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by vehemenz 5y ago
Maybe you're young or speak a nonconventional dialect. In my local dialect (Midwest American), the "t" is almost never pronounced. I wouldn't say it's wrong to hammer the "t" home, but it sounds clumsy to
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by vehemenz 5y ago
The new pronunciations seem conventional enough now, although "offen/often" can go either way, and I can't say I've ever heard anyone pronounce "tortoise" in a newer way. Is it supposed to sound like the e
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by vehemenz 5y ago
> There's no such thing as an addiction to a normal stimuli. Addiction is a medical word that should be reserved for people dealing with the problems associated with taking chemicals that directly alter wanting/desire in the br
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by vehemenz 5y ago
Except for genuine colorblindness, all this test really measures is how good your screen is. On my iMac this was trivially easy. If you don't get a 0, then you have a clear deficiency. I think the scale is bogus.
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by vehemenz 5y ago
Exactly. Any Chinese citizen writing on the same topics would need a high degree of formal education outside of China, English proficiency, and the ability to publish anonymously on the real Internet. It's a high bar.
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by vehemenz 5y ago
You're forgetting about video games. Japan has Nintendo, Sony, and many of the biggest IPs. South Korea has PUBG and is a huge player in eSports.
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by vehemenz 5y ago
No, but the only plausible accounts of moral realism seem to be the religious ones.
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by vehemenz 5y ago
Direct link to email: https://mailimages.purdue.edu/vo/?FileID=23efd1c5-fa72-4070-...
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by vehemenz 5y ago
My Big Ten university town is offering cash incentives for workers to relocate there. It makes sense. These towns have benefits of a small town—low COL, access to nature, minimal commute—with big city amenities—transport, walkability, enter
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by vehemenz 5y ago
Since you casually mentioned it—why would Google implement a safe API after removing the "dangerous" API that increased their ad sales? Given their recent history, and all.
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by vehemenz 5y ago
Moral relativism is a form of realism, so there would be a truth of the matter. What I mean by "anything goes" is that ethical discourse is not concerned with truth per se, since its "propositions" do not map to the worl
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by vehemenz 5y ago
What is going on with this Notion site? It doesn't scroll. Notion is kind of a big company now; I find it kind of inexcusable that they've gone out of their way to break the browser's default (working) functionality.
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by vehemenz 5y ago
The trackpoint is nice once you figure out an acceleration curve that works for you. I am a huge fan. It would be pretty amazing if that was available on Macs, but honestly, the touchpad is good enough that it's probably not needed (un
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by vehemenz 5y ago
I suppose if I thought all touchpads were supposed to be scratchy, small, and imprecise, then I would manage just fine too—by plugging in a mouse.
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by vehemenz 5y ago
People have different views about ethics. Fortunately, there is no truth of the matter, so anything goes as long as we're internally consistent. I think ad revenue models are unethical. Promotion of extremist content is unethical. Priv
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by vehemenz 5y ago
Do you use the eraserhead on the Thinkpad? I ask because most users (including here) probably use the touchpad, and non-Mac touchpads are 10+ years behind and borderline unusable.
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by vehemenz 5y ago
Topre switches are great! But can someone explain the draw of HHKBs? Aside from nerd street cred, that is. A lot of programmers swear by them, but I don't understand why. Let's talk about the layout. As a Vim user, I need my CapsL
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by vehemenz 5y ago
How did they get the premise wrong? What premise? If you're going to try undercutting a 1,000 word essay, you'll need to work to get there.
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by vehemenz 5y ago
I'm sure this was brought up in the previous thread, but who is relying on the YouTube demographic to inform their opinion of a video's quality? I've been using YouTube for years and never gave a second thought to likes/
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by vehemenz 5y ago
Personally, I can't imagine hand installing crx files every time an extension is updated. I can't imagine not having sync or container tabs. I can't imagine having "experimental settings" instead of about:config.
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by vehemenz 5y ago
Except you're not actually talking about CSS. You're talking about CSS + a high-abstraction methodology. Everyone who uses CSS uses a methodology, and that methodology comes with its own abstractions. For example, Tailwind is low
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by vehemenz 5y ago
That you think Tailwind is a "layer of abstraction"—it's not—suggests you don't know what it is and haven't made much of an attempt to find out. Your idea of CSS is not simple. It's slow, it doesn't scale
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by vehemenz 5y ago
A larger trackpad also means a greater distance from the edge of the case to the keyboard, meaning more of your wrists have to be elevated to type. I find typing on the 14" to better for this, despite no palm rejection issues with the
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by vehemenz 5y ago
There are still plenty of reasons to use SASS. Especially if you need big, engineered stylesheets. Are most people using PostCSS? Are a lot of front-end people married to JavaScript-specific tooling? Because Tailwind does all the same stuff
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by vehemenz 5y ago
Thank you for breaking it down. One objection I might raise in your "given" statements is that the categories we use are not all on equal footing. I think the modern idea of gender identity seems to require dualism—a deeply implau
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by vehemenz 5y ago
> No, they aren't. They are distinct axes of variation, but not opposed. I'm only talking about the usage of "gender." This an empirical linguistic question. Some people literally mean sex, others literally mean every
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by vehemenz 5y ago
We do have the same meaning in English, but it's been obsolete for a while. From the Oxford English Dictionary: †2. a. A class of things or beings distinguished by having certain characteristics in common; (as a mass noun) these regard
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by vehemenz 5y ago
Bad faith might be part of it. I think bad faith is more conducive when neither side of an argument are able to communicate clearly enough for the other. If that's the case, then a better understanding of English is the remedy, not for
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by vehemenz 5y ago
This was such a great read. I am not a linguist, let alone a philologist, but I had this thought. The modern use of "gender" to mean social aspects of sex (or sex) and the historical use of "gender" to mean sex are still
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by vehemenz 5y ago
Great. Now when I discuss metaphysics and metaethics, I have to subconsciously suppress the visage of history's most mediocre gazillionaire.

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