DrBoring

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by DrBoring 5y ago
Some mostly off-topic textbook stories: My dad used to be dept chair at the college where he worked. Because of his title, textbook publishers would send him copies of their books for consideration. He would give them to me and I would sell
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by DrBoring 5y ago
I'm ignorant in the matter of food scarcity in USA, but I would say that hunger is far from solved. USA may produce more food than it can consume, but there is still the cost of production and delivery of food. Hunger will still be a t
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by DrBoring 5y ago
I like to think that a society that can control antimatter has solved the problem of scarcity. Which would hopefully end most human discontentment and hostility.
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by DrBoring 5y ago
Will we be able to see the deorbiting satellites as shooting stars?
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by DrBoring 5y ago
I find that I am qualified to offer the following data point. My daughter is 8. She enjoys both Legos and Minecraft. She mostly plays Minecraft in creative, but recently I've been playing through survival with her (first time survival
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by DrBoring 5y ago
But where is elsewhere?
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by DrBoring 5y ago
> Bonus points for bogus names like "Starbucks Wifi" or "McDonalds Free Wifi" in the middle of the highway. Is the goal to make Google Maps publish a Starbucks/McDonalds in the middle of the highway? I can'
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by DrBoring 5y ago
Yes that would be simpler, but less fun in regards to the deception at hand. I suppose a simpler-than-deep-fake method which would achieve the same level of deceptive-fun would be to have your identical twin do the interview for you.
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by DrBoring 5y ago
Coming soon: a service that will have ringers do Zoom interviews on your behalf while using real-time deep fake tech to look and sound just like you. All the pieces of the technology required to do something like that may already exist toda
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by DrBoring 5y ago
I'm not exactly sure what result I aim to achieve. Surely not to advertise that I'm rich. It seems to me that wealth would attract metaphorical flies. Maybe it's just the fun of the thought of placing two similarly shaped cyl
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by DrBoring 5y ago
If I ever get super stupid money rich, I'm gonna buy a decommissioned lighthouse and put it on top of a decommissioned missile silo.
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by DrBoring 5y ago
Did anyone else catch the response to this FAQ ? > Can I harvest free energy or power an "off the grid" electrical system with a Tesla coil? > Many people have realized our fiat monetary system and corrupt political leader
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by DrBoring 5y ago
Thanks for response. I agree, their religion probably does a lot to hold the Amish society together. It sets out a common set of rules that everyone plays by. There is also the strict punishment of social shunning for not following the rule
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by DrBoring 5y ago
In times of frustration with the modern Internet, I've often sympathized with the Amish. For those unfamiliar, the Amish are a religious-society that avoid the conveniences of modern technology. They live in houses without electricity,
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by DrBoring 5y ago
> Whether you are agreeing or disagreeing, but there's not a lot of actual conversation, just... reactions. It sort of reminds me of when I was in kindergarten, and every child in the class wanted to put in their 2-cents, regardless
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by DrBoring 5y ago
> to prevent super long passwords from eating up CPU time Is that why websites sometimes have low maximum password length requirements ? Ex: must be less than 20 characters.
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by DrBoring 5y ago
This visual imaginations comment reminded me of Dr. Temple Grandin, who who written books about her own visual imagination https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_in_Pictures I think my own mind is visual. I can prototy
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by DrBoring 5y ago
I still support a full stack web app that I wrote for a client 10 years ago. Whenever I revisit a section of code that I haven't looked at since then, I always have to re-learn the code's logical structure and function. I'm s
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by DrBoring 5y ago
That's the same way I count cards. https://youtu.be/DeazgPwP3D0?t=41
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by DrBoring 5y ago
I too found the response to Atlas Shrugged comment to be oddly agressive. I always find it curious whenever people hate on the book. I want to ask, what about the book was so offensive? I would summarize the story of Atlas Shrugged as the c
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by DrBoring 5y ago
I occasionally (yesterday in fact) experience this on StackOverflow. I'll be looking for an answer and come across one of my own answers or comments that I have no recollection of writing. It's always pleasant to say hello to your
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by DrBoring 5y ago
I once saw this in use at a restaurant to drive ceiling fans. I looked up some videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-uCvwEq3co https://youtu.be/1IWTM1rNCnw?t=78
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by DrBoring 5y ago
I've dreamt of a captcha to prove that one is a robot, such as: solve this complex mathematical equation in 15ms.
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by DrBoring 5y ago
I wonder how effective this CharaChorder is at preventing RSI (repetitive stress injury). It still seems to have the same flaw as QWERTY in that it requires you to use your small finger muscles, which are more prone to RSI than say your bic
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by DrBoring 5y ago
I suppose my original sentiment was that HN gives me the I'm-bored-and-need-a-distraction-fix better than reddit. It's like reddit and HN are medicines that treat the same ailment, and HN is cherry flavoured while reddit tastes of
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by DrBoring 5y ago
I think this is the 2nd time I've seen a recommendation for to lobste.rs I just took a quick look. Their user invitation tree ( https://lobste.rs/u ) is interesting. I had a similar idea for the community app I've b
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HN makes Reddit less interesting
12 points by DrBoring 5y ago|11 comments
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by DrBoring 5y ago
There was also the backlit Gameboy Light, which was only released in Japan. It was essentially a Gameboy Pocket with a electroluminescent back-light. It glowed green like those old Indiglo wrist watches. I've got one, but sadly the LCD
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by DrBoring 5y ago
I'm surprised that Lycos still keeps it running.
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by DrBoring 5y ago
Opps. I spelled it wrong. It's DMG: Dot Matrix Gameboy. It's what the Gameboy enthusiast community calls the original Gameboy. The name comes from the model number: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy#Devel

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