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by sameerds 2y ago
A close friend who is a professional has been losing customers because he was too careful and wanted only the most reliable thing for every customer. Customers drifted away, and business dwindled. Our guess is that word-of-mouth publicity s
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by sameerds 2y ago
Cue the "We are Bob" series, aka Bobiverse, by Dennis E. Taylor!
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by sameerds 2y ago
IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1149 IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2549
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by sameerds 2y ago
> I could have 20 holding pens in the house and they'd still lose their stuff, since the idea that you have to exert even a minor amount of effort <now> by putting stuff in its place to save yourself much more searching effort
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by sameerds 2y ago
I came here to say the same thing. It's something I have been actively working on lately. It's quite an effort to pay attention to the small things, something as simple as making sure I put the mouse into my backpack along with my
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by sameerds 2y ago
"You chose this. Keep your head down and work at it. It will all work out in the end."
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by sameerds 2y ago
It's probably the remote computer that's running Windows and currently affected by Crowdstrike.
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by sameerds 2y ago
You maybe depressed, maybe not, I don't know enough about all that. But meeting a therapist is a big yes. Don't shy away from it. Go consult one. Having said that, don't punish yourself so much. Most people feel what you are
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by sameerds 2y ago
Completely off-topic. The article is paywalled, and for once I decided to go down the subscription rabbit hole. I am viewing this in Firefox on Windows. But every "subscribe" button on the WSJ page points to an Apple store page fo
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by sameerds 2y ago
... that might explain Oumuamua!
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by sameerds 2y ago
I did mean the same thing, although I ended up using really loose informal English. Should our intervals be tighter on the new finding?
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by sameerds 2y ago
Which way would you update our confidence? A: We were so wrong earlier, but now we "know better", due to better measurements, better models and more evidence, so our confidence is higher. B: We have been so wrong in the past, so o
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by sameerds 2y ago
I think the GP meant dropping the key wrapped in paper without the parachute. That's what makes it faster and easier to target. Which also answers your question about surprising someone driving a car, since the key won't drift wit
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by sameerds 2y ago
A wonder how different people will interpret "a couple of factoids" then!
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by sameerds 2y ago
Although in general I also count the difference in months on my fingers, this particular example from March to September just automatically pops a "six" because they are both ends of financial quarters. "Three months after Fe
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by sameerds 2y ago
How do I manage my account once created? I don't see any link to change my password, etc.
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by sameerds 2y ago
No they are not. The GtkMenuBar widget got dropped because a replacement already exists. Another comment below provided the reference: https://docs.gtk.org/gtk4/migrating-3to4.html#gtkmenu-gtkmen... I wish the GP would
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by sameerds 2y ago
> for example, the printing functionality that was moved from libgnomeprint (or whatever it was called) into GTK3 is staying (which makes sense), but menu bars (which have been in GTK since the beginning) are going away because GNOME doe
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by sameerds 2y ago
I read it as "fubs were small partitions, but now with the latch boundaries dissolved between fubs, the partitions are bigger (containing flops from many fubs)".
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by sameerds 2y ago
If I am not mistaken, the first sentence mentions what the GP commenter has, while the second sentence talks about what's mentioned in the article. You seem to be conflating the two. EDIT: s/argument/article/
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by sameerds 3y ago
The pessimist in me thinks that the people going to Mars will end up bringing with them the same prejudices and the same ineffective laws anyway. It would be great if they could really "start over", as in build society from scratc
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by sameerds 3y ago
> The article is not about GNOME. It is about GNOME 3. The article title literally mentions "GNOME and GNOME 3".
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by sameerds 3y ago
It looks like a deliberate decision to not explain the term until the very end ... a tongue-in-cheek demonstration of the problem being described. They eventually give the expansion towards the very end, but that too is obfuscated by putt
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by sameerds 3y ago
It's hard for me to say this without wondering if I am being rude, but did you mean to say "dig down"? At least to me, "to dig in" means to prepare for a long-drawn confrontation (like an argument or a battle). Mayb
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by sameerds 3y ago
Maybe it's just me, but if I knew the dentist will be away tomorrow, there's no way I am going to get my wisdom tooth removed today.
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by sameerds 3y ago
This! A lot of young people pirate media to save money. But then when they grow up and start working, they /still/ keep pirating because now they are used to getting their hands on quality media that they like, rather than consumi
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by sameerds 3y ago
FWIW, I read the corrected comment and still read it as "text-to-speech". Then I saw the replies and scrolled up, and realized that my brain had read it wrong!
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by sameerds 3y ago
I know of a highly experienced person who once opened an email attachment, edited it, and then claimed "I saved my copy in Yahoo!". No amount of asking would make him that he ignored the dialog box that asked him to save a copy.
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by sameerds 3y ago
Not the protocol itself. Your ID is an arbitrary alphanumeric string that you register with a provider. But most people just use their phone number.
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by sameerds 3y ago
Similar experience with my kids: 10 and 14 years old. They are comfortable with their smart phones and laptops, they spend hours watching mindless youtube videos. They are good at shopping on Amazon or ordering food, for the whole family. B

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