Arrath

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by Arrath 3y ago
OTOH, Vista and an interaction with a digitally distributed edition of Jagged Alliance 2 with bolted on DRM somehow resulted in it wanting a new registration key every time I launched the game. This drove me into looking for a vanilla execu
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by Arrath 3y ago
Fair point about SAD, knowing plenty of people in far north Alaska. But there is a huge difference between "23 hours of darkness in the winter" and "On the beach so often your skin resembled tanned leather by 32 years of age&
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by Arrath 3y ago
By whispers you mean the insane ravings of terminally online madmen.
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by Arrath 3y ago
I've heard that espoused in reference to their diet, not the sun exposure of their more southerly located environ.
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by Arrath 3y ago
https://www.grunge.com/1301397/lottery-winners-murdered/
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by Arrath 3y ago
> Furthermore, I'm puzzled as to why TikTok would be on government-issued devices in the first place. Shouldn't a standard MDM block non-essential apps by default? This has been my question every time one of these articles abou
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by Arrath 3y ago
Ah my arch-nemesis, the unskippable, rigidly timed "How to use the controls" tutorial that requires me to click ok to advance through every control, at the beginning of every single one of the several dozen mandatory, annual tra
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by Arrath 3y ago
I once bought a triplet set of luggage from costco that came packed inside each other nesting doll style. Outer bag was pristine. Upon getting it home I opened it up to find the inner two bags had various scuff marks and baggage claim tags
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by Arrath 3y ago
Whether or not it's true, it also persists amongst reactor operators in navy subs, according to my cousin (said reactor operator for a navy sub during his time).
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by Arrath 3y ago
Yup, I've seen this myself. My introductory plan at 69.99/mo (or 79 I can't recall) was good for the first 6 months or maybe a year, and then it steadily crept up in $10 increments every quarter or so for the next 4 years I h
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by Arrath 3y ago
> Cyberhacking groups aren’t vessels, and what they are doing isn’t something that would be piracy under international law without being under the umbrella of government war efforts. Well obviously the cyberspace and information superhig
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by Arrath 3y ago
Talk about a perverse incentive. Imagine if a pilot attained ace by shooting themselves down enough times
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by Arrath 3y ago
This applies to more than just hiring, too. As a lowly engineer trying to get subcontractor invoices paid I've had some very Kafkaesque struggles.
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by Arrath 3y ago
That or the HR person sits the interviewee down and wanders off assuming the desk owner will come back soon with a fresh cuppa. Cut to some time later, the interviewee's skeleton is sitting there still waiting. Maybe I've read too
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by Arrath 3y ago
I just went through this struggle myself when my girlfriend's fitbit charge (2?) finally bit the dust after years of abuse and rough handling. It seems the market has moved on and your only options are smartwatch-lite gadgets for a goo
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by Arrath 3y ago
PBS Newshour was watched every night by my parents, no need for a 24hr drip feed of FUD.
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by Arrath 3y ago
Well hopefully that's the most terrifying thing I watch all year. Wow.
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by Arrath 3y ago
Huh, neat. I think the last time I checked the coverage extent didn't go terribly far north of the US/Canada border.
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by Arrath 3y ago
Does Starlink service cover as far north as upper Canada or Alaska yet?
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by Arrath 3y ago
Likewise, my i7 920 continues kicking and handling most any random task I throw at it. I retired it as my daily driver in late 2018, but I sure got my mileage out of that thing.
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by Arrath 3y ago
Coil whine, if I had to guess.
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by Arrath 3y ago
That must have been an entertaining few minutes when you first made that discovery
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by Arrath 3y ago
Having been in a roll over accident, yes air bags saved me from braining myself on the door window (I quite appreciate that side curtain airbag now) but would have done sweet fuck all for keeping me actually in my seat during the events.
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by Arrath 3y ago
And it's had a consistent presence in Stranger Things on Netflix, helping expose it to a younger generation who missed out on the D&D moral panic, BG/NWN, the first movie, and so on.
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by Arrath 3y ago
As is mine, now. Back in the wild days of 2016 or so advice online said "just go get some melatonin and you'll sleep!" and the bottle said to take 1 or 2 an hour before you want to sleep, so off I went.
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by Arrath 3y ago
> I was curious how one gamifies the printed page, and it turns out this article isn't so much about books as it is social media. I've a little exposure to gamified reading: Last year my girlfriend got sucked in to some reading
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by Arrath 3y ago
I wouldn't be surprised, they were plain OTC 10mg pills but as I read in an article posted fairly recently on HN I learned that the required dose is often much, much smaller than that. My foray with melatonin was a few years ago and I&
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by Arrath 3y ago
Sounds similar to IRST (Infrared Search & Track) as used in combat aircraft.
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by Arrath 3y ago
Forget groggy, melatonin generally works as a sleep aid for me but also gives me wildly trippy and fucked up dreams. I stopped using it specifically because of that.
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by Arrath 3y ago
> After that time though, random calls were never fun like that. My aging father loves to play with the scammers any chance he gets. One day he got the classic "Grandpa! Oh thank god you answered, I've been arrested in Vegas an

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