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by ken 7y ago
When decades-old drugs were tested, nearly all were found to be just as effective as when they were new. All an expiration date really means is they never bothered to test the efficacy beyond a couple years, but the compounds are remarkably
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by ken 7y ago
Commerce sees results at the end of the quarter. Disaster prep sees results years later or maybe never.
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by ken 7y ago
That sounds backwards to me. It's corporations which are generating the vast majority of the HTML in the world. Individuals can stop writing JS (and for content-first websites, I have), but that won't stop us from having to se
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by ken 7y ago
Reminds me more of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtext_(programming_language) but in a loosely-typed sort of way.
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by ken 7y ago
Turkish did this right, IMHO, when it adopted a Latin alphabet. No diphthongs at all. One letter, one sound. The “sh“ sound is spelled ş, and “ch” is ç. You also need to add more vowels, as there are way more than 5 vowel sounds, but tha
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by ken 7y ago
And English is terrible as a language! We’ve been making fun of how bad it is for centuries. Compare languages like Turkish or Korean, which are still natural languages but got a well-thought-out tune-up in the not-so-distant past. Why c
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by ken 7y ago
> Humans love standards and standardising things so I think whatever the future is, it'll always gravitate towards 1 or 2 main tools. I need 5 different chat apps on my phone in order to talk to all my friends and colleagues. And t
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by ken 7y ago
Isn’t that true of almost every business? Unless you’re all-remote and have only gig workers, you have to pay for the rent and upkeep of your facilities and resources.
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by ken 7y ago
Without work, I can’t make hours to keep my health insurance, so I’ll be forced to buy COBRA, which is just as expensive as rent. (Or I could risk going without, while living at this continent’s ground zero for a pandemic.) Entire industrie
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by ken 7y ago
We’re going to find out which can work remotely. The “I can haz cheeseburger”s will survive while every arts organization goes under.
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by ken 7y ago
So is it an email (SMTP/IMAP/POP) client or not?
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by ken 7y ago
Of course, it's not "if" but "when", and "when" was yesterday: https://www.spl.org/about-us/the-organization/leadership/a-m... https://kcls.org/news/cov
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by ken 7y ago
That would be cool, if true. It was not clear to me from the documentation that this number is guaranteed to increment whenever the contents change. The value is described as counting "pasteboard ownership changes", and its use i
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by ken 7y ago
Not efficiently. There's no "clipboard changed" notification on macOS. Such a utility would have to run in the background and constantly query the clipboard. And since the clipboard basically holds a list of types and a way
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by ken 7y ago
As someone who owns an SLR and an f/1.4 lens, I can sympathize, but anytime I hear some popular new technique being derided as not ideal among "serious" practitioners, I know it's going to take over the world. Remember w
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by ken 7y ago
They have a few videos going back as far as 2012, but not all. There was a great (and still relevant) 2014 video I want to see again but they've taken down most of the videos from that era. Compare: https://developer.apple
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by ken 7y ago
Or the silver/black split could represent their consumer/professional split, as in the color of the Apple stickers and keyboard/mouse that come with the consumer/professional Macintoshes. You really can't accurately
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by ken 7y ago
The US DOL has a list of FAQs on that webpage [1], including "How is apprenticeship different from other types of work-based training models?" For example: "Apprenticeships include a structured training plan, with a focus on
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by ken 7y ago
I don't know what to make of this. Are you implying there's some conflict between apprenticeship and creativity?
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by ken 7y ago
If you're not paying them, then it's not an "apprenticeship". The first ingredient in an apprenticeship, according to the U.S. government [1], is that you "Earn a competitive wage from day one". [1]: https:&#
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by ken 7y ago
It literally is-a job. If you mean what distinguishes it from non-apprenticeship jobs, then (at least in the USA) the government declares [1] that it is: "PAID JOB + EDUCATION + CREDENTIALS". [1]: https://www.apprent
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by ken 7y ago
This would classify a Honda Goldwing as a chair, but exclude the Balans kneeling chair.
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by ken 7y ago
> For example, let's say a method should only work with integers larger than zero I dislike this example. The numeric systems of every programming language I've ever used has been (more or less) terrible, precisely because the
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by ken 7y ago
As someone who used to work on ETL systems, from a distance, this looks basically like Tableau to me. (My first thought was actually "oh, neat, someone made an open-source Tableau clone!", but it's not open-source, is it?)
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by ken 7y ago
Agreed. I want to see more tools like OpenRefine.
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by ken 7y ago
Can you explain? The second paragraph of the majority decision quotes the Louisiana law which it upholds: "In case that any parish, town, or city, or any portion thereof, shall become infected with any contagious or infectious disease
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by ken 7y ago
As an individual, not that often. Collectively, a lot. Not counting the 2 outdoor amphitheatres, I can name 8 theatres in my area with capacity >1000. Several more in the 800-999 range, and I'm not sure if these thresholds would a
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by ken 7y ago
I do some convention work. Most labor is hired specifically for the event itself. We won't be "laid off". We'll never be offered work in the first place. Side note: apparently this makes getting unemployment benefits
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by ken 7y ago
According to the Supreme Court, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compagnie_Francaise_de_Navigat...
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by ken 7y ago
Mega-churches broadcast their sermons on TV already. They're better prepared for this than almost any other group.

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