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by handrous 5y ago
Because RSS/Atom subscriptions as the standard for following things you like, across websites, didn't really catch on, in part because no browsers (or mobile OS vendors) really championed the feature in their UX to make it bette
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by handrous 5y ago
Maybe paying someone else to make your bread is even more luxurious. I wonder if people who ran communal ovens, where you bring your own dough ready-to-bake and then take it out after it cooks, were counted as "bakers".
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by handrous 5y ago
A lot of people believe that the law operates kind of like magic, and that if you can check the right boxes then the government just has do do whatever thing you think checking those boxes will make them do. This isn't the case, of c
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by handrous 5y ago
It's not religious, it's political—it's not inviting an argument over religion, but clarification for which Christian group might have thought they actually had a hope of the government accepting their religious exception, si
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by handrous 5y ago
I just took it as expressing confusion that anyone believed that to be a real option at all, since Christianity broadly isn't well-known for an anti-vax stance, so "Christian" without further qualifiers is surprising in thi
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by handrous 5y ago
I think there's "professionalism" as in "behavior that signals to employers that you're safe to hire because you are a good little drone" and then there's "professionalism" as in "does good
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by handrous 5y ago
> 5) 9 Stories by J.D. Salinger I'd encourage anyone who was put off by The Catcher in the Rye not to dismiss Salinger's other work, and agree that this is the one to read, if you're only going to read one (other) volu
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by handrous 5y ago
I think we read abridgments of certain episodes from The Odyssey a couple different years, but never the whole thing. AFAIK Shakesepeare's Big Four are rarely all covered in high school. Maybe one of them will be. Romeo and Juliet
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by handrous 5y ago
The language takes some getting used to. Watching a performance is easier than reading it, since (again) you have the context of the actor's physical performance, delivery, the setting of the scene, et c., to inform your understandin
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by handrous 5y ago
> Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley (I thought I knew the story until I actually read the book—whoah, that opened my eyes to our relationship with technology and industry and how we use energy) Can confirm, the novel is very unlike every fil
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by handrous 5y ago
People take issue with them, but picking something off Adler's or Harvard's (five-foot-shelf) or Bloom's Great Books lists will almost never lead you wrong. But, here we go anyway (and yeah, some of these are just off those l
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by handrous 5y ago
My grasp on "the medium is the message" is that it's in part a technological-determinism argument. The message a medium will convey, or perhaps the space of messages it may end up conveying in practice, is determined by t
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by handrous 5y ago
I can only assume people who complain about Ikea—price, assembly instructions, quality, et c.—have never experienced other flat-pack furniture, like what Wal-Mart or Target stock, which is worse on all of those measures. Or most bulky, ug
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by handrous 5y ago
A relative who put in over 20 years in the army told me that a lot of their post gate guards were contractors these days. Considering that when he told me this it was the height of the occupation of Iraq ('05, maybe?), and that lots of
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by handrous 5y ago
My consistent experience is that sites that simply make a round trip to the server and re-render the world on every non-trivial interaction are much faster than "performant" web apps that try very hard never to request actual HT
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by handrous 5y ago
My friend group solved some people using Android phones by moving entirely to WhatsApp, years ago.
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by handrous 5y ago
> There are entire consulting businesses based on the idea of helping people understand their AWS bill. More broadly, there's a whole cottage industry of businesses that exist only because the UI for the major cloud providers is
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by handrous 5y ago
Interstellar is a bunch of neat and well-realized space sci-fi situations stitched together by a mediocre-at-best unjustifiably-proud-of-itself plot and a solid 30 minutes too much runtime.
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by handrous 5y ago
I just got a new 7.2 receiver (thanks, Black Friday) and it has a "don't wake the baby" mode of some sort, that I think is pretty much exactly what you're asking for. Flattens out the dynamics and raises the level of cha
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by handrous 5y ago
One thing that happened was that home copies of movies used to have a stereo audio mix, I assume professionally and manually mixed down and rebalanced, even if they didn't originally (though older movies—and not even that old—mostly
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by handrous 5y ago
Nolan would be a decent film maker if all his movies didn't think they were a solid two notches smarter than they actually are.
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by handrous 5y ago
There is, famously, a similar episode involving Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., in the 1986 Rodney Dangerfield comedy Back to School .
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by handrous 5y ago
Mac automation for things like CI is a pain in the ass (at least for small businesses) and their virtualization story for e.g. older version of the OS blows, despite having had a built-in hypervisor for a really long time. "Load this s
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by handrous 5y ago
Maybe it's to guard against the possibility of revealing what's covered by an NDA by answering yes or no to increasingly-detailed questions about what is and isn't covered by the NDA?
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by handrous 5y ago
It's possible to craft laws that don't explicitly fail to bind one group, but do in practice. Other times, it's more explicit. A recent example of the former would be some of the voting security laws that have been popular la
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by handrous 5y ago
Also: - Economy of scale means this won't be "AirBnB for hosting". I can't negotiate power costs or get as much efficiency out of my operations as someone with a real datacenter. Not even close. [EDIT: see also, Bitcoin
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by handrous 5y ago
Kinda true. Especially Christmas.
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by handrous 5y ago
Got married in the '00s in the US and IIRC in that state it was still the case that, to be valid, you had to have an ordained minister or certain officials (a judge) sign the paper. Now, would anyone ever check? Nah. Unless litigation
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by handrous 5y ago
The chrome color-changing is obnoxious and plainly harms UX, and the design is weirdly wasteful of pixels for something that looks like it was intended to save space. It also continues the flattifying trend of making it impossible to distin
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by handrous 5y ago
As far as just colors and font size and such, that used to be an OS feature that every (native) application got for free. FF had it years and years ago, too. I tried it a bit back then and then stopped, because almost all the themes just ma

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