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by knodi123 7y ago
> The reason was simply that that exact word was rarely used in other contexts I had a similar problem when I was trying to convince a friend that homeopathy was a complete and utter fraud with absolutely no basis in reality. She was
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by knodi123 7y ago
> Are you using the smaller Macbook-vanilla charger or something? Yes, that's exactly what the situation was. I was just trying to confirm the phenomenon of "battery can discharge if the AC adapter is temporarily insufficient
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by knodi123 7y ago
oh, actually it was my fault. I have an air charger and a pro charger, and it turns out they're not interchangeable. The pro charger is, like, 30% bigger, and the laptop battery will not discharge while I'm using that one. My l
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by knodi123 7y ago
ha, well I've noticed my battery discharges if I play Civ 6, even when plugged in. so that confirms it too.
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by knodi123 7y ago
I remember when we hired an intern straight out of college, and he had to do a task where one of the steps involved sorting a long list. He got so excited, and spent half a day implementing quicksort. He got so sad during code review
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by knodi123 7y ago
> I think I learned Pascal via Turbo Pascal. When I was 14 in 1984 Ha, I learned it via TP when I was 14 in 1994! So many dumb hijinks in that class. If there was somebody you didn't like, one thing you could do was space out
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by knodi123 7y ago
> Long only is actually a pretty terrible choice if you want a "solid" portfolio with risk hedging. What if, in exchange for being one of the most powerful people in the most powerful nation on earth, you don't get to part
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by knodi123 7y ago
> As an older person it feels as if it's a niche that could probably still be filled profitably by someone with the right stuff and marketing. It's a whole product category: https://www.lifewire.com/best-portabl
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by knodi123 7y ago
> My last job offered unlimited paid sick leave, If we were talking about sick leave only, then I misinterpreted the comment I replied to. I saw "isolate and self-quarantine" as not only sick leave, but also "feels like
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by knodi123 7y ago
> My employer is allowing us to use our paid leave for this purpose It's YOUR paid leave. They are "allowing" you to.... have what they promised you when you took the job. That has nothing to do with the pandemic. >
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by knodi123 7y ago
The comment I replied to was "isolate and self-quarantine". You're talking about self-quarantine, but isolate sounds more like a preventative step.
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by knodi123 7y ago
>> -Guaranteed paid leave for all workers who isolate or self-quarantine instead of coming to work. > This should be required by law of all employers. All businesses should be required to tell every employee "You don't ha
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by knodi123 7y ago
> I'd bet that if Amazon agreed to all demands but that one that the workers who organized this would be ECSTATIC. Yeah, except item 1 is "Guaranteed paid leave for all workers who isolate or self-quarantine instead of coming t
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by knodi123 7y ago
I've experimented with both. Aeroponics is a LOT more complicated- you really need a high-pressure system if you want good results (fogponics with an ultrasonic humidifier doesn't work well enough). And a high pressure system
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by knodi123 7y ago
what UI failure is letting you comment on a wrong thread? Is there a mobile app where nav is more obtuse or something?
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by knodi123 7y ago
What are the material differences between a config file format, and a machine-to-machine only format?
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by knodi123 7y ago
and then there's the large caps on my AC compressor that tend to go out every few years.
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by knodi123 7y ago
I used to work for a company that made long-life self-contained GPS locators, for commercial asset tracking. I remember how much we chortled ironically when a shipment of our devices was literally stolen by a hapless meth addict who notic
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by knodi123 7y ago
From TeX: > last:=first; {cf.\ Matthew 19\thinspace:\thinspace30} har har har { eyeroll }
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by knodi123 7y ago
int32 is enough to store one cert per ipv4 address....
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by knodi123 7y ago
> There is no "only the government can remove the envelope, if they get permission". Okay, but now the case you're trying to explain is "there are deep technological challenges and a wealth of historical precedent mak
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by knodi123 7y ago
lol, there's a long list of reasons why that doesn't make sense, but I admit I had the same first thought
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by knodi123 7y ago
He took it too far, granted, but overall there's a valid point. By coincidence, I'm writing an applicant tracking tool in rails+react now, and I also wrote one in perl about 16 years ago. The modern app uses so many javascript l
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by knodi123 7y ago
> I’m really skeptical that Republicans know or care about politics in Google’s work culture. I agree, but there's the additional angle that Trump and Fox have been accusing Google of putting a liberal bias into their search results
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by knodi123 7y ago
I'm fairly confident that gray goo, as described in dystopian sci fi, is impossible due to some of the consequences of entropy and its inevitable increase. That is, the tinier a machine, the more susceptible it is to breaking down due
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by knodi123 7y ago
Use the government's math - don't just charge them the cost of the jellybeans, charge them for the jar, the desk, and add in the hours you spent buying them multiplied by your wage.
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by knodi123 7y ago
it would be just my luck to be born in time to witness the technological singularity, but it's all just infinite paperclips.
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by knodi123 7y ago
No, but saying "Diary of a Future President" must be propaganda for Michelle Obama does indeed smack of woman-phobia. "yikes, someone's giving girls the idea that they could be politically powerful. it's probably
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by knodi123 7y ago
Philosophically, it's an interesting idea for discussion. Sentence criminals to a certain amount of pain, and let them choose whether to experience it via decades of low-grade boredom, or hours/minutes/seconds of intense agon
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by knodi123 7y ago
Nope. From wikipedia: > Seawater is slightly basic, and ocean acidification involves a shift towards pH-neutral conditions rather than a transition to acidic conditions. Also > Between 1751 and 1996, surface ocean pH is estimated to

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