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by raldi 5y ago
Also, I'm not sure what "until decades from now" means in this context.
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by raldi 5y ago
2008-2011
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by raldi 5y ago
It's also a lie because "everything" on reddit is still not in fact searchable; buried in the comments on the announcement post, they admit that pre-2020 comments are still not indexed: https://www.reddit.com/
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by raldi 5y ago
Completely disagree; when it comes to programming (where all tools are infinitely malleable), it’s a poor programmer who puts up with suboptimal tools.
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by raldi 5y ago
And video game walkthroughs
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by raldi 5y ago
This sounds to me more like a symptom, and the underlying pathology is that this person gave insufficient consideration to all the little concessions his partner was making on the things that matter to him, and was certainly not expressing
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by raldi 5y ago
“I like leaving my glass by the sink, but I know you really hate it. Tell you what, I’ll stop doing it (which is not a concession that it’s wrong) as an act of love for you.” Then they express gratitude, and before you know it, you’ll get a
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by raldi 5y ago
Like 2001, except instead of a buried monolith, aliens planted a mechanism that, when X-rayed and simulated on a computer, breaks an AI out of the simulation and onto the internet
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by raldi 5y ago
Like Genius, but for walkthroughs. And while you're at it, recipes.
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by raldi 5y ago
Sometimes two circles get stacked on top of each other and there's a blank space where one used to be. Is that a bug or part of the unwritten rules?
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by raldi 5y ago
Even if you send your kid to school with a paper notebook, the staff has always had the legal power to seize and read it. If anything, the school shootings era has expanded that authority even beyond the broad latitude it was granted before
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by raldi 5y ago
Don’t forget cars stopped in bike and bus lanes, or across sidewalks or crosswalks
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by raldi 5y ago
> safety […] is the purported reason behind speed limits & their enforcement. A reason, among several others. See, for instance, the most famous speed limit ever enacted: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_
764.
by raldi 5y ago
Not a bug. Your brain is exploring the world of ideas, and thus far it hasn’t come upon one it finds truly engaging. Abandoning these projects is the correct strategy.
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by raldi 5y ago
Visitors on mobile devices can’t hover. Why not just show the examples all the time?
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by raldi 5y ago
Better headline would be, “The black MacBook cost $200 extra in part because it came with $150 of additional storage”
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by raldi 5y ago
Instant classic. The ancients would’ve loved it.
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by raldi 5y ago
Came here to recommend this book.
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by raldi 5y ago
Note that each state has exactly two exits: (1) Cross the button boundary, and (2) Toggle mousedown status
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by raldi 5y ago
Perfect apology
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by raldi 5y ago
> They then proved that a Gömböc's flatness and thinness both have to be equal to 1, that is, both values have to be as small as is possible. I don’t get this. The shape in the video looks neither flat nor thin.
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by raldi 5y ago
Until the 1970’s, college was something some people went to. By the 1980’s, it was something “everyone” did. A return to the way it was from 1096-1969 would absolutely be properly labeled a collapse.
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by raldi 5y ago
Could a big part of it be simply that people prefer to trade with others who speak their language?
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by raldi 5y ago
But why were tiny countries like the Netherlands able to conquer distant lands? Portugal was sailing around Asia trading goods from other Asian countries! Why is Brazil speaking their language and not the other way around? Ditto India and
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by raldi 5y ago
The common purpose is that we're about to ruin the planet's climate if we don't allow more people to voluntarily live in cities and live less car-dependent lifestyles but still we prohibit apartment buildings in many urban ne
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by raldi 5y ago
You don't need the engine running to have the radio going. In my experience, most people turn off the engine and leave the radio on while they're stopped briefly. It's why the ignition keyhole has an ACC position.
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by raldi 5y ago
Never, for like a dozen reasons
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by raldi 5y ago
Yes, of course. You don't? Why not?
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by raldi 5y ago
The motto of America's utility-monster-coddling public policy is, "The needs of the few outweigh the needs of the many."
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by raldi 5y ago
I think if you grabbed someone off the street and handed them a phone that didn't scroll when they dragged their finger across the screen, and then asked if they considered it a smartphone, the overwhelming majority of such people woul

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