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by isleyaardvark 2y ago
Inconveniencing people is part and parcel of protesting, including the Civil Rights movement.
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by isleyaardvark 2y ago
Congress has made rules regarding currency under which changing the portrait to show Harriet Tubman doesn't require specific Congressional approval. (For example, the person must be deceased.) Historically and constitutionally choosing
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by isleyaardvark 2y ago
Exactly, it's not like a novel where you are trying to read the entire thing. And it's an advantage because it is easier to parse. If I'm trying to change the color on that element, I have a very good idea what controls that.
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by isleyaardvark 2y ago
NASA is a counterpoint. If they actually have resources, the government is capable of good work. But when it is done on the cheap you don’t get the best work. Whether it’s from underfunding the particular agency, or when they have to outsou
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by isleyaardvark 2y ago
If the alternative is: .foo { padding: 0; padding: 1rem; } then I can see the precedence but I don’t see how it’s an advantage. You can write bad code in any methodology. That seems like an issue with Phoenix and not Tailwind or the Tailw
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by isleyaardvark 2y ago
The post reads a bit like one of those stackoverflow questions seeking a solution to x when that’s not the problem they should be solving.
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by isleyaardvark 2y ago
If you enjoyed this article you would enjoy the book “The Kidnapping Club” by Jonathan Daniel Wells. It covers the history of pre-Civil War New York. (As the title suggests, the bit in the article about “probably have kidnapped him and sol
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by isleyaardvark 2y ago
The intent is clear.
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by isleyaardvark 2y ago
I don't doubt that, but from what I've been reading Arcane is notorious for having songs in the background exactly describing the action onscreen.
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by isleyaardvark 2y ago
The last point may be the most important. The US banned the importation of slaves in 1808. The enslaved were treated like livestock and that's why they still had slaves in the 1860s.
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by isleyaardvark 2y ago
> You'll notice that Bootstrap CSS includes every single utility class within Bootstrap. This is fine, but it could be a lot smaller For perspective, a build process that removes unused tailwind classes can result in .css files of a
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by isleyaardvark 2y ago
No, because the article was not written in 1964.
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by isleyaardvark 2y ago
I'm pretty sure @vitejs/plugin-react allows you to leave off the file extension for imports. (I say this because I'm looking at a working Vite project with no file extensions, and that's one of the few differences with a
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by isleyaardvark 2y ago
Jobs also had a long period where he wouldn't shower and was put on the night shift because he stunk so bad. Wonder if they'll try that.
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by isleyaardvark 2y ago
One of the article's main points is the US is spending 4-5x as much per ship, I don't know where you get "just won't invest the funds" from that.
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by isleyaardvark 2y ago
It's quite simple. Consumers realize either consciously or not that saying "AI" means the added AI will make the product: 1. cheaper 2. worse It's invariably used as a cost-cutting measure that is quick, cheap, and worse
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by isleyaardvark 2y ago
> He actually tries to downplay the issue by saying "Well, at least you wouldn't be scammed out of that much money". That’s a ridiculously uncharitable take on a simple statement of fact that you yourself even seem to acce
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by isleyaardvark 2y ago
Whenever I have seen code like that, it’s awful. “Name them what they are” becomes “name them after their content”, which is the opposite of separation of concerns.
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by isleyaardvark 2y ago
This video isn’t really worth watching in entirety, but it’s one clip with motion smoothing on and off, so you can skip around to get the idea: https://youtu.be/INQrxHREmJ0?si=E5v3L-gZ__BrUHyC This video has a longer explan
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by isleyaardvark 2y ago
This is a big enough forum that you will find anti-Apple posters that will reflexively downvote anything sympathetic to Apple.
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by isleyaardvark 2y ago
You can probably skip nhs.uk and go straight to uk.gov's writing guidelines themselves: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/content-design/writing-for-gov-u...
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by isleyaardvark 2y ago
They address that in the article, saying "but given this will be such a common problem for all the package's users, why make them do this?" I agree, I don't think the default for a package should be a footgun. Or in the
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by isleyaardvark 2y ago
Also convenient that the church leaders 350 years later chose the correct books to put in the Bible when they canonized it.
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by isleyaardvark 2y ago
Not too long ago I saw an article from a Canadian source about how bad Canadian healthcare was getting, and complaining Canada had or was about to drop out of the top 10 rankings. It had a scatter chart showing the metrics, and while Canada
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by isleyaardvark 2y ago
It's a shame the current robber barons are worse than the old ones.
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by isleyaardvark 3y ago
The article.
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by isleyaardvark 3y ago
That is describing the profession, the article is describing the origin of the term used to describe the profession. A “vaquero” is what we now would call “cowboy”, and we call them “cowboys” because it was originally applied to Black slave
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by isleyaardvark 3y ago
To give some context on how obvious or non-obvious it was, Darwin published The Origin of Species in 1859, which was the same year Louis Pasteur disproved the popular idea of spontaneous generation. That was a theory put forth by Aristotle
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by isleyaardvark 3y ago
Just a note that precision is a part of the standard if you’re using the ISO 4217 standard, which defines minor unit fractions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217 Or choose a different standard, I don’t know what
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by isleyaardvark 3y ago
That was a widely reported quote from that Barnett said to one of his friends. https://abcnews4.com/news/local/if-anything-happens-its-not-...

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