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> You can always tell someone who is well read in English when they mispronounce everything they say. This is a very popular pro-reading sentiment. The trouble is that you can also read about how to pronounce words.
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Or you can mistakenly think the test transfer worked as intended.
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My memory is the opposite: I recall learning that an asteroid impact was the most likely explanation, and the K-T boundary was the biggest piece of evidence, and the only problem was that they hadn’t discovered a candidate impact crater. An
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I am worried about what will happen to various nations' economies relatively soon, long before the population actually halves, but I'm not worried that the fertility rate would continue on its trend as demographics change. Ignorin
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If birth rates are as much a cause for concern as many people seem to think, and we absolutely need to solve it (instead of solving, for instance, the fact that the economy purportedly requires exponential population growth forever), perhap
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> The root cause of the problem is that it's easier to make personalized stuff with server/backend (?cloud?) than without maybe? That, and also there are real benefits to the end user of having everything persisted in the cloud
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Is there a reason these mini PCs still have all USB-A ports? That strikes me as a bizarre choice.
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It's doubling back on itself. The film grain makes the footage look "cinematic" because it's how old movies looked.
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by tshaddox 1y ago
I suspect it's vastly easier to port C to unsafe Rust than to safe Rust.
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Was it CSS Zen Garden that convinced a generation of web developers that HTML and CSS are in fact different concerns?
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> Experienced engineers can write good code in anything and inexperienced engineers can write bad code in anything. I don't have strong opinions about this particular React/HTMX example, but I don't love this statement bec
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It's a very different form of rent though, namely because the mortgage borrower has a lot of collateralized debt and the mortgage borrower owns the appreciation (or depreciation) of the property (proportional to their equity).
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> If your lawyer sent you your case files in the form of an LLM trained on those files, would you be comfortable with that? If the LLM-based compression method was well-understood and demonstrated to be reliable, I wouldn't oppose i
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Some say that. But what I value even more than compression is the ability to create new ideas which do not in any way exist in the set of all previously-conceived ideas.
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I am not attempting to strengthen or weaken anyone’s points. Not even regarding the definition of the word “factoid!”
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True, and also 75% of Nevada’s population is in the Las Vegas metro area.
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> In 2014, Southern Nevada’s gross water demand was about 205 gallons per capita per day (GPCD). In the region, single- and multi-family households account for 60 percent of water consumption—70 percent of which is used for landscaping.
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In my experience that's rarely due to low-level rendering differences, and almost always due to the Figma design not accommodating real-world data.
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Why is butter an unhealthy fat?
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Every part of the house depreciates without maintenance. At some point the house will depreciate and the lot will be worth less than it would be if the house was already demolished.
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The cash is fungible, so for a fixed amount of money and interest rate it really doesn’t matter if the thing you’re buying depreciates or not (assuming you’re buying both things anyway).
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by tshaddox 1y ago
I assume the comment you quoted means “a car you could afford to pay cash for, but will instead invent the total cost while making payments on the 0% interest loan.”
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> unless there's illegal collusion Illegal collusion is not the only thing that can prevent a competitive market. Large barriers to entry and imperfect information are two other textbook examples.
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I'm not grasping at straws, because I don't have any particular conclusion in mind. It looked to me like you were specifically contrasting the electoral college with the popular vote while explicitly claiming that Donald Trump rec
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by tshaddox 1y ago
> As a former-red-state-citizen for decades, "basic stuff like consumer protection" is not something that I think has clear broad bipartisan support. This might have been the case in the region you grew up, or you might be dece
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It didn't though. It was really really bad for them.
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I disagree. The trouble with your explanation is that there are plenty of issues which have had clear broad bipartisan support for decades. This is mostly stuff that doesn't even come up in mainstream political discourse and isn't
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> this is exactly what more then half the people wanted Donald Trump received only 49.8% of votes in the 2024 United States presidential election.
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> It seems like "nobody has the votes to make big changes" should be an indicator that not making big changes is the proper result. "Nobody has the votes" seems like a weird way to put it, because is implies that ever
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I'd also argue that there are only superficial similarities between, say, React and Svelte. Yes, they both have a syntax based heavily on HTML, but they work very differently. React is the only major framework that works by having (mos

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