intergalplan

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by intergalplan 5y ago
It's really easy, even if you're not that big a soda fiend and wouldn't think of downing 128 ounces of soda at work (these people are less rare than one might hope, I think, though), to accidentally down 40+ ounces with a lon
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by intergalplan 5y ago
In the era of glass bottles and real-sugar soda, we drank a hell of a lot less soda. The era of free refills on sodas not just existing but being expected, and 32-ounce "medium" size soft drinks is quite recent. Also, I'm unc
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by intergalplan 5y ago
I'd expect most challenger parties to be less corrupt than an incumbent party that had held power for a long time, at least for a while, and maybe for a long while if their hold on power remains more tenuous than the incumbents'
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by intergalplan 5y ago
That's globalization and, in the "intellectual property" area: 1) the ability to record & duplicate things in the first place—being able to play the piano tolerably well is worth basically nothing now, socially or commerc
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by intergalplan 5y ago
Shakespeare's much easier to watch than to read as you can pick up context clues from the visual component and from the delivery of the lines, which aid greatly in understanding. Watching the plays performed makes the plays easier to r
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by intergalplan 5y ago
Physical books maintain a UI advantage for many kinds of works, which may outweigh their extra storage burden and lack of full-text search. They compete worst (in fact they lose, probably, overall) for ordinary fiction, and other works that
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by intergalplan 5y ago
Which part's ignorant? If I pay $10,000 for land and $50,000 in materials and pay $90,000 in labor to produce a building that I sell for $200,000, did I create $50,000 in value? $140,000 because for some reason my labor costs count as
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by intergalplan 5y ago
How's it nonsense? If I buy $499 dollars at face-value and sell them for $500 there's no possible justification for the claim that I created $500 of value. Perhaps I created $1. Paying for labor is absolutely as transactional as
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by intergalplan 5y ago
I've never had to (consistently) get up for a job as early as I did for high school. And that's despite a 5-minute commute for high school, versus at times a 40-minute (one way) commute for work. Actually, in general, high school
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by intergalplan 5y ago
It's common usage in North African and Middle Eastern / Near-Eastern studies, in English. "Palestine" designates and area larger than either Israel or the Palestinian Territories are, individually or combined. Further, b
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by intergalplan 5y ago
Not sure it'd go as far back as you're suggesting, but one of the handful of ancient Egyptian stories that survives is called "The Eloquent Peasant" and is entirely about lawyering, basically. ~1800BCE, most likely, but
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by intergalplan 5y ago
> Then again, half my friends are Android users, so... That's the reason. Same reason my friend group is all on WhatsApp. If we all had iPhones, we'd just use iMessage.
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by intergalplan 5y ago
"Don't speak like you, or like me some years ago, speak how I learned to speak in order to signal that I'm both perceptive and capable, but also not so rich that I can wisely choose not to signal those traits".
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by intergalplan 5y ago
Could be true, these days. Didn't used to always be, at least on consumer hardware, though I've not seen a non-NATing Internet-connected consumer network in most of two decades.
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by intergalplan 5y ago
TIL: ignore elixir-lang.org, go to hexdocs.
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by intergalplan 5y ago
Good point. Decoding's usually pretty efficient, but you're right that use of wifi plus everything else related to this program might erase much of the power-savings.
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by intergalplan 5y ago
I was making an observation about HTML, perhaps too cutely.
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by intergalplan 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_American_English Also called "Standard American English" (as noted in the article). It's what you mostly hear on the radio, in film actors when they're acting b
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by intergalplan 5y ago
Of course there are. They're easier to pick out in informal writing, of course, but even, "is capable of writing extensively in SWE without screwing up or revealing lower-class status through choice of word or idiom" is a pre
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by intergalplan 5y ago
Practically all US regional accents, especially if thick, register as "lower" than Standard American English spoken with a generic or newscaster accent.
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by intergalplan 5y ago
If only we could render web pages server-side and send some kind of highly-compressible lightweight drawing instructions to the client.
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by intergalplan 5y ago
This project actually made me think that, since the X-Window protocol is practically a dead-end and everything's gotta be made with web tech now (ugh), it'd be really cool to have a version of FF or Chrome that's smart enough
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by intergalplan 5y ago
On the one hand: yes, $50 * 12 months would go a long way toward a machine upgrade, so it doesn't make a ton of sense purely on your-machine's-too-weak grounds. On the other hand, I don't really run Chrome or Firefox on anyth
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by intergalplan 5y ago
FWIW I thought the response was entirely fine and it wouldn't have occurred me to take offense at it. (I actually googled what "gen" in "GenServer" was supposed to mean before posting, because I couldn't reme
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by intergalplan 5y ago
Upvoted, then downvoted to hell, haha. IDK, I don't live in Elixir and that name trips me up every damn time I need to read/write some. Everywhere else, "gen" is typically a shortening of "generate" (which I do
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by intergalplan 5y ago
The name makes me read it as "generate server". Nothing else about it fits with that. That's the problem.
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by intergalplan 5y ago
Maybe a dumb complaint, but I hate the name. I have a really hard time not reading it as the active name "Generate Server". Like, I'd expect it to be a function that generates servers (whatever that means, since what it&#
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by intergalplan 5y ago
Sure, but it's still handy that consumer routers with no extra config protect the smart washing machines connected to them from drive-by unpatched remote exploits, just by having NAT on by default.
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by intergalplan 5y ago
~2 cups of coffee probably 5-6 days a week, sometimes tea instead, rarely past noon and never past ~2:00PM (I only drink it as late as, say, 1:00PM if I happen not to realize how late it is). Maybe one soda per month, tops, don't reall
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by intergalplan 5y ago
Damnit. Well, it's that or lots of 5-6 hour nights, or worse. Or bad hangovers and other weird shit from sleeping pills. Maybe time to get a sleep-tracker watch.

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