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by wharvle 3y ago
Yeah, any edition of a book that's "updating" modern English loses me, including messing with capitalization. Not interested. I love the formatting on Standard Ebooks, but they're no use to me if they're "updat
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by wharvle 3y ago
I'm currently watching a friend's wife get scammed for large amounts (well into the five figures at this point, maybe pushing six) of money in the self-employed "coaching" (life coach, business coach, that kind of thin
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by wharvle 3y ago
Not can’t at all but the licensing hurdles can be really difficult if they didn’t go to med school in the US, as I understand it. Even from other countries that are clearly pretty good at educating & licensing doctors.
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by wharvle 3y ago
Yeah, I was gonna plug it since it’s great, but didn’t have it on my phone (it’s iPad only, which makes sense) and forgot the name. Looks like it’s Chunky: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chunky-comic-reader/id6
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by wharvle 3y ago
Oh yeah, it’s gonna be real bad when the “our ‘thin’ people would have been considered fairly chubby 40 years ago” millennial generation (mine) gets old. Science might be about to rescue us from that with Ozempic and friends, assuming tho
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by wharvle 3y ago
Ah. Plains state here. Maybe that’s to California as Native American history was to us. That, the “age of exploration”, western expansion, very bad revolutionary war history, and the “cradle of civilization” (Mesopotamia) must, collectively
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by wharvle 3y ago
Same thing that happens to most who aren't doing pretty damn financially well in the US, I guess? All their savings gets siphoned into the system, then they die younger than they might have, and less comfortably than they should, unles
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by wharvle 3y ago
Indeed, Filipinos are a big part of the US military , and someone's worried about Filipino nurses being a security threat? Hahaha. https://news.mit.edu/2020/philippines-us-military-alliance-0... But I'm not
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by wharvle 3y ago
We have to import medical professionals (or hire offshored ones, for telehealth or whatever) if we don't want our healthcare system to collapse. We're gonna need to do a lot more of it as the years go on, too. Too bad we can&#x2
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by wharvle 3y ago
VLC’s doing fine. It’s how our kids watch movies on road trips (download to iPad from Jellyfin’s web interface, play in VLC). Almost every book I’ve read in Books is from libgen. Download, open-in, and it’s on all my devices. Reading progre
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by wharvle 3y ago
A bunch of rich people are raiding a little bit of work, each, from a whole bunch of people, then walling it off so they can get richer. I’d not have a problem with this, personally, if their models were as available as the stuff they took
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by wharvle 3y ago
That’s why I have to change the default search engine. Most of what they’re nagging me about won’t even make them money. It’s marketing-changelog pages nobody reads. They could save some money by keeping text change logs where people who ca
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by wharvle 3y ago
They pop new tabs, little “hint” boxes, et c, all the time. It’s the kind of thing that’s easy to become blind to as a power user (but is annoying if you do notice it), but that murders UX for lots of folks.
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by wharvle 3y ago
Firefox doesn’t need to get me to “engage” when I’m already in their browser.
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by wharvle 3y ago
Ok, maybe we’re not as far apart on this as I read it. Sorry. > Curious if you have any read on why Cheney et al were so fixated on WMDs at the time they wrote the memos. Was that all completely a ruse? I think they may have worked thems
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by wharvle 3y ago
> On desktop, various Firefox updates would change my settings subtly and nag me about features I had no interest in If Firefox suited my needs 100% as well as Safari, this is why I’d still not use it. God damn is it noisy. You’re a br
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by wharvle 3y ago
> wait a few months (or years) then claim it was obviously knowable all along I was claiming that before the invasion. Because it was. 100% for certain? Of course not. As knowable as anything like that is? Yeah. That the guys who said a
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by wharvle 3y ago
If you’re in a rare team doing agile halfway right, see if you can start providing separate level-of-effort for a feature with good UI that’s also quick, and the worse-for-the-user “on-brand” one. Part of what causes this crap is that the
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by wharvle 3y ago
Yep, he was there and issuing statements & reports before the invasion. His team had to leave because we were about to invade and it wasn’t safe to stay. I truly can’t believe there are still people who buy the lies. They were lying a
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by wharvle 3y ago
In this case, much of the real purpose was laid out in articles and papers written just a few years earlier by a bunch of the same people crafting and implementing the policy. There may have been more reasons than that, but some were fran
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by wharvle 3y ago
1 may be more persuasive but it’s 2 that makes me wish someone a very bad day every time that message prints.
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by wharvle 3y ago
Any social media or messenger program: 1) search name 2) install app 3) open app 4) tap through sign-up. Maybe type your name or other familiar details. 5) Nothing to do here because it already imported all your contacts, if relevant. 6) Po
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by wharvle 3y ago
I used it from when it was Phoenix until 2011 or so. I left because it was a lot worse than my main two other options on MacOS at the time, and they’d not followed through on the things that made me like it when I adopted it, so I hadn’t r
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by wharvle 3y ago
I apologize for that post. You brought a personal thing into the thread, but that doesn’t mean it was ok for me to dig at it the way I did. Sorry. [edit] to clarify my phrasing, I mean that just because you brought that into the thread, doe
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by wharvle 3y ago
Nah, floaters can be kinda clear. Mine look like circles with stuff in them (they look kinda like diagrams of a cell, or maybe a simple diagram of an atom—they have kinda a dot in the middle) and some of those same circles connected in long
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by wharvle 3y ago
His dialog and such seem fine (or at least he doesn’t screw up what others put there) but JJ Abrams’ plotting, in particular, is chiefly defined by its… well, generously, childlike qualities. You can certainly tell when he’s been involved
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by wharvle 3y ago
Plot v. Content, as Johnstone put it in Impro . The plot’s a sequence of things happening that connect back to earlier events and elements (without the latter, it’s not a plot, it’s just… stuff happening) that has a plain beginning, middle
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by wharvle 3y ago
> Strong leading women aren't the problem either. We've had those ages ago. Hell, Leia’s depicted as more savvy, braver, tougher, and cleverer than the other two main characters in 1977 Star Wars, and it’s not even close. Or su
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by wharvle 3y ago
> The pacing for Ahsoka, for example, is just awful. Feels like they literally asked the actors to drag out the content. They were all over the place with the Boba Fett series. It’s so incredibly drawn out that the best version of Ahsoka
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by wharvle 3y ago
Last time we had an article about this sort of thing (a few months back?) the difference wasn’t big between generations, at similar ages. Under 5% difference between current 20-somethings and the Boomers, IIRC. Up, but not that much. This c

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