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Yep, I open Xcode several times per year, but haven't done it on purpose since... uh, 2014 or so?

If a take-home or anything else (automated half-hour online test or whatever) taking more than a couple minutes and not requiring as much time investment from them as you comes bef…

In his first campaign especially, he talked exactly like a normal Republican voter. They say shit like "why don't they just build a wall?" (or they might suggest planting minefield…

We used to limit local market monopolization and total reach of, at least, public airwaves broadcasters. That was a good idea. But we stopped.

The current far-right effort started with the postwar "think tank" boom, and that crowd has been working (successfully) to bend policy and law so they can enable and guide the crea…

> When I had a bad experience at a chain pharmacy 10-ish years ago I spent less than an hour, googled "independent pharmacies" and found the National Community Pharmacists Associat…

The noun sense does not.

I don’t get drawing a distinction. If a company has it, there’s at least one government out there that either also already has it (some telecom companies just give them data portal…

I think the author needs to shop at "richer" places for the treatment they want. Service is rich-people shit, and they're evidently not spending rich-people money. Inflation may re…

Yeah this is like saying Aldi “automated” cart return. They didn’t, they got every shopper to do the work themselves. Automated cart return would be if you just gave the cart a lit…

I read it as the word aff-ect, not uh-ffect (American pronunciation; both are spelled “affect”). Noun sense of “affect”, not verb. But it’s possible I was reading too generously an…

I did a ton of looking into this over the years. That everything is a little bit at fault, is why if you exhaustively eliminate (say) insurance overhead, it leaves a weird amount o…

I do their work. No work got automated.

It 100% is one of the reasons. We pay medical personnel way higher wages than peer states. US healthcare is so expensive because basically every single part of it costs more than i…

What's the error? I'd hyphenate "poorly-composed" (most wouldn't these days, but they can go to hell) and I think it's a bit too wordy for what it's communicating, but I don't see …

Nah, I've been using them correctly for years. My preference for them came by way of reading a lot in generally, but especially from Salinger. I do them without surrounding spaces,…

Self check-out machines aren't automation.

Even my home wifi sometimes has enough packet loss to kill SSH connections. And if my computer sleeps for a even a quarter-second, yeah, connection dead. Mosh means a lot less, "Si…

Is that an actual problem we've had? Nb announced revisions aren't a problem at all, and not one that "blockchain" prevents anyway (you can publish new stuff on a blockchain, no pr…

Yeah this is entirely pointless. You can put anything "on a blockchain" but the cases in which that does anything useful versus any of several simpler and cheaper solutions are fai…

To put this in very-online terms: this is a skill issue. Your life will be richer if you learn to take more things in, and to appreciate them. And it may require actual learning! A…

More relevantly, it’s an open secret that a lot of churches are heavily into political advocacy directly for candidates, which they’re not supposed to do under their tax status, bu…

Black hole goes into a barbershop. Barber goes, "You're kiddiinnngggg mmmmmmeeeeeeeeee, riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii...."

I thought the return vehicle was a to-be-developed direct-return vehicle from both SpaceX and Blue Origin (both got contracts, and supposedly both's versions will fly)? [EDIT] Appa…

IIRC, the expected return payload for this is lighter than Apollo. In no small part because they're dropping all their return fuel and their entire return vehicle into the Moon's g…