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by rimunroe 2y ago
Maybe I missed something but your arguments seem be about how Apple’s locking down of iOS/iPadOS and Safari are harmful to user freedom. That’s a very different argument from the one the person you’re replying to was making. They wer
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> Meaning that you're not going to have people drive off while still plugged in, or not plugging in properly Are there any electric cars which let you drive while plugged in? I own an EV and have driven a couple others. None of them
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by rimunroe 2y ago
> Boeing could have been a 100+ year firm Boeing was founded in 1916 so is currently just shy of 108 years old
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by rimunroe 2y ago
You’re correct that it is more energy efficient to heat, but the US spends much more energy heating buildings compared to cooling them. As the person you’re responding to pointed out, the difference between cold days and comfortable tempera
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by rimunroe 2y ago
I don't know why it's that fascinating. Lots of people think some amount of copyright is reasonable but that life of the author + 70 years is far too long.
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> Occam's razer also says we should not have different laws of physics in different places. You're starting from an odd place if you're assuming that's the case. There's absolutely no reason to believe the laws o
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by rimunroe 2y ago
> I do not cut it. I dig out any shoots and as much root as I can as soon as they appear above ground. That's a lot of digging! Cutting vs digging shouldn't make much of a different in terms of the plant's response to dama
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by rimunroe 2y ago
I believe cutting every day is counter-productive because it causes it to spread. I’m in Massachusetts. The strategy we’re using is cutting once in early summer. Then we let it grow (completely undisturbed) until right after it flowers in
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by rimunroe 2y ago
I did say "mostly" for a reason. A few months after the FBI director made those comments the Director of National Intelligence (who oversees the FBI and the rest of the US intelligence community) released a report reiterating that
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by rimunroe 2y ago
Which emails are you referring to? The ones with Fauci in early 2020? If so, they ruled that out as an option within a few months. I can understand being outraged about the suppression of those emails (though I understand why they’d want
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by rimunroe 2y ago
> Remember when it was impossible to talk about the lab leak theory without being labeled? Eventually mainstream media came around, but they did a lot of damage to their credibility. …but they didn’t. The lab leak theory is still mostly
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by rimunroe 2y ago
> i always make it very clear that anyone can reach me asynchronously whenever they want, and i will always strive to give a clear answer when i'm able to This is good, but in my experience being proactive in reaching out to juniors
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> In my experience, the number of seniors who complain sbout RTO and don't hoard knowledge is tiny. "Hoarding knowledge" makes it sound like they're intentionally trying to keep knowledge to themselves. I don't t
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by rimunroe 2y ago
As of yesterday Siri still fails to distinguish “fifteen” and “fifty” about half the time when I set a timer, even when I’m careful about enunciation.
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my neighbor uses them to clean his gutters
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by rimunroe 2y ago
I actually got into metal casting and blacksmithing because one day I tried using my dad's shop vac to blow air into a fire I'd made in the backyard. The shop vac was about as strong as a leaf blower and was extremely effective. A
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by rimunroe 2y ago
Also I wouldn't call a particular blog post's content "enshittification" anyway. "Enshittification" is a process, not a particular type of content. We have plenty of terms for the latter, like "SEO spam&qu
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by rimunroe 2y ago
> I think they do it because you can't copyright a recipe, so if copyright is important to you then you need to add other creative aspects to the recipe that can be copyrighted. I hear this claimed a lot but I don't think it&#x
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by rimunroe 2y ago
> That does not say teachers can't keep a library. At most it says that the titles in said library need to be reviewed/approved by the school. It says the teachers have to remove or cover up their classroom libraries until thei
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by rimunroe 2y ago
What sounds false about it? A (very straightforward) search surfaced this article https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvmq54/florida-teachers-are-...
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by rimunroe 2y ago
> I thought this read as "Quaker News" which would be more compelling if the revival behind it played out I also initially misread this as "Quaker News", but don't understand what you mean by "if the revival
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by rimunroe 2y ago
>> Baby cows don't drink pasteurized milk, and neither do human babies > No, but (a) there's a much shorter supply chain there in nature, which is the big problem, (b) cows consume all sorts of things that are inedible by
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by rimunroe 3y ago
Thank you! I was indeed using the wrong term. It looks like 39 states allow bikes to ride two-abreast (sometimes more).
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by rimunroe 3y ago
> Maybe it thought they were on a bike lane? Where I'm from it's illegal to ride like that in a group outside of police-sanctioned events I’m in Massachusetts where lane splitting is legal in some cases (single lane each direct
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by rimunroe 3y ago
Maybe if I was in a more important profession with higher stakes I’d stay up at 4 AM thinking about those sorts of regrets, but I’m a software developer making B2B apps, not a trauma surgeon.
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by rimunroe 3y ago
> Oh you will. It'll be that time you passed on an early job at a company that went on to IPO, or the project that went sour despite your best efforts. I’m only a bit further into my career than the person you’re responding to, but
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by rimunroe 3y ago
> When I bought Free space it was actually titled Descent: Freespace - The Great War. I loved the series too, though the name was only prefixed with “Descent” to avoid a trademark conflict with an existing bit of software already called
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by rimunroe 3y ago
I’m sure they are, but that doesn’t mean they’re good or will work well for me
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US FAA issues ground stop advisory for Alaska Airlines(reuters.com)
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by rimunroe 3y ago
Thank you! This matches what I’ve heard, and what I’d expect just from the general geometry of things

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