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by shantly 7y ago
I received a Rocketbook as a gift and never managed to figure out what to do with it. I have a cheap document scanning app on my phone that's very fast and can share the results out to pretty much anywhere with a couple quick presses,
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by shantly 7y ago
Well yeah, of course dedicated pro hardware's gonna be better. Physical knobs and buttons are awesome. Most'd probably take those over a PC keyboard (the qwerty type, not like a midi keyboard), too, for real work in music, if not
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by shantly 7y ago
> Not limited to the British upper class. It's astounding how far someone can go in life by simply being confident, charismatic, and articulate (and tall) despite being completely full of shit. I've gotten a similar vibe from a
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by shantly 7y ago
> An iPhone or an iPad is just a device for consumption. Absurd. There are a huge number of tasks for which, if I'm only allowed one device to accomplish it, I'd definitely take an iPad over a laptop. Practically anything invol
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by shantly 7y ago
I had a legit use for a marquee a few months ago and couldn't find a jank-free way to actually re-create all of its features. You can get the basics but even that sucks compared to just using <marquee> (heavier, more code).
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by shantly 7y ago
Well right, it's all related. The schools are good (largely) because the people sending their kids there are willing and able to pay extra to live near good schools. The houses cost more money because the schools are good. Feedback
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by shantly 7y ago
Between the money-based fight to get your kids in better schools (public or private, it's money either way, just a matter of whether the money's in tuition or housing) and health care it does kind of seem like the system's
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by shantly 7y ago
Entertainment media's driven a lot of it, I think, for whatever reason. Generations X and Y have tended to make catching accidental (and not even especially interesting) double entendres a prominent feature of the humor-media they&#x27
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by shantly 7y ago
Good public schools around here drive an ~20-25% increase in house prices, for similar houses with similar commutes et c., versus merely middling schools, let alone the bad ones.
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by shantly 7y ago
To the extent that one can affect it, I think it has more to do with selecting the entire friend pool , not picking individual friends (which obviously won't work). The friend pool at Phillips Exeter's got a higher top-end of fri
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by shantly 7y ago
> Makes me think that it should be government policy everywhere to ensure neighborhoods are as mixed as possible. Easier said than done, because if you live in an affluent area you'll probably fight very hard to keep it affluent and
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by shantly 7y ago
> What if the answer is to kill social-media-as-we-know-it? This is the real answer. If running a service requires paying people to look at awful, damaging material—stop running the service. It shouldn't exist. It doesn't nee
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by shantly 7y ago
1) location of death (or final resting place, anyway) matters a ton for likelihood of fossilization, 2) not all animals die in the same places, 3) if sex has an influence on the distribution of likelihood of dying (or ending up in—water car
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by shantly 7y ago
Fossilization of bone generally requires animals to die such that they're buried pretty quickly. The swampier parts of swamps, river banks, tar pits, that sort of thing. Risky areas for megafauna, not places they're going to be, s
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by shantly 7y ago
Good public schools (or good private schools, for that matter) can be hard to come by out in the sticks, for those to whom that's important. Hard in the city, too—there's a reason so many families, even those of us who would prefe
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by shantly 7y ago
No I mean just refusing to let any mention of some normal use of a word go without taking it that way. I'm reasonably up on my Shakespeare (LOL "up on" LOL) so I know of the joys of double entendre and innuendo. It just seems
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by shantly 7y ago
Three or four seasons a month is probably about the equivalent total TV+film watching in our five-person household, combined. As in maybe 50ish hours of distinct content of that sort watched a month, not counting one thing multiple times if
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by shantly 7y ago
I'm pretty sure it was intended in the sense of "to finger a suspect" (cf git blame) rather than anything vulgar. I think the tendency to take anything, in nearly any context, that could even maybe be vulgar, as vulgar 100% o
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by shantly 7y ago
In that case why are libraries bothering with jumping through these hoops and paying extra money for expiring ebooks anyway?
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by shantly 7y ago
Just tried it with Mission Impossible: Fallout, which I just watched the other day on Amazon Prime's streaming thingy. Google search results give me a list of purchase options across the top in a little box, including Amazon, so that&#
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by shantly 7y ago
Your scheme requires copying the work, probably several times, and distributing some of those copies, so it won't fly. I'm pretty sure the fact that digital lending necessarily makes tons of copies of the work—consider live server
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by shantly 7y ago
I think the divide here's largely along the lines of what people read. E-readers are king for light fiction or airport nonfic, for instance, but pretty awful for heavy nonfiction reading (think: textbooks), with everything else falling
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by shantly 7y ago
It's more about the convenience than the price, for me. I'd pay $30, maybe $40, per month for access to basically anything I want to watch (past that I may as well buy as I watch, and even at $40 I'd have to do the math to ma
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by shantly 7y ago
Good luck. Even schools are pushing that crap now. They'll need to be online to do homework not later than middle school—and that's the state of things now, may well be worse in a few years.
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by shantly 7y ago
A handful of gems exist, though I'm not aware of any being produced now. Mister Rogers' Neighborhood was really something special. Still is. Long (incredibly long, sometimes) takes, slow tracking, few cuts, lots of Mister Rogers t
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by shantly 7y ago
> The outcome has been that there is no solid mechanism hitching revenue to those who generate intellectual property. But how could there be? With 1985-2000 tech, and remembering how pretty much every DRM scheme so far's either fa
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by shantly 7y ago
Yeah my point is just that 1) "information wants to be free" is an observation more than a statement of purpose, and 2) I don't think fighting against dirty ol' authors who are trying to charge for their work was on any
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by shantly 7y ago
That ideology had nothing to do with the use of spying coupled with advertising ("targeted ads" in their modern sense) causing the creation of rents-seeking monopolies in the online ads space. The tech that enabled that was really
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by shantly 7y ago
- If it doesn't have very different scaling needs from the rest of the application, probably don't make it a microservice. - If it isn't something you could plausibly imagine using as a 3rd party service (emailer/sms&#
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by shantly 7y ago
I'm still catching up on the last ( glances over at the three-volume Lichtheim ) 5000ish years of literature. I don't expect to be even half done before I'm dead. I can't imagine wanting or needing to know about new re

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