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by 98codes 7mo ago
For my life, I don't understand the gestures for the 3D map. It would seem that I can ONLY manipulate that view by accident.
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by 98codes 7mo ago
I already did for October, November (twice), and December. Does that count?
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by 98codes 7mo ago
I'm a human who writes like that, because mobile and desktop OSs have made it easy—so easy—to include things like em-dashes and other formerly uncommon punctuation. I also come from an age where people were taught things like proper gr
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by 98codes 8mo ago
I'm a dad that stopped using facebook when I got divorced, so there's a bit of anecdata for you
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by 98codes 8mo ago
> assume There's your trouble. The real problem is that most internet users are setting their baseline for "standard issue human writing" at exactly the level they themselves write. The problem is that more and more people
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by 98codes 10mo ago
Uses for Siri: 1. Checking the current temp or weather 2. Setting an alarm, timer, or reminder 3. Skipping a music track or stopping the music altogether roughly 3 seconds after hearing the command, or 1 second after you assume it didn&#x27
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by 98codes 10mo ago
New Jersey Transit trains use something similar to this, but with many more segments https://www.flickr.com/photos/recluse26/286211358/
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by 98codes 11mo ago
I first started hearing about it 20 years ago, and was able to confirm it for myself earlier this year. In order to truly de-stress, to let go, you need 3 weeks away. Doesn't have to be a 3 week vacation, just 3 weeks of not thinking a
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by 98codes 11mo ago
I got one sentence in and thought to myself, "This is about discovery, isn't it?" And lo, complaints about plaintiffs started before I even had to scroll. If this company hadn't willy-nilly done everything they could to
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by 98codes 11mo ago
It's November, but I still had to make sure the date on the page wasn't April 1st.
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by 98codes 1y ago
> Why would we want to? Because crimes should be prosecuted. > Should we do the same to her? Obviously yes. Why would we give a damn? See also: Epstein files & Clinton. Release them, round him & the rest of them up.
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by 98codes 1y ago
Tech worker enthusiast: my whole house is smart, and has no connection to the internet.
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by 98codes 1y ago
Companies can architect their backends to be able to fail back to another region in case of outage, and either don't test it or don't bother to have it in place because they can just blame Amazon, and don't otherwise have an
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by 98codes 1y ago
Settings -> Accessibility -> Display & Text Size -> enable Reduce Transparency That made a world of difference for me.
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by 98codes 1y ago
This seems in the same direction as "doesn't everyone get sad?" for folks with depression. It's not a matter of this not being an experience for others, as much as it is how much energy it takes to get through it. "
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by 98codes 1y ago
In the United States (in 2020[1]), 100% of the population lived within 5 miles (8 km) of a local public library, with 99.1% of people living within 1 mile (1.6 km). That seems good enough to me. [1] https://www.gc.cuny.edu/c
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by 98codes 1y ago
Even the satire is too depressing at this point.
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by 98codes 1y ago
Interesting to see SQL Server not listed here, am curious whether it didn't have enough signal, or suffered from being a two-word product, with "SQL" being far too generic on its own.
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by 98codes 1y ago
Good insights -- people now have to have their party look good for their social feeds: insta, tiktok, whatever. I'm forever thankful that I never had to even think about that, and even if people were taking pictures, nobody gave a damn
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by 98codes 1y ago
I wonder how the levels of engagement compare between an extremely online GenX person, an average GenZ person, and an extremely online Gen Z person would look like.
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by 98codes 1y ago
I couldn't help to look and see if the company behind commercials that are burned into my brain from 40 years ago are still a thing, and lo, Hooked on Phonics is still going strong! This page[1] walks through the basics of phonemic awa
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by 98codes 1y ago
The Prusa XL[1] can be configured for 5 toolheads for fast, automatic switching ala factory robots. [1] https://www.prusa3d.com/en/product/original-prusa-xl-assembl...
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by 98codes 1y ago
It's funny -- before social media, I was more likely able to go find someone to chat with on IRC, a Usenet group, or some purpose-built forum. I knew where my friends were (ICQ, then AIM, then Skype, then GChat), and it worked. Now, it
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by 98codes 1y ago
It's there -- go to the jobs tab, answer the first time questions if they come up, and when you get the job list, click All Filters, and scroll the filter list down (admittedly, pretty far down); there's an "In your network&q
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by 98codes 1y ago
Primarily because LinkedIn has to bother with complying with their privacy policies and other T&Cs, and your site has none of that. Why should I take all of my data and give it to you, a rando on the internet? Is it being stored? Will i
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by 98codes 1y ago
There are definitely webcams that work with Windows Hello, and those that don't.
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by 98codes 1y ago
I'd love to have some form of solar work out cost-wise for me here in Seattle -- there just aren't enough sunny days throughout the year to make solar financially make sense, even over a 20-year period. At least from what the sola
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by 98codes 1y ago
Too far from the beach.
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by 98codes 1y ago
End users rarely pay for the program. Someone in their management chain OKs the purchase, or there's a larger purchase with a cross-charge to the department for the license cost. the problem comes when software needs to meet every whim
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by 98codes 1y ago
Sure, but if an endowment is paying for, say, the football coaching staff, then that leaves that much more money free in the general fund to pay for other things. If the endowment is paying for something that otherwise wouldn't be paid

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