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justwalt··on Burger King is rolling out meatless Impossible Whoppers nationwide
I believe the argument is that if you were capable of subsisting without harming another living creature, then you should try to do that.
justwalt··on A Small Town in the Philippines Banned Gossip
Why not tweak the tool to modify the links into outline links?
justwalt··on TurboTax Hides Its Free File Page from Search Engines
I think it’s reasonable to feel surprise at learning that this is allowed to happen. Why the surprise-at-surprise style reaction? It makes people feel a bit mocked.
justwalt··on Selfie Deaths in the Outdoors
Anything to sell a story, right?

It’s not even necessary in this case. A selfie-induced death is interesting enough without a manufactured tale of an “epidemic.”

justwalt··on JetBlue has started using facial recognition instead of boarding passes
I think you’re right. Maybe we should skip the facial recognition and install RFID tags behind our eyes, after all, they basically know all of that info already anyways.
justwalt··on JetBlue has started using facial recognition instead of boarding passes
Wouldn’t agencies like the NSA use it regardless of what regulations say? Wouldn’t policy be shaped by what large corporations saw as valuable? I think that big problem already exists to a degree, and it’s only a matter of time before this sort of thing gets uncomfortably out of hand.
justwalt··on Neuroscientist Larry Cahill on the ‘neurosexism’ debate
Didn’t you say that one result as opposed to the other should be considered extremely suspicious and looked at again multiple times? Should the opposite result also be viewed this way?
justwalt··on At 30, Game Boys live on in unexpected ways
Wow, I had never heard about this. That’s really cool!
justwalt··on Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable?
Add .com to the end
justwalt··on What's new in Ubuntu 19.04
Might those be snap packages? It sounds like a similar annoying I had, where df would be filled with /dev/loop entries, multiple for each snap package, to the point where 20% of the lines were actually useful. That was enough for me to purge every snap package from my install and remove the snap core altogether.
justwalt··on What's new in Ubuntu 19.04
I’m used to the exact setup it offers me. I built a keyboard with custom macros to interface with some shortcuts that the desktop offers and I’m very particular about having them all available.

That alone isn’t a deal breaker, it’s not very difficult to replicate all the tweaks that I prefer, but I also have a 144hz monitor and Gnome has some of the best support for that that I’ve found. I don’t like having my window manager lagging behind, and the combination of the two leave basically only Gnome in the intersection.

Besides, in my experience, there isn’t a huge benefit in changing either. I try new options now and then and never feel like I’m missing out.

justwalt··on What's new in Ubuntu 19.04
A solution to what? In my opinion, it’s quite convenient to have access to both. Sometimes I need to copy from a webpage but then realize I could speed up by middle click pasting a few other things, and then using ctrl-v for the first copy. I like having them separate.
justwalt··on What's new in Ubuntu 19.04
I think that’s copy on some terminals, but I think the parent is talking about paste.
justwalt··on IBM halting sales of Watson AI tool for drug discovery
Not sure if I stopped reading early or just didn't comprehend what they had written. Thanks, lol.
justwalt··on What's new in Ubuntu 19.04
> rules for auto color change top bars

Is this specific to KDE? This sounds like a really nice feature for when I’ve got tons of windows floating around. I’m a big fan of obvious tells so you can get your bearings at a glance.

justwalt··on IBM halting sales of Watson AI tool for drug discovery
What did you end up doing in a period of non-work work like that? Read books?
justwalt··on Mysterious safety-tampering malware infects a second site
This seems to be the best solution by far.
justwalt··on Aphantasia: 'My mind's eye is blind'
Can people with this condition dream? And if yes, then what is that like in comparison?
justwalt··on Developer Survey Results 2019
That was my takeaway as well. It’s also somewhat ambiguous; who are you comparing yourself to? All coworkers, everyone in your graduating class, people the same age as you?

I’m sure that we’re seeing at least a bit of everyone thinking they’re more skilled than they are, but it’s more slight than that caption would lead you to believe.

justwalt··on No one, not even the Secret Service, should randomly plug in a strange USB stick
That sounds really interesting. You should post later if you go through with your plan!
justwalt··on Explaining Sex Rate Changes
I don’t agree that these are good solutions. A lot of these frustrated men are simply looking for companionship. Not to mention the unrealistic prospect of someone flying to another country for some casual sex. Not everyone can afford that kind of thing.
justwalt··on Apple Music Overtakes Spotify in U.S. Subscribers
You're right, I just tested as well. Thanks for letting me know!
justwalt··on Apple Music Overtakes Spotify in U.S. Subscribers
No Apple Music on Linux is one for me.
justwalt··on Apple Music Overtakes Spotify in U.S. Subscribers
The things I hate about the Apple app are the fact I can’t swipe from the left to queue a new song, and the fact that if you’re shuffling all songs then you simply can’t use the play next feature at all. That ability did exist at one point, along with play last (it would queue a song at the end of the play next queue, but before the rest of the shuffled songs), but it’s been removed since iOS 9 or 10 now.
justwalt··on Someone's spreading an MBR-trashing copy of the Christchurch killer's manifesto
I believe the VB was used to download a binary which accomplished the overwrite.
justwalt··on U.S. teens are spending less time with their friends in person
The flaking is terrible, oh my goodness. It’s hard to find friends who won’t do that to you.
justwalt··on How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim
I did this in a Biochemistry course minus the Vim. It is definitely counterproductive and I started to do better once I switched back to traditional notes.
justwalt··on A new class-action lawsuit takes aim at real estate agents and their 6% fee
What kinds of tricks did yours try to pull?
justwalt··on Implementing a NES Emulator in Rust
For me, I’ve been rewriting my simple scripts and old school projects in Rust, which has been both enjoyable and informative.

Project Euler problems are pretty trivial (wrt coding) but might have some small useful nuggets. The code advent calendar from 2018 is pretty helpful too, and it’s much more code oriented than PE problems.

I’ve seen people suggest rewriting the GNU coreutils, and I really like the idea, but not quite enough to go sifting through all of the C headers and all to get to the finish line.

Honestly, it probably doesn’t matter much what you start coding as long as you’re coding.

justwalt··on How to quit your job in 837 easy steps
I’m not a fan of this line of thinking. Are those with high income and power not allowed to be unhappy? I’m sure there are plenty of people in a position similar to hers, and maybe her advice could help them advise their own decision making process.
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