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  • I've heard "86" as slang for eliminate/remove but I don't know where it comes from, and I would never use it if I thought it could be confused with a quantity.

    It sounds like something a stereotypical Chicago mobster might say, so I'd probably not use that slang anyway.

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    The Great Republican Political Strategy of Insult Puerto Rico for Some Reason
  • I think maybe the text of your post did not convey that sentiment, particularly given the reliability of Poe's Law. Perhaps in the future, you might include a visible indicator that you are using satire?

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    The Great Republican Political Strategy of Insult Puerto Rico for Some Reason
  • They are still U S. citizens, just not citizens of any state. Same thing can happen if you are born in DC or a military base not in a state.

    American Samoans are the ones that really get screwed. They are just U S. nationals. All the responsibilities of citizens (including the draft when it exists) but not all of the benefits.

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    Implicit bias rule
  • I haven't looked in a while but in 2020, prune juice was still in the mandatory ingredients list. It's mainly corn syrup and water, but prune juice is involved, I think

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    Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency
  • At very least there's an OCX for InteractiveHtmlView or some stuff. It's how South Korean banks apps run. I think even the EU-specific "unbundled IE" versions still have that ActiveX / OLE control registered, though it might be crippled.

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    How often do you have to correct the spell checker?
  • On my phone? All the damn time, since I use a lot of jargon and shorthand that it doesn't understand, as well as a few neologisms. But, I'm a much worse typist on my phone.

    On my Linux desktop or $dayjob's Windows laptop? Almost never, as it is much less aggressive about replacing what I typed.

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    What Happened To Duracell PowerCheck?
  • Although, he admits in the video to "faking" his footage of it working, by using a off-camera heat source. (His batteries were quite dead.)

    But, as someone that lived through this time, they did work, as long as you pressed hard enough in the right places. It was hard to tell if the battery was dead or if you weren't pressing hard enough

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    stars & sharks
  • Bones evolved for the first time: "485 Ma First vertebrates with true bones (jawless fishes)" -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_evolutionary_history_of_life (Vertebrates existed without a bony notochord before then.)

    But the Appalachians were started much earlier: "The geologic processes that led to the formation of the Appalachian Mountains started 1.1 billion years ago." They were basically finished growing by the time bones existed: "Around 480 million years ago, geologic processes began that led to three distinct orogenic eras that created much of the surface structure seen in today's Appalachians. [d] During this period, mountains once reached elevations similar to those of the Alps and the Rockies" Since then, it's just been wearing down. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_Mountains

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    YouTube Premium is getting a huge price hike in over a dozen countries, sparking user backlash. Some countries are experiencing hikes between 30% and 50%
  • The whole reason I got on YT Premium was because it was free with Google Play Music. I have real issues watch non-Premiun now, because I've always disliked advertising methods. (Not so much th ads, which can be entertaining, but just being shown content I didn't request instead of the content I did request.)

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    The four horsemen of the dogpocalypse.
  • Have you tried Sweet Lightning? It's a KFC exclusive flavor that hasn't escaped containment the way Baja Blast escaped Tace Bell.

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  • haskellweekly.news Issue 429

    News about the Haskell programming language from 2024-07-18.

    cross-posted from https://slippy.xyz/notes/9vujpeyssp

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    discourse.haskell.org GHC 9.10.1 is now available!

    The GHC developers are very pleased to announce the release of GHC 9.10.1. Binary distributions, source distributions, and documentation are available at downloads.haskell.org and shortly via GHCup. GHC 9.10 brings a number of new features and improvements, including: The introduction of the G...

    cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/12126221

    > h/t @bgamari@mastodon.social

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    discourse.haskell.org GHC 9.10.1 is now available!

    The GHC developers are very pleased to announce the release of GHC 9.10.1. Binary distributions, source distributions, and documentation are available at downloads.haskell.org and shortly via GHCup. GHC 9.10 brings a number of new features and improvements, including: The introduction of the G...

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    On /r/Haskell there was a pinned, monthly thread so that people could ask questions without creating a new top-level post.

    • I'd like to increase traffic to here (or some other Haskell Fediverse threaded-conversation group). Do you think a thread like that might help?
    • Does pinning work here? It's probably not necessary given the posts/month currently, but I suppose it's something to keep in mind.
    • Anyone got a link to Lemmy/KBin/ActivityPub Haskell library that I could use to write a bot, or some other way to schedule a post for yyyy-mm-01T00:00:00Z ?
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    haskellweekly.news Issue 392

    News about the Haskell programming language from 2023-11-02.

    cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/haskell/t/592680

    > News about the Haskell programming language from 2023-11-02.

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    haskellweekly.news Issue 391

    News about the Haskell programming language from 2023-10-26.

    cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/haskell/t/572329

    > News about the Haskell programming language from 2023-10-26.

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    haskellweekly.news Issue 390

    News about the Haskell programming language from 2023-10-19.

    cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/haskell/t/552503

    > News about the Haskell programming language from 2023-10-19.

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    haskellweekly.news Issue 389

    News about the Haskell programming language from 2023-10-12.

    cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/haskell/t/533616

    > News about the Haskell programming language from 2023-10-12.

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    He doesn't upload frequently, and it's usually nice info for an Arkansan. :)

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    The hosting provider I'm using makes ATM 9 much easier, but I'm still trying to decide what to install for my "holiday" Minecraft server. My friend group tends to play a lot between Halloween and New Years, but then we get busy with other things.

    Which of these will have enough, but not too much, content. All of us have played modded before, though it's a mixed bag which mods we each know.

    If there's a different pack that I should be looking at, I'm down. I think these were picked because they have the new EIO.

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    haskellweekly.news Issue 388

    News about the Haskell programming language from 2023-10-05.

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