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by hnick 4y ago
Sounds a little like funnel web spider venom - just an evolutionary accident it's so potent to humans, at no evolutionary drawback for its main role.
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by hnick 4y ago
Do you pay tax on personal bank interest where you are? Here in Aus you'd be paying tax on the interest at your marginal rate, but if the car is personal that interest is not a tax deductible expense. So you will be ahead at twice the
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by hnick 4y ago
The block I'm talking about has "no stopping" signs specifically during school pickup hours to block cars idling. But, either it's a grey area or they just don't enforce - I'd guess the parents would say they a
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by hnick 4y ago
I also found the linked follow-up article interesting, where the writer tries to find the original author. Including an article comment at the end of the page by someone who claims it was them, with web archive links. Looks somewhat convinc
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by hnick 4y ago
Two UMS ("use map settings" which is what we referred to custom maps as, named after the game settings) maps that I loved and were quite popular on aus-1 (our local non-battle.net server) were variants of "zergling blood&quot
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by hnick 4y ago
Over here in Australia I remember the same, kids walking to school at 5 years old. In fact one time my mum forgot to pick me up, so I walked to my friend's house. Turns out it was the wrong day, oops. But now I see cars lined up at the
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by hnick 4y ago
You would generally choose a server based on ping and population (many of which had custom maps or rule sets - like no sniper rifles in CS 1.6) then choose a team, but only if they had equal players otherwise you had to go to the one with f
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by hnick 4y ago
If there's a presumptive pre-filled tip amount that I have to zero out that would annoy me a lot. In most cases there is a tip button that I just don't press or I answer 'No' to the question on it. Sometimes the staff do
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by hnick 4y ago
You're correct, it's creeping in mostly due to cookie cutter POS machines setup for US market (I assume), and Doordash/Uber/etc apps and websites baking it in. I'd guess the payment machines can be setup to hide it,
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by hnick 4y ago
I've seen at least one preparation hack the yeastiness by pouring a little beer into the same-day mix too.
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by hnick 4y ago
I eventually settled on this too. My oven is a standard oven, not super hot, so we get enough heat through the paper from the stone before the top is done. But I do think a semi-deep cast iron pan pizza is ideal and foolproof for the home c
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by hnick 4y ago
Well, and I can't personally confirm this, they say NYC water is somehow better for making the dough in this style of pizza.
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by hnick 4y ago
This is why I also didn't particularly enjoy answering questions concisely at my previous company. I still did, I just hated it. Documentation can describe a system state, and how to use or approach it, but in my experience it really l
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by hnick 4y ago
And before someone comes in with the old excuse about population density, keep in mind they could mandate it for our dense metropolitan areas and service the great majority of citizens and businesses. If they'd actually built the right
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by hnick 4y ago
Perl's approach to OOP has flaws but it being generally "data structures you already know but with some magic and functions attached" helped me understand it on a more fundamental level. It greatly supports the mix-and-match
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by hnick 4y ago
For me, the issue was that OOP in an academic context was always toy examples. OK, Dog and Cat are Animal that can MakeNoise, Eat, and HaveFur (except sometimes not). Yeah, I get it. It's a ridiculous amount of boilerplate compared to
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by hnick 4y ago
One day of 4-6 hours sleep and I can get giddy, energetic, and focused. 2nd day kills me. Usually even if I get otherwise adequate sleep, there's a hangover effect.
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by hnick 4y ago
"tool" is historically and currently also slang for penis. Can't have that.
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by hnick 4y ago
I've heard people make the case that MMOs were VR and Social Media combined, before Facebook etc existed. And I think it's true. I would log on to chat (FFXI in my case) with friends. We would occupy a shared space. People still r
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by hnick 4y ago
Coffee sets a timer for me - if I had a decent amount of chili the night before, or at lunch with a coffee, the fun begins as they encourage each other.
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by hnick 4y ago
I personally find it very easy to parse visually, font size is ideal, no inline images or post voting or overbearing profile/social BS on the forums, it's peak late 90s design and (without sounding too elitist) probably helps attr
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by hnick 4y ago
I personally think that was a decent use of time - 30 minutes vs a product-lifetime of not pissing off users that little bit will give a lot of goodwill payoff. But I have worked at a place with in-house developers where they probably would
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by hnick 4y ago
Following the same theme of liminal UI areas, another thing that peeves me is touch screens like my local supermarket self-checkout which respond with a beep (indicating they know I hit the button) but do nothing, because apparently the bee
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by hnick 4y ago
Would it be possible on the rendering engine side to detect if an item re-flowed and discard the user event if it happened within some time e.g. ~200ms ago? Something sites could opt out of for HTML games or things where it is intended beha
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by hnick 4y ago
whirlpool.net.au is so fast here in AU sometimes I refresh and I'm not sure it did anything.
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by hnick 4y ago
Users are spending more time in the Start Menu, and visit Bing more often: engagement metrics are up!
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by hnick 4y ago
Do they do red wine and coke over there too? Fairly common in some parts of the world, I'd guess it works well with cheap wine (never tried).
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by hnick 4y ago
It is fairly common for a chef to team up with an investor for this reason - let the chef do the food, and the other party do the business stuff. If you're both trying to do both or have a too-personal relationship where you can't
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by hnick 4y ago
Yes it's hard to say. Sometimes it's when I feel like it's a natural time for a break, but also maybe whatever it is (that the audio tickles in my brain) becomes fatigued or used up. Either way the silence gives a great feeli
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by hnick 4y ago
That 2nd link in 'b'rown mode immediately makes me feel like I'm standing on the seashore on an overcast day... for some reason it brings memories of Disco Elysium. Exactly what I need today, thanks.

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