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by shard 5y ago
As someone who was on Usenet regularly until the mid 2000's, I don't think it was the trolls that killed Usenet. They were easy enough to ignore. The younger generations simply never found it, as the WWW forums were much easier to
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by shard 5y ago
It means that Linus used to be fairly brusk when he was younger (basis: e.g. flipping people off and telling people to "fuck off"), and recently he has apologized for his behavior (basis: the link you shared). To me this is him me
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by shard 5y ago
Their younger versions might not have agreed with it, but some people do mellow out in their old age. In this case, to me it's clear that he is doing a large turnaround, which validates Wyager's statement that he did not care too
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by shard 5y ago
When I canceled my Comcast internet service, I got much less resistance from them, but this was in the days where they still had physical offices that you can go to. I took my modem and dropped it off, telling them to cancel my subscription
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by shard 5y ago
Are you comparing that against the MILLIONS who get a correct diagnosis? I expect that the quality-adjusted life year total over all tested is higher with the test than without. Wouldn't that be worth it? I think this leans more toward
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by shard 5y ago
Yes. I meticulously tracked every calorie I ate for several months. Now I know how much of different types of food is how many calories, how many calories I eat per day, and most importantly what my different hunger levels mean in terms of
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by shard 5y ago
Not universally true. Depending on points such as competing stores in the mall and the parking situation, number of customers can decrease for the store outside the mall. For example, you are a cellphone store with no parking and the mall w
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by shard 5y ago
Real estate comes with its own set of problems. First is the large capital outlay as compared with a small web project, which means many more eggs are in that one basket. Second is the slow turnover, which means that you may be waiting for
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by shard 5y ago
From another angle, I've been to a restaurant in a central part of Seoul where the owner kept his cash in a wooden box with no lock by the entrance. Pretty sure anyone could have grabbed that box and ran out the door, especially when t
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by shard 5y ago
I don't think it's as bad as that statement implies. It's not all smartphones or laptops or TVs or cars. A large number of those devices would be things like smartcards, LED light bulbs, USB cables, ID tags for shipping conta
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by shard 5y ago
Employees working 80% does not mean that the company output has to be reduced to 80%. With the salary reduction, for every 4 employees there would be roughly enough cost reduction to hire another employee, bringing the output to approximate
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by shard 5y ago
It sounds like I would have a distinct disadvantage if I was at Amazon. I am a slow thinker, and questions and ideas often come to me a day or so after reading some document. If I had to come up with all my responses within 20 minutes, I&#x
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by shard 5y ago
Another not-SEC example would be Eliot Spitzer who parlayed his policing of Wall Street corruption as the Attorney General of New York into a governorship.
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by shard 5y ago
That only works if you don't give control of the servers over to a third party and also use encryption on the servers. Which Apple has not been able to do across the board.
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by shard 5y ago
Interesting. It seems like you can make fun of the Nazis directly, but cannot joke about the situation surrounding the time/place/events regarding the Nazis.
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by shard 5y ago
Yes. The pencil sharpener removes the last 2.5cm of the pencil lead anyway, so why not just use a pencil extender? This seems like an overengineered solution looking for a problem. You're using a really classy extender, but one of thos
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by shard 5y ago
Nice catch. Not sure if you're making fun of the fact that it took so long to record all the takes for this video, but 1.5 hours seems reasonable. As an amateur, it would probably have taken me 4-5 hours to record that.
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by shard 5y ago
I had the same feeling as you recently, until I read a site posted here a few weeks ago. I can't find it now, but it was a personal page where someone described in increasing levels of severity what can be done over an unsecured HTTP c
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by shard 5y ago
The regret comes in two stages for me. What I previously mentioned, and the second stage, which is when my kid started developing an interest, and I am unable to join in as my rudimentary skills are surpassed within a few months.
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by shard 5y ago
My parents were pretty hands-off, and luckily I had a strong interest in academics and was sufficiently self-driven. But I did sink untold number of hours into RPGs when I was young, and I wish my parents had insisted on some music lessons
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by shard 5y ago
I've never played either but have seen some videos of it. How much of it is just gaming and how much of it is programming? Is programming required to play the games? How often do the players engage in programming part of it as opposed
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by shard 5y ago
Expanding on your comment, to get into a good school and make the connections that would help you in the future, good grades are table stakes. And for certain minorities, good grades are assumed and you have to have achievements on top of t
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by shard 5y ago
"Iron Sky: The Coming Race" was released only 2 years ago. Have things changed that much since then? https://www.cinecity.nl/sites/default/files/images/movies/35...
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by shard 5y ago
Planned obsolescence goes beyond whether phone software gets updated or not. It covers changing designs so that you can tell one generation from another, so that there is social pressure to upgrade despite the phone working fine.
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by shard 5y ago
> Destructive scanning feels incredibly cruel to the books. I suppose it depends on whether it has sentimental value. When I was young, I'd treat my books like treasures, putting covers on them (even paperbacks), making sure I didn&
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by shard 5y ago
That's a non standard way to use the phrase "flu season". I would expect that most people would think you are talking about the flu if you use that phrase. If I talked about how COVID spiked during baseball season, people wou
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by shard 5y ago
> asking someone how fast the cars “smashed” into each other results in more severe estimates than if you ask how fast the cars “collided” This reminds me of the George Carlin bit about using euphemisms because Americans have trouble fac
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by shard 5y ago
Is the flu much of a problem this year? I thought the flu infection rate was way down due to social distancing and lockdowns. The comparison you are suggesting might not be an accurate one.
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by shard 5y ago
There didn't seem to be any seasonality effects last year during this time. What's different this year?
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by shard 5y ago
This really needs to be redesigned for ergonomics. - Lever should have a button for capture - Display should be visible while looking down But now I see why destructive scanning (slicing the binding off and using a sheet feeding scanner) is

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