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by mtrower 6y ago
I would consider some amount of restaurants (of one variety or another) to be of some cultural importance. They don't need to be as prevalent as today, perhaps. But it would be a very different place to be without them entirely, and
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by mtrower 6y ago
The calculus is, what percentage of Americans can afford $15-$20 per sandwich on a regular basis? And how does that revenue compare to current revenues? edit: Though, this throwing around of prices is perhaps not very effective. Reasonabl
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by mtrower 6y ago
Syrup is cheap, water is cheap, C02 is cheap... for a fountain drink, you are indeed correct. The margins here are crazy. I assumed this vendor was selling bottled or canned soft drinks. Why that is, I couldn't say (just as I couldn&
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by mtrower 6y ago
> The tendency to call people like chefs or line cooks "unskilled labor" is disgusting. I don't think this is disgusting. I don't believe it's meant to imply what I believe you think it implies. It sounds to me
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by mtrower 6y ago
Yeah... and here's a thing. I can write programs all day long at home. I could spend the rest of my life on personal projects if I so chose, and had the financial security to do so. If I somehow ran out of ideas, I could write softw
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by mtrower 6y ago
> Yeah, but I don't generally sit down and drink 3 cokes in one sitting Do you generally sit down and drink 3 beers in one sitting? > It would be very rare for a customer to drink 3 cokes with dinner but not uncommon for someone
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by mtrower 6y ago
That definitely explains a lot; I thought $10/lb for the type of meat they were describing was kind of crazy (for someone complaining about margins, anyway). ~$6.30 USD/lb feels far more sane.
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by mtrower 6y ago
Yes =( Pros and cons to everything.
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by mtrower 6y ago
Well, you certainly could . Cloth diapers were once the standard (and are in fact still used by some).
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by mtrower 7y ago
A radio host is just a person, not the government. There are limits being placed to combat hoarding and strict penalties against reselling on major marketplaces. Attempts are being made. But I don't think it's as simple as you s
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by mtrower 7y ago
But how do the damn three seashells work?
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by mtrower 7y ago
It's bad in the U.S. as well. At least in Wisconsin, toilet paper, bleach, etc. Are nowhere to be found. Not in the supermarkets, not in the corner stores, not in the hardware stores... Milk, flour and eggs are also scarce. The limi
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by mtrower 7y ago
In the past, QuickTime (Pro?) was excellent for this sort of thing; you could just mark the section you wanted right in the player window and export a new clip. I don't know what the present situation is with QuickTime, and obviously
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by mtrower 7y ago
Or a long, cold winter season where the clothes won't dry and may well freeze =(
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by mtrower 7y ago
Correct; this doesn't make any sense. $0.02 - two cents 2c - two cents 0.02c - 1/50th of a cent $0.02c - does not compute
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by mtrower 7y ago
You're kidding, right? There was a time when a good chunk of the world ran on Sun... even PowerMac was not such a small name until recently. I'd like to see how well your video game runs when the software responsible for configur
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by mtrower 7y ago
I suppose this differs depending on location and what your perspective is. Here, it can be quite a chore for human drivers to avoid killing pedestrians. They'll just wander out across the crosswalk, nevermind that their walk-light is
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by mtrower 7y ago
That's crazy =( That LG v35 outspecs my BlackBerry KEYone by a good margin, and Firefox is just as fast as Chrome for me. Which is to say, snappy. I read more details about your performance problems in another comment, and it sounds h
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by mtrower 7y ago
I'm not sure tab count is really a viable metric here. You'd think there'd be a strong correlation, but... On one Windows PC, I keep 2-3 tabs constantly open (may as well pin them tbh), and open/close others as needed.
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by mtrower 7y ago
Slow? I don't find it slow at all, and my phone isn't exactly top-end; what kind of hardware were you running on? (I don't use uBlock on mobile, but I might go look into it...) My only complaint is that it doesn't integ
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by mtrower 7y ago
Curious. As a player, I certainly cared. There's a world of difference between Doom and Quake...
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by mtrower 7y ago
purely technical ? You can't go above or below anything; no two objects can exist at the same X/Y; height doesn't exist in any true fashion (the attribute is used purely for rendering --- there is no axis!). How is the e
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by mtrower 7y ago
Yes, without exception. It's less noticeable on today's powerful systems, but it's still true. Text mode is just faster than graphics mode, at least on any system where I've used both.
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by mtrower 7y ago
From my perspective though, libVTE performance is terrible. On modern systems it may not be a concern, but on some of my older systems VTE terminals are unusable for any significant throughput of text (while xterm and rxvt run like greased
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by mtrower 7y ago
Say what ? Exactly which release of Windows do you think didn't supply a terminal?
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by mtrower 7y ago
Maybe. I've met an awful lot of people to whom such a distinction is just not obvious. People who would, for example, assert with perfect sincerity that MacOS is built on Linux, or that Solaris (or OpenSolaris, or Illumos, etc...) ar
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by mtrower 7y ago
> My comment is also not about the maintainer. My comment is about how BSD as a license is often framed as an equivalent choice to GPL or other copyleft licenses. Are they really? But they're clearly not the same. Both are "o
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by mtrower 7y ago
> There's a very good reason that so many systems block everything except port 80. Elaborate? Rather than using different ports for different protocols and filtering what you don't want/need, you instead tunnel everything
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by mtrower 7y ago
What? How is SSL dependent in any way on HTTPS?
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by mtrower 7y ago
Well, for one thing, mature debuggers exist (the equivalent to the tooling he inquired about for .wasm). More importantly, however, anything GPL must make source available and reasonably accessible. There is no such guarantee or even expec

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