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I gave up on this years ago when I realized the only valuable things coming to my email were transactional emails, anyway. The rest is... newsletters and shit. If you're only check…

> Doctors and soldiers get such cool uniforms, but us programmers are just business casual. Programmers' uniforms are excessively-expensive hiking clothes, or selvedge jeans with f…

Yeah but we can't expect them to be able to handle a problem that ( checks notes ) many other kinds of business have been solving since the earliest days of commerce.

I'd be more sympathetic to this argument if all that info weren't a couple subpoenas or search-warrants away at most —in fact, the government can often just pay for access to these…

If you want anyone to find your project, you're gonna need to at least mirror on GH regardless.

This is a difference in attitude between Americans and French when describing their countries: the French tend to regard overseas territories as more vitally part of their country …

Toys—even Lego—are damn near free if you aren't picky and will accept whatever you can find used. Often they're literally free. Kids often outgrow toys before they're worn out or b…

I don't get it either. Every single non-Ikea flat-pack thing I've assembled has had much worse instructions than Ikea. Plus usually been more expensive and lower quality than the I…

An aid for anyone else who found the usage "knowledges" unfamiliar and distracting: Knowl"edge (?), n. 2. That which is or may be known; the object of an act of knowing; a cognitio…

> In fact, they (partly) ate passenger pigeons out of existence. Mann's 1491 suggests this may be a myth, as passenger pigeon remains are nearly non-existent in native refuse piles…

Lakka boots Linux on an RPi and loads a (DRM—not X or Wayland) GUI in under 5s. Off an SDCard, at that.

I wish I could figure out the secret handshake that gets you hired to one prominent, presumably high-paid, spitballin' and chattin' and "idea person" role after another, despite a …

> Whereas I now struggle to find pictures I took 7 years ago. The only reasonable solution today with the current volume of photos is to put them all in some service and let it use…

I took it as: Prove (?), v. t. 1. To try or to ascertain by an experiment, or by a test or standard; to test; as, to prove the strength of gunpowder or of ordnance; to prove the co…

The new ones are much clearer than they used to be in the 80s and 90s. I'm convinced the old-style ones were the reason I buried the needle the one time I was given a cognitive tes…

Worst-case for both as far as the effect of seeing the image(s) per se is very similar, which is that maybe you have an image in your head you wish you could forget. OK, not ideal,…

> There is now a feature that scans every photo you receive. There previously was not something scanning every photo you receive. 1) Seen the automatic-text-recognition-on-images f…

Right—I'm for it if we had universal free national IDs and services to ensure everyone had one . It'd actually solve a ton of other problems, too, so yes, please, do that and then …

Don't make me come over there again. I swear, I will turn this car around and no one's going to Disney World! - The USA. (I kid, I kid—I know we always just show up late then claim…

I was about to explain, but from my selfish POV it's actually better if you keep posting like this. So... carry on.

> It's not obvious to me that a system that raises the experience for mean, or even the bottom end, of the distribution would be a good thing for me in many respects Ah—I usually a…

In part, I think it's one of the ways he mimics the form of books like Beowulf or Gilgamesh or other works of that sort—that kind of thing tends to be full of digressions and whole…

> Does that answer your question? Ha! Yeah. At least you're consistent :-) Lynch fills his works with characters and scenes that are—at best—plot-adjacent, whimsical/incongruous/un…

I wrote a lot longer explanation but deleted it. Suffice it to say other systems are good enough that functionally no-one wishes they had the US system instead, and it'd sure be we…

Notably: plot isn't the only factor at play in a novel (or film, et c.). At least in the good ones.