FatherOfHoodoo

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm reminded of the old saying: When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.

The same would hold true for any third party who isn't physically in your presence at the time of need. You are your primary means of defense, with third parties as a backup...

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yes, they asked for a reminder, not a conversation. Parents have to choose their battles. Demanding non-standard behaviour in order to do a required parenting thing like helping your child remember stuff is a really stupid hill to die on!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Texts are less important than email, and less urgent than a phone call. It's ridiculous to think it's rude not to reply, especially for kids who probably get 5-10 texts an hour.

If something's important enough to you that you want a definite response eventually, send an email. If it requires immediate communication, call. Don't apply false rules of politeness just to get a response out of your kid!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'll support Senators not having a dress code when there isn't one for anyone else working in Congress...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

See the other answers for why this isn't really right, but given 4 dimensional spacetime, if that 'pixel' did exist, it would look like a hypercube/tessaract. A constantly stretching and twisting but approximate one, anyway.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imagine how amazing the PR would have been if the title had been: "User gets spectator seating for a SpaceX launch in return for lost handle"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nothing better than your first brew....

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Coming from the viewpoint that the greatest threat to free markets is the artificial beings created by government called "corporations", I fully believe that some form of IP, appropriately time-limited and only licensable, not transferable, is a perfectly valid way to protect individual human creators, but that it cannot be granted to anything other than natural human citizens.

It's not about prevention of use by others, it's about prevention of monetization by others...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I can often dig into the source and quickly figure out what's broken.

And for the 99.9% of humanity for whom that is either impossible, or a dreadful slog,

On Windows, I'm usually shit outta luck. Gotta trawl through tons of messy forums and bullshit SEO-optimised blogspam sites

While this^ is a practical option... This^ is a practical optionof hu

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This reminds me of one of those documentaries where they show some ridiculous mechanical contraption in a scene, and the narrator says, "Before the technology became extinct, it had become vastly more complex and sophisticated, but alas, it's days were numbered..."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah-hah! Thank you. I figured me being stupid was the explanation...

 

How can one set the Connect app such that the main feed only shows posts to subscribed communities?

I feel like this should be easy/I must be stupid...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'd give him a significantly better than average chance of being for real. I have several friends who work in a local biotech lab who've watched his videos from whom the responses have been along the lines of "Huh, yeah, I suppose you could do it that way, if you had no money and lots of know-how..."

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