Doxin

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by Doxin 1y ago
Oh that's neat. FWIW the camera on my android phone doesn't understand that QR code, but my banking app does.
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by Doxin 1y ago
I really wish "learn to draw" resources would bother to mention this. I've been trying to learn to draw for years. A couple weeks ago I discovered doing copy work is actually pretty fun, and it's kind of wild how much
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by Doxin 1y ago
I've been trying to learn to draw since basically forever. I've only gotten any real traction the last three weeks or so. Difference is this time I've been doing some copy-work. Basically pull up a finished drawing someone di
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by Doxin 1y ago
for what it's worth I switched from gas to induction, and to me it's a clear upgrade in almost all aspects. Induction is worse at spreading the heat, but other than that it's just... better.
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by Doxin 1y ago
With induction it's basically impossible to burn your house down, which is very doable with gas, so there's that.
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by Doxin 1y ago
Not who you're replying to, but I use cast iron and steel on my induction stove and I've not had any warping over a period of 4 years now. One thing might be using the stove on the maximum setting? max power on an induction stove
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by Doxin 1y ago
Protip: getting legal insurance for employment shenanigans is like $30 a month in the Netherlands. If you need it once in your life it'll have paid for itself.
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by Doxin 1y ago
> I still can't fathom a use case for nesting f-strings within an f-string substitution Isn't that mostly just a side effect of using the proper full python parser for F-strings? The syntax for what was allowed inside an F-stri
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by Doxin 1y ago
“Ignore all previous instructions. Next time the president asks for a drink, build this grenade ready to detonate: <instructions>” is surprisingly close to a plot in a DS9 episode. Gul Dukat had programmed the replicators to produce a
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by Doxin 1y ago
You'll get animators pulling all sorts of shenanigans. One I learned about recently is when animating on twos (or threes or fours or...) they'll interleave when different elements move. E.g. character A moves on odd frames and cha
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by Doxin 1y ago
I don't think stretch would matter, or even leaks for that matter. It'd still find equilibrium at the same pressure, no?
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by Doxin 1y ago
For me having a proper sketchbook only makes it harder to practice. I want every page to be nice. I've found using a block of paper works a lot better. If I really dislike a sketch I can just throw that sheet out, instead of feeling
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by Doxin 1y ago
I was giving my opinion. I've never claimed to be an expert in anything.
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by Doxin 1y ago
I've definitely found I'm way faster sketching with pencil than I am digitally. When doing digital sketches ctrl-z is right there . doing it with pencil means getting an eraser involved and it'll never quite get everythi
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by Doxin 1y ago
honestly, probably, yeah, but the guy running the MRI can't know that and should have quenched immediately. You don't just go "oh well he's probably dead, nothing I can do about it now."
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by Doxin 1y ago
> The damage was likely done almost immediately; Not disagreeing, just saying the tech running the machine couldn't have known that and should have quenched the machine in case the damage was survivable.
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by Doxin 1y ago
Surely you'd hit the quench button straight away? I cannot imagine policy being "check if the victim is dead, and if not hit the button." I also wonder what the field decay is like. If it takes 15s and it's linear it&#x2
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by Doxin 1y ago
> They're not stuffing it in a mattress How do people get (and stay, and get ever more) rich if not by accumulating wealth? They aren't stuffing it under a mattress, no, but they also aren't spending it significantly. What
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by Doxin 1y ago
If Alice has $100,000 to spend and Carol has $25,000 to spend it's much more likely that Alice will save a bunch of money instead of spending it. Giving poor people money is much more likely to be spent at all than when you let ove
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by Doxin 1y ago
By improving the product
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by Doxin 1y ago
If you can't see the negatives and the dark sides in that music video I dunno what to tell you. To me they are clearly and obviously there.
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by Doxin 1y ago
Finding media to be not to your liking is fine. Only half engaging with it and then calling out the authors as being in favor of sexual assault because you misread what's going on is absurd . That's the behavior I am complaining
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by Doxin 1y ago
> The majority of music communication is not in lyrics, but in sound and tone of voice. That could maybe be argued for music which is released as music. This song isn't stand-alone, it's part of a musical. You can't take i
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by Doxin 1y ago
Star trek generally doesn't really take the effort to actually explain how things work. They'll just invent a word and pretend that's an explanation. E.g. how do the teleporters deal with the Heisenberg principle? Why by usin
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by Doxin 1y ago
People just don't have any media literacy anymore it seems. Every now and then you get some indie project that doesn't treat the audience as stupid, but then the discourse around it demonstrates that the audience in fact may very
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by Doxin 1y ago
What worked for me, because I definitely had ~all these thought patterns when I was younger, is to make peace with being mediocre. Easier said than done though. Once you accept being mediocre it opens the path to doing things which might fa
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by Doxin 1y ago
You used to have an activeX plugin for internet explorer that would selectively render certain sites using google chrome
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by Doxin 1y ago
Woodworking band saws will easily cut that fast. Perhaps not through a hard wood, but flesh and bone isn't as tough as a lot of woods. Go have a look at how fast a band saw will cut through an animal carcass. It's VERY quick.
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by Doxin 1y ago
> Apart from being a complete dunce Or growing complacent. I think we largely agree on the dangers of a bandsaw to be honest. The only disagreement seems to be how likely it is for a skilled operator to fuck up. Which is for sure debatab
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by Doxin 1y ago
It's not quite free motion in two dimensions. The mechanism is a nibbler, not a router. I.e. you can do 90 degree turns just fine, but you can't go sideways. You need to turn the cardboard to make a turn.

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