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by handrous 5y ago
You're right that they're not all equivalently terrible, and Target's better about it than Amazon and Wal Mart.
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by handrous 5y ago
As recently as the early 90s there were still grocery stores that'd take back glass soda bottles to refill them, but the only places I know that still do anything like that are some fancy dairies (via the grocery stores that distribute
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by handrous 5y ago
Off and on Android (and iOS) developer here: no, not really, unless you throw top-end hardware at it.
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by handrous 5y ago
Heh. Like the old Bonsai Kitten hoax website.
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by handrous 5y ago
Price controls. It's always (AFAI can tell) price controls, whether de facto or de jure. That seems to be the uniting factor in successful healthcare systems. Even Singapore, the closest thing I know of to a "free market healthc
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by handrous 5y ago
So does Target, I think. Becoming a shady online flea-market must be incredibly lucrative, since everyone who can seems to choose that over just being, like, a normal store, but online.
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by handrous 5y ago
> The military will just use arial drone slaughterbots. The Azerbaijanis did this in the recent Armenia/Azerbaijan war and it was a total blowout against 20th century tech. It hadn't occurred to me that drones let despots wage
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by handrous 5y ago
I think the developed world's headed nigh-inevitably toward something more closely resembling the Chinese model of government—maybe not with autocratic leadership, but with similar levels of centralized surveillance and such, extensive
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by handrous 5y ago
"Responsible" performance of a role in an organization doesn't put one above judgement for one's actions, at all , which may, though correct from a very narrow perspective, be horrible. The most obvious & crystal-cl
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by handrous 5y ago
> You also see this when people put greasy paper take-out food containers in the recycling. No, it's not recyclable, and worse, it might further contaminate other things and render them non-recyclable as well. But, when I ask houseg
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by handrous 5y ago
Good point about .gitattributes files being another kind that gets passed around—but that doesn't help with things the .gitattributes file can't capture, which is most things and was part of my point about why making config native
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by handrous 5y ago
I distinctly recall using a vendor's demo in a no-nonsense show-me-the-money kind of industry, about 4 years back. It was something that would definitely have been built as a "web app" at most shops I've known since, oh,
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by handrous 5y ago
Both of those could easily be solved if it were part of git proper, right? I don't see why not, or why they wouldn't be. Regardless, I'm going to be sad if the UX we get to replace it is any of the newish/cutting-edge
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by handrous 5y ago
My wife doesn't know WTF Electron is, but definitely notices when a pile of Electron "apps" are slowing her computer to a crawl.
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by handrous 5y ago
LFS has much better UX than sparse-checkout and friends. Really, the only pain points are due to its not being built-in to Git.
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by handrous 5y ago
Ah, that explains why Libgit2 is so far behind, feature-wise. It'd be so damn nice if that were Git, and the standard CLI just a thin wrapper over it.
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by handrous 5y ago
Most of those are warnings like "the attribute you've used from back when HTML was slim and fast is obsolete, please use this slower modern thing instead". I doubt that's making the page slow. Only a few are actual error
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by handrous 5y ago
> You’re saying a 2-decade war murdering 100,000s of civilians, is “a great asset” and “not a wash from strategic analysis”? I'm not finding much of what you claim the poster is "saying", in their post.
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by handrous 5y ago
Loading it locally I get 2s of "styles recalculated" taking almost the entire load time, in Safari's "Timeline" tool. Wrapping the main body text in a <pre>, with no other changes, drops that to 0.8s total lay
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by handrous 5y ago
I also suspect management is placing a high value on some ideal of "total visibility" into their organization, for which they are sold computerization as a solution, and are willing to accept significantly greater friction across
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by handrous 5y ago
I've had a suspicion for some years that productivity increases from the addition of computers and software to an operation is very uneven, and that apparent great progress overall is because it's a 1000x improvement in select a
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by handrous 5y ago
Michael Flynn's (yes, that Flynn) interview in the Afghanistan Papers is one of the more interesting accounts I've read of the war. https://archive.org/details/theafghanistanpapers_202001 That appears to be a
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by handrous 5y ago
Invading Afghanistan was very popular, to the point that I kinda shut up about it at the time because it just made people mad (at me), and even being against Iraq sure didn't feel like being in the majority—or even close to it—at t
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by handrous 5y ago
At the time there was a lot of talk of the usual "making Afghanistan safe for American business" thing, that's been the actual motivation in some historical US invasions of countries with very weak militaries. For example, a
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by handrous 5y ago
It'd have to be very America-friendly for that motivation to make sense, to make up for being situated such that keeping it supplied relies on the cooperation of one or more potential adversaries.
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by handrous 5y ago
Free refills on sodas with waiters waiting to pounce and refill your cup every time it's 1/3 down from full, can be added to the list. Also, soda servings in excess of 20oz (already huge!) to begin with, regardless of refills.
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by handrous 5y ago
Food waste's a function of food prices. Raising prices is how you reduce it. We have a lot of waste, because food is cheap.
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by handrous 5y ago
A large percentage of users benefit from good accessibility features. These don't just include screen readers, but things like being able to change colors and font sizes (manually, or to pre-sets designed to help people with deterior
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by handrous 5y ago
> like parents will go to school to flame teacher cuz their kid disagrees with them on $hot_topic? Worse: for even bringing up a hot topic without bending entirely to the parent's opinion on it (where these opinions differ from
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by handrous 5y ago
Counterpoint: un-fuck is maybe the most engineery naughty word that exists.

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