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    Comment #31345341

    > We're literally growing food to feed to animals that we bred ourselves, while losing ~90% of the calories in the process instead of eating crops directly when meat isn't required…

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    Comment #31297156

    If I recall this is written by 1 guy in Japan. Tried it a while back and it was very nice although I wouldn't subscribe at that price I tried it at and would rather just buy Sublim…

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    Comment #31285035

    Anyone who knows anything about Casey Muratori knows that nice and humble are not usually words associated with him. That is not to say the devs he is calling out are in the right.…

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    Comment #31281393

    I hate to break this to you but that's all documentaries in general. Every documentary has the goal of convincing you of something.

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    Comment #31267978

    Honestly I'd love to switch to systems programming from web CRUD. I just don't know how to get into that field.

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    Comment #31263876

    They aren't calming when I can't see shit when pulling out into an intersection and turning.

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    Comment #31257284

    The problem with making cities green, like the problem with everything else, is terrible city design. There is quite a bit of greenery where I live and it is all anxiety inducing b…

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    Comment #31255539

    What's the catch with them writing your resume for free? Seems like a pretty involved thing to offer for free.

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    Comment #31254097

    Citation for this?

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    Comment #31252732

    > Google Smart Shellac No idea what this is and searching yields nail polish as the result.

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    Comment #31252521

    Not only is the product better, manga scanlators have a "code of honor." If a manga is licensed in English they will typically drop the manga no longer scanlating because there is …

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    Comment #31252479

    > NOTE: I do use an Android phone --- but only after it has been thoroughly de-Googled --- starting from a stripped down, bare metal device that won't even power up. You're going t…

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    Comment #31241383

    I agree with the general idea here but there are some opinions here I can't get behind. > Individuals blessed with high degrees of industriousness and orderliness will build sophis…

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    Comment #31229304

    LTT recently did a video revisiting the Razor Boomslang https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUw5tR0BdEc

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    Comment #31222005

    If we are talking about women in tech I wanna throw in a recommendation for Julia Evans https://jvns.ca/ . She's awesome.

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    Comment #31221935

    I don't think you can strip DRM any more. At least I can't with my Kindle Paperwhite and Calibre.

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    Comment #31221833

    You're right I'm thinking of the Fire tablets. Allegedly if you jailbreak your Kindle you can manage your library and collections with Calibre.

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    Comment #31221796

    IIRC it means you can install the Play Store instead of just having Amazon's terrible Fire store.

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    Comment #31207457

    OCaml is a language that I'd really like to use more in my day to day but can't find a use for.

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    Comment #31207417

    What if I don't have an iPhone?

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    Comment #31201354

    You can pump brine water back but if I recall you can't just dump it all back at once because it's so highly concentrated. Ideally you would be able to find an alternate use for it…

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    Comment #31194385

    > However I can strongly agree that their needs to be tax simplification and the current state of affairs is a mess. Very much worth mentioning that companies like Intuit spend mon…

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    Comment #31184137

    I'd argue that it is less about practicality and more about learning a language by recreating a CLI tool.

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    Comment #31146225

    Nielsen ratings would disagree with this.