joe5150

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by joe5150 4y ago
“Satisficer” and “maximizer” are more useful concepts I think.
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by joe5150 4y ago
good luck teaching much beyond colors and shapes without overlapping with some "Republican ideals" or "Democrat ideals". especially given the ever-widening scope of what so many Republicans claim constitutes Democratic p
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by joe5150 4y ago
yeah I agree that it's a phenomenon, I just don't think it arose recently because of streaming. if anything, streaming makes it easier to access artists' back catalogs. not sure the degree to which this increases the longevit
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by joe5150 4y ago
the tendency of artists “becoming sex symbols, actors, and basically lifestyle influencers while singing generically machine-crafted music” if not basically being the case for the entire history of recorded music, at least predates streamin
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by joe5150 5y ago
unless you're applying for a job in HR, I don't see how HR's feelings on your pronoun use would make a difference to your job prospects.
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by joe5150 5y ago
In AZ "4 Way" or "All Way" signs are almost always present when applicable. These "Cross Traffic Does Not Stop" signs [1] are common (but not universal) at other intersections. [1] https://bloximages
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by joe5150 5y ago
"There’s no shortage of theories to explain why viewers are turning off to the Oscars: ...the growing chasm between the esoteric tastes of the Academy’s voting members (who this year nominated Drive My Car, a Japanese drama about a gri
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by joe5150 5y ago
I’m genuinely not sure what you think matters about this fact.
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Premise’s Response to Allegations of Influence in Ukraine(premise.com)
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by joe5150 5y ago
I think it's well understood that when vegans or vegetarians say they don't eat "animals" they are generally talking about, at minimum, macrobiota and not tardigrades, etc.
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by joe5150 5y ago
people don’t generally tend to feel this way about training to work in medicine or hvac or law. or even language, really. obviously children learn how to use language, but training for a professional job as a teacher or a translator (or wha
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by joe5150 5y ago
“There is an argument to be made that there was a violation of law.” I mean, not really, but I guess that could mean anything.
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by joe5150 5y ago
"Albert Fox Cahn, the executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, thinks the devices are 'too ripe for abuse' to exist." besides the fact that these devices cover a wide spectrum of abuse potenti
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by joe5150 5y ago
generally no; only mail with stamps on it will end up with a postmark cancellation most of the time.
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by joe5150 5y ago
no court order needed! there are plenty of places where police can and will just take your money (always with impunity and sometimes even with some degree of legitimate warrant.) I'd call "carrying thousands in cash around the wor
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by joe5150 5y ago
", or the imitation thereof," is doing a lot of heavy lifting in this ideology.
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by joe5150 5y ago
I can't imagine what kind of leverage they think they have. is any provider going to just drop iPhone support from their network?
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by joe5150 5y ago
tvs have gotten a lot better, but every time I go to the movies, I'm reminded of how wide the gap is. for one thing, it's not just about the picture.
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by joe5150 5y ago
this is great! I have a use in mind that this would probably work really well for, but I would need to be able to tell it to backup only a single card. maybe it's time for me to learn some C#!
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by joe5150 5y ago
agreed! they could just use an arbitrary scale.
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by joe5150 5y ago
alas: https://github.com/javierbyte/emoji-to-scale/commit/b7b54d7e...
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by joe5150 5y ago
the emoji is usually depicted as a saguaro, which can easily be that tall!
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by joe5150 5y ago
and this at the other end: https://emojipedia.org/microbe/
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by joe5150 5y ago
I'm curious what you mean by "OSX-like fit-size maximization". do you mean what happens when you double click on the title bar and the window fills the vertical space, but not necessarily the horizontal space?
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by joe5150 5y ago
it sounds plausible, but I couldn't find any good evidence of this being widespread. I also can't see how this justifies subject- or genre-based bans on new books.
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by joe5150 5y ago
I don't think wind tunnels (of which these seem like fundamentally different types) are a great example for this argument.
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by joe5150 5y ago
Where do you plan to immigrate to that you won't perpetuate the exact same problem you see as your main reason for leaving?
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by joe5150 5y ago
they could easily find a social circle and likely a workplace too where their views are accepted or even celebrated. why don't they?
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by joe5150 5y ago
If you're an employee with a work computer you don't have an admin account on, there's a reasonable chance you can convince someone to install something you need. If you're a student in a computer lab, that's likely
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by joe5150 5y ago
VSCode will happily (and automatically) install under the user directory with no admin privileges on Windows, FWIW.

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