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by krger 3y ago
Over the years, I've become convinced that the real point of homework is to learn how to finish tasks assigned to you by somebody else even if the tasks themselves seem to you to be pointless and unnecessary.
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by krger 3y ago
>The huge list of projects from that era of Apple really shows how aimless they were. Most of those projects involved active collaboration with other companies who were similarly aimless, so Apple was by no means alone in their aimlessne
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by krger 3y ago
>You can write a law saying all vehicles need winterized tires during that time of year. As a matter of fact, Quebec already has one[1]. >But how exactly would you enforce it? The easiest way is probably similar to inspection sticker
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by krger 3y ago
>Then what constitutes the roughly 25x weight increase between infants and adults? Bad ideas.
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by krger 3y ago
That’s rather what they have in mind, yes.
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by krger 3y ago
> The purpose of your insurance is to pay for damage caused by you to other people's cars Liability insurance’s purpose is to pay for damage caused by you and your car to other people’s bodies and property due to your negligence. Ca
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by krger 3y ago
>I did an internship in 2009-2020 At eleven years, that sounds more like an apprenticeship than an internship.
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by krger 3y ago
$400, while indeed a significant jump, absolutely is "a few hundred," given that $200 is "a couple hundred." In my reckoning, "a few hundred" starts around $250 and arguably runs up to $750, where "almost
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by krger 3y ago
>USB ports were already standard before the iMac release. A quick check of old PC World magazines from Dec-97 for example shows it. The iMac was released in Aug-98. Yes. USB ports certainly existed on PCs prior to the iMac's relea
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by krger 3y ago
>...is that actually true? It is not.
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by krger 3y ago
Oracle. IBM.
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by krger 3y ago
> The remaining cases could be ranked by the community according to how egregious they were. It’s bad enough companies started outsourcing deciding which features to implement. I don’t want them also outsourcing deciding which cases to s
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by krger 3y ago
Yeah it’s a good thing none of that happens anymore these days.
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by krger 3y ago
>This tool is underrated. Failing to deal with units conversion already crashed a Mars probe The mistake there was that they were unaware that they had to make the unit conversion, not that they did it wrong. No tool can, by itself, over
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by krger 3y ago
Elmo (and specifically the value-extraction-by-merchandise craze CTW created around him) pretty much single-handedly destroyed the original ensemble cast spirit of Sesame Street, so it's actually pretty apt.
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by krger 3y ago
> I cannot stand "just plaster all apps on the home screen" "organisation" https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211345
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by krger 3y ago
What a terrible concept for a website.
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by krger 3y ago
We no longer live in the era where the only people who use hardware that runs executables are philosopher kings with the capability of vetting them by looking at the code.
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by krger 3y ago
The dissent doesn't need to make it reality. The delegation of authority happened in 2003. It was broad. The delegated authority had been exercised before. The current Court is just hell-bent on dismantling the ability of the Executive
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by krger 3y ago
Go ahead and read the dissent if you think the Court was acting properly here.
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by krger 3y ago
The Administration was availing itself of the broad authority delegated to the Executive Branch by Congress almost 20 years prior. I would have enjoyed watching Scalia try to come up with a rationale for voting with this majority. He might
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by krger 3y ago
Go ahead and read the dissent.
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by krger 3y ago
No idea how it'll end up playing out. The reality I was referring to was the reality of Congress having delegated this authority to the Executive Branch. Read the dissent if you haven't.
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by krger 3y ago
A majority opinion doesn't change reality.
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by krger 3y ago
Congress gave that single man the authority to do so.
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by krger 3y ago
>One of my favorite station IDs was an independent local analog UHF channel 56 with call letters WLVI. Bangor, ME has an ABC affiliate WVII broadcasting on VHF channel 7.
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by krger 3y ago
> But the point that people are upset about is that Google is going against a principle it had publicly committed to. Principles don't count for much if you only follow them when there's no cost to doing so. This is surprising
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by krger 3y ago
> There's something to be said about why those architectures, plus many others, died in favor of an x86 monoculture. I think that has a lot more to do with the economics around Linux, Windows, and macOS on commodity amd64 hardware b
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by krger 3y ago
An excellent article that shows that these intramural fights are nothing new: >The A.C.L.U. has in fact often gloried in its internal contentions. It split over decisions to represent the Nazis in the 1930s, the Ku Klux Klan in the 1960s
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by krger 3y ago
>how we get shit like the ACLU losing its focus on civil rights issues, and instead going for dumb hot button takes that contradict its mission [Citation needed]

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