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by ghc 10mo ago
New Englander here. Gotten is normal vocabulary. If it's not used in British English, then it's probably a feature of North American English, since most North American linguistic differences are snapshots of common features of 16t
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by ghc 10mo ago
I've always wondered why voxel engines tend to produce output that looks so blocky. I didn't realize it was a performance issue. Still, games like "C&C: Red Alert" used voxels, but with a normal mapping that resulted
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by ghc 10mo ago
Emdashes can also be part of beautiful writing, like this: https://poets.org/poem/feeling-first
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by ghc 10mo ago
Companies have always written their own software (or abused spreadsheets). The tool is the computer; writing software to solve your own problems is advanced tool use , not making your own tools. Obviously this doesn't apply to every k
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by ghc 10mo ago
I never played Top Gun, but I did grow up playing "Turn and Burn: No Fly Zone" for the SNES. All these years later, it's still amazing to me how much the graphics improved from one console generation to the next. I don't
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by ghc 10mo ago
A market doesn't have to shrink all that much before there's a collapse. Generally it's quite gradual, and then very sudden. There's a tipping point where a market cannot sustain a public company and their structural ove
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by ghc 10mo ago
The premise is extremely flawed. If users are able to generate their own apps instead of having to buy them, it shrinks the TAM for those apps. If a meatpacker makes its own CRM, it's not going to put it on an app store or try to sell
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by ghc 10mo ago
There might be a good reason for the lack of stories. FoundationDB runs critical infrastructure I work on, but I never actually have to think about it. I've never spent less time thinking about a data store that I use daily.
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by ghc 10mo ago
Society, in a sense, is highly dependent on trustworthy interactions. Credit, ownership transfers, banking, etc. all depend on trust. If we go back to only being able to trust in-person interactions, we'll be stepping back to a financi
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by ghc 10mo ago
That's a great question, actually. Timing tests appears to arbitrarily punish students.
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by ghc 10mo ago
> needs the same or similar accommodations You inferred or assumed that...OP didn't say it. It's common sense that accommodations would be different for children just learning to read vs. university students.
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by ghc 10mo ago
It would be cheaper to bulldoze the warehouse and start over.
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by ghc 10mo ago
Yes! I remember at the time I had just gotten linux to reliably work on my dual Opteron workstation so that I could migrate away from Win2K64. UT2K3 and UT2K4 were just about the only games I could run because Wine didn't work very wel
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by ghc 10mo ago
Capitalization makes a surprising amount of difference here...
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by ghc 10mo ago
I keep wondering if the powers that be knew that low down payment percentages and low interest rates would have a major side effect: increased purchase prices (back then) and lack of initial equity that would make it really hard to sell. I
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by ghc 10mo ago
There's a floor. If you sell a home for less than your mortgage amount you have to have enough cash to make up the difference. Also, selling for significantly under the appraised price decreases likelihood of qualified buyers because i
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by ghc 10mo ago
Yep. Recently tried to sell my 2BR/2BA in Boston. Exactly 2 people visited over 3 months and several open houses and price cuts. Realtor said it's the same across the board for 2BR/2BA because the pool of entry-level buyers d
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by ghc 11mo ago
There's a pretty long waiting period before it does this. I'm not sure what the time required is, but I think it's at least 3 months. And it only does this if you don't interact with the newsletter at all. Just speculati
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by ghc 11mo ago
American here. Seen it a number of times on both mobile and web.
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by ghc 11mo ago
Commercial and industrial use already makes up a large portion of demand. While the model will change to cater less to residential needs, overall demand for stable, high voltage generation is not going to go down.
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by ghc 11mo ago
I walked by the morgue trucks, so no. You've been blinded by propaganda made by the same people who "document" alien encounters. If hospitals were actually empty the rates of healthcare worker burnout and subsequent shortage
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by ghc 11mo ago
Propaganda? COVID was the third most common verified cause of death in the US in the first 18 months after the lockdown started in March, and that's despite the lockdown. That's 10x more deaths per month than the particularly bad
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by ghc 11mo ago
I saw a Halloween display at a Walgreens in late July. I saw artificial Christmas trees for sale at Home Depot in September. I don't know what's happening but selling goods related to a holiday 3 months early seems excessive. What
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by ghc 11mo ago
I'm not sure you can call Docs (Writely) and Android acquisitions though. Android was an OS for cameras and Writely was an experimental rich text editor, not a word processor. It's not like Youtube where they legitimately bought t
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by ghc 11mo ago
You mean like web search, webmail, internet ads, maps, calendars, browsers, smartphone operating systems, online document editing, and translation? I mean, I'm not even including stuff they acquired early like YouTube. Google was the m
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by ghc 11mo ago
Most small towns in New England are laid out like those towns in Mexico. I wonder if it's a question of age? The pressure to create town squares must have been a lot higher before the automobile came around.
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by ghc 11mo ago
> This part of Jordan gets less rain per year than the Salton Sea. According to the project, that area of Jordan gets 100mm per year of rain. The Salton sea gets under 75mm per year, so less than 3/4 of that. It appears that this pa
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by ghc 11mo ago
Doesn't desert greening assume that desertification is something that can be reversed in the first place? I'm pretty sure it doesn't work on rain shadow deserts like this one, because there's no water or soil in the firs
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by ghc 11mo ago
With less than 3 inches of rainfall per year, I don't think plant-based terraforming is really a sustainable option.
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by ghc 11mo ago
We decentralized information, and in doing so we centralized culture. I fear that we are only now coming to understand what we have wrought. I am sure that new social structures will arise to replace the old, but who is to say what lies bet

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