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locustous

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    Comment #36863141

    Understandably, some of us just don't trust scientists wholesale.

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    Comment #36842500

    We had experienced serious reductions in carbon utilization in the 2008 recession and COVID restrictions and there wasn't any kind of pull back signal from the temperature record t…

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    Comment #36801469

    SOP is to have a team "suicide" you.

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    Comment #36561436

    You never type sl on accident?

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    Comment #36440769

    People want questions they have answered instead of ignored. It's like a tone deaf corporation ignoring customer complaints while speaking platitudes about how much they care and h…

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    Comment #36309914

    It's not altruism of he is getting a payout in cash or Internet points.

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    Comment #36280366

    It's not apples vs apples. Literally and figuratively. The I/O or board features on PC boards will eat power. So you will end up with a 15-30 W idle vs probably 5-8 for the Mac. I …

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    Comment #36272973

    Have a purpose. Have an intended audience to fulfill that purpose. Cater to your audience. If you wander about aimlessly, well, you will be aimless.

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    Comment #36272810

    Most of those systems sit at idle, when they are on at all. Idle power is not the same as TDP. The idle difference is not so great that it's a big deal.

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    Comment #36257292

    The reality is that the phone is, and will be, the far more dangerous a vector for porn because of how ubiquitous and convenient it is. The wow factor of this device won't move the…

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    Comment #36155788

    > The worst thing about soccer is that no one, outside the ref, really knows how much time is left in the game This is also kind of a feature. Different kind of suspense. I don't m…

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    Comment #35933025

    > How is this in any way relevant? Touch stove -> get burned is an immediate and consistent causality chain. See porn -> get divorced is not an immediate response in almost all cas…

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    Comment #35932943

    Yes, but it's pretty small compared to men. I'm ignoring the much smaller case for the moment.

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    Comment #35814775

    Do you really need it spelled out for you? This is a pretty obvious statement. https://verilymag.com/2017/07/causes-of-divorce-effects-of-w... https://www.science.org/content/artic…

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    Comment #35810278

    > What is the damage? Where to begin. I'll be as straight forward as I can. Porn use cultivates lust. A false form of love that seeks easy sexual satisfaction instead of a stable l…

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    Comment #35686712

    Everyone fancies their success, which means more visitors. They want to be able to handle the odd traffic surge. Understandable desires. But understanding of scaling seems stuck in…

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    Comment #35681969

    > But that's my point: that's exactly the promise of every single cross-platform system out there. Every non web cross platform system doesn't have nearly the investment as browser…

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    Comment #35679635

    Well, vote with your time and money. PWAs would be cheaper to develop overall than building 2-3 separate code bases. Which would mean more software available generally, particularl…

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    Comment #35678448

    I don't like installing apps I don't have to. I agree that the browser sandbox is superior.

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    Comment #35677233

    > I hate ElectronJS Then you should support PWA as an alternative. It's lighter weight, both lower memory and download size, compared to electron.

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    Comment #35677119

    > And it's always because that the UX is terrible that makes them not viable not anything Apple has done. Obvious counter points. Lots of people use websites. Which have an identic…

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    Comment #35673152

    > I'm not saying these birds can't be happy That's pretty much the only criteria I'm really interested in. All our birds have other birds of the same species with them, which they …

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    Comment #35666675

    My best summary from years of experience and observations and learning from several birds. Learning to read their likes and dislikes. Also exposure to others who do the same, bird …

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    Comment #35666613

    Don't know his history. He is clearly old. He doesn't mind other birds, but he loves and takes great delight in people. Just who he is. Sure, there's history there. But I don't see…

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    Comment #35665535

    We have several birds, they mostly like the company of other some other birds. But they really like people too. Even the ones always raised around birds grow attached to their peop…