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by hnick 3y ago
One thing I forgot, is the psychology behind it - it seems in my experience at least, people want people to enjoy things they enjoy. You get this with meat eaters telling vegetarians "just try a steak once to see how it is, it can&#x27
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by hnick 3y ago
Do you find a certain type works better? Last time I looked into it there were various types like malate and glycinate and I got a bit of analysis paralysis. I also get the leg cramps at night!
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by hnick 3y ago
This is made worse by the modern sparse/industrial designs in a lot of newer restaurants. Exposed blank walls and wide open areas for echoes to proliferate. No carpet. No wall hangings. Concrete everywhere.
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The difference is that it's legal and widely enjoyed by others. Cigarettes are too but there's been a widespread shift in public opinion meaning this doesn't occur. You'll sometimes see the same stuff said if someone ann
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by hnick 3y ago
Distillation, but if you are talking about wine/beer: https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/yeast-fermentation... "Most yeast strains can tolerate an alcohol concentration of 10–15% before being kill
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by hnick 3y ago
I think it's worth noting it was the process that sanitised the water, not the alcohol - even raw eggnog with much higher concentrations is considered acceptable for most people but risky for the at-risk, due to eggs being largely but
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by hnick 3y ago
I'm not sure but it looks like it was 1988 for the coins, which is when the notes were removed, then 1996 for finalising the switch to polymer notes, with some earlier introductions. I think whether it would help is somewhat complex be
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In Australia it's common to initial pages to indicate they have been read, and next to altered terms specifically. Both parties write their initials in such cases, so you don't need a signature on each page. I don't think it
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We did have them. We got rid of them because coins last longer so are more cost effective for small amounts like that.
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It might also be loaded with the assumption the man has a child - I'd assume outcomes are different for those with and without? I wonder by how much.
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Westerners are into that too now, I won't name names but they're happy to do it because they consider it a business expense (a tax deduction so not free, but after you add the views and subs and donations, and sometimes sponsorshi
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by hnick 3y ago
I'm "guilty" of this too but my problem with this is that the monetisation controls the design. If they're heavy on cosmetics, there's incentive to make the gameplay-obtained stuff worse. If they have QoL upgrades,
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by hnick 3y ago
China banned under-18s from playing online games more than an hour a day, and only on Fri/Sat/Sun and holidays. Online games are far more addicting in my experience, but it's always easy to waste hours offline as my 90s child
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by hnick 3y ago
While that is true, in Genshin Impact at least, the main game is so easy it's not really an issue unless you choose to be a min-maxer, and there's no PvP competitive aspect. You can beat the abyss full f2p, but it will take a bit
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by hnick 3y ago
There are Intel NUC laptops, or as they call them kits, I'm not sure what the details are. They're sold and branded by third parties but the guts are the same, except maybe the RAM and SSD (very minor customisation anyway). When I
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by hnick 3y ago
We even did this to ourselves, internally, at a prior workplace. They wanted a new web-based system to make it easier to onboard client work (less coding!) but picked a test case of a fairly complex client. The idea was of course some combi
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I landed at http://www.lunarsight.com/ and scrolled to the end, where I saw a flashing advertisement. That felt a bit out of place, so I checked the URL was safe and clicked it. It was a joke. Those little touches of person
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And does agar based jelly count, or just gelatine?
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I never thought about that Word vs Excel ribbon dichotomy before, but it makes sense and mirrors how I feel. The good news is we can hide it, at least. In whatever version I have, selecting text popups a mini toolbar up which usually has ex
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> more importantly the concepts underneath that UI and the mental model it requires - will be related to the stuff they already know. And, perhaps most importantly - if they don't learn, they can be removed. Big difference between U
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by hnick 3y ago
I don't know about the setting, but when I have Visual Studio and Github Desktop on dark mode, they'll often overlap and it's not obvious which window I am clicking on if I'm trying to snag the title bar to move one. Als
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by hnick 3y ago
It feels like you jumped past something that I remember being a big deal - The Ribbon. I remember when Office introduced it, and people hated it. It goes against your comment on using words instead of icons. But it seems like a useful solut
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by hnick 3y ago
Sounds like a Business Analyst and perhaps Technical Writer. Not something the developer should usually spend most of their time doing, but a bit is good.
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by hnick 3y ago
Almost perfectly matches mine, though you can put Logo before Basic. And some weird stuff between C++ / Perl, based on the language du jour in the Computer Science department. Plus Java. Don't forget Java.
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For the iPhone at least there is a fairly extensive user guide online. It doesn't help much for technical issues but did a decent job explaining how to do things. In my case, I learned about setting up a triple-click shortcut to pop up
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Longer than it took me to show up at the Chinese restaurant last night, decide on an order, pay, wait for them to cook the food, and walk out with it.
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Watching YouTubers come up with weird euphemisms to avoid saying "COVID" (to avoid the risk of automatic demonetisation) drove home how much self censorship there must be around content creation in general. I've also seen a f
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I had this conversation with someone online. "X makes great cars! I bought one 15 years ago and it's been rock solid!" Yeah, well 15 years is a long time. The car you buy that was made this year could be a piece of crap. Who
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Not only that, the $8 might not be much, but what you get isn't either. If everyone felt entitled to charge $8 for not much in return that can add up and mean real money even to US-centric people, once they're paying it to 50 diff
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I think it would greatly complicate things if cold-storage backups count as holding data. Some poor kid would have to go and load all the tapes and redact it.

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