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by floren 10mo ago
The size of the United States has not increased since 1970, but the number of people has. So yes, no shit, (US pop / US land area) has gone up. But the question is, "is the average neighborhood more dense than it was in 1970"
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by floren 10mo ago
No I mean how do you never come across "transliteration", is that really such an unusual word?
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by floren 10mo ago
> I scroll up a bit to reread ChatGPT's analysis, and I realize it mentions "transliteration". I have no idea what that word means , so I look it up. How?
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by floren 10mo ago
Japan was not colonized, although it was briefly occupied .
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by floren 10mo ago
> why should one read things occurring in an alien context to begin with? Are you people for real?
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by floren 10mo ago
Fully functional economic units, the true aspiration of all thinking beings.
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by floren 10mo ago
> Most of the stories and themes were outdated and didn't have enough context to make them understandable. Some books even used outdated words and phrases. no cap Mr Darcy ur parties are bussin fr fr
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by floren 10mo ago
I think you'd have a stronger point if stores sold Bud Kidz, a non-alcoholic beverage with all the great Bud taste and fun mascots.
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by floren 10mo ago
If you're feeling very slightly more ambitious, sautee some chopped cabbage in a bit of butter until it softens, then mix it into the instant mash. True Irishmen may shudder but I do enjoy my trailer park colcannon, it's more of a
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by floren 10mo ago
The most interesting development in my opinion is the full-throated embracing of the "it's not wealth redistribution if we're doing it" philosophy. Every day some new announcement of $X billion to be given to group Y...
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by floren 10mo ago
I think that's where we are now...
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by floren 10mo ago
> Parents and schools can collectively decide to take away the smartphones of preschoolers if keeping them safe and focused was the main priority Collective action? Like some sort of communist? No THANK you!
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by floren 10mo ago
I've owned a 62 Studebaker Lark and a 71 MG Midget. Both pretty damn slow by any modern measure, but both an absolute blast to drive. The Midget especially was stupidly fun on back roads with the top down. Less pleasant on city streets
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by floren 11mo ago
I watched All the President's Men on a recent flight and even on an airplane seatback screen it had me rapt. No romance, no sex, no violence except a cop pointing a gun in the first 5 minutes, just a good story with two great leads.
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by floren 11mo ago
Any discussion about film should probably include a disclaimer like "what we say here doesn't necessarily apply to Kubrick because he was Kubrick"
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by floren 11mo ago
I think rather he's saying that Musk loudly declared he was slashing government waste and firing do-nothing bureaucrats, and the people who supported him never really bothered to see if that was the case or not.
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by floren 11mo ago
> I often use bold & dramatic hand gestures while bent over slightly, face pressed against the glass enclosure of the sandwich-making zone. "STOP! RIGHT THERE!" I will yell, several times, if necessary. God, Poe's law
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by floren 11mo ago
> For instance in India the goal is getting people off of motorcycles as that is a huge cause of driving deaths "Your traffic laws or lack thereof are so insane that riding a motorcycle is basically a death sentence." "Ok,
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by floren 11mo ago
The amazing 1000 calorie apple
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by floren 11mo ago
It's philosophy, not catechism, you're not expected to leave the class believing everything you read.
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by floren 11mo ago
With modern two-random-word codenames we tended to just say things like "I'm working on Crystal Banana all next week" (Crystal Banana was a local joke codename where I worked)
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by floren 11mo ago
more like HTTP GET - LSB bit of response code + "please send the MIME type we like, not the MIME type we hate"
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by floren 11mo ago
i d2t s1e t1e p5m...
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by floren 11mo ago
> Less expensive: PineNote. Well, tariffs have changed that calculation lately...
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by floren 11mo ago
I've seen the pattern again and again: I'll finally be able to write once I acquire <foo>. I'll paste something I wrote on a previous similar topic: [Regarding the devices] The various iterations all look quite attracti
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by floren 11mo ago
Feels a little odd to painstakingly draw, with a pen, symbols that were intended to be created by pressing a stick into wet clay. Surely there's got to be a better way to hand-write cuneiform.
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by floren 11mo ago
If you wanted to run UNIX, a PDP-11 or VAX was a great choice too.
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by floren 11mo ago
Who cares about planetary scale? Back when your networking reach was largely limited by the size of your area code, local BBSes had user verification and were incredibly popular.
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by floren 11mo ago
> The jury's verdict comes after Customs and Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore testified that the snack "exploded all over him" and he "could smell the onions and mustard" on his uniform. [...] "I could f
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by floren 1y ago
Surely they should just be able to prompt their code assistant to write a complete browser and come back in a couple days to find it running, right?

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