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by tpmoney 2y ago
I've been thinking of adding F11 and F12 (and F13) to the keys under `Del` on layer 3 (basically the same thing ED does by default on layer 1). As for the thumb block, that took me some time to work out because I thought hitting all th
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by tpmoney 2y ago
It's not removed, it's just moved behind a specific toggle. I suspect its one of two things: 1) It's part of parental controls. You can disable in the parental controls the ability to turn off "loud noise reduction"
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by tpmoney 2y ago
Not sure the specific problems with a non-english layout, but if it helps with some ideas this is the layout I use for my keyboard (so far)[1]. [ and ] go on the inner columns on either side and '/" goes where it normally wou
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by tpmoney 2y ago
The funny thing about the “faith not deeds” view to me is that it doesn’t square with what we’re told will happen when you’re finally judged. There is a very explicit list of things that we are told we will be judged on: feeding the hungry,
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by tpmoney 2y ago
> I think there's like a couple of major areas where it concerns me I guess. The first is when we use these types of technologies to fool people, especially (recently) politically. While I share the concern over the use of tech to f
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by tpmoney 2y ago
> That's the thing that's being treated as FALSE. That UNKNOWN. Not the value of NULL itself. I think the difference between how we're looking at this is for me there is no "value" of NULL. NULL has NO value whic
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by tpmoney 2y ago
But the "known absent" value is going to be different for different domains. For example, in EEOC databases the "known absent" value for a race would be "declined to answer". In a database of test scores, it mi
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by tpmoney 2y ago
> And in many contexts in SQL, NULL is treated as equivalent to false, such as within a WHERE clause. I don't think any databases treat `NULL` as `FALSE` in the WHERE clause. `SELECT * FROM foo WHERE bar = NULL` doesn't return
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by tpmoney 2y ago
> It's one thing to use masks to edit highlights/shadows/color balance for certain areas (skies, buildings, people, etc) but it's an entirely different thing to completely replace the sky, or remove objects because th
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by tpmoney 2y ago
The most likely cause of this is a failure of the device manufacturer to adhere to the USB specs. USB-C (or maybe 3.0 or maybe PD) requires some resistors on the data lines for power negotiation. Even when you just want low level 5V at 0.5A
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by tpmoney 2y ago
The answer to this is that lawyers spend a lot of money paying for “codified” versions of the law, usually compiled by publishers like LexisNexis or Thompson-Reuters. And those companies in turn spend a lot of money on their own lawyers and
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by tpmoney 2y ago
A large part of this I think is that other than MacOS, GUI conventions aren’t heavily implemented by the OS and easy to opt into. And because no other OS landed on “meta key for GUI shortcuts” so there are a lot more conflicts (e.g. ctrl-c)
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by tpmoney 2y ago
People sign up for (or are tempted to sign up for) Medicare C because traditional Medicare is too complex and bafflingly bad. Traditional Medicare requires paying for your Part B premium, a separate Part D plan and premium (from the private
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by tpmoney 2y ago
> Pretty much all the major players were democracies and it isn't that unreasonable to think that democracies can be persuaded to do sensible things. Again though, how many people were actually in a position to direct that democracy
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by tpmoney 2y ago
The point appears to be that even if most people in 1920's Europe could have seen all the telegraphing, how many of them could have done anything to make a difference for their given situation? How many people do we think were realisti
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by tpmoney 2y ago
Some recommendations if you're still looking: The Liaden Universe series by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, the best description for this I've heard is "regency fiction in space", which is a reasonable descriptor but the se
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by tpmoney 2y ago
I would bet it’s a bathtub curve for a lot of things. You make a chunk initially, then your cultural relevance / popularity wanes. Then roughly 20-30 years later you see a revival as all the younger generation that were fans of your wo
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by tpmoney 2y ago
> they're just straight-up breaking the law and getting away with it. So far this has not been determined and there's plenty of reasonable arguments that they are not breaking copyright law.
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by tpmoney 2y ago
> It's a small home but in a good location and they said when they were younger it was worth ~200,000$ (I don't know the exact decade they were talking about here but from context it was somewhere in the 50s to 70s). The litera
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by tpmoney 2y ago
Not every safety item is necessarily an extra expense due to inefficiency. The simplest example would be electrical wire. 2 lead, paper insulated aluminum wire is less expensive than 3 lead PVC insulated romex, regardless of manufacturing e
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by tpmoney 2y ago
It would also be interesting to see the numbers relative to mortgage rates and availability. It looks like the 1950's had mortgages starting around the 5% range, but that steadily increase to a peak of near 20% in the 80's before
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by tpmoney 2y ago
> First of all, I'm going to bet this man is an addict. Gabapentin is not a normal medication for anti seizure. What? Gabapentin is absolutely used for anti-seizure purposes: https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-suppleme
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by tpmoney 2y ago
I feel like AI art promises the ability to raise the baseline art available for people who want some artwork for some purpose from stick figures drawn in MS paint to something reasonably artful. The sort of things that would previously have
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by tpmoney 2y ago
> My use case is I have 2 applications that I want to drag something between, and the windows overlap This should work for most use cases. If you can see the window for the target app even if you can’t see the drop destination, holding o
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by tpmoney 2y ago
> I have wondered a bit about why a sheet of typing paper folded into a paper airplane had as much appeal as it did when I was young. I think the kind of poverty of youth (my single, working-mom, a secretary, sneaking home the paper for
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by tpmoney 2y ago
Someone capable and willing to buy name checked tickets with stolen credit information is probably capable of getting a sufficiently passable fake id for the rushed ticket counter staffer at the concert, and that assumes they even matched t
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by tpmoney 2y ago
I agree, BoA seems like the people they should be reaching out to to discuss what they need to be collecting to prevent this in the future, and also to answer what IP addresses they compared if it wasn’t sent in the proof. Maybe they alread
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by tpmoney 2y ago
Depending on who you’ve asked we crossed that line sometime between now and the invention of the mass market paperback. Fantasy fans have been decrying the onslaught of “(A|The) $noun (and the $adjective)? of $noun2 (and $noun3)?” books sin
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by tpmoney 2y ago
The problem is the filibuster is a choice of the senate. They can at any time decide to do away with it, it’s not law and not a law of nature. But they don’t because it serves their interests to be able to throw their hands up in the air an
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by tpmoney 2y ago
If fiddling with the touch screen while driving is the issue, you can solve that with software lock-outs. The Mazda's touch screen stops responding to touches at faster than 5 MPH, and if necessary you could also lock out option and se

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