DarknessFalls

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by DarknessFalls 5y ago
I have concerns about dying daily, and perhaps hourly. I don't consider myself a depressed person, but someone who is at a philosophical crossroads. I can't come to terms with the finite nature of our existence and I am not sure
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by DarknessFalls 5y ago
It's so good in fact, it makes me wonder if this was the Wuhan Virology lab's penance act.
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by DarknessFalls 5y ago
A bit off-topic, but what podcasts do you listen to?
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by DarknessFalls 5y ago
I find that intermittent fasting for just 12 - 16 hours can be helpful. If you stop eating around 7pm and don't have anything but water or bone broth until 11 or so the next day, that's going to help you burn a lot of calories. A
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by DarknessFalls 5y ago
My main point was that insurance companies should shift the financial burden to people who refuse to get vaccinated. And hospitals should prioritize the vaccinated in ICUs, even for elective procedures.
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by DarknessFalls 5y ago
Insurance does raise rates for people who are obese, quite significantly. So the distinction here is that they aren't taking similar action for people who refuse the vaccine.
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by DarknessFalls 5y ago
The visual cortex does image interpolation for crying out loud! Are we supposed to rely on a teleprompter for clarification of what we're looking at? This is a ridiculous argument. Yes, bicubic interpolation primitively aliases betw
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by DarknessFalls 5y ago
This is covered by a former MS employee in an episode of Dave's Garage. Worth a look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-7PjunSxLU
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by DarknessFalls 5y ago
Why is a multivitamin complex necessary after large doses of B vitamins? I thought that B vitamins are just water-soluble and your body removes the excess.
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by DarknessFalls 5y ago
"Would now be a good time for a colorful metaphor?"
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by DarknessFalls 5y ago
Correct. I think we're entering an era where Star Trek is largely forgotten. As opposed to two decades ago (right column): https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/icq-2001
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by DarknessFalls 5y ago
To hunt a species to extinction is not logical. Edit: Because the topic is about communicating with Whales and my response was to a comment about hunting them, I thought it would be appropriate to reference something Spock said in Star Trek
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by DarknessFalls 5y ago
He was a general tech enthusiast. There is another video where he talks about wanting a 32-bit computer called a Fortune, which runs Unix - this being in 1983. From this video, I gather that he’s interested in Lotus 1-2-3 for tracking budg
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Candid Footage of Stanley Kubrick Attempting to Learn DOS 2.0(youtube.com)
10 points by DarknessFalls 5y ago|2 comments
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by DarknessFalls 5y ago
Several responses have mentioned removing anonymity from the equation to enforce good behavior. I think we could accomplish something similar just by having a global SSO that works for any website, totally decoupled from your actual identit
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by DarknessFalls 5y ago
>> The biggest mistake was making it trivial to forge email headers. Thanks to VoIP, we've seen a surge in phone numbers being spoofed with robocalling. I'd like to see some form of authentication applied to this and to ema
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by DarknessFalls 5y ago
Dennis Interactive was the site I would go back and visit again and again, picking apart the way they handled transitions and animated text. https://youtu.be/Z3PbiIUrZRc
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by DarknessFalls 5y ago
There were several iterations of commercialization that took away the quaintness of the internet, little by little. But some innovations along the way also counterbalanced it with new ways for content producers to express themselves. When
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by DarknessFalls 5y ago
> "information you never act on is useless information." Sometimes the act of processing information is useful in itself, as a mental exercise. It's not just about training your eyes, it's about keeping the gears oil
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by DarknessFalls 5y ago
Well how many points would you assign to that story?
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by DarknessFalls 5y ago
Self-awareness in the context of one's adherence to "influencers" in culture. If you read the article as I did, and constantly thought: "Could this apply to me in some way?", then you are appropriately testing your
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by DarknessFalls 5y ago
It would be better if the article described it as a general cognitive decline without a diagnosis of AD. A lot of symptoms we attribute to AD could very well be caused by other factors which are reversible, such as inflammation, lack of sl
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by DarknessFalls 5y ago
Does it matter? There will people raiding through the Capitol with slip knots and plastic binders, ready to have a kangaroo court. I don't know how much of the footage you've watched, but it was anything but a peaceful protest.
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by DarknessFalls 5y ago
So they poached Apple's Safari team to build Chrome and then they poached their iPhone team to build Android.
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by DarknessFalls 5y ago
Imgur could have pivoted to becoming like Reddit faster than Reddit was able to pivot to incorporate its own image repo. It's all user-submitted content. One was either a link or a blurb of text, the other was imagery.
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by DarknessFalls 5y ago
Well yeah, this is what Darth Vader did to heal his extensive burns and lacerations in his Meditation Chamber.
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by DarknessFalls 5y ago
I had a batch file just to swap autoexec.bat and config.sys with *.bak counterparts depending on the game.
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by DarknessFalls 5y ago
How do you know it's not the brain fog telling you everything's going to be ok?
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by DarknessFalls 5y ago
No, sorry. Trump owns the pandemic. He could have been sane, followed scientific advise and acted more quickly. Instead, try snorting bleach. Get some UV light inside the body. Hundreds of thousands dead and a good amount of that toll
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by DarknessFalls 5y ago
We're still too busy choking on Covid over here in the U.S. to give Trump a pass of any kind. Hundreds of thousands dead, unnecessarily.

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