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by handrous 5y ago
Metal Gear, for that matter.
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by handrous 5y ago
Pihole still catches 95+% of ads for me.
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by handrous 5y ago
Are population density factored in? My guess would be that a higher proportion of poor white people live in rural areas, compared with poor black people, and out in the sticks crimes are more likely to go unnoticed (you're less likel
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by handrous 5y ago
There's a whole pile of twitterese phrases like this that are used to fly under moderation radar. Some refer to specific standard sections of Wikipedia's biographical articles in order to highlight that a person's Jewish, som
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by handrous 5y ago
> > We should if that virus kills people at a high rate like COVID! > Given the flu kills more kids than covid Emphasis mine.
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by handrous 5y ago
> Best mitigator would be good HEPA room air purifiers, ideally multiple per classroom. They can be too loud to run while class is in session, especially if they move enough air to be worth a damn. Double-especially if you're also m
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by handrous 5y ago
Ah, the problem may just be that I've never explored their full features. I think of them as those little square text notes you can put on the screen, and have never tried to do more with them. Given that understanding, I don't
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by handrous 5y ago
Typescript is miraculously productive on the front-end as soon as you've got people writing at different "layers"—someone writing a frontend library, someone else handling state and actions, someone writing components for re-
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by handrous 5y ago
> > Secure by default. No file, network, or environment access, unless explicitly enabled. > Great, but we're talking about server software so the first thing any project is going to do is enable all of that. And it's not
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by handrous 5y ago
Ditto, it's something I rarely notice and that never bothers me. I game on Windows, use Linux desktops occasionally, and work on macOS mostly. Former mainly-Linux user, too. Whatever the defaults are for Mac cursors don't bother m
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by handrous 5y ago
Nah. I'm on a Logitech 720 (bluetooth, wireless, many buttons) and didn't even know there was anything that I could download for it for Mac. It just works. ... but I don't care about customizing button behavior or anything
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by handrous 5y ago
Notes.app can hold so much more than would work in a sticky. Whole embedded PDFs in the middle of a note, images, tables.
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by handrous 5y ago
> Having to create issues-only repositories seems like a sign that one may be using the wrong tool. Use it to track white papers, project planning documents, a project-wide wiki, et c., if you want to feel like it's for more than ju
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by handrous 5y ago
> Its not really that analogous. Theoretical physics is at least in theory still predictive, though it may be vert distant from the pragmatics of verification. Sure, I intended the "cranked up a few notches" to cover the differ
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by handrous 5y ago
> Is it a millennial thing? "Elder millennial" here. Didn't have a cell phone until college, and then it was a dumb phone. Phone calls are my least favorite form of communication. Oddly enough, I'm fine with them in a
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by handrous 5y ago
Ricardo's going to be a fun one, then. I think you'll find he doesn't make quite so broad a claim re: the benefits of free trade as free-trade advocates tend to imply he does, in his study of comparative advantage. (there&#x2
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by handrous 5y ago
Considerations: 1) First, questioning the premise—you may encounter a whole lot more pop-social-science writing than the Real Deal. Consider, for example, what a smart and thoughtful person, whose main exposure to the work of historians was
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by handrous 5y ago
- Unixy desktop OS, at a time when there weren't other commercial desktop unices aimed at anything other than high-end workstations (Solaris). - Very friendly (but also effective) installer. Probably the best I'd seen, at the time
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by handrous 5y ago
> I don't know this author, but the arguments that increasing wages will cause inflation, independent of their economic accuracy, are also perfectly tuned messaging for a specific group, the owners of businesses (and the high-level
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by handrous 5y ago
That's funny, because assets have been inflating just fine, and quite quickly, since before the "labor shortage" starting making headlines.
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by handrous 5y ago
> * These social network things seem somewhat fragile. Myspace came and went, Friendster was hot. Now I see a lot more folks on tiktok. Are kids still even active on facebook? Facebook's only role in my life is as the main web pre
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by handrous 5y ago
That's the part that makes it only marginally better than just counting on them to manually forward the money. The only advantage is you skip the part where they already have the money but have not yet betrayed you, and are looking a
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by handrous 5y ago
I think this would just rely on the ransomers to have the ransom paid to the correct address, which would be tied to a smart contract that'd take care of divvying up any money coming in and forwarding it to other addresses. If money co
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by handrous 5y ago
This kind of shit is why we're bound to end up living under intense surveillance and with little privacy most of our lives, if we keep computerizing and networking everything. It's inevitable, if that's the direction we kee
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by handrous 5y ago
Broad swaths of behavior by the spying tech giants just needs to be outlawed. Discussions about how to mitigate the harm aren't going to fix much. The harmful behavior should be outright banned. "Google and Facebook just have to
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by handrous 5y ago
They still do this to me. It's a widely reported issue, that's been going on for years. It has to be intentional, at this point.
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by handrous 5y ago
> On the other hand, we just saw The Green Knight and that one will throw you. I think I'm going to need at least two more viewings to get from "OK, I see it saying a lot of things about several themes or ideas, and I can tel
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by handrous 5y ago
Whoa, we must follow very different critics. My impression is that it's usually referenced as a joke, or as an example of how not to do things. I'm not sure I've seen it unironically praised since back when it was still air
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by handrous 5y ago
I'd expect there are lots of factors with glass. Making a new plastic bottle every time might be cheaper on a resource-use than making a glass bottle and washing it for re-use (which uses energy, and water) some average number of tim
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by handrous 5y ago
Sure, it's just that not that long ago, it was economically feasible, so it's not like it's some kind of unattainable fantasy. A couple laws, and a 5-10% hike on the costs of drinks distributed in bottles (thanks to the add

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