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by 13of40 4y ago
Reminds me of the classic "every time I flush the toilet my computer reboots". (The toilet caused a water pressure drop that made the well pump kick in, causing a power drop, rebooting the computer.)
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by 13of40 4y ago
I had a Sony Glasstron in 1999 that was basically the same idea but TV-resolution instead of 1080p. It was fine for playing games and watching movies. A little bit alienating to anyone else in the room, though.
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by 13of40 4y ago
Just this summer I noticed that the magnets on the back of my barbecue thermometer were picking up a lot of magnetic sand from the local riverbank. I went back with a super-duper magnet-fishing magnet and found that probably 20% of the roc
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by 13of40 4y ago
For what it's worth, I've lived in the US since the 70s and I don't think I've ever encountered a gas dryer. Could be regional, though.
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by 13of40 4y ago
I agree. I just got hearing aids, and I've had to oil the hinges on several doors in my house.
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by 13of40 4y ago
If you've got an old computer that's "getting slow" you can go a long way by just maxing out the RAM and putting an SSD in it.
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by 13of40 4y ago
Which admittedly could have inspired the stories he sang about, but even so there were no paddlewheel steamships in that river when he was there. If there was a "river culture" he didn't give us a clear accounting of it. Ma
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by 13of40 4y ago
The interesting thing I came to realize after (unironically) listening to CCR for several years is that most of what John Fogerty was singing about was a 60s California kid's Tolkienesque fantasy of what life in the south would be like
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by 13of40 4y ago
I'm a little bit arachnophobic sometimes, and one of the most stomach turning moments I recall was going into the garage barefoot and having a spider the size of a small mouse run across the floor and bang into my foot. I've run
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by 13of40 4y ago
IIRC, the wife was a chemist, the husband was a physicist(?) and their kid is a Tolkein/D&D nerd who grew up and got a computer job. No factory involved. Before he passed away the husband showed me the arc welder he built and I g
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by 13of40 4y ago
I have some in-laws who were avid hikers in the USSR at a time when it was nearly impossible to get off the shelf gear. They showed me some of the stuff they'd made by hand, including a backpack with an aluminum frame and cloth salvag
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by 13of40 4y ago
IMHO, I think Hawaii would be a good place to do this. One issue with Hawaii for people used to living in other latitudes is that the sun basically sets at 6:00 PM every day, all year, so if you worked a nine to five job there you'd b
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by 13of40 4y ago
Compare it to something like voting. There's a vanishingly small chance that your personal vote is going to sway any issue. The benefits of voting are only felt at a societal level rather than a personal one. Lotto also has societal
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by 13of40 4y ago
It's a big world. I'm sure there's someone offsetting this by keeping a 2TB hard drive just filled with 'r's.
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by 13of40 4y ago
I've told this story here before, but a while back mine malfunctioned while it was at a body shop and started calling the SOS service repeatedly. After the police called me (and came by my house the next day) I contacted the dealershi
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by 13of40 4y ago
Since func2 doesn't have any parameters, the only thing that calling it will put on the stack is the return address. In fact, if it's the last function call in the code block, even that might get optimized out. The struct should
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by 13of40 4y ago
My Samsung TV has built-in apps for Netflix and Amazon Prime Video. Currently both of them fail with generic "oops, try again later" error messages despite things like YouTube working fine. My conspiracy theory is that they&#x27
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by 13of40 4y ago
When I was young, my collection of books ebbed and flowed based on how much spare cash I had. In lean times, I'd end up selling them, then eventually accumulate more. Once I got my career on a more consistent path, I collected books
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by 13of40 4y ago
> Bayeux War Cemetery I visited France a month or two ago, the first time since COVID, and ended up staying in Verdun for a couple of days. The sheer scale of the cemeteries, forts, battlefields, etc. is sobering. (At the same time, th
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by 13of40 4y ago
I would sooner put it down to the 500 no-name data collection companies that come up when you look at a website's GDPR/cookie disclosures. The ones with ever-so-subtle descriptions like "Matches online activity with offline
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by 13of40 4y ago
I'm sure everyone has a story like this, but I was in the Army back when they had the green and black blobby camouflage, and we were doing a training exercise against some California National Guard unit. My squad leader and I were at
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by 13of40 4y ago
Not sure if this is a pro-tip that could be repeated or not, but I've had a plot for five years. When I signed up they contacted me and told me about the extensive waiting list, and offered to tear up my check if I didn't want to
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by 13of40 4y ago
It looks like it might be made of carbon fiber as well, which tends to burrow into bare skin when you touch it. I definitely wouldn't take a selfie with my hand resting on it like that guy. I'm not sure they still do it, but Soyu
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by 13of40 4y ago
There's no road along the coast, just isolated port towns, and there's a massive barrier of mountains and glaciers between it and BC, so on a human scale it's essentially not related to mainland Canada.
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by 13of40 4y ago
The trick for that is to use two identical bowls, one as a mortar and the other as a pestal.
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by 13of40 4y ago
Several years ago I spent a few weeks in a country that as far as I could tell didn't have a "coffee culture" and all that was readily available was packets of instant coffee. I hunted around and found a vacuum packed brick
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by 13of40 4y ago
Unless that number is the only thing they're using to route the container, it's more like having two guys named "Joe".
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by 13of40 4y ago
Disappointed. There's supposed to be a frazzled cartoon cat with a cup of black coffee and the words "I've got one nerve left and you just stepped on it." (Come to think of it maybe I'm mixing memes.)
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by 13of40 4y ago
The closest contact that I've had with Einstein was meeting a woman in California in the late 80s who said he used to visit her father and play the fiddle with him. On the one hand it seems amazing that such a great man would take a b
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by 13of40 4y ago
I actually do this quite a bit, and I've found that getting a kit of USB-C-chargeable devices (phone, headset, and laptop) plus a battery pack and an effectively unlimited tethered 5G data plan means I can work from anywhere I please.

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