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by gh-throw 6y ago
Remote’s a disaster for little kids, and about as much work for one or both parents as just teaching their kid some stuff themselves. If you don’t need special reading or speech intervention then well-chosen apps and a workbook can replace
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by gh-throw 6y ago
Much of Black Mirror is about stuff that's obviously about to happen, a very slightly more advanced or tweaked version of something already happening, or allegory that isn't actually about the future, even if it's set there
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by gh-throw 6y ago
Hahaha, nope. Not in any of the major tech hubs. I think it’s true in most cities.
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by gh-throw 6y ago
I used a 100mhz Pentium with 64MB or memory and, later, a 166mhz Pentium with 128MB. Win98 (people are correct that midis were way more common in the ‘95 days, as even a 2MB mp3 would take forever to download on dial-up and hard drives were
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by gh-throw 6y ago
I’ve never known cops to investigate theft unless you basically hand them the culprit yourself. You just get your police report and hand it to insurance, if relevant. That’s their whole and entire role in the process. Even where there’s a 9
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by gh-throw 6y ago
Late last year, after they restored shadows (I think they'd had to take them out while fixing some stuff, or something) I played most of Morrowind with this. Still intending to go back and finish. Finished the main quest, a huge percen
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by gh-throw 6y ago
Yeah, I mean more in the information it carries for the human reader than its effect on how the machine sees it.
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by gh-throw 6y ago
Mardrus got translated into English by Mathers. It's the edition I've read (partially—my copy is in four very fat volumes, so it's a lot of reading). Can confirm that it includes tons of stuff I'd expect to be missing
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by gh-throw 6y ago
They're kinda just a barely-there static-typing system, but damned if that's not way better than none. And if one recalls that monochrome screens used to be a thing, and that syntax highlighting was wonky (because shortcutted to b
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by gh-throw 6y ago
“Other workers are trying to get a better deal than me and should cut it out” is one of my least-favorite opinions on labor matters.
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by gh-throw 6y ago
I have zero references, just that I've encountered that bit of "common knowledge" enough times among IR professors and military-connected people to take it as basically true. As any such hearsay/common-knowledge, it coul
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by gh-throw 6y ago
You expressed confusion about why France would claim to be preparing for war with North African or Near East states. I'm not making any claims about their effectiveness in combat, just that they probably do expect to take part in cer
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by gh-throw 6y ago
Specifically why I added the caveat of "at least in the EU or NATO". If you don't think they'd show up to defend Poland or Greece against attack, I'd love to see your rationale.
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by gh-throw 6y ago
Corn just means grain. The shift to being equivalent to "maize" is later, and I think not universal in English-speaking dialects (and obviously only happened after the Columbian exchange).
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by gh-throw 6y ago
They have to expect to figure out how to make non-terrible AR glasses in the nearish future. There's no other explanation for why they (and several other companies) keep dumping money into AR tech that's cute to use for a couple
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by gh-throw 6y ago
I think it's safe to say they intend to do that, though, in the event of an outright invasion or hostile coup of one of their closely-tied states in Africa or the Levant, or an attack on Europe. Which explains the exercises.
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by gh-throw 6y ago
The US is separated from Iraq by half a world, but invaded it twice. France still has a top-10 military and maybe the most effective overseas force projection capabilities outside the US and Great Britain (maybe China, we'll see how ef
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by gh-throw 6y ago
It's old retired people, mostly, I guarantee it. One million dollars doesn't mean what it used to. If you hit 65 and don't have at least a million dollars in retirement accounts, you'll be working as a Wal-Mart greeter.
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by gh-throw 6y ago
I haven't used Teams in almost two years, but when I did I never felt like I was sure "where" I was, or where anything else was. I'd find myself "somewhere" not have no confidence I'd ever be able to get b
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by gh-throw 6y ago
Normal computer users don't understand: - What a filesystem is. - How directories, files, and filesystems relate to one another. - What a server is/does. - How any kind of raw text whatsoever relates to what the computer "act
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by gh-throw 6y ago
Yeah, I had no idea PA was even a thing (and I guess it kinda wasn't yet, which is part of why the release was so rough) so that was a rude surprise when my whole system just... broke, on upgrade, in a ton of ways that they had to hav
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by gh-throw 6y ago
I thought they started going to hell when they had that botched too-early integration of (resource-sucking, to add insult to injury) PulseAudio, in... '08? '09? I remember it was back when Flash was still big, and opening Flash co
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by gh-throw 6y ago
1) They're usually the best-supported by major distros,, 2) Most other solutions don't present as much system-config stuff as well as they (or Windows, or macOS) do in the GUI, so you're in for more mucking about in config fi
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by gh-throw 6y ago
Where do you see that? I tried hitting cmd+s in Safari, Terminal, and Pages and got a normal macOS file-save dialog in all three cases. Looks more or less the same as it has for quite a while. I haven't touched anything related to file
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by gh-throw 6y ago
Oh yeah, Mozilla was heavier than IE, which was heavier than Phoenix/Firebird/pre-2.0-Firefox. Plus FF had a popup blocker built in, which was huge in a way that's hard to appreciate these days. Very quick to start, pages (
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by gh-throw 6y ago
Of those only Java (and, by association, Kotlin, since you'll likely be interacting with Java) strikes me as often-hard-to-read, mostly because of the cultural love of using ten layers to do what two or three layers could. But the tool
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by gh-throw 6y ago
Golang isn't a language for the person writing code today—it's a language for the person who has to come along and take over their codebase after they leave. The farther away I get from "fresh CS grad", actually, the les
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by gh-throw 6y ago
Not really, though vendors of Android can provide alternative web views (of course). Samsung used to (may still) which was a giant pain in the ass, since you'd see different behavior out of web views on Samsung versus almost any other
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by gh-throw 6y ago
I'm only here for the schools. We'd prefer the close-to-the-city old suburbs (on entirely grid-layout streets, easy walk to various stores and entertainment, parks galore), country living, or the city proper, in roughly that order
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by gh-throw 6y ago
IMO, for whatever reason, the great comedies of the silent era are a lot more approachable to a modern viewer than the great dramas. Even the lesser comedies are usually quite watchable. Of the dramas I'd recommend The Passion of Joan

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