imbnwa

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   by imbnwa 3y ago

   Isn't it more like Old Norse and Old English, re: the number of basic English words that come from Old Norse[0]? The Norman influence appears to largely influence abstract domains like law, governance, and academia with the exception o
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   by imbnwa 3y ago

   Or just Warcraft III
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   by imbnwa 3y ago

   People forget that the history of the Prohibition movement was already 100 years old when it finally won constitutional prohibition in 1919 (and people literally empowered the Italian and Irish mafias to get around it; so empowered we got a
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   by imbnwa 3y ago

   Which, with as many prohibition movements there've been against it in American history, has basically been the most pervasive use of one's free time the last 200+ years in the states
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   by imbnwa 3y ago

   Well they eradicated vocational and technical schools in major cities, I was one of the last class of students to attend one in my major metropolian area.
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   by imbnwa 3y ago

   >I winced a little on that part too, but he does give the caveat later that women and children weren't equal to men at all, which means that "egalitarian societies" means "something like 30% of the tribe was somewhat
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   by imbnwa 3y ago

   Curious about settings for an idea of the ceiling, that game is insanely unoptimized
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   by imbnwa 3y ago

   Literally the person I first heard this from nearly 10 years ago was precisely one of the most manipulative, bullying charismatics I've ever known.
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   by imbnwa 3y ago

   Or all mammals
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    by imbnwa 3y ago

    I had a cousin who continued to suck her thumb when anxious into pre-puberty
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    by imbnwa 3y ago

    Let's be real here, the vast, vast majority of Apple customers are never installing Asahi on their machine. Like, ever.
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    by imbnwa 3y ago

    >And last but not least, this kernel release includes base support for the M2 Pro/Max/Ultra SoCs! We are not enabling installs on these machines yet as we still have some loose ends to tie, but you can expect to see support for
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    by imbnwa 3y ago

    So many apps on Windows, you might get the latest font rendering stack, you might get the old one, even in Windows' own settings UI
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    by imbnwa 3y ago

    At the rate that Asahi Linux is making the desktop models work on Arch, you might be able to have both if you wait a bit
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    by imbnwa 3y ago

    Damn, the Asahi team has done God's work
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    by imbnwa 3y ago

    The quality of those photos always gets me, makes me feel like Michael Douglas' character in Falling Down demanding that his burger look like the one in the advertisement.
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    by imbnwa 3y ago

    America use to have technical and vocational secondary schools, I went to one of the last ones in a top 3 major city, right before the last remnants of that legacy were phased out. In the 1960s, my high school had automobile shop, architect
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    by imbnwa 3y ago

    Arc is way ahead on browser UX. Opening links in Pinned Tabs into a modal over the Pinned Tab content is exactly how I want to use link aggregator sites
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    by imbnwa 3y ago

    This has been the #1 meme of Western Europe since Clovis
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    by imbnwa 3y ago

    They'd need drones equiped with thermal vision that can at least drop some buyoant object at the target
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    by imbnwa 3y ago

    Node should've offered an extended LTS support for a final CJS supported release and just ripped the band-aid off, making ESM first-class for all subsequent releases. As Mike Ehrmentraut once said, "no more half-measures".
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    by imbnwa 3y ago

    Lua metatable > JavaScript prototype
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    by imbnwa 3y ago

    One of the first things requested by users of an internal media sequencing tool where time is measured by frames was 1-based indexing, they absolutely hated starting from 0
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    by imbnwa 3y ago

    >In theory, HTML is device independent. In practice, we can't even get web apps to work on desktop and mobile, to the point where even sites like Wikipedia, the simplest and most obvious place where HTML should Just Work across devi
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    by imbnwa 3y ago

    Wonder how many of those surviving churches were themselves erected atop the ashes of a non-Abrahamic site of worship and/or sacrifice
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    by imbnwa 3y ago

    >This feels like a strawman - does anyone actually build software this way? Oh yeah , fam.
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    by imbnwa 3y ago

    Its insane how popular it is, when it comes to the decline of the true hacker/engineer, to blame individuals for systemtic changes in process and environment
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    by imbnwa 3y ago

    My grandfather worked for GE his entire life after coming back from Korea in his early 20s, I was 6 in the early 90s when he finally retired at age 64/65 and the bosses came to his retirement dinner and gave him a gold watch. Can you i
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    by imbnwa 3y ago

    Almost no one in the cast, including the Americans, save for the 3 actors from the area (Robert Chew as Prop Joe, Felicia Pearson as Snoop, Anwan Glover as Slim Charles) even tried putting on a Baltimore accent. Wood Harris and Idris Elba w
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    by imbnwa 3y ago

    Those 15th century English writers just making up Latinate neologisms woulda loved this