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by na85 4y ago
>Ring Can you provide a link? That one's hard to Google.
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by na85 4y ago
>literally 0 Well it's at least 1 because I bought a "decent webcam" and while I own a smartphone I don't want to use that for long zoom meetings. I bought one of those Instagram influencer light rings so I actually l
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by na85 4y ago
Despite this new revelation that it's possible to rephrase a sentence to avoid using a word, that's completely orthogonal to my point which is that "they" has been used to indicate the singular person of indeterminate ge
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by na85 4y ago
That's not the same sentence, now is it?
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by na85 4y ago
Nah, it's exceedingly common to use "they" as the indefinite gender singular. I remember seeing this in the 90s. Example: "If a person wishes to avoid jail, they would be wise not to commit crimes." No other word e
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by na85 4y ago
>No longer do a small cabal of bureaucrats or politicians decide how much money circulates or who receives special privilege Stopped reading here. There's still a cabal, it's just a different group of bad actors.
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by na85 4y ago
I know it's cool to throw acronyms around but MANPADS stands for MAN-Portable Air Defence Systems. They're for shooting down aircraft. The Javelin and NLAW are not examples of MANPADS.
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by na85 4y ago
It is if work sucks. Not all of us are lucky enough to love what we do. I can't fucking wait to retire, and spend time doing what I actually want to instead of useless work.
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by na85 4y ago
It's certainly possible to curtail fingerprinting. Why is my browser reporting my resolution to the server? Why can't you just serve me HTML and let me render it how I damn well please?
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by na85 4y ago
Not on Firefox Android there isn't. Just a giant blank page after two comparisons.
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by na85 4y ago
One of my mentors very astutely pointed out that the military, or at least the Air Force, is commonly said to run on 3 things: - Excel spreadsheets - Emails - Threats Having spent some years as a commissioned officer I wholeheartedly concur
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by na85 4y ago
Digital Signage was the term when I worked in that space.
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by na85 4y ago
I don't believe it's open access, or at least I see no download link on that page.
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by na85 4y ago
>Commuters on the London Underground get a characteristic grey/black snot from the brake dust they inhale. Well that's horrifying. Is there no health and safety monitoring being conducted?
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by na85 4y ago
They're quite common in some parts of the world.
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by na85 4y ago
Moving from the East Coast to the West Coast destroyed my ability to be competitive in counterstrike (not counting ranked queues) because the server I used to play on regularly was in Kansas or something and the added 50 ms of ping was enou
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by na85 4y ago
That seems like an okay situation if you don't play games that are sensitive to input latency and if you hate money.
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by na85 4y ago
100k emails is probably less than 10 GB, depending on attachments.
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by na85 4y ago
>If you work with people who think that changing the colors and fonts in a message is a good way of clarifying what they are responding to, go find different people to work with. Was with you until this point. A good tool doesn't li
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by na85 4y ago
>That is what happens when people aren't willing to pay for software and SaaS is the only way to make them open the purse. No, this is what happens when lazy developers prioritize their own convenience over what's best for ever
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by na85 4y ago
The shitshow that happened to GNOME isn't the only way that UI improvements can go. Like it or not, irrespective of whether or not you personally care about UI/UX, lots of people do and bad UI/UX has turned away thousands of
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by na85 4y ago
If your account got frozen it's because while you were idling your truck in downtown Ottawa protesting mandates that have already been mostly lifted you were being funded by suspicious folks abroad.
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by na85 4y ago
>startups are supposed to be, uh, innovating, developing new technology, and working on hard, meaningful problems? Maybe 1% of startups do this. The rest are shitting out the software equivalent of Juicero.
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by na85 4y ago
>It seems pretty clear to me that in the video games industry (and pretty much any 'art' industry for that matter) great results are driven by singular, great people. Todd Howard was the mind behind TES and Fallout 3/4. Pr
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by na85 4y ago
Well, HN is written in a lisp.
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by na85 4y ago
But how will I signal conspicuous consumption to my Bay Area peers unless I have an M2 and a hoodie with no logos?
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by na85 4y ago
Even modern 0/0 seats (i.e. theoretically survivable for zero airspeed and zero altitude ejections) carry inherent risk. When I was in the military a friend of mine was killed ejecting in an emergency shortly after takeoff. You'
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by na85 4y ago
Yeah but the people who come up with that marketing garbage are lizardmen wearing human skin. Real people don't talk like that. Presumably parent is human, though this is the internet so they could be a dog, and I'm just wonderin
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by na85 4y ago
It's not an unnecessary word, though. To refer to "iPhone" without the article is grammatically nonsensical. It's a phone, not a person.
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by na85 4y ago
Why do you drop the "the"?

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