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by strken 1y ago
Can I recommend thinking about your own country and then extrapolating from there to understand how foreigners feel? For example: I'm Australian. I actively want you to come be a tourist here! What I'd like you to do, though, is n
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by strken 1y ago
My woodworking teacher in highschool was missing two fingers on his right hand. I don't think anyone is 100% safe around tools, child or adult, educated or otherwise. Life's about risks and how you manage them. Which is not to say
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by strken 1y ago
I don't even use Bear app, I'm just confused by the idea that anything's "locked" inside sqlite when I deliberately put data there for ease of use. I don't want you to do anything. Use whatever you want! But if
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by strken 1y ago
From memory the sqlite3 API is something like sqlite3 data.db 'select text from notes' I use sqlite3 to load and query random CSVs all the time. It feels a bit weird to hear data described as "locked" within a S
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by strken 1y ago
I get this. It sounds superficially like you're doing something wrong, but if you "cut someone off" by just not inviting them to stuff and then they either don't notice or don't make any attempt to reconnect with yo
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by strken 1y ago
I don't think it's intended for people with social anxiety either. I'm not socially anxious, but I could definitely benefit from following up on conversations from parties more often.
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by strken 1y ago
I mean, I think that the universe is close enough to deterministic at a macro scale, but even in a deterministic world you can still get smashed in the head by a falling brick with zero warning. Whether the the sequence of events that led t
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by strken 1y ago
"Inconvenience" is downplaying the impact of not letting adults use incognito mode to search for things. Yes, right now search engines are only going to blur out images and turn on safe search, but the decision to show or hide inf
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by strken 1y ago
I would have thought a few meant 3 to 5, although I still agree that the number of people who could do it is small.
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by strken 1y ago
I'd bet you $20 that none of the people who have ever won a fistfight have done so by modelling it as a biomechanical optimisation problem, at least on the fly while it was happening. The comparison is unintentionally funny because it&
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by strken 1y ago
I'm not an expert in archaeology, but this is more complicated than it appears at first glance. My understanding is that either people are in equilibrium, or they are not. When they're not in equilibrium, they can cause extirpatio
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by strken 1y ago
Being a dick to people on the internet when you think they'll benefit from tough love (rightly or wrongly) does not translate into being a dick to new people who show up to their first club meeting looking excited and nervous. I say th
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by strken 1y ago
Tell a long, rambling, and slightly depressing story about your friend Bec who had half her liver removed at age 17 every time someone tries to pressure you into drinking. Works okay for me.
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by strken 1y ago
They note that you should have both release notes and a release announcement. I think a release announcement is targeted at the same people who go to the marketing page for a product instead of the pricing and the docs.
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by strken 1y ago
We still get reports for such major issues as "this unused domain held my connection for ten seconds and then timed out, which broke the badly-written SQL injection scanner I found on GitHub and ran without understanding".
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by strken 1y ago
Wanting to be beautiful to others isn't the same as being sexually attracted to yourself, or to the idea of yourself plus some modifications, at all. I trim my beard in the morning because I want to look good to other people, as do mos
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by strken 1y ago
> As to intent, the concept of "deterrence, but never going over the edge" doesn't really exist--if you're never going over the edge, then where does the deterrence come from? Exactly the same place as the deterrence
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by strken 1y ago
It sounds nothing like autogynephilia to me, although it still sounds like bullshit.
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by strken 1y ago
Maybe anti-intellectualism, novels that nobody wants to read, and a move to STEM might be three symptoms of the same root cause: the cutting edge of the humanities moving so far away from popular taste that academics are no longer legible t
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by strken 1y ago
I used to wait for dad to come home each Thursday because that was the edition of the paper with quarter-page ads that were just price lists of refurbished computer equipment. I'd sit there with a highlighter and go through them, tryin
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by strken 1y ago
I agree. "Just let people enjoy things" is a sentence worthy of a YouTube comment, though, while "capitalism causes everything and therefore anything you want that happens to be popular is bad" is a full essay that quote
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by strken 1y ago
It's not persuasion that's the issue. Opinion articles in newspapers are persuasion and I actively seek them out sometimes. One of the blogs I used to read was The Last Psychiatrist. The author had a saying: "if you're s
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by strken 1y ago
I question whether lowering your nuclear latency for strategic purposes is the same thing as building towards a bomb. Switzerland's nuclear program stayed one step away from actually putting together a nuclear weapon for several decade
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by strken 1y ago
It's not irrelevance, it's lack of trust. I could see an ad for the exact thing I need and I still wouldn't click it. Either it's a scam, or it's technically not a scam because offering 90% off in the first month of
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by strken 1y ago
The "just let people enjoy things" trope always seems, to me, to be used when someone can tell that an argument is wrong but can't explain exactly why. In this case, I think the author's rhetorical toolkit can be used to
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by strken 1y ago
I agree that logging all functions is reinventing the wheel. I think there's still value in adding toggleable debug output to major interfaces. It tells you exactly what and where the important events are happening, so that you don&#x2
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by strken 1y ago
There's a frustrating tendency for reviewers to miss, or just ignore, the point of a product in their review. I wish they'd give a rating based on how well it fits into its niche, not how well it fits the needs of the average read
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by strken 1y ago
As an Australian, I'd modify my order with "today" if I'd asked for a flat white or a piccolo the last time I was in the shop. It would be a way to highlight that my order has changed, and said to a barista who knows me
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by strken 1y ago
I think the suggestion is that there are better ways to choose who bears the cost than "a random selection of the sick people who walked through the door at roughly the same time", and also ways to house unwell but stable people a
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by strken 1y ago
I got LinkedIn and Ramp. I've never heard of Ramp in my life. I bet all the actual results for Ramp are buried under a mountain of people who clicked companies with a more widespread brand and then clicked prestige because it's th

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