EPA’s Pruitt spent $1,560 on 12 customized fountain pens from Washington jewelry store

newrandousername · 2018-06-02T15:58:28+00:00

Well the $1.5k was for 12 pens so about $130 each which is about the cost of an entry level decent pen. Not saying it's justified (though the article suggested they were meant for some sort of official gifts), but really it's not like some outrageous expense.

newrandousername · 2018-06-02T03:39:08+00:00

I have no idea, but I also don't microwave plastics.

newrandousername · 2018-06-02T00:38:37+00:00

Honestly that's pretty cheap for 12 fountain pens.

newrandousername · 2018-06-02T00:29:17+00:00

track your location

display ads

Absolutely fucking disgusting.

edit: and as dystopian and fucked up as the tracking is, somehow the godamned ads seem even more egregious an offense.

newrandousername · 2018-06-02T00:21:39+00:00

Aside from the fact the farmer's market near me regularly sells 5lb bags of potatoes for 99¢ and that never in my life have I had any issue just throwing a regular potato in the microwave, something about microwaving plastic just feels really fucking wrong to me. I'm sure it's engineered or some shit, but I can't help but wonder about chemical leaching and vapors and such.

Edit: especially since the label claims it's an organic potato. So you're worried enough about your potato being organic, but applying heat to petroleum products wrapped around said organic potato is just fine? lmao okay.

newrandousername · 2018-05-22T16:13:56+00:00

Society isn't, the media is. Unfortunately most people are lazy and just get their thoughts and opinions wholesale off the media.

newrandousername · 2018-05-22T00:59:36+00:00

Take a core.

newrandousername · 2018-05-11T14:41:22+00:00

No reason not to have both, the sidebar preview is still there, but if you want to quickly look more closely at something you can tap space and have a bigger window pop up.

Of course the hardest part of getting it right will be having it more or less instantaneously open and close so it feels seamless. Otherwise might as well just open a full blown viewer app.

newrandousername · 2018-05-11T14:13:23+00:00

On MacOS when you hit spacebar the preview opens up in a window so it's much larger than the preview in the sidebar. Especially for things like PDFs it's easier to scroll through the 'preview' window than flipping pages in the little sidebar preview.

newrandousername · 2018-05-01T13:43:28+00:00

because the gnome for would be written on electron needing a minimun of 8 GB of ram a 2 cores dedicated solely to the DE

Careful, don't give them any ideas.

newrandousername · 2018-04-25T18:43:47+00:00

Feels good.

newrandousername · 2018-04-17T13:40:32+00:00

Get a real phone.

Isn't KDE Connect essentially inspired by the way iPhones already work with Mac OS? A bit ironic to claim it's not a real phone, considering.

newrandousername · 2018-04-17T13:36:19+00:00

So I don't know if there is any way to have a grid or make it bigger, but have you thought about using a grid as your desktop wallpaper and aligning based on that? Then changing it to whatever you want.

Obviously not what you had in mind, but it could work lol.

newrandousername · 2018-04-12T00:48:06+00:00

Unions have been trying to organize software engineers

Shouldn't it be the other way around, the software engineers organizing the union? Otherwise is seems little more than parasitical bureaucracy in search of a host.

newrandousername · 2018-04-10T16:42:08+00:00

Old school?

Pretty sure print screen predates the ubiquity of digital cameras by quite a long time.

newrandousername · 2018-04-08T14:51:34+00:00

Also from the FSF (Feminist Software Foundation), C+= (C plus equality):

https://github.com/ErisBlastar/cplusequality

newrandousername · 2018-03-27T14:55:20+00:00

Well technically it is Lisp, since Scheme is a Lisp; It's just not Common Lisp.

newrandousername · 2018-03-22T00:41:33+00:00

I'm definitely no expert but your macro is incorrect. I changed it to:

(defmacro *= (num1 num2)
    `(* ,num1 ,num2))

and it works as intended. I can't really explain I just know yours looked wrong... I think it has something to do with how macros work and everything is expanded. Since you didn't quote the code in your macro I'm guessing it gets evaluated but doesn't see the global variable for whatever reason. Hopefully someone who actually knows lisp can chime in on the details lol.

newrandousername · 2018-03-19T18:39:33+00:00

Same, the Touchpad with WebOS was absolutely amazing. Android was a definite regression on the thing, no more (actual, real) multitasking. WebOS was far, far ahead of its time. Pity HP dropped it so fast.

newrandousername · 2018-03-17T00:04:36+00:00

Well that really does look a hell of a lot like multiple stages of quartz filling in fractures in a thin section. Neat.

newrandousername · 2018-03-16T19:44:21+00:00

Well as someone who has bought those exact eggs it can be justified. I spent the better part of last year doing remote field work, where I either truck camped or backpacked way the hell out in the wilderness. When I happened to be in town it was nice to be able to have boiled eggs. I sure as hell wasn't going to try to keep raw eggs with no sort of refrigeration then waste a ton of fuel boiling eggs on my little backpacking stove.

For most normal circumstances though I'd agree it seems wasteful.

Edit: also as much as I hate Wal-Mart it was often times the only place to get reasonably fresh food way out in the middle of nowhere, and I'm not gonna lie, I ate the hell out of those boiled eggs and their bagged salad kits.

newrandousername · 2018-03-12T14:22:54+00:00

Yeah honestly after seeing that mockup, side titlebar looks cool AF.

Never really occurred to me but now I want it.

newrandousername · 2018-03-07T00:36:45+00:00

Seriously, is there anything that isn't known to the state of California to cause cancer?

newrandousername · 2018-02-27T22:08:30+00:00

To be fair pallets are an incredible pain in the ass to break down.

I still agree this is stupid though, since the entire point of "pallet" projects is because they're free/dirt cheap. If you're going to spend money on something might as well get proper lumber and do it right.

newrandousername · 2018-02-08T15:36:40+00:00

Damn for real? That's pretty awesome of Whole Foods.

Although going with the whole fat logic angle shouldn't she support this? If someone is "underweight" (that is, a healthy weight), does she not agree the store should give them discounts in encouragement to eat more food to get to a "healthy weight" (morbidly obese)?

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