's no such thing as a fish. Source: Pedant.
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by eszed 3y ago
I would expect from a developer's perspective it makes sense to stick with Apple's mechanism until ARR * 0.30 = whatever it costs to run your own solution. (More power to you if you're the developer who can do that from the s
968.
by eszed 3y ago
> monetary penalty attached to procrastination/doomscrolling might do wonders for the developers' mental wellbeing. Heh. Does HN count? This is pretty much the last "social" site I allow myself. > every missed hour
969.
by eszed 3y ago
Yeah, "hard-core vim [etc]" positively correlates with high-salary, and opinions of your own. Firing you is the point!
970.
by eszed 3y ago
That it's useless - or actively destructive! - does not mean it can't be sold. I hope OP was being satirical, but I fear he wasn't.
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by eszed 3y ago
You're not wrong, but will people be able to pay for it?
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by eszed 3y ago
They're more than complicit. Either DoorDash or UberEats (I can't remember which; maybe both do) tries to persuade restaurants to license their brand to ghost kitchens run by the delivery company. Source: Been on those calls.
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by eszed 3y ago
I think there was a sweet spot - roughly late 90s (maybe ODB2 adoption, whenever that was for a given brand), through the mid-oughts - where you got most of the benefits of computerization without most of the drawbacks. I have a car from th
974.
by eszed 3y ago
I don't like that change, either, but making "System Settings" analogous to Apple's (indeed messy) iOS settings has been a boon to the users I support. They're used to iOS's quirks, and now require much less ha
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by eszed 3y ago
Not to derail the thread, but I thought WWZ was such a missed (both artistic and commercial) opportunity, by not following the structure of the book. They could have made a whole anthology of stand-alone films, each detailing a different
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by eszed 3y ago
I'm with you, _pace_ the bulk of the other comments in this thread. My wife, knowing nothing whatsoever about _Dune_, saw the movie with me, and "got" every element of the complex political background - in the car ride home s
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by eszed 3y ago
Just one data-point, but I have only seen the _Arrival_ movie and perfectly understood that element of the aliens' writing system, and why it was important to their experience of time. I suspect that the circular design was chosen to b
978.
by eszed 3y ago
The Edmund Scientific catalog used to sell all of the things on the list, so it was probably there (are they still in business?), or somewhere similar.
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by eszed 3y ago
If there were a technological civilization there we'd have heard their radio broadcasts. [sad-face] - because I wish we had. It'd be nice to have neighbours.
980.
by eszed 3y ago
> Custom system alerts over SMS? Can't speak for the guy you asked, but I'm approximately his skill-set, and that's what I've used it for. Long time ago, though; I can't speak to the developer experience now. $20
981.
by eszed 3y ago
You'll have a similar experience with Milton - though he's very much worth it. An orthodox believer (including, probably, Milton and Dante) would say that it's because humans have no experience with absolute Good, so it'
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by eszed 3y ago
I agree. The difficulty (in my opinion) is largely because he's writing in direct response to particular critics, and without necessarily giving a precis of their arguments. (The occasional vituperative barb - and he could be mean
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by eszed 3y ago
Just to clarify your statement, Milton visited Galileo whilst Galileo was under house arrest. When he was a young man Milton made a "Grand Tour" (though it probably wasn't called that for another century or so) through Italy,
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by eszed 3y ago
Milton is also critical to the intellectual history of certain Western ideas which we take for granted. His Aeropagetica articulates the first (at least in English) full-throated defense of free speech, and his proposal and defense of (ef
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by eszed 3y ago
There are parts of Paradise Lost that read like science fiction, like Satan's ascent through Hell (as yet uninhabited, because no one yet has sinned!), and through a Ptolmaic (which, yes, was an intentional anachronism) cosmos to sne
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by eszed 3y ago
If you want a short taste of Milton's verse, read sonnet 23. It'll help you to know that a) the literary reference isn't important to completely "get", b) he'd gone blind, c) his (first) wife had died from comp
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by eszed 3y ago
Yes. Blake's line is oft-quoted: "[Milton] was of the devil's party unawares". Stanley Fish's reading is that Milton expected that his readers' enjoyment of and/or sympathy for and/or identification w
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by eszed 3y ago
There was a time - late 19th, early 20th c - when pianos were associated with Music Hall, and therefore secular, music. So there were SdA (and other American protestant) people who eschewed them for that reason. Pianos stopped being much of
989.
by eszed 3y ago
That seems to have been the intent of the question? Agree it was unclear.
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by eszed 3y ago
For an H1b part of the requirement is that the company has not found any citizens who will take the job - only if they can show that will the visa be issued to their prospective overseas candidate. So, they make the interviews with citizens

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