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by yamtaddle 3y ago
If you're having to screw with defaults right out-of-the-box, with Ubuntu, you may as well just use Debian. Basically its whole value-prop was originally "Debian, but with obviously-correct defaults for most desktop users".
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
I recalled that specifically because I remember having the same reaction when I found it out (I think? I have a distinct memory of learning this) back in 2012 or something.
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
> Weird because Americans and Canadians really like Root Beer but not Dandelion & Burdock. Dunno how D & B's made, but American root beer isn't made with the "real" ingredients anymore. They're banned bec
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
Yeah we tell our kids about edible plants like dandelions, but caution them to basically never actually eat any they find. Really, just saying "they're poisonous" would be quicker and the outcome wouldn't be all that dif
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
"Winners don't do drugs". LOL OK. But actually most of them do.
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
It's that, or dropping out of modern life, as far as I can tell. Everyone's on something and/or coping in unhealthy ways.
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
The two of my (American) kids who've gotten old enough to buy stuff on their own, even if it's just us sending them into a convenience store with money for something, have immediately recognized this system as idiotic, and they fr
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
> Here we are were the majority have self selected to live in the way I prefer, Not everyone who lives the "way you prefer" wants it. It's just the only place that decent-or-better public schools are, in a lot of US cities
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
I'm like 90% sure Stripe started on MongoDB (may still be using Mongo?). That might have something to do with it.
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
I still have nightmares about building OpenOffice. And yeah, oh boy, KDE. The only half-decent (actually worked, didn't glitch out or crash constantly, didn't assume you had memorized all the switches for the equivalent command-li
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
> Then if you're at that local maxima, then yeah you're gonna cater to those fringe elements because those are the only votes that are left you can get. You've burnt the bridge with the rest of the electorate. The way elec
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
Certain drugs and procedures (like D&Cs) are kinda "dual use" and are banned or impractically difficult to obtain in several states, now. We've had to use those before, for non-abortions, and have also had what they cal
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
The first amendment doesn't necessarily protect being-an-incredibly-invasive-and-creepy-stalker-with-an-eternal-memory (but "at scale", which apparently makes it OK somehow?) The business model is what would be at risk, not F
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
> (The surprising part to me is that this is claimed to be a "very partial truth". In the multitudes of HN discussions of "cars evil" articles, this claim is almost always trotted out, and almost never challenged) Yea
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
> The latter is not fine, since it's a worsening of society. Not necessarily. It's entirely possible that changing those incentives will improve things, overall.
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
> DeSantis, for the most part, was your typical classic GOP governor in his first term. Florida is usually a red/blue state that leans a little red. They really went off the rails his second term though. It's entirely cold poli
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
Similar situation (but not in the sun belt). Lived in this area all my life, always been a lot farther "left" on basically everything than the state's government, never been that big a deal aside from our taxes being way
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
> If you require a globally unique string ID, consider URIs Is my knee-jerk judgement that this advice borders on nonsense, unwarranted?
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
> I used Tcl and Expect (which was a very cool extension of Tcl) I used "expect" about five years ago to help automate deploying an app to a local Roku box from the command line. Much faster dev loop than having to upload a zip
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
This'd be a day-one purchase for us. Emphasis on the backwards compatibility. I'll wait 2-3 years if that's not there.
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
> The main selling point of Nintendo was always their ip. They're better at making games then making consoles. I'd have to think about it, but I might defend the NES, SNES, and Gamecube as the best consoles of their generations
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
The NES has somewhere around a thousand distinct games, if you count all markets and include unlicensed games (which there weren't that many of). Maybe 200 of them aren't total trash. Perhaps 100 were genuinely good at the tim
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
> People preferred the Playstation 2 over the Gamecube because it had more and better games PS2 was barely more expensive than a decent DVD player, at the time, and came out before most folks had a DVD player. And it played DVDs. Gamecub
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
> Nintendo has done some sort of mass psychology that allows them to have sub 30fps with no complaints I've put in about 15 hours and haven't noticed it. I've sorta been looking, too, because I read everyone complaining ab
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
I'd seriously consider it if not for working from home. Other than that, all we really use our home broadband for that I couldn't do with my phone is streaming—and you can buy/rent quite a few discs per month for the cost of
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
> What the verse means is people carrying knives with intent; that you're entering a subculture where people might stab you in a drunken argument that turns into a fight. Right, yeah, I got the intent, it just comes off real goofy
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
Oh, yikes, fixed-blades and things as long as shortish machetes? OK, yeah, people don't usually carry those here. Folding pocket knives in the 3"-6" range are common, but not fixed or very-long blades.
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
Actually, now that you mention it, maybe that's my problem with SO searches I called out in another post. Maybe they've got some kind of same-source limit that becomes a major hindrance when you expect most results to be from a
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
Could be that, but it feels like it weights search-term-proximity higher, and/or tracks more dimensions related to word-connectedness. Like, DDG is more likely to find me a page with all the words but with them scattered about, while
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
> The thing is, this likely is true for him. It's true for basically everyone. Smart people, "rationalists", et c., fall for scams, nutty scientific or conspiracy theories, advertising, romantic political or economic ideas

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