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by exergy 7y ago
It wields a heck of a lot more power than many countries on Earth. It's not that fatuous.
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by exergy 7y ago
I hope he is being ironic. Because it's not always possible to change companies for people, let alone entire countries.
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by exergy 7y ago
Perhaps you could contribute better by citing examples where Google does care about blind people instead of calling an actual blind person's argument ridiculous.
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by exergy 7y ago
These kinds of things have me quitting most things recently. I don't own a TV, don't own a car, don't drink coffee anymore, don't subscribe to any streaming service, don't have a TV, don't have social media. My
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by exergy 7y ago
There is most certainly a category of people who cannot save at all because some combination of life factors lead them up shit creek, but there are plenty of low income people who could do with a lesson or two from Mr. Money Mustache. He
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by exergy 7y ago
I am a Matlab person, among other tools as well. I do something of the sort that you suggested in your second paragraph to plot time-varying diagrams by generating successive frames and then making a gif. Matlab can also do some very nice c
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by exergy 7y ago
I do simulations for a living aka numerical modelling. The results that I obtain need to be explained using plots. How behaviour changes with time, how component sizing will affect xyz parameter etc. What I would dearly love is some way to
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by exergy 7y ago
Indeed, paper maps are alive and well in the field of hiking/camping. It is a terrible experience trying to navigate even on the biggest of phone screens. Even the stuff one can print at home is, maybe, on an A3 sheet of paper, hopeful
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by exergy 7y ago
There is a way to get rid of Edge by renaming its install folder or something like that. I did it, and I love it.
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by exergy 7y ago
Obligatory further reading on this subject is Maciej's blogpost [1] [1] https://idlewords.com/2003/12/100_years_of_turbulence.htm
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by exergy 7y ago
With each such iteration, the advertising punch is diluted. At this point, it's a stretch to imagine someone seeing the mirrored M-W logo and going "God, I need a smoke". In this way, we are all the better for it.
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by exergy 7y ago
And you're going to tell me a bunch of anons on HN are bout to invent it from first principles?! While 'we' (I'm not American) might have plenty of stupid laws, we also have some very good ones. We've gotten there b
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by exergy 7y ago
This level of pedantry drives me up the wall. Not everything needs to be invented from first principles. Profile ads are banned, yes, because they involve teh candidates. Policy ads are banned because they again involve politics. We can sta
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by exergy 7y ago
In which case, your point was quite tangential to what was being discussed before, no?
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by exergy 7y ago
Brother, you need to grow the fuck up. Right now, you're coming across as one of those try-hard college students on a 'Rationality Rulez' bender. Morality is subjective but not in the manner you're describing. It's
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by exergy 7y ago
The guy from PracticalTypography also recommends Source Code Pro as his free monospaced font of choice.
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by exergy 7y ago
I think switching up how you do things from time to time keeps things fresh. Change your wallpaper! Rearrange your office! Go without syntax highlighting for a day! And, yeah, change your programming font.
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by exergy 7y ago
Do you like it? One of the things that really gets in the way of comprehension for me are typefaces with too much personality. These cutesy italics etc. really seem to affect my ability to get on with the job at hand. This is why, despite
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Ask HN: Workflow for personal wiki/logbook/journal/static-site at work
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by exergy 7y ago
It's depressing. I recently finished a hike from Chamonix to Zermatt, which passes near a ton of glaciers in the Pennine Alps. They are all dying. Moraines exposed everywhere. What is supposed to be a glorious celebration of the beau
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by exergy 7y ago
Some of us are skinny. Or we hate lugging around weight. With something like a laptop, which you're carrying around everyday, half a pound saved makes a big difference. I won't say I'm for thinner laptops, per se, because I&#
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by exergy 7y ago
Fucking hell, that made my blood boil. The guy on the phone was totally right. What if it was that nurse's mother? Why the hell would they think standard protocol was to talk to someone who lay dying. It's nuts. The supervisor i
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by exergy 7y ago
What a clueless comment. It's a tragedy for reasons MUCH beyond 'unnecessarily lost wealth'. I know you are trying to argue in good faith, but you're flat out wrong in the sense that doomsday despair is EXACTLY what we s
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by exergy 7y ago
He did take pains to specify it was just his experience. And even the fragment you quoted tries to be diplomatic by saying "it _seems_ to be"
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by exergy 7y ago
Fuck yeah to all your points
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by exergy 7y ago
I'm not saying we are particularly good at not eating meat. I'm saying we are evidence that not eating meat need not be a deprivational scourge.
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by exergy 7y ago
Do you have a source for your claim? Here[1] is a link I found breaking down the fuel consumption by sector. Seems Motor Oil vastly outscores Residue Fuel Oil, which I believe is what tankers use. I may be wrong, though, and would be intere
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by exergy 7y ago
> Look at pandas Look at Indians instead. We eat a primarily vegetarian diet. I assure you we sleep nowhere close to 16 hours a day. We also work in the sweltering heat etc, which our diet seems more than capable of taking on. Yeah, eati
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by exergy 7y ago
That is quite literally what the "Pro" stands for. What's more, a functional keyboard is a VERY low bar for a very expensive laptop to clear.
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by exergy 7y ago
For sure. There are so many more parameters to physical store. Proximity is a HUGE one. Quality of service. Specific items that they stock. These kinds of things allow smaller stores to exist in my small town even while there is a huge supe

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