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usepgp··on Why Tap a Wheel of Cheese?
Vibagnosis
usepgp··on Why Tap a Wheel of Cheese?
This is why I mostly buy Californian olive oil now. I like the legit italian or spanish kind more, but it's faked so often in the grocery store that it isn't even worth attempting to decide if it's real. Sometimes the fakes tell you it's cut with olives from africa, and sometimes they don't. The US importers are held to no standards whatsoever. At least when I buy california olive oil, it's 95% of the way there and guaranteed to be real.
usepgp··on Mars helicopter employs advanced control techniques to survive in-flight anomaly
Its possible to just spin a dry stick against another dry stick with your hands. takes < 5 minutes to get a fire going.
usepgp··on A Decentralized Dead Man’s Switch
You've got some wild typos in here.
usepgp··on Google has turned off access to sync features for Chromium
[2] is a really old bug. It should be enabled behind the #enable-accelerated-video-decode flag
usepgp··on Mark Rober (former NASA) launches a 30 day Creative Engineering Class
not to mention he's gotten almost 2m subscribers in less than a year on ~20 purely engineering focused videos.
usepgp··on Show HN: Predict a Reddit user's Myers-Briggs type from their profile
I put my reddit name in and it broke the site. Either that or it was hugged to death.
usepgp··on Chrome Web Store payments deprecation
I _work_ on chrome and today I learned you can buy extensions.
usepgp··on Create and view interactive cheatsheets on the command-line
doesn't look like it. tldr.sh seems to pull from the web, while this cheat project looks to be more of a similar too to collect knowledge you build yourself over time.
usepgp··on Bill Gates has stepped down from Microsoft's board
Not sure he'd be the most qualified, but he seems like a person who take advice from knowledgeable people well and has the experience and current position of leadership to take advantage of it. He also lives right near a huge local outbreak, and so has obvious personal incentive to make sure that it gets cleaned up ASAP.
usepgp··on Google pushed to take action against Android bloatware
Other apps use the chrome webview, which is why it can't be uninstalled.
usepgp··on Minecraft diamond challenge leaves AI creators stumped
That feature has only existed for <20% of the games lifetime. It is more than likely that the person you're replying to played the game before the recipe book existed.
usepgp··on Job loss predictions over rising minimum wages haven't come true
I rented a house, and didn't have roommates? I mean, it was in the shithole that is worcester, but its not impossible.
usepgp··on Why Did Greenland’s Vikings Vanish? (2017)
I think it was a joke about the name of the podcast
usepgp··on Job loss predictions over rising minimum wages haven't come true
I did as well (in massachusetts in 2016)
usepgp··on A GUI framework for C# console applications
Terminal User Interface or Text-based User Interface
usepgp··on Report: Young adults more likely to live with parents than spouses
Like the parent comment said, there is a noticeable difference even in states like Washington. We have close to two weeks to fill out the ballots and mail it back or drop it off. There is a huge difference between "having a lot going on" and "procrastinating for two weeks". the ballots take ~5 minutes to fill out, and ~10 minutes to drop off.
usepgp··on The Baseline Interpreter: A Faster JavaScript Interpreter in Firefox 70
Hey, I'm on the chromium videostack team, would you mind filing a bug report for what you see happening with youtube? https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/entry
usepgp··on Salesforce is buying Tableau for $15.7B
just an FYI, the word you're looking for is 'piques' not 'peaks'
usepgp··on Show HN: 300k lines of Java UI code running native in browser at desktop speed
He has use of his arms
usepgp··on Google cancels AI ethics board in response to outcry
Not sure this is entirely true. Compared to some of the previous petitions / walkouts, this one was relatively minor, and was mostly the whiny ones.
usepgp··on Google Moves to Address Wage Equity, and Finds It’s Underpaying Many Men
Or maybe we shouldn't need /s's to make an obvious joke
usepgp··on WiFi Hides Inside a USB Cable
I worked on a security team that did this when I left - I taped & signed every USB connection at my desk and checked the signatures every time before I unlocked it.
usepgp··on Portugal’s Economic Revival
In some aspect, yes. Many of those small families overextended through getting greedy, and borrowed money they could never pay back.
usepgp··on Google’s Secret China Project “Effectively Ended” After Internal Confrontation
*han Chinese people

the minorities are the ones who will predominantly get the short end of the deal here

usepgp··on They Rejected Us
just asked the 6 or so coworkers here right now who have macs. not a single one has homebrew installed.
usepgp··on Anonymity on the Internet Must Be Protected (1995)
The problem isn't that people are acting anonymously, the problem is that individuals and organizations are acting to impersonate the non-anonymous.

follower counts only impact people because of the assumption that each follower is a _real_ person, which is a direct effect of the deanonymization we see today by social networks.

propaganda has significantly more impact when it is perceived to come from "just another normal person" rather than an anonymous bot.

usepgp··on The European Union versus the Internet
There are ads on the front page designed to look like content.
usepgp··on South Carolina officials won't evacuate prison ahead of hurricane
But thats the thing, its _not_ bad enough for an office mandate of evacuation. Even the recommendation was lifted today.
usepgp··on South Carolina officials won't evacuate prison ahead of hurricane
It says that McMaster lifted the evacuation order for the county the prison is located in today. That was the second quote in my comment.
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