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571.
by manicdee 7y ago
If the replaced vehicle is used in some way, it’s a net win.
572.
by manicdee 7y ago
It can’t work because all utopias assume the world is full of people exactly like the founder.
573.
by manicdee 7y ago
For me the magnifier didn’t help since the cursor would always move as I lifted my finger.
574.
by manicdee 7y ago
Now that's press and hold on the keyboard to move the cursor without your finger being in the way so you can never figure out where the cursor is going to land in "teh".
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by manicdee 7y ago
We already have usability testing, but there are more dimensions to usability than can be encapsulated by one SI unit. As an example one measure might be the number of seconds required to perform a set sequence of actions such as copying te
576.
by manicdee 7y ago
And coffee pods!
577.
by manicdee 7y ago
I would prefer that cheap “charging” cables not turn into house fires thank you.
578.
by manicdee 7y ago
How to evade taxes like a multinational: 1. Each book is charged as a print unit to the parent company overseas 2. The cost per print unit is higher than the shelf price 3. Every sale is now a loss
579.
by manicdee 7y ago
Women use sex workers too. Men “lose” too if their partners are “tempted” by legal prostitution (what are we “losing” here by the way?)
580.
by manicdee 7y ago
What would be the cheapest-approved mechanism of presenting this legally mandated notice to employees? Remembering this isn’t just a generic legal requirement but a specific demand imposed on Google at this point in time.
581.
by manicdee 7y ago
As cost of living rises, more people will migrate to cheaper countries, including the skilled labour that moves with their spouses to a country more favourable to raising a family. The people left behind will be the poor who can’t afford to
582.
by manicdee 7y ago
English alternatives for “seeing black” in this context would be “has a dim view of Cybertrucks future” or “sees no future for Cybertruck” Also the English term for this type of reporting is “clickbait”.
583.
by manicdee 7y ago
I don’t care about technical qualities, for me I find hemp cloth to be far more comfortable to wear. Softer on the skin, longer wearing, easier to wash and iron. I go out of my way to get hemp clothing, especially when the options are cotto
584.
by manicdee 7y ago
Not the new materials but the new design and construction methods. The decades of shaving margins have had their toll to the point where apartment complexes are not even making it out of the warranty period before developing major structura
585.
by manicdee 7y ago
The large telescope mirrors aren’t single parts even in terrestrial telescopes. We have to assemble and calibrate them on their isolated mountaintops, starting with the giant support structures intended for suspending the mirrors against th
586.
by manicdee 7y ago
Thank you
587.
by manicdee 7y ago
“The lucky country” refers to how we have managed to make it this far for a nation whose economy is primary production and debt. The term was originally intended as a criticism not a compliment.
588.
by manicdee 7y ago
Would you agree that China sees eye to eye with the West regarding other ethical concerns such as copyright, patents, organ transplants, or genocide?
589.
by manicdee 7y ago
The key to having a political divide is to avoid paying attention to reality, such as dismissing the gambling industry as “a video game”. Once you have experience with capitalism in the real world you will find that “corporations suck” and
590.
by manicdee 7y ago
Thanks for sharing that Mr Koch. We’ll be sure to file your response for appropriate consideration. Privatisation of essential infrastructure leads to price gouging, service failure, and cartel behaviour. There’s zero incentive for corporat
591.
by manicdee 7y ago
You take away their licence, then send them to jail when they continue to drive drunk without a licence. Also you turn to psychologists for assistance with handling recidivist alcoholics.
592.
by manicdee 7y ago
Welcome to this week’s episode of “attempting to solve social problems using technological means.”
593.
by manicdee 7y ago
1. is irrelevant because it only takes one malicious person to ruin your life As for Twitter’s enforcement, it doesn’t shut down Elon Musk bitcoin scammers but it does shut down women complaining about the revolting DMs they get from men.
594.
by manicdee 7y ago
While they were being tracked or only once the case was being built and the tracking was revealed? Who are these people? Managers? Would the union organisers have been tracking calendars to find times the managers are not walking the aisles
595.
by manicdee 7y ago
Giambologna 1529–1608 In 1597 the artist would have been 68. In 1697 he would have been 168. What is actually the topic of debate here? Surely not whether this bronze casting was created by this artist?
596.
by manicdee 7y ago
There is a better way to do it: you leave the incorrect reason out and focus on the mistake, and perhaps consider stating what you are doing to avoid making this mistake or others like it in the future.
597.
by manicdee 7y ago
Yes, rockets are basically soda cans full of propellant with rocket engines on the bottom and the payload usually on the top. They are entirely constrained by thrust versus mass, so the designers make the structure as light/thin as pos
598.
by manicdee 7y ago
(Extremely late edit: “grok” not “grow”)
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by manicdee 7y ago
It’s a perfectly fair assertion given the abundance of commercial software in active use which is a “server” written into the back end of a desktop application. They are not written as stand alone Services. Remember this is the real world w
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by manicdee 7y ago
All the editors I use have supported soft wrapping, so line length isn’t such an issue. For me it’s mostly about being able to grow each line of code without frying my brain like Perl’s leaning toothpick syndrome does.

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