Doxin

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by Doxin 2y ago
As far as I know mad cow disease is a prion disease. Fungus has nothing to do with it, though I do believe the prions mostly collect in nerve tissue so feeding cows the waste meat from cows is a risk factor.
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by Doxin 2y ago
Even if you keep your bike in it's factory configuration, you've gotten used to it. A new bike will always feel wrong for a while.
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by Doxin 2y ago
I dunno about other people, but cramming a 40hr workweek into 4 days seems bananas to me. On the other hand from experience I can say that doing a 32hr workweek in 4 days is, in fact, the bees knees.
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by Doxin 2y ago
Normalization of deviance[0] I imagine. Wouldn't be the first spaceship to kill people because of that. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalization_of_deviance
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by Doxin 2y ago
One of my favorite podcasts (well there's your problem) on youtube will invariably pin a comment complaining about the podcast. Generally it's the sort of complaint that amounts to "I don't like this podcast so it should
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by Doxin 2y ago
So having autism, this doesn't seem right to me. I can think abstract circles around loads of allistic people on the topic of social situations, but that still doesn't really help me be good at social situations unless it's
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by Doxin 2y ago
I'm not super familiar with C++, but I imagine you'd need some chicanery to access privates, while in python you can just use them by name.
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by Doxin 2y ago
Using double underscore is advised against, and the name mangling is largely considered a mis-feature these days. Most style guides will tell you to use a single underscore to mark something as not for public consumption. Of course neither
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by Doxin 2y ago
Bread is especially spongy, so I for sure throw that out the second it has a whiff of mold. More solid things like cheese though? mold doesn't seem to grow very deep on that.
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by Doxin 2y ago
Never mind that unless the cheese is exceedingly moldy you can just cut off the mold and keep going. I'd be throwing out a right fortune in cheese if I threw it out at the first signs of mold.
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by Doxin 2y ago
Assuming the white background skews in the same way a good trick is to make a copy of the image, blur it VERY widely, and divide the original image by the blurred version. This essentially removes any low frequency color/brightness shi
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by Doxin 2y ago
> Given the ... personalities of the typical skateboarder, that public infrastructure will also usually get populated with graffiti and stickers. So while I can't speak to your local skater culture, over here people doing graffiti a
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by Doxin 2y ago
It'd significantly increase surface area between the layers, wouldn't it? I can only imagine that makes for a lot better layer adhesion.
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by Doxin 2y ago
I don't think I'll ever be able to mention the french without going "myaaaaah! the french!" again.
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by Doxin 2y ago
> The reality is that the failure mode absolutely sucks. Dropping one and having it survive is a neat party trick, but all it takes is one break for the observer to completely swear off the experience forever. I'd much rather swee
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by Doxin 2y ago
We have a bunch of "duralex" glasses that are similarly resistant. We went to buy some more a while ago and I'm sad to say all the new ones have shattered since. The old ones are still going strong though!
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by Doxin 2y ago
I think the parent poster is referencing "holes", a book and later a movie. The plot involves kids being sent to a punishment camp where they are made to dig holes in the desert.
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by Doxin 2y ago
> Would that even be allowed? GDPR specifically carves out an exception, allowing companies to store data for the sole purpose of making sure it stays deleted. I don't think generally the idea is to store all the "deleted"
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by Doxin 2y ago
That'd be the AIVD over here, not the FBI, and I'm fairly sure they wouldn't need to bug my remote control if they wanted to listen in.
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by Doxin 2y ago
The law is written such that the opt-out has to be a free choice. Demanding payment is not a free choice. In fact having the opt-out behind a maze of weird toggles when opt-in isn't, is not a free choice either. The EU has decided that
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by Doxin 2y ago
It's from the word dijk and the suffix -stra, meaning roughly "In the neighborhood of a dike" One can only presume his forebears in the Napoleonic era lived near a dike.
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by Doxin 2y ago
My TV remote has a built in microphone. I feel like Scotty every single time I use that feature.
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by Doxin 2y ago
Using a lathe isn't super loud unless you're doing it poorly or have some horrendous interrupted cut.
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by Doxin 3y ago
They are significantly more likely to arc bigger distances. A 200kv line will arc twice the distance a 100kv line will. You'd need bigger separation between the different phases on a tower, you'd need longer insulators, you'd
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by Doxin 3y ago
Life insurance usually doesn't pay out on suicide. Whether that's suicide or "suicide".
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by Doxin 3y ago
Nonzero chance it's still connected to a phone line or some such.
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by Doxin 3y ago
> DECT in general (the successor to CT-2 which Rabbit used) is still going strong, though in some bubbles people are shocked to hear anyone uses anything other than a mobile phone. A lot of modern baby monitors use DECT. Works much bette
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by Doxin 3y ago
> Also, how do you deal with food sticking to it? How can you make pancakes or crepes in it, for instance? I mean... you just do? Pancakes and crepes especially work VERY well in a cast iron pan. You'll know the crepe is done becaus
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by Doxin 3y ago
I think at least one novelty here is that there's multiple "bend points" it can detect without needing a fiber for each bend point.
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by Doxin 3y ago
> cast iron seems virtually impossible without a sandblaster. What are you on about? You scrape the pan and get most of the grease out with a paper towel. For the incidental big clean you just wash it by hand with water and soap, but the

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