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by karatestomp 6y ago
It's been remarkable to watch the military, where they've been involved, handle things so much better than the police have. The difference in training and attitude couldn't be clearer and it makes the police look even worse b
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by karatestomp 6y ago
Relatedly, I found my "night owl" tendencies, which were "natural" and just about impossible to fight, went away completely when I limited myself to a few dim candles for light after sundown, and no glowing screens of
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by karatestomp 6y ago
I find I like lots of "menial" work a lot better than programming. As long as it didn't wreck my body (I like doing construction labor but it'll destroy you) I'd much, much rather do that than programming. Food deli
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by karatestomp 6y ago
The language has finally achieved "meh" status if you can use only the latest version and ignore at least half of it completely. This may or many not still make it very bad or entirely fine depending on one's perspective.
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by karatestomp 6y ago
> I wonder why map() functions this way in Javascript and if any other languages pass additional values like this in their own map() implementations. Sometimes it's very convenient to be able to look ahead or behind the current elem
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by karatestomp 6y ago
This is the real answer. Removing the incentives that discourage interoperability and common standards would help. This probably means regulating spying-centric advertising and related mass-data-gathering out of existence. Twitter should be
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by karatestomp 6y ago
From some perspectives charging everyone the same amount is wrong. In fact I'd say my intuitive notion of what a "fair" price was was closer to that when I was young, even being American. If a shopkeeper makes little or nothi
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by karatestomp 6y ago
With winner-take-all state elector selection plus elector counts that favor lower-population states there are huge distortionary effects on voter turnout, the actual choices a voter makes in the voting booth, and campaigning, including
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by karatestomp 6y ago
Obama's pushing in the media as an "up and comer" felt like typical party messaging and positioning. I think he just surprised them when he "up and came" faster than they wanted him to, but I suspect his prominence
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by karatestomp 6y ago
I didn't like W and don't like Trump but you can't draw meaningful conclusions from the popular vote in an election that's not decided by popular vote, because knowledge of that fact affects campaigning and voter turno
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by karatestomp 6y ago
> You have always had the need to look at the buttons, like reaching out to the radio. Aside from others' comments that one needn't look at buttons & knobs one has memorized, also: 1) one does not need to look as long at
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by karatestomp 6y ago
> First thing to do, is to create a new "homedir" inside the OS-provided homedir. I want my homedir to be immediately backup-able, and unfortunately most OSs spam the system homedir with various nonsense, e.g. applications (on
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by karatestomp 6y ago
I could really use not a full download-to dialog on every save in my browser, but just a prompt for a very small set of download locations I've defined, possibly filtered by extension (.jpg -> 'photos_to_sort' or 'm
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by karatestomp 6y ago
1) I collect a bunch of Very Important Documents and Files. I maybe try to organize them. 2) At some point (days in...) this falls apart. 3) I get sick of not being able to find new files and throw everything in some folder ('archive&#
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by karatestomp 6y ago
> Noticed some companies won't even hire out of state. Hiring out of state (but still in the US) means dealing with taxes for the other state, plus probably adds complexity and maybe cost to providing health insurance. The best qu
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by karatestomp 6y ago
I doubt anything on screen can affect flight during lift-off or re-entry. Anything it might had damn well better be locked-out anyway. Lift off's automated and I'd think any significant failure of that automation would be a cue to
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by karatestomp 6y ago
Same as actors and performers in any other era since the invention of recording and mass distribution, providing the possibility (inevitability) for incredible amounts of money to concentrate (almost exclusively) to the very most successf
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by karatestomp 6y ago
> why do people refer to me as a cannibal? I think it’s my woodwork that defines me. Why not call me a woodworker? The long form of this I've heard goes through about three extensive accomplishments or deeds, as: "You see the r
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by karatestomp 6y ago
> Sure. Go to a Ducks Unlimited banquet and tell folks you’re a Democrat and they may contextualize gun control as your agenda. Tell your Bay Area colleagues you’re a Republican and you’ll be contextualized as close minded. That's j
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by karatestomp 6y ago
No, I mean the thing where it captures a short video (usually lower-res, I think, at least on the phone I have) at the same time as taking a full-res photo. The result is like something out of Harry Potter—you're looking at a photo, yo
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by karatestomp 6y ago
Any mirrorless cameras shoot "live photos"? I'd like nicer image quality and would like to drop to a non-smartphone, but won't give those up. It's the single feature keeping me paying for smartphones. :-/
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by karatestomp 6y ago
Maybe a counterexample, but it's also a really weird situation. The arms in that case were seized from government arsenals (that's how I'm taking "public arsenals", evidently under the authority of the government
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by karatestomp 6y ago
Going USB-C on their phones and tablets while also swapping the Thunderbolt ports and maybe the power ports on their computers for USB-C, then leaving it that way for three years or so before removing the other ports, seems like it would
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by karatestomp 6y ago
Yep, I'm sure. And they seem to be bad at instructing the folks doing it that they aren't really allowed to do more than ask nicely.
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by karatestomp 6y ago
"Monopoly on violence" or "use of force" is the way I've seen it put by political scientists defining what it means for a state to be sovereign (that quality is really high up the list of things that go along with t
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by karatestomp 6y ago
Ah, yeah, that's less straightforward. checks the docs Looks like you could point it at IPFS "MFS" mount (Mutable File System) instead of whatever directory it's using now for its normal local storage media store (whic
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by karatestomp 6y ago
I thought part of the point of how IPFS is designed is that you don't need to "implement" it, you just ask for a hash (file) in the IPFS mount and it goes and grabs it if it's not already there? Should just be a matter o
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by karatestomp 6y ago
I remember the family drama and strife (real or fake, who knows, but the topic was chosen for the audience regardless) around interracial marriages being a common feature of daytime talk shows at least as late as the mid- or maybe late-90s.
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by karatestomp 6y ago
I believe this varies a little state-to-state and even in those (which I think is most?) where it's true they can usually still legally detain you if the have reason to believe you're trying to shoplift, though refusal to show a
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by karatestomp 6y ago
Well, 1) it hardly matters since the point is that excessive disk access by an OS when, essentially, "nothing is happening" (opening the start menu, say) is a bad sign for generally giving-a-shit about performance and spinning rus

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