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by ksenzee 1y ago
Old age itself isn’t a certainty, but I’m planning for it anyway.
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by ksenzee 1y ago
Yep. I had an alarm go off during a funeral last year, when my phone was on silent. There really needs to be an “I’m at a funeral, dammit” mode.
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by ksenzee 1y ago
Interesting. As it happens I’m Gen X, and possibly we’re more wary than millennials now, but I fully expect cognitive decline to affect that.
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by ksenzee 1y ago
I wonder what kind of scam my generation will be falling for when we get old. At least I have smart, trustworthy kids. If I didn’t, I’d be making smart, trustworthy young friends, and soon.
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by ksenzee 1y ago
Perhaps you’re not familiar with the common law system and its reliance on case law?
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by ksenzee 1y ago
Sorry, are you saying that the main reason immigrants from Eastern Europe and India become rich is through scamming hapless fools? Not through, say, hard work and educational opportunities? And are you saying this is a change, or how it’s a
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by ksenzee 1y ago
How is it inevitable when they are running out of text to train on and running out of funding at the same time?
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by ksenzee 1y ago
I agree fines aren’t much of a deterrent, especially in the amounts they usually come in. I don’t count on them keeping any company from doing anything.
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by ksenzee 1y ago
There’s trust and trust. I have historically trusted Google to act in normal capitalist ways. For example, I trust them not to do things that would immediately lose them huge numbers of corporate customers as soon as the news broke, or get
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by ksenzee 1y ago
We do not want anyone violating any principals. That would be bad. Violating one’s principles might be justifiable in some circumstances.
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by ksenzee 1y ago
Is “same difference” more common in Ireland than in Britain? It’s certainly common in the US and seems to have originated there: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/277142/etymology...
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by ksenzee 2y ago
I’d pay for the archive. This is great. Really nice work.
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by ksenzee 2y ago
Social anxiety can be quite specific; fine with small groups but terrified of public speaking, or terrified of new people but fine once you get to know people, or fine with speaking in front of thousands of people but not with the Uber ride
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by ksenzee 2y ago
The name of this piece of software makes me unreasonably happy.
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by ksenzee 2y ago
“Express themselves”: such a wealth of wrongness packed into two short words. There is no self involved. There is no expression involved.
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by ksenzee 2y ago
Your phone also has the recovery key. Having a copy on your person does lessen the chance of losing all your copies at once.
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by ksenzee 2y ago
They check hemoglobin levels before donation in the US, but they don’t check ferritin (it’s a less commonly run test in general). You can have symptoms from iron deficiency before your deficiency is reflected in your hemoglobin level, and a
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by ksenzee 2y ago
But every country that bans payment turns around and buys plasma from countries that don’t. So it doesn’t make their plasma supply one bit safer. All it does is make plasma-derived products rarer and more expensive.
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by ksenzee 2y ago
These days most web apps aren’t written to take advantage of the browser’s built-in tab navigation, and unless the dev is a keyboard user, they don’t even think to add it. This is largely the fault of React reinventing everything browsers a
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by ksenzee 2y ago
Michaels and Hobby Lobby.
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by ksenzee 2y ago
Love all the folks on here asserting that there’s no market for craft supplies. The market for yarn specifically is actually so large that it supports a huge number of local yarn shops in addition to multiple big box chains. Everywhere I tr
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by ksenzee 2y ago
TBF Joann’s didn’t fail because of their business model. They failed because they were looted by private equity.
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by ksenzee 2y ago
I'll agree mint chocolate protein bars are fit to be spewed out of the mouth of God, but you're attacking Andes mints here. An Andes mint is a tiny bit of perfection.
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by ksenzee 2y ago
Yeah sorry, I didn't mean to imply these folks have any clue what they're doing. I misread your comment as "it's been a while since I saw a CMS-based site, big sites are all static now" instead of "it's be
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by ksenzee 2y ago
> Jesus wept with them, certainly, but also was rather clear on who He was. I'm just saying John 11:32 is not immediately followed by John 11:40. There is a time for grief, and there is a time for evangelism. > And I do know mor
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by ksenzee 2y ago
Put a CMS behind a well-configured CDN and it's essentially a static site generator. If you have cache invalidation figured out, you get all the speed and scalability benefits of a static site without ever having to regenerate your con
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by ksenzee 2y ago
My brother in Christ—meant genuinely—this is not the way. Multiple posts on this thread preaching about Jesus and bringing up the unborn? Evangelism is not meant to be twisting people's grief into a sales pitch. When Jesus's frien
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by ksenzee 2y ago
It’s a good question. If you filled a flight with as many attackers as you could get tickets for, would the remaining seats have enough people willing and able to fight back? I’ll admit I’m glad they lock the cockpit doors.
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by ksenzee 2y ago
Nobody has replicated 9/11 because as soon as the passengers figured out the new threat model, there was no chance of getting away with it. Flight 93 figured it out before 9/11 was even over. The locked cockpit doors are the suspe
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by ksenzee 2y ago
Anyone who is serious about breaching security at an airport can figure out within half an hour that it’s security theater.

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