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781.
by fatbird 8y ago
Alizarin Crimson is so predictably shit for lightfastness that it's (apparently) actually used to calibrate lightfastness checking.
782.
by fatbird 8y ago
Why isn't it a solution to simply require pension funds to be fully funded, perhaps under a separate legal entity that's protected from raiding by PE firms? Why is it that the "unfunded pension" crisis always makes peopl
783.
by fatbird 8y ago
This is an under-represented viewpoint. The freedom we constantly discuss in terms of app stores is freedom of possibility, but it comes at a cost in time and effort that reduces one's material freedom.
784.
by fatbird 8y ago
I have that. It's lovely. My wife and I also did an 18 month subscription to an 18 print series he did covering the history of Japanese printmaking.
785.
by fatbird 8y ago
The odds of anyone here ending up in court over licence terms for using Mongo as part of their backend, are so vanishingly small that to actually decide against Mongo on the basis of that chance amounts to professional malpractice.
786.
by fatbird 8y ago
Same fight here, but we're digging in our heels and bothering to convince the internal lawyer that it's not a problem. We'll win, but it takes time we'd rather not have to spend.
787.
by fatbird 8y ago
It doesn't seem squishy to me insofar as you can't offer Mongo as a service and then swap Mongo out for a different product, while leaving your offering unchanged. Any app using Mongo simply as a datastore on the backend can swap
788.
by fatbird 8y ago
I just had a call with MongoDB sales yesterday, and specifically asked if the licence changes impacts us, where we use Mongo as a datastore for our application, but we're not offering Mongo itself as a service. They were very quick an
789.
by fatbird 8y ago
CoCs have been needed for 20 years and more. Now that we're getting them, there's discomfort at the disruption to the status quo, but it's a status quo that desperately needs disruption.
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by fatbird 8y ago
> 66. Do not love quarreling I'm seeing a problem here.
791.
by fatbird 8y ago
The construction industry is unable to staff itself to keep up with current demand. People I know working construction have been turning down excessive overtime for decades. It's not a zoning issue. The capacity to build more than w
792.
by fatbird 8y ago
For the last 20 years Vancouver has been adding housing stock, mostly in the form of multi-family dwellings, at one of the highest rates in North America. We're adding as much as we can as fast as we can. The situation now is worse t
793.
by fatbird 8y ago
I wish it was Mongo under the hood. Our migration to Azure almost crashed and burned because, aside from the extortionate pricing model for Cosmos, their "Mongo API" is noticeably incomplete (in our case, they didn't support
794.
by fatbird 8y ago
It's surprisingly effective when it works, even if it looks clownish. Imagine a box at the back of the toilet, out of which the seat extends (full oval, not a horseshoe). The cover is like a sleeve made of shopping bag plastic, and i
795.
by fatbird 8y ago
Among other things, this is what the common law principle of "Adverse Possession"[0] covers: The owner of a property has a minimal duty to enforce their claim on it, otherwise the claim is forfeited. If someone showed up at your
796.
by fatbird 8y ago
Then perhaps that top scientist should reflect on how her behaviour cost her vocation and primary cause a large grant.
797.
by fatbird 8y ago
Exactly. Notice how no one in the story has clean hands, even the reporter who knew that paying below market rent in cash without a lease meant that something funny was going on. It's not that hard to avoid shady business (though in
798.
by fatbird 8y ago
It's not the you necesarily think you're facing an invasion, but if someone knocks on my door claiming to be hotel security, I'd much prefer to be able to verify them before opening the door. There are lots of options between
799.
by fatbird 8y ago
Which wouldn't be a problem if the hotel made an official policy of "guests may call the front desk to verify the security guard, both of whom will co-operate in verification" (and enforced it). The problem, as I read it, is
800.
by fatbird 8y ago
At a hotel I stayed at in Hinton, Alberta (pop. 15,000, which had a bad drug epidemic at the time), the laminated hotel security card on the bed specifically said that, at nighttime, if someone knocks on the door claiming to be from the hot
801.
by fatbird 8y ago
They didn't accept a bad deal. They deferred current compensation in a scheme that's been known to work properly for a century when the managing side of it doesn't underfund its obligations. This is not, in any way, a &quot
802.
by fatbird 8y ago
> Why be reasonable when you can get benefits for yourself and have someone else down the road pay for them? The only reason someone down the road has to pay for them is because the state/municipality reneged on its half of the barg
803.
by fatbird 8y ago
What 193 is describing isn't a conversion of discomfort to fear, it's an a-rational pattern of behaviour that's independent of discomfort or fear. Orwell talked about reinforcing effects: "A man may drink because he is f
804.
by fatbird 8y ago
Keep in mind that, in the U.S., the benchmark for bad treatment by police is being shot while complying as fully as possible with their instructions (for which the involved officers are virtually never punished).
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by fatbird 8y ago
I would shame an adult who keeps making mistakes that are massively impactful on many others. Given npm's scope within the tech world, there's no way they can be fairly described as a "child". They're a hugely si
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by fatbird 8y ago
You're mistaken: they got bumped to 32 for this model, which is now DDR4.
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by fatbird 8y ago
Say you fight the good fight and tear down the edifice of intellectual property. Is that a better world than you feeling like they owe you some deference as a supporter?
808.
by fatbird 8y ago
If you do it yourself in straight JS, you'll very quickly start building the common tools of D3: various scaling mechanisms mapping the domain to the pixels, data binding against a set of DOM elements, converting an array of data value
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by fatbird 9y ago
There are fees and process time to refinancing that acts as a disincentive to do so; and for several decades the fixed rate (by design) has been higher than what the variable rate incurs over the term (at least in Canada, where the term and
810.
by fatbird 9y ago
Besides what the sibling comment said, if all apps are generally not great, it speaks to a basic limitation of app-driven study of languages, at least, that indicates one needs to supplement. My plan was to use duolingo to get to the point

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