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by mathieuh 4y ago
I would absolutely rather walk into an actual shop than order something online and hope it arrives as described, or hang around for 30 minutes looking dodgy waiting for a dealer to show up
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What does their being homosexual have to do with their being paedophiles? Homosexuals aren't by default attracted to boys. I am straight and I am attracted to women, not girls.
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I've actually had the opposite start happening this week, although that could just be a random blip. For a while I was only getting one or two per week, this week I've already had five.
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My impression is that what happens sometimes is managers just keep hiring more and more managers, and then eventually someone twigs and suddenly there's a big cull of management. It's happened to companies I've been at a coup
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Perhaps "life coaching" here means something similar to a thing we have in the UK called the Citizens Advice Bureau which basically helps you navigate bureaucracy, as opposed to charlatans with shiny teeth teaching 10 simple trick
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I'm not saying it's OK, it's never OK. I'm saying the effects are different
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I think there is an inevitable difference between someone who is part of the majority experiencing hate speech and someone who is not. I’m white, I don’t even know what a racial term for a white person would be, but if someone called me som
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by mathieuh 4y ago
Anytime anything starts getting touted as a panacea I start getting suspicious. Maybe LLMs are going to have a large role in search in future, but at the moment there's so much propaganda flying around I just assume it's mostly li
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The French "u" sound is just "i" pronounced with your lips rounded, so the two sounds are very similar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_phonology#Vowel_... It seems some varieties of Anc
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More on this: in French the letter y is written "i grec", or "Greek 'i'". In the IPA, the sound of the French 'u' or German 'ü' is written with as 'y'. E.g. French "tu" -
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I don't think the point of universities and degrees these days is to learn anything. It's just something you have to do in order to get a good job. That was certainly my experience. I went to a so-called top university, and I didn
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They have an active mammal extermination programme in NZ trying to deal with the threat to the native birds. https://www.doc.govt.nz/news/media-releases/2016/predator-fr...
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Public transport usually uses very large vehicles called buses which can fit many times more than four people
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Because if a trademark gets genericised then the company can have trouble enforcing their trademark. Like how in a lot of countries every brand of vacuum cleaner is a "hoover", or any brand of permanent marker is a "sharpie&
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I've read the Frank Herbert Dune books back-to-back several times and love them all, but I've never tried his son's additions to the series because I've read a few people saying they're not worth the time. Do you ag
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by mathieuh 4y ago
If at any point a government tells you they are doing something to increase security, or to be tough on crime, or to protect children, it is almost certain they are lying to your face and in fact just want more ways to spy on people.
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by mathieuh 4y ago
How do they define fitness? It seems their definition is quite narrow. I cycle, and basically in the winter I do shorter rides more often to hit the same overall distance as I would in the summer. It's just not enjoyable for me dealing
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by mathieuh 4y ago
Snuff is probably culturally significant. Despite never knowing anyone who takes snuff you still read about snuff and snuff boxes. In fact I seem to recall that some people still call the webbing between your thumb and index finger the &quo
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by mathieuh 4y ago
How is snus different from snuff? Cursory google seems to suggest you can buy snuff in the UK, which is also powdered tobacco that you put up your nose
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Isn’t it only recently that the conspiracists have gained so much ground? My whole life until Covid I knew of one person whose parents hadn’t got him routinely vaccinated, everyone in my circle found that very strange and as soon as he was
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by mathieuh 4y ago
I've charged my iPhone off my MBP using a lightning->usb-c cable and I didn't notice anything weird. I've also been able to charge my iPhone off my iPad using the same cable so maybe it is one way.
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I think that is the eventual evolution of someone who becomes vegan or vegetarian. But those fake meat products definitely help someone who's been eating meat their whole life and never really had to think about how you prepare a meal
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From https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline... Switches -------- Avoid using a switch to control a single detail or a minor setting. A switch has more visual weight than a checkbox, so it looks be
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It's an attempted mind fuck to disguise the true power dynamic. If they say "we're making cuts, you're done. Leave your laptop on your desk and clear off", it's clear what the power dynamic is. Instead they pre
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I don't know where you are in the world but in the UK we were constantly reminded that obesity, immunodeficiency, and old age were the biggest risk factors for worse Covid outcomes. In fact when the prime minister (quite a fat man) at
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Because the ones who have the power to make and change the rules are the ones who would lose out from making them stricter. They're hardly going to legislate against themselves.
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Isn't the Salvadoran president a cryptobro who lost a huge amount of public money betting on Bitcoin? That's the last I heard of it, have they turned it around at all?
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I know lawyers can be verbose but surely it takes less than 30 minutes to say “you’re fucked”
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And now Shapps is claiming he wasn't aware it was edited. It really is remarkable how bad politicians' memories are. Every time they get caught out they miraculously forget everything.
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Minfication also reduces the size of the page, resulting in less network traffic. We used minification on government apps I've worked on before, despite the source being available on GitHub.

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