nmeofthestate

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by nmeofthestate 1y ago
So you paid by cash and as a result home depot secretly called the cops on you, and the cops knew where you were parked and sent a car to passive aggressively harass you by parking nearby? Maybe the cop was parked out of the way eating his
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by nmeofthestate 1y ago
Damn dude you are a brave grizzled warrior battling demons, a lonely fighter against injustice (self checkout terminals) and I am duly chastened.
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by nmeofthestate 1y ago
Your experience, or your perception of it, clearly made you feel like you were the main character in a dystopian thriller - what's not to like?
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by nmeofthestate 1y ago
I'll keep using self-checkouts because they're fine and frequently faster than using a non-self-checkout. There are a few minor headaches like hair-trigger sensitivity of the weight sensors. I don't care in the slightest that
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by nmeofthestate 1y ago
>Increase deterrence effect to scare away shoplifters. Exactly - these checkout monitors are positioned so you can see you're being filmed. I'm surprised the purpose of this is unclear to anyone.
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by nmeofthestate 1y ago
>When I went to my car (parked far away of course) there was a police car hanging out right next to it. Nothing further happened, but all too coincidental. I think you're being paranoid.
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by nmeofthestate 1y ago
Okay. In the streetview imagery it's a traditional roundabout with no lights, but from the map view it's... weird looking. Maybe they have changed to a normal roundabout, or the tried a normal roundabout for a bit instead of light
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by nmeofthestate 1y ago
Reading between the lines - actually, just reading the lines - it sounds like another organisation that got infested with the kind of people who are apt to ruin organisations, and perhaps an attempt it being made to fumigate it, and they do
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by nmeofthestate 1y ago
It used to be a roundabout and now everyone treats it as a roundabout, and it's an improvement - I'm somewhat baffled.
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by nmeofthestate 1y ago
It's not at all clear to me how this "traffic bean" works from looking at the linked page. Is it just a free-for-all zone that makes drivers slow down due to being confused? This seems to be a philosophy that's gaining g
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by nmeofthestate 1y ago
It looks like a small roundabout? (I'm guessing the google streetview imagery is out of date and it used to just be a roundabout).
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by nmeofthestate 1y ago
Ok, don't do that.
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by nmeofthestate 1y ago
Maybe it's different in America but this is being bizarrely over thought in the comments. It's a synonym for "try to".
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by nmeofthestate 1y ago
Please do elaborate.
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by nmeofthestate 1y ago
It's related to the Ukraine war (and the advance of China's military) showing that the US has work to do to update their military capabilities for future conflicts. Hard to see how the US could achieve this without involving SV.
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by nmeofthestate 1y ago
It's similar to the refrain "they shouldn't add that feature to language X, people should just use language Y instead" ("just" when said by software developers is normally a red flag IME)
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by nmeofthestate 1y ago
Reading that was a complete waste of time.
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by nmeofthestate 1y ago
"What we need is a great big melting pot Big enough to take the world and all it's got Keep it stirring for a hundred years or more And turn out hot-dog-coloured people by the score"
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by nmeofthestate 1y ago
By no means Risk-like IMO - territorial.io-like.
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by nmeofthestate 1y ago
While skimming through this I was thinking "this is a PR disaster", because people are going to see the contrived, extreme ways this guy has fucked up his Prusa printer to illustrate his how-to and think it's representative o
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by nmeofthestate 1y ago
Any service provided by a connected device can be framed as something "people can buy on the Dark Web". XFinity lets you make HTTP requests to the web via your router. Uh-oh: XFinity decided to sell info on your web requests on th
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by nmeofthestate 1y ago
I'm wondering if I'm currently hitting '60' early or '40' late.
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by nmeofthestate 1y ago
>The real question here: how do we stop these shifts from happening? We don't - people inevitably age and die. All you can hope to do is postpone these shifts, and I suspect a large component in the timing is genetic, so there isn&#
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by nmeofthestate 1y ago
XSLT is cool and was quite mind-expanding for me when it came out - I wouldn't say it's "grug brain" level technology at all. An XML language for manipulating XML - can get quite confusing and "meta". I wouldn&
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by nmeofthestate 1y ago
nano's great but the shortcuts are a bit oddball, from the perspective of a Windows guy.
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by nmeofthestate 1y ago
I disagree - using an interactive debugger can give insights that just looking at the code can't (tbf it might be different for different people). But the number of times I have found pathological behaviour from just stepping through t
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by nmeofthestate 1y ago
So you got e-prodded in the head - what's the problem? simply wait for the person to ask their question. (Fingers crossed they don't expect a response before continuing - if it turns out that they do, just spend some time waiting,
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by nmeofthestate 1y ago
>they start conversations and are interrupted It's not about interruption really, it's about a style of using chat apps that wastes peoples' attention and is easily avoided. > they receive hundreds of notifications okay
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by nmeofthestate 1y ago
"You bolt awake on the NY subway. You are not online. It is 1987 AD. You are Judge Reinhold, and are an office worker in a comedy movie. The future cannot come to pass. Rome must burn."
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by nmeofthestate 1y ago
In the Spanish-dubbed version of Fawlty Towers, Manuel is Italian instead of Spanish, and he's Mexican in the Catalan version. ( https://archive.ph/9LX6t )

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