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by nxc18 6y ago
I’m skeptical re: point about keeping men and women separated. As a gay man does being around women increase or have no effect on my testosterone levels? For straight men, can it be any woman (your mom, your aunt, your daughter, the unattra
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by nxc18 6y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-fifths_Compromise I guess I am conflating the history of slavery in the US with racism.
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by nxc18 6y ago
It’s really tiresome seeing the “Republicans are victims of the left“ meme over and over. You’ve controlled the government for years. You’ve mismanaged the pandemic, killing more Americans than world war 2. We’re not supposed to take the pr
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by nxc18 6y ago
> I find it somewhat implausible that half the population is dumb, racist and all those other labels Why do you think this? Racism was the absolute norm in the US until ~not that long ago. It’s literally written into the constitution and
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by nxc18 6y ago
Can you point to a regulatory body Twitter is beholden to? Maybe ask your congress to set one up. Or maybe ask that “enemy of the United States” and “seditionist” become legally protected categories like sex and race etc. Republicans (who T
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by nxc18 6y ago
If I incite a mob to march on the seat of government, commit acts of sedition against The United States, and directly threaten the peaceful transfer of power, and refuse to abide by the terms of service, I deserve _a lot_ more than being ba
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by nxc18 6y ago
I’ve got a few plans that involved substantial learning. I try to get a head start on New Years, this time specifically because I moved cities and that’s a great opportunity to build new habits. 1. I’m forcing myself to push through with Li
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by nxc18 6y ago
How many articles mention those companies actually doing anything about it? My concern here is that when literally everything is an outrage (including doing the right thing, but methodically and not instantaneously), there’s no actual incen
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by nxc18 6y ago
See bonestamp2’s top-level comment for why I think 3 years is pretty reasonable. It’s not like firing one shitty worker at McDonald’s, supply chains are complex.
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by nxc18 6y ago
This is interesting, I was doing some labor intensive jobs when I was ~13 and then later at ~15. I wonder if I was a major victim? Unfortunately I was victimized by the local farmer and the local supermarket chain, so no easy punching bag.
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by nxc18 6y ago
Lane keep gets it wrong often enough that this doesn’t really work. Probably ~80 of activations are false alarms in the two vehicles I’ve driven that had it. Assists are nice, but I don’t want the car to be aggressively wrong.
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by nxc18 6y ago
Yeah, nothing to be afraid of, for sure. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GM3GM299orc
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by nxc18 6y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_macronutrients The ‘everything is sugar’ meme really frustrates the conversation about nutrition and does lead to people making bad nutrition choices, as I’ve personally observed
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by nxc18 6y ago
Design has changed a lot in the last 9 years to the point where I don’t know if a lot of this still applies. I’ll also highlight the concept of designing for the medium; it might make more sense to create a design that does seamlessly scale
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by nxc18 6y ago
Re: fat shaming, this is horribly misunderstood by people who have never struggled with obesity. When you are obese, you are fat shamed by yourself, every day of your life, every time you look in the mirror and what you see doesn’t reflect
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by nxc18 6y ago
Yeah, IDK, just looking at the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 in front of me, I see: * Two notifications that can't be hidden, one about a postponed update, the other about a system configuration update it probably should handle on its own. *
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by nxc18 6y ago
In this particular case the harm isn’t obvious, but the benefit isn’t either. Safari and Firefox both have good options for blocking ads on iOS. The larger point is that the benefits of lots of garbage being filtered out are worth it even a
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by nxc18 6y ago
I know folks love to hate on Apple for keeping iOS locked down. Some of those folks like to say it is anti-user or anti-customer. I respectfully disagree. As an iOS user who interacts with android devices daily (and used to be primarily an
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by nxc18 6y ago
Not material, but Apple has good coverage. I imagine you could copy their hex values, or come up with a very similar scheme. The pattern you’ll see is that accent colors tend to need to be brighter on black backgrounds. If you’re targeting
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by nxc18 6y ago
I don’t know why 3rd-party widgets would bother with fluent design when the 1st-party offerings (e.g. WPF) don’t. Not even new Edge uses fluent design controls. WinUI sort of has fluent, but it is extremely inconsistent. When should things
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by nxc18 6y ago
I don’t get how you can look at Apple’s mobile offerings, which have been years ahead of all the Android competition, and come to the conclusion that Apple customers don’t care about performance. I’d say Apple’s customers are far more sensi
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by nxc18 6y ago
Carbonated water can be particularly refreshing. I find it can do wonders to settle my stomach if I’m not feeling well. As a weight loss tool, diet soda is a great alternative to snacking between meals. Water, coffee, and tea all also offer
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by nxc18 6y ago
Just want to let people know, it is possible to lose weight while drinking diet soda and artificially sweetened tea. I personally lost 120 lbs (and counting) while drinking lots of sweet-n-low and aspartame-sweetened soda. Anecdata isn’t da
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by nxc18 6y ago
Not sure if this is the right place for this, but I feel the need to give a warning: If you try to log in to certain MS apps with your work account (in particular OneNote), they will give you a checkbox to allow the org to manage Windows on
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by nxc18 6y ago
I’m working on some Windows apps currently in the native-ish WPF and UWP frameworks. Being somewhat detail-oriented, I’ve noticed a few major areas where Electron apps tend to deviate from native: * button/link handling: win desktop us
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by nxc18 6y ago
Microsoft's offering on ARM is underwhelming to say the least. Or overwhelmingly bad, depending on your perspective. The hardware on offer currently is just as expensive as the x86 alternatives, has worse performance (unlike M1, which
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by nxc18 6y ago
History channel shows and the like give preppers a bad name, but prepping, as highlighted in this article, doesn't need to involve guns and bunkers. In fact, your own government probably wants you to be prepping (at least the US does):
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by nxc18 6y ago
If you read the article the suggestion is that grading for classes includes things like not misbehaving, following the rules, and paying attention to the parameters of the rules. This all sounds like a cultural issue of how we socialize boy
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by nxc18 6y ago
I’m about to build a new Linux desktop. I came dangerously close to pre-ordering a mini instead - RAM and I/O is what held me back from that impulse buy. Reasons to not use Linux: getting hardware working right is a PITA - note that I
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by nxc18 6y ago
Dead is perhaps overstating things, but I think Xamarin is problematic for new development because it hasn't kept up with the latest movement in the iOS ecosystem. Looking at their issue tracker, it seems watchOS development is a night

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