Infernal

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by Infernal 4y ago
I am reading this thread as a parent and terrified - when people say their parents were emotionally unavailable and very immature - how can I make sure my kids are not thinking this about me in a few years?
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by Infernal 5y ago
Well, can you help us identify these situations by sharing some of your notes?
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by Infernal 5y ago
Composting knowledge, I like this. I find that with papers, books, audio CDs, video game cartridges, etc., it is easier to filter, to know what you have, and to get rid of what you don't use as you go. In some ways, the default of a ph
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by Infernal 5y ago
This explains a strange interaction I had on FamilySearch. I knew they were owned by the Mormons, but I was doing some cleanup (think deduplication/obvious typo correction stuff) on older records in my line, when someone on the site me
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by Infernal 5y ago
So I’ve worked retail during a power outage, granted it was roughly 15 years ago, at a Blockbuster. We used a pen and paper list of transactions (literally a cash register) along with necessary info (membership number, movie purchased or re
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by Infernal 5y ago
For those on mobile: https://web.archive.org/web/20170803105201/https://wiki.c2.c...
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by Infernal 5y ago
Thanks, I hate it
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by Infernal 5y ago
This is an interesting observation - I decided to look it up, and indeed the first presidential cabinet (including the president) had five members: the others were the Secretaries of State, War, and Treasury, and the Attorney General. http
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by Infernal 5y ago
> basic tenants Just in case it’s helpful - “tenets”
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by Infernal 5y ago
So if I understand correctly, M1 Pro has half the efficiency cores as the M1 (4 vs 2), and despite those cores running over double clock speed on the M1 Pro, the M1 Pro still takes longer to complete multi-threaded tasks at the lowest QoS (
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by Infernal 5y ago
It's really expensive but they throw the rest of a new machine in with it as consolation. EDIT: Sibling beat me by a couple minutes. DO great minds really think alike?
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by Infernal 5y ago
On that first link is a date, it displays for me "February 3 19122" Took a look to see what's up with that (I'm not familiar with javascript) but it looks like he was using a function that returned the number of years si
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by Infernal 5y ago
Only a handful of vignettes from 3-5 but the excitement of riding in the front seat was enough to cement that one.
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by Infernal 5y ago
Interesting that you would name a newspaper of record as a valid outlet for government news/updates. I feel like Facebook could make an argument for being essentially that today - after all, it is where the eyeballs are, which is why p
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by Infernal 5y ago
I read the grandparent the same way you did at first. GP is talking about spider silk in all three of those points.
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by Infernal 5y ago
Gone for me as well
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by Infernal 5y ago
Maybe state dependent? I’m not yet 40 and recall being excited that I could finally ride up front when I turned 3.
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by Infernal 5y ago
>Stopping people like this takes a lot of work and often some personal risk. I don't recall where I first heard it, but the principle that it takes 10x the amount of energy to refute bullshit as it does to generate it certainly seem
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by Infernal 5y ago
> I'd rather have everyone fed, clothed, housed and medically taken care of than having a low chance of "winning" Where do you believe the food, clothing, housing, and medical care/technology will come from in this hy
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by Infernal 5y ago
Mind sharing year/make/model of car? That's crazy.
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by Infernal 5y ago
Where can one apply?
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by Infernal 5y ago
> I've never, not once, got an applicant that said, "I don't know Lisp but I'd love a job with an interesting language." I don’t know Lisp and I’d love a job with an interesting language - but it would never occu
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by Infernal 5y ago
Yup. And then charge you a dollar a page to make copies.
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by Infernal 5y ago
First reaction - Oh no no no. How can I unread this comment? Second reaction - so uh where in Oklahoma exactly?
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by Infernal 5y ago
> Practically speaking my colleagues are all very smart (academics, PhDs all over the place) and should be able to detect bullshit bingo. Who says they didn’t detect it? Welcoming, diversity, strategic, collaboration - these are religiou
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by Infernal 5y ago
“To ensure accuracy, do not disturb the spreadsheet before it is finished recalculating.” Sage advice indeed.
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by Infernal 5y ago
https://websites.pmc.ucsc.edu/~pkoch/EART_206/09-0303/Hays%2... Somehow, your link was missing a hyphen.
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by Infernal 5y ago
In which I suspect I’ll be able to find a few full cans of grape soda (though dented of course) and inexplicably, an entirely unmolested first aid kit.
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by Infernal 5y ago
Or Lithium! https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/08/18/a-chemical-hunger-i...
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by Infernal 5y ago
Agreed, my laptop now has 2 USB-C, 1 USB-A, a microSD, and a headphone jack. I would absolutely swap the second USB-C for a USB-A, and the microSD for an SD. Or some days an ethernet jack.

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