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by prewett 2y ago
You can see a contrast in pictures of the Chartres restoration. See [1], 5th picture down. The light areas are the restored, painted areas (if I remember correctly, they carefully scraped off the grime with scalpels to reveal the original p
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by prewett 2y ago
My current theory is that it's a reaction to being so disgusted with the values of the outgroup that they reject everything that the outgroup supports. You can see the other version of this by people who want nothing do with Tesla&#x2F
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by prewett 2y ago
> whose only assets are knowledge Knowledge is quite the useful asset, and not easily obtained. People obtain knowledge by studying for years and years, and even then, one might obtain information rather than knowledge, or have some inco
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by prewett 2y ago
I know paper-cuts are historically a Chinese tradition, so I would assume that the Japanese borrowed it along with everything else they got. (And apparently so: [1] says that traditional papercutting is called "kirigami" and they
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by prewett 2y ago
Unless the Boss reanimates them faster than you can carve through them... I think a some of the opposition in the US is simply people who hate East Coast values, so they oppose it to the degree that coastal elites push it. Having spent some
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by prewett 2y ago
In my Ohio dialect (which is supposedly standard), I pronounce both p's, but the second one is only half-pronounced. If I pronounce it quickly, there isn't the slight puff of air between the two, so the sound has the beginning sou
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by prewett 2y ago
Well, Americans have attitude problems (which I say as an American)... I've never had any problems with American flight attendants, though. Or even the planes. I mostly just want to get there, I bring a book or a programming project, a
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by prewett 2y ago
A lot of those flights in Europe are pretty short. You can get pretty cheap flights from Boston to Washington, DC, or from Houston to Denver, too. (Texas is about the size of France, so Houston to Denver would be roughly equivalent to Paris
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by prewett 2y ago
Maybe they already have, depending on what you need. Settings >> General >> Sharing provides lots of options. "Remote Login" is SSH and SFTP, and last time I used it, "File Sharing" was SMB. "Screen Shar
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by prewett 2y ago
Not the parent, but I would definitely recommend it. A lot of voice quality has to how you pronounce vowels and where you place the resonance in your mouth. Also, avoiding singing through your nose (hold your nose closed and if there's
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by prewett 2y ago
And if you are relatively healthy and able to pay your regular doctor bills out of pocket, ACA made catastrophic insurance illegal (because of the minimum requirements). It's sort of like making car insurance require $50 copays to the
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by prewett 2y ago
Eusebius wrote his church history around 300, and is widely viewed as an excellent source. He quotes extensively, and is not uncritical of his sources, although sometimes he is overly credulous. He is the only source for many of the documen
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by prewett 2y ago
Great, so in addition to being guilted into tipping for ordinary, expected service so not to threaten the possible "tenuous" economic circumstances of servers, now I get guilted if I have an expectation of a professional environme
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by prewett 2y ago
Since Mark 13 talks predicts the destruction of the Temple yet has no record of the fulfillment of that prophecy when the Temple was burned and destroyed and Jerusalem razed in 70, which would have been a cataclysmic event for the church, w
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by prewett 2y ago
I interned for a year with a public speaker who had five or six autobiographical stories he told regularly. I found it interesting that his stories ended up like how the gospels tell Jesus stories. His messages had a main point, but he spok
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by prewett 2y ago
Is that implying that Evangelicals are essentially racists? Jim Crow stopped about the time that the Sexual Revolution got going strong, so there's some confounding factors there. Since the Sexual Revolution values are clearly against
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by prewett 2y ago
It seems like arbitrarily ruling out divine meaning as a hypothesis for why the world is unexpectedly orderly is not being entirely intellectually honest. It's like a theist ruling out evolution as a possible cause of our existence. Di
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by prewett 2y ago
Ctrl-[ also works for ESC on VI. I really like the touchbar Macs because changing the volume to exactly what I want is really easy. All the others have increments that are too large, so I have to try to remember if Shift + Opt + Volume Up&#
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by prewett 2y ago
I would be shocked if they weren't using a test suite, especially given all the platforms and devices Linux supports. POSIX has a test suite, and there are several Linux test suites [1], [2]. Although, I would think that an architectur
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by prewett 2y ago
The gargolyes are on old churches because the church represents a microcosm of the world. On the edges of the world are the places and things we don't understand and cannot integrate into our lives (at least not yet), which is why medi
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by prewett 2y ago
800 years of candle soot on the inside and 200 years of city soot on the outside does tend to darken it quite a bit. At [1] you can see a picture of the Chartres restoration, with the nave complete but the transepts still the old color, wh
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by prewett 2y ago
EQ is definitely learnable. Over twenty years I've gone from clueless to perceptive if I'm paying attention. Unfortunately, in familiar groups where I feel emotionally safe, I tend not to pay the attention as much and just enjoy m
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by prewett 2y ago
I suppose, yeah, when I figure out the exact reason why the error occurred, fixing it is often easy. The finding, however, can often take a long time, which leaves me feeling "once you have driven across the continent, finding your des
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by prewett 2y ago
Your "HN folk's ability to empathize with people working hard" made it personal...
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I've not been unable to understand why people trust a corporation with 20 years of demonstrable embrace, extend, extinguish and other tactics, and with not even a word of repentance or even contrition, to not do this again. I think we
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by prewett 2y ago
Segfaults are the easy bugs! You get a handy stack trace right where the problem is, all the variables intact, it's great! It's the ones where you mess up a data structure, or overwrite an array that kill you, with the symptom o
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by prewett 2y ago
> [highly trained musicians in orchestras spend all their time playing pieces they didn't write] That's an interesting point, but if you got into programming via working on your own projects, the musical analogy is "I love
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by prewett 2y ago
The problem is, the feature is never actually "users should be able to select multiple receipts". It's "users should be able to select multiple receipts, but not receipts for which they only have read access and not writ
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The usual interpretations are that the fig tree represents the people of Israel, the religious leaders of Israel, and/or the Temple-system. In Mark, Jesus curses the fig tree because it is not bearing fruit, then cleans out the Temple
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by prewett 2y ago
That's a terrible reason to buy a company, it's completely unrelated! You could just as well argue it's a terrible time to buy a struggling company, because the market is likely to drop, so you should have waited until then.

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