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by wwweston 4y ago
CL personals had a seedy rep (maybe with good reason), but I found it to be undervalued as a straight-up friend-making and normal dating tool. It's the only platform I've seen that focused primarily on text instead of photos, wh
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by wwweston 4y ago
Same boat. Wondering what it takes to either VM Mojave or get a windows license and VM that. And this whole episode has made me definitely appreciate the merits of Windows backward compatibility as a feature...
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by wwweston 4y ago
Yeah, I'm having second thoughts about my 91 sedan with no airbag...
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by wwweston 4y ago
The overall endpoints for this discussion are "no oversight, laissez faire all the development!" and "no development, snooze forever." The endpoints suggested by the comment I responded to were "impact study" (
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by wwweston 4y ago
I'd imagine the tradeoff here is that impact studies allow for more variation, while generally clear checklists might need to include overgenerally strict items in order to prevent problems that might only be applicable in a few situat
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> There are plenty of hack Talking of which... nethack is still around, still a strong 1p or offline game, has a new dev release (3.7), and is part of an exhibit at the MOMA ( https://www.nethack.org/download/MOMA&#x
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by wwweston 4y ago
The confusion is magnified by the fact that to achieve the results medical professionals achieve, you have to know how to wear them like they do. One of the ways I read a certain now-infamous communication from a surgeon general was (a) we
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by wwweston 4y ago
I am still using Fireworks, it's the main reason I'm hanging back on Mac OS Mojave on my personal machine (Catalina drops support along w/ all the 32 bit apps). And I'm waffling between getting a hold of the Windows ve
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by wwweston 4y ago
The `print` statement in perl has always behaved more or less as it does in the "other languages" you describe. `say` removes the need for anyone to write their own "I'm tired of the manual newline ritual" function
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One of the things I've noticed recently is that spam call numbers have gotten smarter -- somehow they're figuring out numbers corresponding to regions that I spend time in that aren't related to my area code or central exch
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That's actually not what I said, unless any socially critical examination does in fact meet the definition of "critical theory"... And in fact, no one here knows what the commentor means by that phrase, much less how it&#
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I'd like to make sure I understand your position here. You seem to be saying there is a body of ideas that has gained such a widespread foothold that they hold a significant place in the culture such that they can unfavorably affect so
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I have a math undergrad. I imagine someone who values physics & econ wouldn't think a math degree is "societally unproductive", but the decided majority of people I meet including other college graduates have absolutely n
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by wwweston 4y ago
Having learned Prolog before SQL, it was weird when it clicked that both were relational languages, but SQL decided to hide that underneath a natural language facade and the inconsistencies that come with it.
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by wwweston 4y ago
They did offer this for a long time -- you could make friends lists, and then use them to focus on updates that belonged to those friends. You can still make friends lists, but sometime in the last 2 years or so, they removed the feature to
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by wwweston 4y ago
The K2000 is probably not what someone asking for micro/nano keyboard recs is looking for, but it is a deep and remarkable instrument. :)
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by wwweston 4y ago
$5 isn't THE number. It's a number that's meant to illustrate a monthly outlay on the order of a meal -- something big enough that it might not fall below the level of consideration for some people (I can certainly remember
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by wwweston 4y ago
> I think this cannot be done with IP/TCP because of the reliance on each individual to pay for both active web servers and some kind of DNS config. You can pay someone for that, somewhere around the order of $5 a month, probably le
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by wwweston 4y ago
It's the unfortunate reality of software, but it's not an immutable law. The Microsoft example is important. I've never been a fan, but I stand in grudging respect for what they've accomplished with their products as far
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Labor rarely has the mobility that capital does, especially when international borders are involved.
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by wwweston 4y ago
> You always see signs exhorting you to "support your local artists", yet you never see encouragement to support your local roofers. Nobody asks roofers to work for "exposure." Nobody's telling roofers that a pe
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> Makes me wonder if there's a market for the equivalent of health food where we go back to social media and deliberately avoid "recommendation media" (which may be the most important two words in the entire post). I think
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> Honestly music was profitable for a very brief period of time between around 1940s-1990's. And having a market like this for a while bought us an incredible bounty of all kinds of music, some incredibly sophisticated, some with su
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by wwweston 4y ago
Are there any tutorials successfully convey the tao of those things?
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Now that I think about it, this is correct on at least one front: I can recall chat systems that existed in the 80s . What's the feature of today's chat systems makes them qualitatively different from those that are 30+ years old
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> You don’t need social networks to keep in touch with anyone anymore, their original raison d'être is gone. In what sense? The underlying social motivation/interest is still present. And it's not like fundamental communic
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You're right about the basic dynamic -- convenient platforms with network effects are always going to have the bigger draw, probably by orders of magnitude. At the same time, though, the value proposition of a social networks & med
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Any recommendations for people already finding they have trouble doing squats (other than going to PT)?
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1st SE was 2016. But it is in fact a fantastic design. Still am using mine. :)
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Original SE for me, also six years old. One screen replacement, original battery. Only things I'd change about it if I could would be more space and a better camera. I suppose the OS upgrade treadmill will move on sometime in the next

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