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by throw0101a 6y ago
What problem does adding all of these random 'hieroglyphs' solve? We have: * Grinning Face {, Big Eyes, Smiling Eyes, Sweat} * (Slightly) Smiling Face {, Smiling Eyes, Halo, Hearts, Heart-Eyes} * (Wo)man {,Bald, Red Hair, Curly Ha
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by throw0101a 6y ago
> Emoji was supported for a long time on Japanese phones. The Unicode folks should have stopped at supporting the legacy symbol set. It would have been perfectly reasonable. At this point emojis have become a weed, which any random ide
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by throw0101a 6y ago
> Because Unicode emoji started out with It started out with the 'base' symbols of a bunch of Japanese mobile carriers: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji#The_origin_of_emoji_pict... If they simply st
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by throw0101a 6y ago
Postfix if you need something with flexibility. For just getting mail off the system to a central hub: dma or ssmtp.
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by throw0101a 6y ago
IEEE 1275 was published in 1994 AFAICT, which was when Sun was still robust. Sbus/IEEE 1496 was published in 1993 (though the first Sun's started using it in 1989). Before that Sun used VMEbus for their Motorola 68000-based system
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by throw0101a 6y ago
> A Veblen good is a type of luxury good for which the demand for a good increases as the price increases, in apparent contradiction of the law of demand, resulting in an upward-sloping demand curve. The higher prices of Veblen goods may
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by throw0101a 6y ago
> Trudeau did absolutely nothing for the industry and immediately bowed down to Trump after he slapped tariffs later judged to be illegal. (a) The amount of money funnelled into Bomardier was a lot, and BBD was/is IMHO not much mo
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by throw0101a 6y ago
I always found it amusing that Sun systems were lumped in with other Unix vendors and called "proprietary": it used IEEE-1496 SBus, IEEE 1275 OpenBoot, and the SPARC architecture could be licensed by anyone (Fujitsu, Tadpole, etc)
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by throw0101a 6y ago
Compared to the PC BIOS, OpenBoot (Open Firmware, IEEE 1275) was quite advanced. Network booting is something that took PCs quite a while to get (PXE), and platform-independent drivers still don't exist. Apple used the system for quite
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by throw0101a 6y ago
> The problem with this thesis that the CDC has been "politicized" is that the level of precaution merited in the face of a novel virus is very much a question of policy, not science. "Obama team left pandemic playbook f
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by throw0101a 6y ago
> This is exactly why I'm against both negative bank interest rates, and high inflation. Use it however you wish. But having it sit around, even with positive bank interest rates and low inflation, will still have it lose value ov
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by throw0101a 6y ago
> Savings in a bank account will be loaned by the bank to another business. This has not been how banks have worked for decades: * https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1905625 Banks create loans typ
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by throw0101a 6y ago
> For most people in Denmark, emergency funds are not necessary. So you'll never have a car break down? With a home ownership rate of 60%, people who have burst plumbing and flooding, leaky roofs, etc, will never have to deal with
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by throw0101a 6y ago
> and how solving the easy 50% is worth nothing "The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development
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by throw0101a 6y ago
And the foreigners can often use their time in Denmark as contribution credit to their own social security. Canada for example has a few such agreements, include with Denmark AFAICT: * https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-a
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by throw0101a 6y ago
You should have an emergency fund. After that you should be investing for retirement, or any other larger goals you may have, e.g., home ownership, replacing car. But having a pile of money beyond those things "just because" does
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by throw0101a 6y ago
LDAP is lightweight compared to X.500's DAP. SMTP is simple (and lightweight) compared to X.400.
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by throw0101a 6y ago
I'd be more interested in having something like Irrigation or the Wheel. Perhaps one tech per Era as a 'blocker'. * https://civilization.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_technologies_in...
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by throw0101a 6y ago
> I think they mean that when a civ researches (or “builds”) Linux every player in the game should have access to it (but the civ who spent the resources building Linux gets something extra). Actually that would be an interesting mecha
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by throw0101a 6y ago
> "all-in-one" tabs (1 tab = 1 wash) for my dishwasher, Technology Connections explains why you actually want to use powder: * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rBO8neWw04 TL; DR: It allows for the pre-wash&#x2F
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by throw0101a 6y ago
> Do you know how far kumbh is to Bangalore. Do you know how far the province of Quebec is from Europe, Caribbean and Latin America, and US/Florida? Because that's where a few people went and caused an explosion of cases in M
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by throw0101a 6y ago
> My guess is: Many people just can't get a grip on themselves and their urges. Blaise Pascal, Pensées : > All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
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by throw0101a 6y ago
> The miniscule risk of a slippery slope The slippery slope is occurring right now in Canada: > Had you predicted [in 2015] that the right to an assisted suicide would soon come to apply, not only in cases of physical pain but ps
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by throw0101a 6y ago
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Involuntary_euthanasia#United_... * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-voluntary_euthanasia > I've no doubt that someone is but it is far outside of the mai
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by throw0101a 6y ago
> there’s no reason why it should in the first place. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihilism
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by throw0101a 6y ago
>> they may take a rash decision that they’d regret later > Sorry to be that guy, but: "how?" By surviving the attempt. The suicide success rate is not 100%. Plenty of interviews of people who, after initiating the ac
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by throw0101a 6y ago
> Well then, why don't you go ahead and help yourself with some billions in Bitcoin from Musk's personal holdings? Give me a rubber hose and $5 wrench and I'll start working on it: * https://xkcd.com/538&
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by throw0101a 6y ago
Technology Connections has got you covered: > Ever wonder how dishwashers work? Are you ever bummed by the performance of yours? Well, this video can answer your question and possibly provide you with a solution! * https:/&#x2F
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by throw0101a 6y ago
> 1: Demand that it's attached to the hot water (machine need less power to heat it up, less chalk...AND Cheaper(your boiler is better at producing hot water)) Most machines actually specify that the water entering the unit has to
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by throw0101a 6y ago
> First they sell products that don't stand up as well to wear They stand up to the wear of a certain duty cycle. If you have a heavier duty cycle buy a product designed for it (which will probably cost more). There's a reaso

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