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by xctr94 3y ago
I really like the show. I’m mildly addicted to hot food. “I love the flavor. I think there’s some oak in it… and pencil.” I’d never seen the host be in this much pain.
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by xctr94 3y ago
As a Star Wars fan, Disney’s failure on this topic isn’t technical at all. The content is just mediocre; it doesn’t excite or motivate one to watch, it feels bland and commercial. What they’re doing to other franchises — and notably Pixar
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by xctr94 3y ago
The picture on that link clearly shows how you can heat up greenhouses by running 14th gen. CPUs at modest speeds. On a more serious note, kudos to them if these numbers are true. That’s a decent amount of renewables and waste reduction at
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by xctr94 3y ago
Wait for Intel Lake Michigan, which freezes in winter and stays relatively cool in summer. I jest, but I don’t understand how they’re getting power regulation so hit-and-miss.
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by xctr94 3y ago
Ah, I meant having a single transaction in a SQL file, as that’s how we’re using it. So having multiple queries with a BEGIN and COMMIT wrapping them.
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by xctr94 3y ago
I’m not sure you should use anecdata from 1997 to infer “most dentists” are what you’re describing. Certainly there’s bad dentists — my implant is proof of that —, but please show us the data that ‘most’ of them are ignorant or scammers.
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by xctr94 3y ago
Mouth rinses often contain alcohol or other harsh substances, some of which have a correlation with mouth cancer. By comparison, flossing is comparatively harmless. You can floss wrong, but even that seems better than not flossing. From exp
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by xctr94 3y ago
I didn’t know support for schemas had landed, but the docs still seem obtuse for joins and upserts. Compared to plain SQL files in PgTyped — which admittedly needs some annotations to work, and lacks transactions —, I find the lateral joins
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by xctr94 3y ago
I haven’t, but it’s an ORM so an automatic no. We tested 6 ORMs before deciding that plain SQL with introspection was the way to go. No regrets.
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by xctr94 3y ago
We had to abandon Zapatos because a) it doesn’t support multiple schemas; b) the types wouldn’t always be very readable. PgTyped was the alternative, and 2 years later I’m very glad we made the switch.
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by xctr94 3y ago
macOS doesn’t record video well at all. QuickTime is the vehicle for it, often crashing, or not stopping the recording. It’s been like that for years. I don’t use Loom, but I’d never ever recommend trying to record your screen on macOS usin
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by xctr94 3y ago
You picked one of the most unequal, lowest Gini countries ; one known for tax havens at the cost of quality of life for its people. In the EU we have Ireland, which many will tell you isn’t being run well. I don’t want to disagree with you
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by xctr94 3y ago
Why is it bad that corporations pay taxes? Ignoring your use of sexual language to that effect, I don’t see why companies get to use tax havens to avoid paying for the Common Good that serves everyone (regardless of how much % you think it
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by xctr94 3y ago
I stand corrected, and I’ll rephrase it as “it used to be that every now and then Apple released a version of macOS with notable fixes and small improvements.” I’m not downplaying how much work is going into crazy features that millions pro
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by xctr94 3y ago
I do agree that lack of risk-taking and sameness are affecting the music and movie industries. But it’s entirely possible movies “feel” worse because… there’s more of them. Maybe Sturgeon's law is at work, and the more movies we make,
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by xctr94 3y ago
The basic advice I got to avoid RSI (from an ortho) was dynamic movement. Move. Change position a lot. Sit back, forward, turn, get up, yell at the neighbors, etc. Any movement is the point, as it activates your tendons and joints. Seems to
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by xctr94 3y ago
I’m sorry for my lack of clarity. Please keep in mind this is what killed Firefox for me , not the wider audience.
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by xctr94 3y ago
But also more vendors, market fragmentation, and far less open-source firmware?
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by xctr94 3y ago
It used to be that even-numbered releases fixed bugs and stabilized the OS, with notable features coming in odd-numbered releases. Now they don’t care. Unifying iOS and macOS has become the goal, and probably some PMs are getting nice promo
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by xctr94 3y ago
I normally would argue for how much we dumb down human intelligence to pretend AI is intelligent (rather than saying it’s capable). But… leaving that aside, I think it’s on-brand for Stallman to push a bit against them. They’re a) largely o
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by xctr94 3y ago
I did say “then Chrome…”. Over time I found more and more extensions being Chrome-only. This before the manifest harmonization, of course. A quick example that comes to mind is The Great Suspender (the tracking-free community edition). Fire
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by xctr94 3y ago
It’s 699€ in Europe; not sure about the price in India. But that feels prohibitive for my budget, so I imagine it’s expensive for the average Indian consumer?
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by xctr94 3y ago
Lots of good reasons already mentioned, but there were 2 killer reasons for me: developer tools and extensions. I really wanted to stick with Firefox, but as someone working on the web, it was an appalling experience. And then Chrome just k
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by xctr94 3y ago
It was published by the author as a DRM-free ebook in all formats. You can get it from, say, Bol and convert it. Or directly from Daedtech’s website.
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by xctr94 3y ago
I agree with you, but many (most?) of the controllers are indeed from that demographic. Of course the language wasn’t the best; unless you like punk >.<
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by xctr94 3y ago
I agree that irrigation needs are urgent. However, we also need incentives towards an eventual transition. A basic example: contours to mitigate how fast water moves in elevated terrain. Cheap and effective. Then water collected at dug basi
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by xctr94 3y ago
I’ve lots on my e-reader, but I keep going back to Ben Falk. “The Resilient Farm and Homestead” is super cool, you actually follow their story over multiple years, with the farm’s changes rather well documented! Of course the more scientifi
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by xctr94 3y ago
These are very important factors, of course. But Mozilla could’ve at least mitigated the disaster. Even amongst engineers Firefox was a hard sell for many years. It took me a long time but even I jumped ship eventually, despite being a die-
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by xctr94 3y ago
I don’t have a list of examples, but this is historically a problem for the web. I’ve sat in a couple of Ecmascript events where maintainers complain about Google implementing features before approval. Sometimes Chrome ships stage 2 feature
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by xctr94 3y ago
> There's no right to make infinite money off the Internet. I like this a lot. Google is massively profitable. The only argument in favor of continue to extract every cent they can off the market, is that we have a fiction of perpet

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