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by megaman22 8y ago
I'd guess the simplest explanation is that pushing a stroller isn't an activity already categorized in one of the standard calories per hour exercise charts that everybody uses. Never attribute something to maliciousness when lazi
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by megaman22 8y ago
In some ways, I do think corporal punishment is more humane. Given the option of twenty lashes or a year in jail, sign me up for the cat-o-nines. Time is precious, and pain is fleeting.
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by megaman22 8y ago
I generally like Microsoft, but their official support channels are pretty terrible. Just go looking for something in the MSDN forums - a large percentage of the posts from "Microsoft" people are telling the customers/develo
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by megaman22 8y ago
Like most things, trends in those states can juice the absolute numbers enough to move the entire country statistically.
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by megaman22 8y ago
From what I understand, they are making a big shift towards a more devops-y process, so I can believe that a lot of the more traditional IT roles are not emphasized as much. I can't say I've noticed an increase in the number of j
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by megaman22 8y ago
The Portsmouth area is really booming the last few years. It's starting to get a little bit of a Bay Area style housing/infrastructure crisis brewing as well, albeit on a much smaller scale. But house prices are up significantly
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by megaman22 8y ago
You can't go bankrupt on student loans, so there's your young people with crushing debt that they can't discharge, much less take on other debts that could be discharged in a bankruptcy.
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by megaman22 8y ago
Interesting. I know that my state and the neighboring one only count the reading, writing and mathematics portions of whatever standardized testing they require. Although I believe that the state legislature just eliminated the whole very
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by megaman22 8y ago
Alex Jones is a fruitcake, but I don't like this as a general trend. Effectively, once things aren't available on the main marketplace, they don't exist anymore for most people. RSS is still kind of a thing for podcasts, bu
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by megaman22 8y ago
The thing is, the winners have the money to put up with any amount of onerous hoop-jumping that the EU tries to put in place. For the non-established players, the cost and liability of all this shit is too high to break in.
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by megaman22 8y ago
So far as I am aware, standardized testing does not apply to history and other non-core subjects. Like science also, unfortunately. Everything outside the three Rs (reading, writing, 'rithmetic) is slashed, because that's what the
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by megaman22 8y ago
I can't help trying to ruthlessly optimize repetitive tasks. It's sort of like the rule of three in real life. Quick example: Yesterday, I was building a set of shelves in my garage. These are pretty beefy to hold hardware and
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by megaman22 8y ago
A nickel bottle deposit was a lot more incentive to bother with collecting bottles and cans when you could get a coke for a quarter, than now when you need to trade in grocery bag full. I remember in the 90s, we would always trade in our bo
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by megaman22 8y ago
I guess I can write down a list of wild-ass guesses of potential things that might happen if you use my software on the readme.md.
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by megaman22 8y ago
At least the Powershell doesn't have the incomprehensible argument soup, but that's more the fault of ancient Unix utilities that arose in the days when characters were precious. I don't do much actual Powershell scripting, b
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by megaman22 8y ago
If you've got the shotgun in hand, some #2 game loads will smarten up coyotes a lot more effectively. At least the survivors anyway.
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by megaman22 8y ago
The article isn't consistent, either - some of these are mentioned as having been jacked up and moved several times, whereas other claim to be the oldest building in the state on the same foundation, some are heavily reconstructed.
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by megaman22 8y ago
Most of the people I know that did construction worked like dogs for six months of the year on the road, then took most of the rest of the year off. These were mostly workers for largish construction contractors, so they would go into a pl
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by megaman22 8y ago
This looks real fun, I'll have to play with it when I get a free minute. The graphics and sound apis remind me a lot of QBasic, where I first learned to program
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by megaman22 8y ago
I just missed the dawn of smartphones, so my boredom remedy all throughout school was tossing a cheap paperback in my backpack. It was downright comical to get yelled at for pulling out a book and reading when you'd finished your wo
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The Problem with the Facebook Cafeteria and Free Food(theringer.com)
3 points by megaman22 8y ago|0 comments
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by megaman22 8y ago
Sometimes it is a network error, or a hardware error, but at the end of the day, you can't just point at that and blame it, you've got to try to work around it, or at least fail in a way that looks like you tried and point out w
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by megaman22 8y ago
Usb-C is not mainstream outside the macbook pro market. Everybody else is quite happy with HDMI or even VGA still, and moreover, there's so much old hardware that's perfectly usable that uses those ports.
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by megaman22 8y ago
People do do this... I'm astounded sometimes at the workflows I see, but I've worked with people that wrote all their HTML in dev tools and copied it back to their editor, and wrote huge chunks of JS in the console. The latter ten
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by megaman22 8y ago
I hope you are not suggesting that that is in any way reasonable.
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by megaman22 8y ago
Is PyGame flaky these days? I haven't much played with it in quite some time; it used to be pretty solid, although as I recall it wasn't much more than a wrapper for SDL 1.2 at the time.
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by megaman22 8y ago
Schleswig-Holstein? Part of Denmark before the Iron Chancellor took them in the 1860s.
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by megaman22 8y ago
Scientific reasoning is a rare skill. I'm regularly met with bafflement and blank stares when I suggest that we measure something to determine performance, then perform the same workload, on the same hardware, after making a change. I&
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by megaman22 8y ago
I'd settle for text editors that don't lock up when I type an open paren. Or use entire sticks of RAM at rest.
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by megaman22 8y ago
It won't be long until my primary gaming rig is ten years old, and it's more than capable of everything I throw at it. The upgrade cycle is essentially dead. That being said, I'm not clear on what the real difference between

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