In certain crowds you could also get away with still water w/o ice, since it looks like a vodka-water, especially if you're a woman (tends to be a women's drink—not pushing that norm, just observing it). In either the…
I thought soda water (or sparkling mineral water) with lemon or lime was the official no-I'm-not-drinking-but-I-am-familiar-with-bars-and-don't-bug-me-about-it drink. Fake-sipping a beer would be bizarre.
I make 102g of alcohol about 1 bottle of 14% abv wine (so, strong-ish, but not exceptionally so) per week, or about 3 cans of 10% stout. Unless my math's wrong (1ml ~= 1g [not quite since it's not pure water, but close…
For those playing along at home, regulator "drinks" always seem to convert to 0.25-0.75 actual drinks a normal person might call "one drink". I'm not sure why they do that, unless it's to confuse people on purpose so…
Legitimately very interested to see a comparable study for cannabis, in adult users. [EDIT] everything I could find with a quick search is about heavy, long-term use only, which evidently has little effect on white…
I'd assume that, as long as they're careful about how they pressure you, it's not fraud if you decide to pay. AFAIK they're under no obligation to volunteer that you don't have to pay them anything, or to otherwise…
> Creditors can only go after the assets of the estate. One does not inherit debts. They sometimes do go after the family, hoping to trick them into paying. I'm sure they get a lot of folks to pay, too.
I put quite a bit of effort into doing things "right" when I tried to board the cast-iron train. Pan was pre-seasoned, but I did one of those elaborate multi-step seasoning rituals online, using the expensive oil they…
If this happens to you: 1) The creditors are full of shit. Don't accept the estate, don't acknowledge that you owe any debt, and you don't owe them a damn thing. If no-one accepts it, they're simply screwed. They'll try…
Flyover country checking in. Non- or semi-technical bigcos of the sort with big IT departments who take most of a week to get you your laptop when you start, are almost all Windows but may tolerate some macOS. Technical…
Last time I was an Android user (and, for quite a while and for a couple different spans, an Android developer), that button was a ton of fun for when I wanted to see what random-ass crap the OS or application would…
I not-infrequently see Google UI on major consumer-facing products that would have gotten me (gently) slapped down by "third-tier" designers, product managers, and UX folks—hell, even some of my fellow…
Should be easy enough to look up what was happening that motivated those rules in the first place, for anyone who cares about them enough to consider removing them. I tend to find "argument from reality" more compelling…
> Google’s stuff isn’t bad, but it’s simply not exceptional. Disagree. I've repeatedly had to help my older relatives out with awful UX failures on Gmail or basic apps (think: the phone app) on their Android phones. As…
Similar story. A couple years ago I tried to set up Synapse. I've set up and administered IRC before. I've twice gone from nothing to having an XMPP server (different daemon each time) working and hooked into web…
More generally, I've noticed being reluctant to ask others to do things for me even when it's their job is an attitude I have that's hard to shake, and is probably a result of my low-ish social class upbringing. It…
You don't have to get too far off the beaten path to hit material that's only even mentioned in books, and you'd never even know exists if you only used the Web. The Web is pretty damn shallow for, especially, history…
So true. I remember how big a bummer Android keynotes were when I did lots of mobile dev. "Oh, cool, that'll be fun to use... in three or four years".
It's a hosted DB, and as far as I can tell the Killer Feature is that it makes schema updates less painful. How it does that without significant performance trade-offs or caps is unclear to me. [EDIT] on reading further…
USB-C would have been a great replacement... for DisplayPort/Thunderbolt ports. It's finally, years later, getting merely not infuriating to be stuck with only USB-C ports. Single port for display + charging is very…
I maintain that most of what we get from the Web and computers, as individuals, is barely better than what we had before, and not enough so to justify its costs. Shopping very much included. For some context, I grew up…
FTA: "It means going from: Frontend > React > [state management library of choice] to Frontend > Data Layer > View Layer (React) " I'm not really sure what "Frontend" means here, but I'm pretty sure this is how I was…
The punchline was that, IIRC, it's an Electron app. Also PG and others were evidently very upset that, aside from just laughing at the obvious humor of the situation, lots people expressed wishes—for a bunch of reasons;…
Inherited a couple projects. Was interested at first, but now dislike it. At this point I think I'm just done with languages that don't have static typing. I hate having to remember or figure out things that my tools…
Not supporting it, just noting that gambling + esports is already the status quo. I find it pretty gross, but after getting a glimpse into that, and who's bankrolling and advocating which things, et c., the whole space…
In certain crowds you could also get away with still water w/o ice, since it looks like a vodka-water, especially if you're a woman (tends to be a women's drink—not pushing that norm, just observing it). In either the…
I thought soda water (or sparkling mineral water) with lemon or lime was the official no-I'm-not-drinking-but-I-am-familiar-with-bars-and-don't-bug-me-about-it drink. Fake-sipping a beer would be bizarre.
I make 102g of alcohol about 1 bottle of 14% abv wine (so, strong-ish, but not exceptionally so) per week, or about 3 cans of 10% stout. Unless my math's wrong (1ml ~= 1g [not quite since it's not pure water, but close…
For those playing along at home, regulator "drinks" always seem to convert to 0.25-0.75 actual drinks a normal person might call "one drink". I'm not sure why they do that, unless it's to confuse people on purpose so…
Legitimately very interested to see a comparable study for cannabis, in adult users. [EDIT] everything I could find with a quick search is about heavy, long-term use only, which evidently has little effect on white…
I'd assume that, as long as they're careful about how they pressure you, it's not fraud if you decide to pay. AFAIK they're under no obligation to volunteer that you don't have to pay them anything, or to otherwise…
> Creditors can only go after the assets of the estate. One does not inherit debts. They sometimes do go after the family, hoping to trick them into paying. I'm sure they get a lot of folks to pay, too.
I put quite a bit of effort into doing things "right" when I tried to board the cast-iron train. Pan was pre-seasoned, but I did one of those elaborate multi-step seasoning rituals online, using the expensive oil they…
If this happens to you: 1) The creditors are full of shit. Don't accept the estate, don't acknowledge that you owe any debt, and you don't owe them a damn thing. If no-one accepts it, they're simply screwed. They'll try…
Flyover country checking in. Non- or semi-technical bigcos of the sort with big IT departments who take most of a week to get you your laptop when you start, are almost all Windows but may tolerate some macOS. Technical…
Last time I was an Android user (and, for quite a while and for a couple different spans, an Android developer), that button was a ton of fun for when I wanted to see what random-ass crap the OS or application would…
I not-infrequently see Google UI on major consumer-facing products that would have gotten me (gently) slapped down by "third-tier" designers, product managers, and UX folks—hell, even some of my fellow…
Should be easy enough to look up what was happening that motivated those rules in the first place, for anyone who cares about them enough to consider removing them. I tend to find "argument from reality" more compelling…
> Google’s stuff isn’t bad, but it’s simply not exceptional. Disagree. I've repeatedly had to help my older relatives out with awful UX failures on Gmail or basic apps (think: the phone app) on their Android phones. As…
Similar story. A couple years ago I tried to set up Synapse. I've set up and administered IRC before. I've twice gone from nothing to having an XMPP server (different daemon each time) working and hooked into web…
More generally, I've noticed being reluctant to ask others to do things for me even when it's their job is an attitude I have that's hard to shake, and is probably a result of my low-ish social class upbringing. It…
You don't have to get too far off the beaten path to hit material that's only even mentioned in books, and you'd never even know exists if you only used the Web. The Web is pretty damn shallow for, especially, history…
So true. I remember how big a bummer Android keynotes were when I did lots of mobile dev. "Oh, cool, that'll be fun to use... in three or four years".
It's a hosted DB, and as far as I can tell the Killer Feature is that it makes schema updates less painful. How it does that without significant performance trade-offs or caps is unclear to me. [EDIT] on reading further…
USB-C would have been a great replacement... for DisplayPort/Thunderbolt ports. It's finally, years later, getting merely not infuriating to be stuck with only USB-C ports. Single port for display + charging is very…
I maintain that most of what we get from the Web and computers, as individuals, is barely better than what we had before, and not enough so to justify its costs. Shopping very much included. For some context, I grew up…
FTA: "It means going from: Frontend > React > [state management library of choice] to Frontend > Data Layer > View Layer (React) " I'm not really sure what "Frontend" means here, but I'm pretty sure this is how I was…
The punchline was that, IIRC, it's an Electron app. Also PG and others were evidently very upset that, aside from just laughing at the obvious humor of the situation, lots people expressed wishes—for a bunch of reasons;…
Inherited a couple projects. Was interested at first, but now dislike it. At this point I think I'm just done with languages that don't have static typing. I hate having to remember or figure out things that my tools…
Not supporting it, just noting that gambling + esports is already the status quo. I find it pretty gross, but after getting a glimpse into that, and who's bankrolling and advocating which things, et c., the whole space…