megaman22

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by megaman22 8y ago
What? Do you actually believe this? I grew up in the northern end of Appalachia, with a lot of people that had less than an acre their doublewide sat on. Nothing stopped them using the ponds and lakes, the trail systems, or the technically
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by megaman22 8y ago
When you're a broke white hillbilly, you hunt and fish and do stuff outdoors because its there, its cheap, and there ain't much else to do. Source: Grew up broke hillbilly
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by megaman22 8y ago
If your science fiction universe has widespread magical healing devices like bacta tanks that can completely regrow body parts, or advanced robotics for prostheses, or genetic engineering and cloning, then disability is likely to be pushed
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by megaman22 8y ago
Visual Studio is really unmatched, with all of the things that it can do. I still use Resharper and a few other plugins to tweak things out just the way I like them. You could do all this with a customized vim or emacs or whatever editor,
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by megaman22 8y ago
There is some really excellent tooling that is available for .Net that I haven't been able to find real equivalents for other languages. You have to pay for it with money, rather than with time and aggravation, however. Microsoft-cent
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by megaman22 8y ago
Jay-peg is the most common I hear.
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by megaman22 8y ago
Conservation isn't the best word there. Maybe optimization is better. It's not scarce, we don't need to agonize over calorie outputs per acre. And if you're going to do that, you don't want to be intensively farming
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by megaman22 8y ago
You're comparing alfalfa and oranges. You're not going to grow wheat on pastureland that can support sheep or cattle. Much less other vegetables. You're also making the assumption that agricultural land is a resource that nee
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by megaman22 8y ago
Is this surprising? It's almost a trope in fantasy and historical fiction. The one that I find nutty is noodling for catfish. That's one of those cases where you wonder who was the first to decide that was a good idea. https:&#x2
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by megaman22 8y ago
The biggest thing for me is that a mechanical keyboard will usually be full sized and have the classic IBM layout. Non-mechanical keyboards are all over the place, with often undersized keys and weird nonstandard layouts, so it's reall
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by megaman22 8y ago
That's a result of them buying Plum Creek. Also the decline of the paper industry making the kind of vertical integration that Boise and Meade and International Paper and others formerly engaged in less useful.
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by megaman22 8y ago
Go look at the land that's being used as open range pasture out west. If it was not being used for grazing cattle, it would not be used for anything anyway. Most of it was buffalo country two hundred years ago, so it's not like it
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by megaman22 8y ago
For some, it's heresy to express such opinions, and confirmation that the speaker of such blasphemy is a no-good terrible person.
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by megaman22 8y ago
If you ball up a sock, and stuff it into the offending mouth, that tends to cut the sound level quite abruptly. Your mileage may vary on how ridiculous this will make you and how much money it will cost.
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by megaman22 8y ago
Pictures are still a huge pain in the ass on mobile connections. Try looking at Facebook or Instagram or Twitter on a flaky 2G connection. Although you don't get to see them stream in line by line like you used to in the good old day
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by megaman22 8y ago
Depends on where you are standing. The best metaphor I've seen for the world these days is Scott Adams' about us watching two different movies in parallel at the same time. It's equally possible to look at the same world, an
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by megaman22 8y ago
I wonder what FB would do if they had bought more than $11000 measly dollars in ads? All of these examples are identical in form to content that is otherwise plastered all over Facebook and Instagram. Especially Instagram; that's basi
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by megaman22 8y ago
Democracy and empire are not mutually exclusive. Not that the US is a democracy, exactly, but regardless, Athens, Rome, Britain, were all flavors of democratic when they expanded into imperial activity.
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by megaman22 8y ago
As intelligence services have always done, are doing now, and will do until the end of time. I do find this whole "The Russkies are Coming!" narrative bizarre; everything that's been totaled up so far keeps amounting to a pi
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by megaman22 8y ago
So, it's a little difficult to come up with solid numbers on it, but most estimates I've seen are that there are approximately 300-500 million tweets per day. All of this activity amounts to about eight and half minutes of daily
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by megaman22 8y ago
There can be a lot of weird bonus structures kicking around too. For a while, my girlfriend worked in sales at Oracle, and while they were trying to push their cloud offerings, the had some crazy-pants bonuses for any cloud sales; on the o
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by megaman22 8y ago
Appears to be submitted after this comment in the z/OS thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17652444
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by megaman22 8y ago
No. I run LTSB, so there's no store, although I do sideload some free apps that discontinued their earlier, better desktop apps.
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by megaman22 8y ago
Or use Audible credits for the audio-book companion to Kindle books? For that matter, is there any device I can access the audio companions I've purchased for my books other than the mobile phone Kindle apps? Can't do it on the
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by megaman22 8y ago
When that story originally came out this week, somebody crunched the numbers of the percentage of target-age internet users that actually exist, taking out China and other places where Facebook is blocked, and users too young to actually co
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by megaman22 8y ago
Unless code review is a rubber-stamping process (in which case why bother? just party on production...), you're inviting criticism and improvement, so freaking out about receiving some and getting defensive or calling people toxic is..
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by megaman22 8y ago
With the American cheese, I've found that the white has a higher melting point than the orange, usually, so a big block of sliced white american cheese holds up well. I don't really have any idea why that would be the case, but it
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by megaman22 8y ago
Central asia was pretty developed and civilized, when the Silk Road was the central artery of global east-west trade. And before Genghis flattened the Khwarezmians.
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by megaman22 8y ago
Out of left field is a baseball term, not political https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_left_field
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by megaman22 8y ago
Melatonin doses of the standard distribution seem great for crazy fucking dreams, but little else. Drinking two Rolling Rocks or PBR distilleries is more effective;

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