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It's not a bad idea, considering the network capabilities TCP/IP was designed for.

Does anyone play with Funko Pops? Adults collect toys.

How dare they go hatless in public!

I've always wondered why people wear 1920's period attire to weddings, funerals, courts of law, and while giving presentations. In the 1920's, did people dress like 1820's dandies on those occasions?

Also, how do you thrift a T-shirt for $30? They're that price new, and like $5 at the thrift stores near me.

I think a large property tax deduction makes much more sense than a large income tax deduction. (Although a universal deduction that lets you apply to any taxes makes the most sense.)

For someone who is retired or incapable of working, property taxes can far exceed the cost of food and utilities, and income tax deductions do them no good.

Of course, there's no guarantee that anyone will own their own property, but making it an option for retirement planning makes a self-sustaining retirement much more likely, especially so for those who have to retire unexpectedly, due to illness or injury.

If you can see the stars, and the sun, is it night or day?

The studies aren't wrong; everything causes cancer, and the better off we are, the longer we'll be in a position to get cancer. The only way to stop cancer is to murder everyone.

The only problem is that people tend to care about marginal carcinogenicy more than they care about deadlier things, like wet floors, stairs, and mosquitoes.

Nevada has low sales and property taxes but heavily supplements it with excise and gaming taxes aimed at tourists, so that strategy does work.

I've seen plenty of papers that assume causation in the summary, with no evidence whatsoever, so bad science can occur at the source, too.

Fun fact: Semiconductor fabrications lines all use universal bone dissolvers to etch silicon dioxide layers. It dissolves nervous systems too, so if exposed, you only need to get your bones replaced if you had a small enough dose that you didn't die.

Fortunately, there's enough safety equipment and procedures that bone-dissolving incidents are extremely rare and residents rarely care if there's semiconductor fabrication facility nearby, caring much less than if there's a facility simply running a bunch of semiconductors that are already built.

From what I've seen, Vulkan adds a lot of overhead on Intel hardware.

Seattle and Sacramento both raised their cities one story higher, although it was before public utilities existed, so they didn't take advantage of the opportunity to lay utility lines, and the cities have expanded significantly since then, so most of the current infrastructure in each city has been built at ground level.

It uses dangerously too few tokens to provide the same level of response as the previous version.

Especially so, if you count unrealized gains. My house has tripled in value since I bought it, but it hasn't made me any richer.

It's nice that IANA maintains a host on example domains. Every time I use a network with a captive portal, I go to http://example.com, to verify that I am fully connected.

If you sort by 'controversial', it only shows the sane replies.

In the US, CPS will go after you, even if you're just doing what's normal in our culture, as long as one single person doesn't like it.

Someone in my area was in her apartment doing dishes while her kid was playing in the playground in the apartment complex's common area in front of the unit. (https://fox40.com/news/local-news/sacramento-mother-faces-ch...) Someone called CPS and complained that she was inside, while her kid was outside. Even though most anyone would agree it was a nuisance call, they still charged her and opened a case, telling her that if her child is ever out of her direct sight, she'll be violation of the rule they just made up.

Nothing stops CPS from making up their own rules. There's even an effort to specify in each states' laws that parents letting children roam free isn't legally endangerment, but despite having such language in their laws, a mom was recently prosecuted in Virginia, for similarly letting her child roam within a gated common area. (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/virginia-mom-child-abuse-convic...)

I had a co-worker who's dad is paraplegic, and they had a family van with hand controls, so that his dad could drive it. His dad was a big guy and his mom was tiny, but she could load and unload the wheelchair without a problem. My co-worker said that sometimes people would stare when his mom was pumping gas, while his dad sat in the drivers seat doing nothing. He said they had a bit of a routine where his mom would start washing the windows and his dad would point out spots she missed.

They totally did it to entertain themselves, but I'm sure it got a few people riled up thinking that the dad was a jerk.

Going off the actual definition, and not the political party that has historically used the term, the San Francisco bay area is one of the most conservative and least liberal regions in the country. The peninsula isn't even the most extreme, the north bay is.

I thought you meant reading one thing while listing to a different audiobook. (I sometimes do this, and read your post while listening to Stephen King's Under the Dome, but I have to pause to respond. I can listen and read, but not listen and write.)

Anyway, I know a few people who often switch between reading the text and listening to the audio of a book. If your application seamless supports both reading and listening, whether it's simultaneously or switching from just one to just the other, it could be pretty useful for those who like to read sometimes and listen other times.

Yes, in fact the military has a system in place to make sure that they only that they only use alternate suppliers and on Anthropic AI, They do this by placing a designation on Anthropic AI that it is a risk to the supply chain, which forces purchasers to use other suppliers.

It's not a great analagy; it's more like a pen manufacturer not wanting their pens used to sign drone strike orders, who then only ships pens with cameras and solenoids so that the point stays retracted until the camera verifies that the paper doesn't include a drone strike orders.

Qt doesn't offer anywhere near native performance. You need something like wxWidgets for that, which makes native system calls.

See also: Wirth's law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law)

    Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is becoming faster

Is there an extra harsh punishment, if the insults aren't in French?

It's the only explanation I could find for why a fist fight between consenting adults is illegal. It encroaches on the government's monopoly on violence.

The economy doesn't affect NIMBYism. The further housing falls behind the population, the more people will have to be homeless or living with extended family or strangers.

It's an ever increasing trend, especially in the US when the constitution limits what the government can do, so politicians try to jawbone providers of goods or services into doing what the government isn't allowed to do. You basically can't use a bank without unreasonable search, and the same is true for some forms of communications.

My theory on the term "user experience" is that the difference between an interface and an experience is that an experience is overt and memorable, whereas an interface is subtle and forgettable.

For real life examples: A door that can be pushed in either direction is an interface. It does its job well, you can use it however you want without any consideration for how it works, and you aren't likely to even remember it was there. A door at the top of a set of stairs without a landing is an experience. You have to climb up the stairs to reach the handle, then climb down a stair or two to move out of the way of the door, as you pull it open, and it might knock you over, so you won't forget that you have to anticipate its use.

This exactly matches the change in philosophy that goes along with the usage of the term "user experience". Someone that creates clearly labeled and accessible buttons or menus that respond instantly will call it an interface, whereas someone who uses abstractions of formerly skeuomorphic images layered inside menus that aren't clearly interactive and require waiting for animations traverse will call it a "user experience".

Anyway, I really liked CDE the first time I used it, about 25 years ago, and I've been using the spiritual successor XFCE ever since. It works great, so I haven't really felt a need tofind something better. That's only been reinforced by occasionally using other people's computers which are running far more intrusive experiences instead of interfaces.

The more time goes by, the more I wonder if I shouldn't search for something better anyway. Despite taking advantage of the built-in keyboard shortcuts, and adding a bunch of my own, most of the time I use a mouse is for interacting with the desktop environment, not within applications themselves, and it's a noticeable slowdown.

I mostly use full-screen windows, so I've never really looked into tiling environments, but I really wonder if I should, just for the faster means to interact when selecting windows and performing operations between them.

It was an implementation error in a local payment structure, so people in other states weren't affected.

Some phones and watches have UV sensors in them, and you'll usually see a 20%+ drop in live readings when under an overcast layer, compared to direct sunlight, but prediction models can't easily model when clouds will be where, so they either ignore them or use an average affect.