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folkrav

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    Comment #49228469

    The drop in temperature was the most striking part for me. It wasn't just dark, it was night in the middle of the day for a couple of minutes.

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    Comment #49225150

    Am I understanding that you’re building JSON with string interpolation? If so any special reason you wouldn’t build a dict and json.dumps() it?

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    Comment #49222362

    Some people don’t die from cancer after smoking their whole lives either.

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    Comment #49221678

    Re-reading they indeed didn’t say “chronic pain”, that was me extrapolating. However I think it’s still relatively safe to assume “hand problems” prevalent enough to prevent them f…

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    Comment #49221652

    You will absolutely care if the billionaire gets another million and you get a thousand if a thousand stops being enough to pay the bills. The value of money is nothing if not rela…

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    Comment #49221264

    Missed the part where they had stopped entirely because of chronic pain? Are you somehow aware of the levels of pain they deal with daily to be able to say they could “totally” do …

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    Comment #49214228

    Knowing how precious the current state of Earth is at human scale makes me fear the asshats acting like everything revolves around “progress” a lot more than knowing how insignific…

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    Comment #49181319

    “Humming quietly”? Really? Humming, yeah, sure, but ask the people living next door how quiet they are.

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    Comment #49164017

    They probably mean static site, in the sense of static front end, no backend.

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    Comment #49139091

    I didn’t make the comparison in the first place.

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    Comment #49135619

    > In the background of what looks like a Panglossian techno-optimist novel, horrible things are happening. Most of humanity is wiped out, then arbitrarily resurrected in mutilated …

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    Comment #49134637

    “Things can’t be bad now cause they were bad before”

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    Comment #49134343

    Weird flex.

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    Comment #49133952

    Last I checked, restaurants actually do run on razor thin margins. A fraction of the costs is food - IIRC on average about a third. Most of it is rent (typically very high in place…

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    Comment #49133499

    I run some light services on my NAS cause well, in the end, the distinction in naming is arbitrary at best, it’s a computer, and I use it for computer things. In an ideal world whe…

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    Comment #49082551

    The DoW head sees half of his own country’s population as enemies, Islam as an evil religion of hate, and the work he does as striking down the enemies of God. I heavily doubt that…

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    Comment #49069822

    From an information theory perspective, isn’t a representation by definition a simplification?

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    Comment #49038461

    It’s a “Parks and Recreations” reference.

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    Comment #49036607

    There’s some irony to security not being a priority for security cameras. Different kind of security I know, but still.

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    Comment #48968689

    Orrrr... He could just as well click the link he has bookmarked already, and see it with his own eyes, without the token use to report on his token use.

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    Comment #48968531

    /goal fix all bugs

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    Comment #48961612

    I haven't had to do first aid training in while, but even the first time I had to as a teenager working in camps almost 20 years ago, this was a thing they drilled in our heads.

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    Comment #48958286

    There is a pretty sharp acceleration of that decline around 2022/2023.

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    Comment #48958257

    If an ALEX drawer unit takes them over an hour and a half to build, IMHO they're doing something wrong. Many others on that list seem suspiciously high (the BRIMNES comes to mind).…