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by rev_bird 10y ago
I'm finishing up a 350+ page family history book that I wrote in LaTeX; I've got two or three more to go, and I wouldn't consider using anything else. It's got its quirks, but it was so easy to work with page formatting,
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by rev_bird 10y ago
>If browsers could expose the available bandwidth I don't know why this seems like such an imposition, but I think I'd be uncomfortable with my browser exposing information about my actual network if it didn't have to. I h
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by rev_bird 10y ago
Thanks for this. I'm sure it's not quite as scary as it sounds, but the only thing I can think of that's more challenging than "start a business" is "start a business in a new country where you don't know
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by rev_bird 10y ago
Thank you; missed this the first time around. Suddenly really interested in learning Dutch...
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by rev_bird 10y ago
Had no idea about this, thank you for passing it along. This part is particularly interesting: > Holders of an EU Blue Card can enter another Member State without a visa after 18 months and apply for the EU Blue Card of that Member State
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by rev_bird 10y ago
Is/was your friend an American citizen? I've been fascinated by emigrating to Europe for a long time and am always looking for stories about how people pull it off.
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by rev_bird 10y ago
...can I come over?
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by rev_bird 10y ago
This is a tricky topic. I think I disagree with you. I'm certainly in agreement that there's ample evidence of justice being unevenly applied in this country, at least in part because there are humans doing the enforcing. Traffic
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by rev_bird 10y ago
Womp, I did indeed. Will do.
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by rev_bird 10y ago
I've not seen a wooden cake topper like this, but it's very common (and used to be pretty much mandatory, if I understand right) to have something on top of the cake, usually little figurines representing the bride and groom.
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by rev_bird 10y ago
Yeah, in hindsight I pretty aggressively missed the point.
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by rev_bird 10y ago
Thanks for the response, this is really helpful. I'm unfortunately pretty well-acquainted with the marketing shortcomings of the self-publishing arena, but it's good to know it's not impossible to just start sending agents ol
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by rev_bird 10y ago
This is fascinating, thank you for responding. What an interesting way to engage with history. (I'm from America; anything here from the 1500s is an archaeological site.)
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by rev_bird 10y ago
You are misinterpreting what he said and then saying no one cares about it, this makes no sense. He's not saying he was unethical by accident , he's rightly asserting that reporters have no obligation to make sure sources approve
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by rev_bird 10y ago
I disagree pretty strongly with your first point. For starters, Stephen Glass wrote literal fiction; Michael Thomas is, at worst guilty of misrepresenting an otherwise true real-life situation. Glass is among the most notorious fabricator
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by rev_bird 10y ago
This somehow raises more questions than answers, for me at least: You work full-time restoring a single property? Do you work for the owner, or is it maintained by a nonprofit/government? I'm guessing you work for a company, or ar
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by rev_bird 10y ago
As a former journalist myself (and someone who longs to write books), I'd be very interested in your thoughts on someone doing this career swap away from tech into writing nonfiction. I realize this isn't particularly related to t
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by rev_bird 10y ago
I'm in the same boat, currently frustrated by the high cost of entry for a lot of projects. There's always "just one" tool that's missing. (Plus, I have the habit of starting projects with a lot of confidence, then
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by rev_bird 10y ago
I can see how this would be a heavenly existence, but it seems like a stretch to call it a "career," in the sense I think the original poster meant. Sure, there are some people who have managed to become famous authors doing those
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by rev_bird 10y ago
> I stand firmly on the side of freedom of speech and judging people on their actions, not words. If anything, equating words with rape is what normalizes and trivializes rape! I think we're debating two different things: I don&#x27
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by rev_bird 10y ago
This is the most embarrassing part. They're saying "We can keep things secret to avoid being humiliated" like it's for our benefit.
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by rev_bird 10y ago
First of all, it looks like it's not a done deal quite yet: >The full House is scheduled to vote on Tuesday on the rules, which would last for two years, until the next congressional elections. That said, I'm absolutely baffled
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by rev_bird 10y ago
To be frank, you'd probably be terrible at it. All of us would, if only because lots of rules and regulations deal with more nuance than anyone could be reasonably expected to understand, if they had to vote on everything . That'
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by rev_bird 10y ago
I'm inclined to agree with you, but I think this might be an unfair demand -- you're describing two jobs that are closely related but entirely different. I've had lots of doctors recommend therapy; I never expected any to be
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by rev_bird 10y ago
>I just think that our brains experience sadness for a reason: it's a signal that something is wrong in our life and that we need to change it. Forgive me, but I don't understand how someone can just decide to come up with alte
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by rev_bird 10y ago
Ah ha! There's the weakness I was missing, thank you so much for responding. I hadn't even thought of it that way---I knew salts shook up the resulting hashes, but an actual benefit of it is that it makes it pretty much impossible
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by rev_bird 10y ago
I'm a total greenhorn when it comes to cryptography, but the difference between these two situations was totally lost on me until I read this comment. When I see, "It's easy to create MD5 collisions," my first thought is
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by rev_bird 10y ago
I was doing all kinds of mental gymnastics trying to figure out how this would work; thanks for explaining it so clearly.
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I may be misunderstanding what you're referring to, but I just wanted to point out that "introversion" doesn't mean "misanthropic." In a nutshell, introversion/extroversion just refers to what effect socia
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by rev_bird 10y ago
For what it's worth, #4 is a relatively old concept, and one that's currently implemented for lots of different reasons. I've heard them called "sun pipes," but there are all kinds of variants; basically sky lights

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