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by moistly 4y ago
Fridge: inadequate hearer coil design allows drain to freeze, causing overflow & water spillage. PITA but ultimately fixable with a hack. Dishwasher: POS, ‘nuf said. Induction stove: cooktop has been excellent, oven convection gave up t
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by moistly 4y ago
Big Bird living the thug life, not what I expected of him.
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by moistly 4y ago
LOL all you want, but I assure you that my school district has a policy of not hiring male primary-grade teachers.
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by moistly 4y ago
If your home has ductwork, you can add a hepa filter to the circulation system. Mine uses a deeply-pleated material that must be 40+ sq.ft. feet in area, on an always-on blower system. I change the filter yearly, should change it more often
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by moistly 4y ago
They desperately need someone running the show who is obsessive about consistency, will QA the UI obsessively, and will terrorize the UI designers into compliance. Jobs’ biggest role was to demand conformance to his design tastes.
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by moistly 4y ago
https://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-31/ https://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions-31/ A lot has changed. It’s a functional programming language now.
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by moistly 4y ago
I don’t see why they (Apple, Samsung) would bother having two plug designs. I expect the USB format to be adopted globally. It would be nice if it were better designed, but thems the breaks.
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by moistly 4y ago
You might be interested in hearing that Saxon is available on four technology platforms: * Java, with language bindings to other JVM-based languages such as Scala * .NET, with language bindings to .NET-based languages such as C# and Visual
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by moistly 4y ago
If you’re converting to XML, you presumably wish to transform the data, in which case you should be using XPath through XSLT or XQuery; JSON conversion is now a built-in feature.
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by moistly 4y ago
The people of the US torture people in black-ops sites despite knowing that torture does not work, and then go on to not prosecute the criminals who planned and approved the use of torture. The people of the US are going to ban abortion des
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by moistly 4y ago
> many of us There are 8 billion of us on this planet. There are maybe a hundred thousand bitcoin holders. A fraction of them actively use bitcoin. By any metric, “many of us” is an grossly incorrect statement.
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by moistly 4y ago
Woodworking, of course. Very popular with programmers.
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by moistly 4y ago
> Why would I want an unregulated currency, free of consumer protections or government oversight And why would I believe that it has value compared to gold, or a cow? And while the value of a dollar is an abstract of those physical trade
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by moistly 4y ago
Surely you have a hard copy. If you do not, are you not still in a huge risk hole? Ink and paper can last centuries. Flash ram, cloud storage, spinning discs, all susceptible to bit rot.
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by moistly 4y ago
The embarrassment of it all is this: a study of global prison systems and their efficacy tells us what our governments should be doing. If we want to improve recidivism rates, we can look around at this world and do something better. If we
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by moistly 4y ago
The embarrassment of it all is this: a study of global prison systems and their efficacy tells us what our governments should be doing. If we want to improve recidivism rates, we can look around at this world and do something better. If we
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by moistly 4y ago
> tell me where you can buy one to own as property Just buy a judge or two. Judges Plead Guilty in Scheme to Jail Youths for Profit: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/us/13judge.html
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by moistly 4y ago
I love learning, and I like being paid well, so I’ll happily work in any language. Puzzling out the program flow is good enough fun. Makes the brain work.
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by moistly 4y ago
A well-written read. An authority needs to step in and make the logistics and costs work. The carriers can’t be allowed to continue holding everyone else hostage.
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by moistly 4y ago
Canada has about 15% immigrant population. The main parties all field 13–16% ethnic candidates. Just look at this freaking graph: in the 2011 election, *immigrants born Middle Eastern, African, East Asian, American, and European all voted f
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by moistly 4y ago
> Is believing that some political parties (or even some people in them) court immigrants and which there were more of them because they would get more votes really "racist" and a conspiracy theory? It is both, and fucking stup
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by moistly 4y ago
A ton of people here also could have piled onto Apple and Microsoft back in the 90s, and have unfathomable wealth today, but they do not vilify those stocks, nor the people who said to invest in them.
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by moistly 4y ago
Perhaps a blue bee will satisfy? https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/blue-bee-feare...
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by moistly 4y ago
Possibly by paying them in cryptocurrency?
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by moistly 4y ago
A red herring is information that is intended to distract or deceive. It is not a red herring to state that videos of infants being violently raped by adult men are being shared through Amazon’s chat service. The claim is, by definition, no
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by moistly 4y ago
Having watched a video or two, I would not want that battery to be within twenty feet of my house. Just like I keep the BBQ away from the house. Rather not unnecessarily increase the risk of fire. Come to think about it, lining one’s garage
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by moistly 4y ago
> The idea of criminal organizations adapting to legalization by going further afield into producing more dangerous and cheaper substances is counter intuitive but very compelling To what end? Do you think addicts would prefer criminal f
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by moistly 4y ago
> If the browser was capable of the things the reddit product team wanted to do, they wouldn't need to bug you to install their silly web wrapper app. I don’t want the things the developers want. Reddit’s mistake is thinking that I
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by moistly 4y ago
And the lock on your house isn’t particularly effective either, yet we don’t see you going on vacation whilst leaving the door fully open.
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by moistly 4y ago
Thank god the (to use your word) ‘crackpots’ didn’t get away with such behaviours, back when polio was being eradicated. We once had a society that pulled together in tough times. Victory gardens, inoculations, charity. Kicking ass by uniti

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