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by quesera 9mo ago
I'm confused. Machining molds is not a lost or obscure technology. A skilled machinist (and the US has many) used to be able do it in any moderately-equipped machine shop. Is there something new and magic about modern injection molding
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by quesera 9mo ago
> Condensed Rainbow That's actually funny! I like it much more than your implication that I am a bigot for whitewashing the walls of my basement last weekend. But you avoided the point. Whitewashing is literally applying a wash wh
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by quesera 9mo ago
What should we call the color of walls when they are painted white?
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by quesera 9mo ago
Whitewashing literally means applying a wash (which is white, typically being lime or chalk) over a surface. The wash covers whatever was underneath with a uniform coating that hides what's underneath. It's like paint, but ancient
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by quesera 9mo ago
Contra your other replies, I think this is exactly the point. I had an inkling that the feeling existed back then, but I had no idea it was documented so explicitly. Is this quote from The Art of Doing Science and Engineering ?
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by quesera 9mo ago
I think that would make Linux players into second-class citizens who could only play in a pool that is 90+% filled with Windows cheaters. Segregating into two pools: Windows-verified, or Linux-unverified, would probably not work for Linux u
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by quesera 9mo ago
I love you guys, and I wish you were right, but I don't think you are. Any of the above moves (military bases, Visa/MC, ASML, etc) would make the US suffer, but it would collapse the EU. Europe has a decade or two of hard work and
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by quesera 9mo ago
GP did not specify that their thought was scoped to the same people as GGP's (explicitly dystopian) scenario, so I read their comment as working on the kernel of the idea and not the horrifying class-based discriminatory version. While
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by quesera 9mo ago
Perhaps, but the power conferred by the miracle of compound interest does not require performance.
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by quesera 9mo ago
This is not honestly engaging with GP's statement. The benefit only accrues if the sharing is universal. I am too private a person to agree with GP, but it does seem that most health issues that are visible to the passerby or casual ac
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by quesera 9mo ago
Kurt Cobain died of a self-inflicted shotgun wound, and it's a stretch to blame that on heroin. He had lots of issues. (aside, and with good humor: it's interesting that all but one of the dead folks names are misspelled, and it&#
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by quesera 9mo ago
I just timed it for accuracy. When launched alone, on my M2 MBA, it's about 18 seconds to full draw of visible tab list, and 29 seconds to snappy interactivity. I didn't check CPU utilization. Usually, when I launch this 20+Kt pro
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by quesera 9mo ago
I currently have 20,097 tabs open in one browser profile. The oldest tab appears to be an HN post from 2.5 years ago, which must be the last time I swept tabs into bookmarks. I used to sweep them more regularly, but Firefox + Sidebery don&#
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by quesera 9mo ago
... I did not know that dang used to play for the Yankees! :)
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by quesera 9mo ago
True, but it required congressional approval to change the name then, and it would now as well. This congress is not likely to approve it. And the next congress, even less so. That said, "ever" is probably too strong. There's
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by quesera 9mo ago
That is not the official name, and it is highly unlikely that it ever will be in the future.
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by quesera 9mo ago
> Less glue and avoidance of nails and screws doesn't make it sturdier. Fastening things strongly makes your furniture sturdier than not doing so. No disrespect intended, but your criticism of the analogy reveals that you are spea
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by quesera 9mo ago
To be fair, the English names for all other places named after Cristoforo Colombo use the English spelling for Christopher Columbus. It might be difficult to remember the (locally-less common) exception. And our primitive spell checkers oft
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by quesera 9mo ago
FWIW, traveling to Cuba from the US (via flight from Canada, Mexico, or a dozen other convenient spots) has never been difficult, even for completely non-connected citizens.
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by quesera 9mo ago
He was an engineer who worked on nuclear things. Hand-picked by Rickover for work on the project. I'm going with "functionally pretty darn close", and the details are a bit ambiguous and/or complicated. You can persist i
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by quesera 9mo ago
Some people publish meaningful works at age 20. And some people live to 100. That could be 150 years of copyright.
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by quesera 9mo ago
It's actually kind of embarassing seeing someone from the org chime in and say ~"this is our first time doing this, so we expected feedback" ... and separately infuriating ~"we will take this into account for next year&q
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by quesera 9mo ago
WFM?
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by quesera 9mo ago
Interesting, it looks more complicated than I realized. "Nuclear engineer" might be too colloqualized, a la "software engineer". (perish the thought!) But he was an engineer who was trained to operate nuclear facilities
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by quesera 9mo ago
Nordstroms has famously good customer service, though. More like K-Mart, but unfortunately, not dead yet.
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by quesera 9mo ago
This generalizes to "Oh, I see you're running JavaScript. Let me harass you in all the ways I can think of until you relent and act according to my will instead of your own". ... and should be treated with exactly the amount
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by quesera 9mo ago
> There is no way to reliably block pop-ups in the general case. Not sure if I'm misunderstanding the intent of this sentence, but I have not seen a popup in my web browsers for ... so long I can't remember the last time it h
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by quesera 9mo ago
This is true. I get arguments or indignation every time I say it, but spam is a solved problem, and has been for at least 20 years (thanks Paul!). If you get more than "insignificantly little" spam in your inbox, you are using the
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by quesera 9mo ago
How about "user-hostile"? A thing that the user does not want, but is presented on top of content that they do want, is not serving user intent. Of course, it's serving the needs of the project, theoretically. (Organizational
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by quesera 9mo ago
You make a fair point that my attempt at humor is a bit oversimplified. But it's also the best-available solution. The problems described do not exist on the other side of the fence. Others have different criteria, but we are happy wit

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