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by thoroughburro 1y ago
Narcissists are over-represented as CEOs and such, as well. I think a fair number of Americans like narcissists.
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
On the “default keyboard” of most people (a phone), you just long-press hyphen to choose any dash length.
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
Ultimately, you’re arguing for generalism over specialism. Any specialist must be ignoring part of the larger process. “All specialists are midwits” is obviously false. Alternatively, even “most expert musicians are their own luthiers”… may
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
Search: “toilet tank diagram”? https://kagi.com/search?q=toilet+tank+diagram&r=us&sh=wnbKX0...
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
The western barbarians seem to have been quite an uncivilised menace.
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
A few thousand years of literature ain’t nothing…
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
This is the paradox of tolerance and it’s pretty cringe.
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
> if you sidestep the issue of waste If you do that, just sidestep the elephant, then nuclear is very attractive indeed!
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
What an extraordinary take!
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
> From what I hear, most users disable notifications. Where’d you hear that? Surely most users don’t change defaults.
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
> NOTE: Some languages, like Rust, have parser combinators which can be as good or better than regex in most of the ways I care about. What Rust feature is this referring to?
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
> For example I pondered why phone manufacturers didn't use a p2p protocol for distributing updates and had an enlightening conversation with a person who worked for a major telco chiming in as to why that would be problematic for t
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
They were provided with a quite plausible motivation. What is the plausible motivation in your scenario?
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
So, he’s being brought back then?
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by thoroughburro 2y ago
> For example, today you are not reading Shakespeare in the way it was spelled in its first printing. However, we call modernised Shakespeare “abridged”.
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by thoroughburro 2y ago
May you never need a surgery I disapprove of.
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by thoroughburro 2y ago
Kids these days prefer dumb ol’ blocks to proper video game soldiering, smdh.
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by thoroughburro 2y ago
Dismantle many democracies in your time? Then not that similar.
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by thoroughburro 2y ago
> I hoped for an entre genre to form around literary hypertext with diegetic narrative Twine and other interactive fiction engines provide this to some degree, though I think Cyan’s visual aesthetic is also intrinsic to the feel of the g
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by thoroughburro 2y ago
I don’t like Pinterest, but it’s easier to explain than conspiracy: a valuable demographic was underserved because people tend to overlook that women are half of humanity. Mood boards do nothing for me, but that isn’t true of everyone.
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by thoroughburro 2y ago
You literally just wait for them to complain about Google, then say “Well, you get what you pay for.” They will be curious because everyone knows search is free. IME, this works well.
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by thoroughburro 2y ago
You seem unaware that both of those countries simultaneously claim to be China. It’s a bit of a thorny problem!
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by thoroughburro 2y ago
Maybe you missed the part after that statement, where they presented an actual argument. Yours is the hot take.
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by thoroughburro 2y ago
Presumably Windows machines with AMD processors, too.
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by thoroughburro 2y ago
Wheat may have domesticated us because we like bread.
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by thoroughburro 2y ago
I remember being upset about Google Reader for a few months after its death… before moving to one of its many, fuller-featured competitors and carrying on using RSS feeds exactly as before. What upsets me re RSS these days is how many peopl
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by thoroughburro 2y ago
Sounds like finally satisfying that desire could be a fun Christmas project.
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by thoroughburro 2y ago
>> So the pay-per-message economic conditions that caused many Europeans, etc., to switch to WhatsApp back in the day > I think the actual reason is that communication across borders in Europe is very common and those SMS's we
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by thoroughburro 2y ago
Are threads about new Android features this junked up by iOS users barging in to hope that they fail?
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by thoroughburro 2y ago
Help, I followed your advice and alienated a bunch of people I need in my life. Will you support me now??

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