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by wmil 4y ago
> He was of the opinion that generally speaking the quality of a typical wine increases monotonically with price up until around the $40 range with the big steps around the $5, $10, and $20 price points. I'm always amused when I hea
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by wmil 4y ago
It's pretty par for the course for the Gnome team. Gnome 3 had a major impact usability on every single distro, and there were many more problems following that. The Ubuntu team probably doesn't feel safe updating the Settings app
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by wmil 4y ago
One of the strongpoints of Markdown is that the browser doesn't do anything with it. Therefore it's safe to just send it to the client. If browsers started supporting Markdown then they'd inevitably extend it with autoloading
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by wmil 4y ago
> What prompted this to happen now? The State Department expected that they'd be able to pressure China into going along with the Russia sanctions. China did not. Now the State Department feels threatened and is trying to show China
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by wmil 4y ago
This seems like an overly ambitious project. California hasn't built a new reservoir since 1979 when it only had 23 million people. Build more reservoirs. Right now wet years are flowing into the ocean.
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by wmil 4y ago
They want to live downtown in major cities. They won't accept a trailer park in the boonies.
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by wmil 4y ago
There are a number of ways that someone with a severe substance abuse or mental health problem can end up on the streets but still have an RV.
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by wmil 4y ago
They also needed an engineering company to sign off on the design of the blocks as being safe to stack and install.
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by wmil 4y ago
Any thoughts on the idea to expand the Mediterranean with the Sahara Sea idea? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahara_Sea
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by wmil 4y ago
If HN had a UI like phpBB I wouldn't use it.
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by wmil 4y ago
It seems you can significantly reduce your BMI with clever beard shaping.
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by wmil 4y ago
That also has to do with the short length of the series. Having a single director direct 24 1 hour episodes is probably impossible.
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by wmil 4y ago
He was on Baywatch and North Shore before that. Famous is probably the wrong word, but he was known in the TV industry. Basically if you were adding an "exotic beefcake" to an ensemble cast someone would suggest Jason Momoa.
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by wmil 4y ago
Location: Toronto, Canada Remote: yes Willing to relocate: no Technologies: JS, React, Node, Postgres, rustier with Python. Worked with old versions of Rails & Django but will need to get up to date if used. Assorted other we
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by wmil 4y ago
Showrunner Chris Chibnall decided that instead of hiring experienced sci fi writers he'd hire friends of his who mostly wrote political plays. Political plays are basically the lowest form of writing -- they just attack straw-men for a
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by wmil 4y ago
Is it common for python libraries these days to overload the >> operator for oddball things like C++ does? Not doing crap like that is one of the things that I loved about Python...
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by wmil 4y ago
New startup idea: an alternative to those awkward CPAP masks.
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by wmil 4y ago
Location: Toronto, Canada Remote: yes Willing to relocate: no Technologies: JS, React, Node, Postgres, rustier with Python. Worked with old versions of Rails & Django but will need to get up to date if used. Assorted other we
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by wmil 4y ago
Well the marketing materials for the 2016 MBP would have been awkward without it. - Better performance. - Slightly thinner. - Worse keyboard.
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by wmil 4y ago
They were everywhere long before the Air Farce sketch. That's why they used Tim's in the sketch. It used to be better. Or more accurately other chains used to have worse coffee. Back when it was getting established its competitors
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by wmil 4y ago
It's a scripting language popular on Unix servers & workstations in the 90s. TK is a rapid gui kit. Basically for everything you'd use a quick web based control panel for now, you'd connect to the server and start a tcl&#
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by wmil 4y ago
I'd say that teaching kids piano is a mistake. It gets them zero respect as a teenager, so they tend to quit. You should really look into a string path, like ukulele to guitar once their hands get large enough.
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by wmil 4y ago
You're not understanding the power dynamics at play. The agency reps a lot of celebs who don't want to see insults in their blue check notifications. Twitter wants those celebs to be active on Twitter and doesn't need Milo.
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by wmil 4y ago
The blue check wasn’t really about identity. It functions as a “noteworthy” marker. Blue checks get notifications from other blue checks is a separate section. So Milo was hassling one of the actresses from ghostbusters. Her important notif
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by wmil 5y ago
Have you tried setting up bat boxes? https://ontarionature.org/canadian-bat-box-project-blog/
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by wmil 5y ago
It's easier to be consistent when everyone is on voxels. If you give all of the artists full freedom then it's a lot of work to make things match in one game. On a non-voxel game it'd be very obvious that there were a bunch o
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by wmil 5y ago
Patreon is a bay area startup with loads of VC funding. Their engineering team is well paid and people hold them to a higher standard. GiveSendGo has amateurish security because it's an amateurish company. Think of it this way. Patreon
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by wmil 5y ago
Imagine going back to 1997 and trying to convince tech people that one day KHTML on ARM would be the most popular web browsing platform.
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by wmil 5y ago
People need to understand that different personality types exist and have some idea about the different traits that people have. It's common to assume everyone thinks like you, then to read spite into their actions. Here's a good
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by wmil 5y ago
It's interesting that between the push to HTTPS all the time and deprecating old https protocols, eventually all unupdated web browsing devices are going to end up as bricks.

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