jholman

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by jholman 5y ago
There has never been any doubt that 20th century weapons are sufficient to do horrendous damage to civilian targets. WWII shows plenty of examples, many of them in Russia. Saying that the modern Russian army is at least as capable as the
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by jholman 5y ago
Reading your first paragraph, I was thinking "water. the answer is always water", when it comes to estimating the properties of life-stuff vs everything-else-stuff within a factor of 2. Not obviously, of course, but it's
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by jholman 5y ago
You just argued that running (100m, marathon, etc) is not competitive, that weightlifting is not competitive, that bowling is not competitive, that target shooting is not competitive. Just achievements. That's fine, you can humpty-dum
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by jholman 5y ago
Technically? I dunno, maybe? It works better than most software, but that's mostly because the bar is so low. But yeah, technically, their launcher is better, sure. Lower-resource-using, cleaner-UI, more effective than any other I&#
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by jholman 5y ago
Computers are not "a technology". They're processed rocks. Insofar as tea involves technique, including selection, cultivation, harvest, processing, and preparation, it's a technology. One that I personally dislike.
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by jholman 5y ago
> Similar to symlinks, but arguably less hacky, because there is no differentiation between "actual" location and "linked" location. In other words, similar to hardlinks
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by jholman 5y ago
My sympathies. My wife of 11 years left me this year (I still don't know why). I think about the same thing... I still (probably) have time to find out what it's like to be married 30 years, but I (probably) no longer have the t
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by jholman 5y ago
Six bucks per month, per account, you mean.
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by jholman 5y ago
E'ybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but don't nobody want to lift no heavy-ass weights. https://youtu.be/4UlgXIL0-3g?t=10
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by jholman 5y ago
Yeah, same. Back 20 years ago, I used to reinstall Windows every twelve to eighteen months. There's just no need any more. Of course, I don't install warez any more, that probably helps. But mostly Windows just turned into a rea
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by jholman 5y ago
If by "the left" and "the right", you're thinking of US political definitions, please name a couple of politicized scientific disputes where the right-wing side of a scientific argument has merit. I can think of one
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by jholman 5y ago
Just a quibble: not only are millenials "by and large" not teens any more, the very youngest of them are 25. Signed, a Gen X-er who won't use SMS except with his Boomer parents, and prefers gChat or Discord.
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by jholman 5y ago
Help me to understand who dies when the rooflines overlap?
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by jholman 5y ago
Yeah. It's "the ternary operator" the way John Carmack is "the author of the tweet we're discussing". It's a correct description , but it's not his name .
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by jholman 5y ago
My guess: Each owner says "it's your turn to feed it", and so the cow is never fed. And when the cow does give milk, each owner quickly takes the milk, claiming they haven't got their share yet. It's like the huma
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by jholman 5y ago
I wrote a bookmarklet. Works on all non-iframe audio and video. javascript:void%20function(){document.querySelector(%22video,audio%22).playbackRate=parseFloat(prompt(%22Set%20the%20playback rate%22))}(); Here's a non-interactive versi
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by jholman 5y ago
Being pedantic is simple, you just say things that don't contain detectable errors. (I'm agreeing with you about "simple, not easy")
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by jholman 5y ago
w3schools is famously a dumpster fire, and frankly I think codecadamy is overrated. I'm not a designer, I can't give a good constructive answer to the question, but I know the answer is never w3schools.
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by jholman 5y ago
You're right, I definitely do not watch political content on social media, haha. What a mess that would be.
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by jholman 5y ago
This whole conversation has been baffling to me. I am a huge fan of YouTube, and I consume way too much YouTube. I mean, there's also problems with YT, make no mistake, but I'm admitting my bias, and also proclaiming my experienc
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by jholman 5y ago
I would be very curious to hear of cases where any fact checking at all was done by legit publishers. Everything I've ever heard about the publishing industry contradicts what you have supposed. But I don't have any real eviden
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by jholman 5y ago
Naming names, AWS ghosted me after a full day of interviews. Actually that entire process was a charlie foxtrot. Not that I think I earned an offer in that interview, but they didn't earn an acceptance either.
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by jholman 5y ago
YAML is better than XML for some things (human-readable config files), worse than XML for others (everything else?). But XML is always bad (though always bearable, barely). Surely you didn't mean to imply that there are no other optio
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by jholman 5y ago
A side pedantry note, in the hopes that it's appreciated: Usually "more ingenuous" would mean "more naive" or "more childlike" or "less capable of deceit", none of which seem to be what you int
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by jholman 5y ago
Yeah, my inner monologue sometimes feels like I'm driving it, and sometimes I am definitely definitely not driving it. I don't know if it's "my voice" or not, it's just... the the thing in my mind that outputs
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by jholman 5y ago
This page is clearly consistent with the license granted at Matt's site. It's still an inferior site, but it's kinda wild to accuse someone of theft when they're not stealing.
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by jholman 5y ago
> correlation != causality That's also an argument against your point about war, disease, and famine.
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by jholman 5y ago
Remember that volume absolutely does not increase exponentially with distance, it increases as the third power, which is polynomial. In fact, the word we use for "the third power" is even a direct reference to the fact that it&#x
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by jholman 5y ago
I think you're the patronizing one in this thread.
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by jholman 5y ago
That's disruption, in the sense intended by Clayton M. Christensen. Walmart was never going to provide a better service than Whole Foods (or some equivalent-to-WF store that predates Walmart, since I'm sure there are some). But i

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