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by quesera 1y ago
Kurt Vonnegut, on the topics of youth, aging, and sunscreen: https://people.uncw.edu/schmidt/Index_files/Vonnegut/KVspeec...
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by quesera 1y ago
If you're very fortunate, yes.
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by quesera 1y ago
I've dealt with ordinary fresh water leeches, and hope never to again. I don't know if I'd approach within 30 feet of water after your experience! :)
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by quesera 1y ago
... and if that were the scale of the problem, it would not be one. :)
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by quesera 1y ago
It's a classic problem of externalized consequences. But with the added challenge that the action happens in a very private place. Also, this tends to be a topic where the actor has a dramatically negative interest in suggestions from
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by quesera 1y ago
Are you sure they were leeches? A quick (horrified) web search suggests that there are no leech species that burrow into flesh.
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by quesera 1y ago
I'm here for the pedantry! :) But I don't think the software of a SaaS is leased, sold, or licensed. It's just a service that is available and perhaps promised to stay available for a term. And of course Monodraw is not a S
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by quesera 1y ago
A lease implies a limited term though, doesn't it? A perpetual, irrevocable, lease could be a thing.
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by quesera 1y ago
Maybe just semantics? I think "license" is more technically correct. Even in the best consumer case, you are only "buying" a perpetual right to use a software product. Optionally, you might also get updates. In the US, t
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by quesera 1y ago
Dunno, man. I read the full quote as "thou shalt be complacent and suffer what comes to thee without complaint, for someday thine misfortune will be alleviated by the grace of God". Which isn't adequately far from "shut
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by quesera 1y ago
Right. Egress on anything other than tcp/443 is probably a non-starter for any new protocol. The question I was alluding to is: if it's HTTP-ish over tcp/443, wouldn't it still be the web anyway? But thinking about it mo
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by quesera 1y ago
... which is also the solution for any other infrequent manual process. :)
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by quesera 1y ago
I don't know what a replacement for the web would look like. But it seems apparent to me that it will have to work over HTTP/QUIC, and TCP port 443. Which prompts the obvious question ...
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by quesera 1y ago
Exactly! Both Python and Ruby are screwdrivers. In my highly opinionated opinion, the parallels are: - Flat head: Perl. Functional, and revolutionary at the time! But awkward to work with. - Phillips head: Python. Awesome improvement,
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by quesera 1y ago
Not sure how to think about that idea. Ruby was a great little niche language until Rails showed up. Scala did not exist when Rails was written/extracted. When Scala was released, it did not include any of the things that made Ruby a g
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by quesera 1y ago
> What I didn't consider is that "being extra careful" can change in an instant. One little bump in balance, one little fleeting distraction, one little change of thought as you are mid-task and don't immediately sto
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by quesera 1y ago
OK I didn't fully qualify the question, but I was definitely not asking about African people, unless that's the context that was omitted from the original statement.
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by quesera 1y ago
> "Black users" isn't about skin color, it's about a group of people who came from US slavery (I am having trouble phrasing this question to be unambiguously sincere and without intention of provocation, so please b
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by quesera 1y ago
I suspect it's a Hey-wide thing. But if you trim off the `?disposition=attachment` from the URL, it loads in the browser. At least for me in Firefox.
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by quesera 1y ago
Ignorant and dismissive, sure. But racist? What does that word mean, then?
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by quesera 1y ago
I think they agree with you, and that's why they're doing what they're doing: > This is an important development because one of the biggest challenges in design is making sure that a shape is actually buildable. The arti
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by quesera 1y ago
In the US, we've had "sanitation engineer" as the euphemistic neologism for "worker paid to pick up your garbage bins" for 50(?) years.
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by quesera 1y ago
I don't see that in this post. I just started working with a vendor who has a service behind API Gateway. It is a bit slow(!) and times out at 30 seconds. I've since modified my requests to chunk subsets of the whole dataset, to k
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by quesera 1y ago
Well OK, astonished then! I think there has to be some dramatic oversimplification in the description though. Telecom signaling is still a network level event, even in mobile networks. The receiving network does not typically provide audio
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by quesera 1y ago
It isn't! Maybe it is in China and India, though. I shudder to contemplate the complexity of that switching system, but ... astonishment awaits..?
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by quesera 1y ago
Circulating hot water radiators are pretty common in older cities/neighborhoods in the US. But I suspect the Russian example was radiant heating in the floor slabs, which will cause less air convection than hot water pipe radiators.
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by quesera 1y ago
I thought "nimrod" as an epithet (meaning ~"dummy") came from Nimrod, the Biblical king who ordered the construction of the Tower of Babel (which caused offense to God and thereafter great confusion -- which would have e
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by quesera 1y ago
This would require a "container cop" at every loading point. Containers get dropped off (empty) and loaded in all sorts of unexpected places. Not just big factories. The big loading points would be easy to inspect, just require an
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by quesera 1y ago
On macOS, sending `--no-remote -P <profilename>` in the command line is the method for launching specific profiles. I add an icon (slightly modified for each profile) to the script, and rename it to (e.g.) ~/Applications/Fir
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by quesera 1y ago
Comments are editable for two hours. :)

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