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If I were to try to do this without symlinks, maybe I'd try mount


Have you been around people who say "fake meat?" Every time I've heard it, it was said derisively and implied fraudulent meat.


Yes. I’ve heard loads of people refer to it as fake without an implied pejorative meaning.


The people I know that like it use artificial and the people that won't try it use fake.


Fascinating. Not all people are the same. Who’d have thought?


Definitely. Quirks like this are also what makes AI difficult.


The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog


I think Windows comes with nmake


Nope, you have to install developer tools to get it. Usually that means visual studio. Historically they also ship compilers and command line dev tools as a separate package, I'm not sure if that's still a thing.

Nmake is also not very compatible with gnu or bsd make.


> Historically they also ship compilers and command line dev tools as a separate package, I'm not sure if that's still a thing.

It's still a thing: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/


Note that while the download page and tools don't perform license checks, you are supposed to have a visual studio license to use that package[1]. It is intended as an easy way for VS customers to install tools on build machines and the like without doing a full VS install, not a way for non-customers to get a free compiler. Individuals can get a free license to VS community that would include this package[2], but commercial use requires a paid license.

[1] https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/#build-tools-fo...

[2] https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/community/


On Windows, win+number will open the item in the number position in your bottom bar. I rarely use it for the same reason as you.


They also complained about pyrex not being durable because they dropped it. My pyrex has lasted 2 decades of use and I think it's an example of a durable product.


Corning invented a particular kind of borosilicate glass about a hundred years ago and called it PYREX™. They left the consumer goods market about twenty years ago, divesting the brand. Nowadays that name might refer to either borosilicate glass or to soda lime glass.


Depending on the capitalization.

The good stuff is PYREX.


It's not that simple. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/exploding-pyrex/

> What's Undetermined

> Whether Pyrex switched from using borosilicate glass to tempered soda lime glass only after Corning sold the brand to World Kitchen in 1998.

> In a January 2011 article on glass bakeware, Consumer Reports stated that they were unable to determine exactly when major U.S. manufacturers (including Pyrex) switched


That’s the most amount of word salad garbage I’ve ever seen on snopes.

The government hasn’t determined that soda lime glass is unsafe? Shocking.

I wonder why chemists use borosilicate? Hmm.


You can still get it in America from a company called icedteapitcher. It’s the made-in-France true PYREX and is metric.


Pyrex replace borosilicate with cheaper and far less temperature resilient soda lime glass decades ago.


I had the same gear fail. It's called a worm gear and is, indeed, intended to fail before damaging the other gears. They're much cheaper if you buy a non-oem part. I bought one from amazon for ~10 USD.


Yeah, this was a time when Amazon was in its infancy. :-(


You guys seem to be more informed than me since I didn't use the pebble. Do you know how the pinetime compares?


In spirit it's extremely similar, but as it doesn't have large finances behind it, it lags behind in terms of features.

It's totally usable, but it doesn't have a vibrant app store like Pebble did for example.


Pinetime is new to me, going to dig in more. But at first glance, I'm not sure I like the IPS display, honestly. The always-visible e-ink Pebble display was one of the biggest features to me.


I currently use no-ip free tier for this. My only complaint with no-ip free is that I have to login and verify that I am still using it after a while. Does Duck DNS do this too?


They do not. Wouldn't be paying them via Patreon if they did.


Doesn't seem to do.


A lot of the items described are problems in ontologies


Yeah. A tag is a predicate. Sub-tags are implication (male author => author). Tag aliases are equivalence (implication in both directions).


isn't it super-tags that are implication? A male author (sub-tag) implies it's an author (super-tag). But an author does not necessarily imply it is a male author.


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