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  1. Comment on Pennies are being canceled and the US Mint won't make any more. What does that mean? in ~finance

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    The transition between the older 95% copper/5% zinc composition and the newer copper-plated zinc (97.5% zinc/2.5% copper) material occurred mid-1982, so pennies from 1982 may be either of those...

    The transition between the older 95% copper/5% zinc composition and the newer copper-plated zinc (97.5% zinc/2.5% copper) material occurred mid-1982, so pennies from 1982 may be either of those compositions. Everything 1983 and onward has been copper-plated zinc (with the exception of specific mint sets from 2009 that were struck in the same 95% copper/5% tin and zinc alloy that was used for the very first Lincoln cents in 1909).

    There are so many interesting varieties of the Lincoln cent, both intentional mint varieties and unintentional errors. I've yet to find a free online resource with public domain photos listing all the varieties and their details, though. Maybe the increased attention that penny collecting is receiving makes this a good time to start build something :)

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  2. Comment on Pennies are being canceled and the US Mint won't make any more. What does that mean? in ~finance

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    I enjoy sorting through pre-1982 pennies to find as many mint varieties as I can. Once you've been through enough, it's very easy to discern between copper and zinc pennies by color and weight....

    I enjoy sorting through pre-1982 pennies to find as many mint varieties as I can. Once you've been through enough, it's very easy to discern between copper and zinc pennies by color and weight. Copper pennies usually have a darker golden color and don't show the same signs of oxidation and decay that zinc pennies do.

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  3. Comment on Does anyone have a digg invite code I can get ? in ~tech

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    I'd love to check it out as well if anyone is willing to spare an invite!

    I'd love to check it out as well if anyone is willing to spare an invite!

  4. Comment on How do you manage separate development environments on your computer? in ~tech

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    I guess this will be my final push to start going through the Nix documentation. Are you fully using NixOS or just the nix tool on another OS?

    I guess this will be my final push to start going through the Nix documentation. Are you fully using NixOS or just the nix tool on another OS?

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  5. Comment on How do you manage separate development environments on your computer? in ~tech

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    Very interesting, I appreciate how they even included a setup for running as a non-root user. Thanks for sharing!

    Very interesting, I appreciate how they even included a setup for running as a non-root user. Thanks for sharing!

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  6. How do you manage separate development environments on your computer?

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    Hello Tildes! There's an open-source app I would like to work on and contribute code to, but it uses a toolchain that I'm not terribly familiar with (Deno), and I'm not a huge fan of letting tools...

    Hello Tildes!

    There's an open-source app I would like to work on and contribute code to, but it uses a toolchain that I'm not terribly familiar with (Deno), and I'm not a huge fan of letting tools like this have full access to my system and files.

    Do any of you use a system to containerize different development environments for software development? I could definitely use a standard Docker/Podman container to run the app, but I'm not aware of a good system where you can edit a program's source in an IDE, make changes, build the app, open a local port, and save your new code, all within a sandboxed environment.

    If anyone uses a system like this or something related, I would love to hear about it and share ideas.

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  7. Comment on Fortnightly Programming Q&A Thread in ~comp

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    You called? (Edit for future readers: I used to use the handle @example.)

    You called?

    (Edit for future readers: I used to use the handle @example.)

    3 votes

  8. Comment on new.css - a classless CSS framework to write modern websites using only HTML in ~comp

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    Hello tildes! It's finally time to come out from lurking. I published my new project new.css a couple of days ago and the response was totally unpredicted—the project has received almost 900...

    Hello tildes! It's finally time to come out from lurking. I published my new project new.css a couple of days ago and the response was totally unpredicted—the project has received almost 900 GitHub stars today alone. I'd love to discuss the project with you all and get your thoughts!

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