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by hguant 6y ago
Sure, but you need cracks and fissures for water to freeze and thaw into, and without heavy trucks compressing, stressing, and wearing away the road surface, those cracks take much much longer to develop.
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by hguant 6y ago
This reminds me of the lengths Ernest Hemmingway went to avoid paying taxes - he kept meticulous diaries, in part because that's who he was, but also to prove to the US and Cuban authorities that he didn't live in their respective
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by hguant 6y ago
They passed an amendment to their constitution.
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by hguant 6y ago
Short answer: States have constitutions as well. The Constitution is the overall guiding document for the Federal government; state constitutions are foundational/guiding documents for the components that make up the United States. A
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by hguant 6y ago
Maybe the most visible brand, among web-dev, but HP, Lenovo, and Dell own the business/enterprise laptop market in a big way.
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by hguant 6y ago
>The work laptop is a maxed 15" macbook a year or two old, and it can barley handle video conferences, let alone bazel compilations I was in a similar boat. Top spec macPro, all the bells and whistles...and the machine ground to a h
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by hguant 6y ago
>And you can buy antibiotics that are sold for pets that happen to be the same as the antibiotics manufactured for human Yes, but there's a quality control aspect there that makes one a touch uncomfortable. My fish getting a little
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by hguant 6y ago
In the US at least, stockpiling antibiotics is a little tricky - kind of hard to find a doctor who will just write you a prescription for cipro "just in case."
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by hguant 6y ago
The problem is that if you use "y'all" in a Zoom meeting with a bunch of people from the Northeast, the conversation immediately becomes about how "oh you're from the SOUTH what's that like."
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by hguant 6y ago
On paper. I hang out a lot with a lot of former US infantry guys on discord, and they talk all the time about how rule one was come back alive, and rule two was 'make sure you all get your stories straight.' This mythos of the Ame
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by hguant 6y ago
>First of all, these things are going to be far less effective, durability, reliability and range wise than factory firearms. This is technically true, but doesn't accurately represent the state of 3d printed firearms. Durability -
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by hguant 6y ago
There's an alternate reading of The Prince as a pro-democratic piece - throughout the entire work, Machiavelli reminds the titular Prince that the strongest cities, in terms of power, were those that were governed democratically, wher
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by hguant 6y ago
Technically? Nothing, you can do many things with Swift as a systems level language, and there are some interesting aspects to it. Swift was my first introduction to the power of traits and protocols, and I'll be forever fond of it for
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by hguant 6y ago
>I'm not looking forward to any smoke now my dad has COPD, IPF, is on oxygen, and he's elderly. If we get any amount of smoke here it will be the end of him. It's hard enough trying to keep him from contracting SARS-Cov-2
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by hguant 6y ago
US DoD had as a strategic goal the ability to fight and win a two theater global conflict against peer or near peer nations up until a few years ago, when it was changed to fight and win one theater, while not losing the other (holding grou
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by hguant 6y ago
It cuts both ways - the most lucrative investments are also the riskiest ones. We tend to look down our noses (sometimes masking it as sympathy) at those who spend their money on lottery tickets or gambling, taking on large amounts of risk
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by hguant 6y ago
>Recent reports of dramatic declines in insect abundance suggest grave consequences for global ecosystems and human society. Most evidence comes from Europe, however, leaving uncertainty about insect population trends worldwide. This mak
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The Princeton Faculty’s Anti-Free-Speech Demands(theatlantic.com)
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by hguant 6y ago
I wonder what sort of machine those folks were plugging it into? If it's their general purpose work issued machine, shame on them, but I can't believe the FBI doesn't have a high and low side networks. How many plugged into t
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by hguant 6y ago
Anything from Neon Genesis Evangelion: Good, yet horribly depressed programmer
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by hguant 6y ago
I've found that I'm much more willing to spend a larger chunk of money in a one off payment than signing up for yet another "only 5 dollar" pledge. I recently signed up for a few substack accounts from writers I've
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by hguant 6y ago
>The device would require custom shoes with venting to dump heat out of the top of the toebox. Or as you say, an external leg-mounted heatpump Sounds like a job for Sietch Tabr!
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by hguant 6y ago
I was a political philosophy major in college - it's interesting seeing how important being able to rigorously define what you're saying, and taking into account what your statements assume, is critically important for both engine
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by hguant 6y ago
Nah the defense industry is smarter than that - it's a bipartisan industry. F-35s have components that are built in every state for a reason.
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by hguant 6y ago
>The groupthink there is also becoming unbearable I'm curious - do you mean groupthink in the governance/policy sphere, or in the groups of technically minded people working on the hard/interesting problems? Or little bit
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by hguant 6y ago
No no, you see, you must be _brave_, be _bold_ and irrevocably tie yourself to our product.
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by hguant 6y ago
I feel like that has become my typical experience reading The Verge - "here's this thing! You shouldn't use it, you should totally use this thing that we (or our sponsors) like better!" I remember reading their articles
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by hguant 6y ago
What vexed you about discord so much that you decided to roll your own? Or was it just a general accumulation of petty abuse?
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by hguant 6y ago
Question - is this at the top because you've pinned it there, or because people voted it so? I've been around here for 6-ish years now, and don't think I've seen any pinned mod comments before.
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by hguant 7y ago
Anecdotally, and I haven't done any serious testing of this, my work colleagues and I have noticed that on our 2017, 15 inch MacbookPros, wired Ethernet (either from a dongle, or a hub) is only reliable on the right hand side. One co-w

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