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by shantly 7y ago
Memorization sure looks incredibly important to, say, mathematics, a topic in which practitioners often push back against memorization-based learning yet certainly appears to be pretty damn memorization-heavy. I know they're not derivi
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by shantly 7y ago
Some stores in the US have that, some don’t, and it’s always a lot smaller than the total price when they do.
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by shantly 7y ago
Coffee is sometimes that way. For more expensive beans brands’ll cut the weight and keep the price the same, shelve it right next to the other stuff. You have to check the weight to see which ones are expensive. [edit] and of course 12oz ha
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by shantly 7y ago
I used it as recently as a couple years ago to make short work of some build + deployment stuff on some slightly unusual platform. Might've been Garmin wearables? Something like that. When you need "expect", it's wonderf
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by shantly 7y ago
Well, nine or ten years after the 90s, anyway, haha.
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by shantly 7y ago
This looks more like an SUV alternative than a truck alternative, for either the legitimately eco-conscious (but not eco-conscious enough to buy used) or those looking for certain social signaling.
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by shantly 7y ago
Ditto "man" and "he" being used when the sex of the person in question isn't known, or as a poetic stand-in for "human"—the usual complaint about that is that it implies maleness is "normal" at t
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by shantly 7y ago
And the correct activity to tax is the delivery itself , or some close proxy for it. Ideally taxed to the business doing the delivery so they have a harder time faking lower prices or otherwise making it seem like the higher costs are for
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by shantly 7y ago
At this point practically everything about me's available either for free or a few dollars. The only interesting thing left is whether a given password has been compromised. The answer to everything else is "yes, it's been le
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by shantly 7y ago
Launch-programs-by-search becoming common is the only significant advance I can think of since the 90s. I've added some keyboard window management to my personal workflow since then but I don't know any non-geeks who do that—hell,
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by shantly 7y ago
I really miss that design. It's a lot more relaxing to look at than modern "flat" UI, IMO. Depth and consistent use of UI elements make it so easy to tell what's what. Modern UI seems to be designed to look like a static
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by shantly 7y ago
As far as what's described in that passage, none of that looks too bad aside from the smart policing. Which everyone else seems to be getting too, anyway. The next worst is the "civilizing banners" thing but then again public
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by shantly 7y ago
The people who get sick from them don't go to them anymore. That's why it was "temporary". Kids finding out they get sick from 3D don't post about it on the same social media adults use.
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by shantly 7y ago
Yeah, I've been forcing myself to make Hard Choices about my largish collection of books, and novels from the last 80-100 years are the easiest ones to ditch in favor of ebooks. Even short story collections, it's kinda nice to h
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by shantly 7y ago
I've read all of them but Player Piano (started it twice, just got distracted both times, it wasn't bad) and God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater . Of the rest, Hocus Pocus and Jailbird are the two that stuck the least. Timequake
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by shantly 7y ago
Houses in the US haven't been built to be livable without AC (in areas that have highs over 85F or so more than a month a year) in decades. Nor have apartment buildings. You need special attention to floor plan, facing, and to make cho
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by shantly 7y ago
Blue Beard fans, unite! Of his less-famous ones Deadeye Dick also stands out for me.
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by shantly 7y ago
The assertion was that IP address = Web.
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by shantly 7y ago
They’re also superior in most ways as interfaces to works with more features than “main body text”, and to which you intend to refer again very often. Pop fic and pop non-fic, then, for ebooks. Excellent for those. Paper or both for most ev
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by shantly 7y ago
Only if it’s also using the Web.
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by shantly 7y ago
There's a lot of local corruption. Before, keeping it hush-hush meant capturing the local paper(s). Now? Increasingly you don't even need to do that. As long as the state AG or whoever doesn't take an interest (and some of
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by shantly 7y ago
Ahem. http://adamcadre.ac/lyttle.html Lyttle Lytton contest. (no connection, just enjoy them)
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by shantly 7y ago
Teams is way worse than Slack. So's Facebook's Business Chat offering, which I find less horrible than Teams at least but it tags along with their "business social" application, and those are always useless crap. Thoug
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by shantly 7y ago
It's really demoralizing to be on a team on which the devs clearly have better design and UX sense than the designer(s) and/or product manager. But not the titles—they're "just" software developers who couldn&#x27
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by shantly 7y ago
Don't forget the Lyttle Lytton! Same thing, lower word limit. http://adamcadre.ac/lyttle.html The earlier ones are better IMO but the "found" category is always good for a laugh.
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by shantly 7y ago
> And please, can we stop this incessant gatekeeping? It does not help. There are a lot of amazing software engineers working at non-FANG companies doing great work, building great things. Sure, but not making north of $200k in non-manag
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by shantly 7y ago
Yeah, there are TVs with Roku built-in. It's the TV's "OS". I thought it was incredibly dumb too until every TV started having an OS, most of them awful, and all of them spying on you unless you stop them. Now, at leas
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by shantly 7y ago
This is very relevant to my interests. My French doesn't go past "haltingly read newspapers" and "acquire food, shelter, and directions in a French-speaking region", so would any of this prose-heavy mathematics be a
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by shantly 7y ago
Where I fell off the MMM train, within hours of discovering it, was a post about healthcare costs on the individual market where he wrote about how cheap they could actually be... - If you had enough money in the bank to cover an extremely
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by shantly 7y ago
Is that one Apple App Store (iOS) compatible?

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