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by robocat 9mo ago
You can't correct humour. When something is obviously wrong, perhaps learn to ask yourself if it's trying to be funny. Is dead Python funny?
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by robocat 9mo ago
> [people without soft skills] were always the extreme intelligence outliers This is a B-player myth. High intelligence makes you better at soft skills. People are complex, and being good at soft skills takes intelligence, intelligence t
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by robocat 9mo ago
He's not playing 4D chess... He's playing Risk (the board game from the 80's) where he needs Quebec and Greenland to attack Europe. Or he's been looking at a Mercator map projection and thinks Greenland is waaay bigger t
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by robocat 9mo ago
And remember that ñ on a traditional system is a single byte $F1, not one of those crazy kids-these-days multibyte codes like $C3 $B1
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by robocat 9mo ago
> My friend, you have no idea what you’re missing out on Being left handed has its advantages, however smearing wet ink over the page as you write doesn't endear one to nibbed pens. And leaked ink truely sucks (although I would gues
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by robocat 9mo ago
Imagine some words, or even sentences, beginning with SHOUTING. Initial caps are nuts too -- B Dark.
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by robocat 9mo ago
That icon is pretty terrible. Fountain pens were obsolete 50 years ago and ink in bottles is even more outdated. What's with the shiny spherical bottle? It feels like a hipster icon design to me. Of course picking a meaningful icon is
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by robocat 9mo ago
I apologize... My original comment was poorly thought out and naive, which misled potato and you. You and potato followed that wrong path and unfortunately didn't correct me or yourselves. I tried to correct myself later (see my siblin
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by robocat 9mo ago
It's a hard call to name root causes. If they hadn't taken the money, what would the counterfactual article have said? Everybody creates narritives and belief-systems, where causes and effects seem so clear. Perhaps I'm far t
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by robocat 9mo ago
> What you describe is a worn bearing with an excess of play, not a seized one Yeah. Worn or seized bearings are relevant to rotation, but on second thoughts, rotation isn't the issue here. Rereading the PDF, I can see that I entire
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by robocat 9mo ago
> Once that bearing is gone the stress that it would normally allow to escape on account of rotation would be directly transferred to the metal around it The bearing would have to sieze up and the bearing axle be locked to the race. The
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by robocat 9mo ago
10 months out of six years is 0.14 so it isn't quite prenatal benefits. What happens if an unborn baby has rights to go to preschool, but the birthing parent can't? Is an unborn child a US citizen yet?
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by robocat 9mo ago
Apple could afford Intel, and could get past antitrust by arguing military security. Who's mobile phone can politicians trust? Then again, Microsoft should have bought Intel: MS has roughly $102 billion in cash (+ short-term investment
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by robocat 9mo ago
And they created a powerful cartel which can pressure politicians to benefit the cartel: The Danish Press Collective Management Organization (DPCMO), formed in 2021, now represents what CEO Karen Rønde calls a “99 percent mandate” of th
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by robocat 10mo ago
http://hca.gilead.org.il/old_man.html Aviso: http
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by robocat 10mo ago
And reserve some troops for the USA too.
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by robocat 10mo ago
Are the BSDs as US-focused?
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by robocat 10mo ago
Beautiful and disturbing. So many people around the world are so wonderfully generous with everything, and we should celebrate that. However mooching off others is weird. It is a fine thing to graciously accept generosity. And it is a fine
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by robocat 10mo ago
Software that uses a camera to detect pointing? If you're right handed then I assume a USB camera from the back-right can either detect a big colored sylus, or your hand pointing. A hacked wireless mouse/device for buttons?
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by robocat 10mo ago
> CCD Core Complex Die - an AMD term for a chiplet that contains the CPU cores and cache. It connects to an IOD (I/O die) that does memory, PCIe etc (≈southbridge?). Aside: CCX is Core Complex - see Figure 1 of https://ww
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by robocat 10mo ago
> Doctors don’t really care to look at these kinds of issues Perhaps for good reasons? The science is messy, there are few proven interventions and every woowoo worrywart will be pestering their doctor. Your doctor is in an unenviable po
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by robocat 10mo ago
> Exhibit A: In Safari I had to "share" this page to use the "Find on Page" feature to search whether anyone had mentioned the share button yet Or type your search in the address bar, scroll to the bottom to the &quot
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by robocat 10mo ago
Windows 13 is sure to be another avoided version (like Windows 9 was skipped). The marketers will want to rename 12 with the argument it has to change before 13 anyways. Then again Apple are just as annoying, releasing 26 in 2025.
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by robocat 10mo ago
Iris scanners are not hard to implement from a few meters in a controlled environment like immigration. I would assume Iris scanners are normal - but I couldn't find anything to corroborate that for immigration control in NZ (legally t
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by robocat 10mo ago
Tech founders (part of the 1%) own about 2% of the stock market. About 18% is owned by foreign entities.
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by robocat 10mo ago
> I wonder if it might qualify as the best thought terminating cliché I've seen this year! That is certainly the best back-handed compliment I have received in the last hour. Thank you. Your writing molests me. > is that the peop
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by robocat 10mo ago
> Baudrillard Certainly it has some extremely unmodern statements... The masculine, by contrast, possesses unfailing powers of discrimination and absolute criteria for pronouncing the truth. The masculine is certain, the feminine is
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by robocat 10mo ago
> I now find it impossible to put up with boring people (which is basically everybody who has time to sit around chatting, almost by definition). You're being judgemental to call them boring. Plus widening your opinions to be a &quo
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by robocat 10mo ago
But for me, when I drink alcohol, I get high, like energized. For some people, there's a sedating effect. But for me it was very energetic, almost like doing a little bit of, having a little bit of caffeine. I didn't drink to
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by robocat 10mo ago
> [extroversion] comes naturally. They don't have to work hard at it. They are not thinking and analyzing and calculating about it. They just do it without thought I'm not sure I would frame it as a fixed trait (genetic). I com

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