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by trebbble 4y ago
I'm having trouble imagining how to solve this in the terminal itself—there a way to pass information to a screen-reader via some kind of side channel?
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by trebbble 4y ago
God no. Even before the recent huge bump in car prices. They're very common , but not cheap. They're either actual work trucks built to do real work (so, not cheap) or are status symbols (so burning cash is part of the point—also
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by trebbble 4y ago
These kinds of windows into a life explain how some entrepreneur/CEO types can be owner and/or CEO of like three businesses, on the board of a couple others, in some kind of advisory role on a couple startups, and so on, and still
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by trebbble 4y ago
At my school the savvy students wouldn't buy their books until after the first session of a course anyway, since the professors would often, in that first meeting, explain that some books listed in the syllabus as required were actuall
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by trebbble 4y ago
Lots of older pulp paperbacks have a couple glossy pages of ads in the middle (usually bound-in, though, not loose) and more often than not, they're cigarette ads.
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by trebbble 4y ago
> I know my parents lost a TON of personal items, including countless photos, when the moving company that was hired by the USAF to move them out of CA to another assignment went under. I'm close to someone who grew up in the milita
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by trebbble 4y ago
That element of the Half-Blood Prince was taken from real life. Used textbooks have been preferred by students for precisely for this reason (well, cost too, but this is a well-known benefit) in colleges since... well, probably since textbo
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by trebbble 4y ago
Mine: 1) A note from one feminine-name to another assuring her that the book it was in (which was a gift, evidently, and this the accompanying card) would be a good start to her college journey, and wishing her success. It's a Modern L
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by trebbble 4y ago
Not that long ago, that info was right on the card in the back or front of the book. Unless the card had just been replaced.
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by trebbble 4y ago
At some point, it dawned on me that my problem wasn't that I didn't understand monads, it's that the idea's so simple I couldn't convince myself I understood it, and that what I actually didn't understand w
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by trebbble 4y ago
It's really handy if your "window manager" is actually in your terminal (say, you use tmux). Otherwise you've got two layers of "window manager" to deal with—your terminal multiplexer, and your actual window
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by trebbble 4y ago
I've heard it's an excellent city if you're single and like bar-hopping. I'm not and don't, so... yeah, it's totally unremarkable.
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by trebbble 4y ago
I don't listen to mine—I read them. Built-in feature on my phone, these days. iPhone, but I'd be surprised if Android doesn't have it, too. Quick glance is enough to tell if any of the recent ones were anything other than jun
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by trebbble 4y ago
Facebook's changes have taken a whole lot of users from "I am on here because it's useful and I actively like it" to "I am on here only because of inertia and network effects, but dislike it and will be happy when I
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by trebbble 4y ago
I'm not seeing the connection between the Google/Apple duopoly and the rise of TikTok or other addictive social media. I spend half or more of my waking hours on one Apple device or another, and if I had only things Apple has push
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by trebbble 4y ago
"Now we'll init a happy little project..." ERROR: CANNOT READ INPUT "Well... maybe we have a happy little full disk? Or a happy little broken pipe somewhere?" 20 minutes later "Ah, it was a mi
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by trebbble 4y ago
> I can't seem to wrap my head around OOP. There's too many concepts in OOP. Which ones? You're familiar with structs, right? OO is just structs with a little magic & sugar. Not even that much. Objects, methods,