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by Lewton 5y ago
> there is no way VR will bulk up your arms in a way that a simple dumbbell won't do better in 5-15 minutes per day, right? Right, targeted exercise will bulk you up more > running will exercise parts of your body that VR won&#x
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by Lewton 5y ago
Anecdotally, 90% of the "machines" I've met, also had a history of exercising significantly more than the average joe
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by Lewton 5y ago
But google used to be able to handle cases like this without quotes...
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by Lewton 5y ago
I had my first DDG beats google moment yesterday I searched for ‘low more guitar sound’ and top result was an awesome YouTube video recreating the guitar sound of Low - More (song with amazing guitar tone) Went to my other computer that def
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by Lewton 5y ago
> I assume the issue is poor decision making about rule conflicts. E.g., what's higher priority: Consistency, or exact-match? E.g. if "photo" auto-completes to "Photoshop", should "photos" auto-complete
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by Lewton 5y ago
I meant that the average techie person is much more likely to know what the creator intended for the pronunciation and are therefore more likely to say jif I personally don't know anyone who'd pronounce it with a j sound and I sev
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by Lewton 5y ago
> Oh? Why do you say that? I mean, I doubt knowing what the creator said has that big of an impact but maybe I'm wrong on that. Are you gonna argue that there exists a significant number of people that would pronounce it jif with no
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by Lewton 5y ago
How can you call it lack of consensus when it’s 80-20, especially considering it’s an extremely skewed sample (techies are way more likely to pronounce it jif) I think it’s pretty obvious that there’s a strong consensus it’s a hard G
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by Lewton 5y ago
No, it’s what pushed me to delete WhatsApp
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by Lewton 5y ago
FWIW a couple of friends of mine really enjoyed tenet watching it in the cinema They all wanted to rewatch it so we saw it in my home cinema and I put on subtitles, and everyone agreed that once they could actually understand the dialog, it
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by Lewton 5y ago
Most of your incredulity seems to be rooted in Red Notice (probably) not being a good movie. But I really don't think that factors into Netflix viewership as much as you'd like. Netflix is treated more as "friday night tv&q
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by Lewton 5y ago
The biggest complaint from Netflix subscribers is that they run out of things to watch. Netflix literally popularized the concept of “binging” I do not find it unbelievable at all that new high-profile content gets viewed by a third of sub
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by Lewton 5y ago
I’m happy the hn comments are nitpicking, I’m not particularly well versed in database schemas but while reading it I was going “???????” and it’s good to know I’m not going crazy
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by Lewton 5y ago
The FTL communication the aliens used in the first book left a really sour taste in my mouth, especially because the plot could easily have worked without it
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by Lewton 5y ago
I just searched for "ebay" on google and the top result is an ad for ebay.com?
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by Lewton 5y ago
Do you really think the bias against drinking (that might or might not have religious roots) is stronger than the massive bias that comes from the vast majority of people enjoying alcohol a lot?
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by Lewton 5y ago
It does not sound like you've taken 1x his "correct dose"? The effect of melatonin is NOT linear. Taking too much reduces the effect of it
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by Lewton 5y ago
I'm still regularly meeting up with a group of ex-colleagues from a company I left 5 years ago
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by Lewton 5y ago
As a gamer who puts in about 10 hours a week into gaming, avoids ‘state of the art’ games, and only plays games my top of the line desktop from ten years ago can run, steam on linux has been amazing There’s enough great games on there now,
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by Lewton 5y ago
What’s your hourly wage and how much time do you spend preparing food?
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by Lewton 5y ago
I guess you could hope that it fails, or you could hope that it succeeds as described in the whitepaper. The long term goal is getting Chia so decentralized that buying HDDs to plot chia will be unprofitable
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by Lewton 6y ago
Where do you see anything about APR? Kiva claims they're zero interest loans
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by Lewton 6y ago
> I find it so irritating that I always keep it disabled. Ah, if there only was a way to disable it fully. Even when I disable Siri, it still randomly decides to call people when I boil a pot of rice
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by Lewton 6y ago
Another anecdote. I'm someone who's made "sacrifices"[0], giving up alcohol, leave parties early to make sure I always go to bed at the same time (no exceptions), getting my diet in order, exercise etc etc. Literally pri
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by Lewton 6y ago
I know of at least one company that’s slowly dying because their product is irreparably tied to oracle Literally impossible to get any new clients to agree to run on oracle
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by Lewton 6y ago
Just a side note, everyone I know who’s had a symptomatic case (n=3) were out for more than two weeks. Not that it changes your point much. Having to keep getting booster shots that knock you out for a day or two is not a great situation
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by Lewton 6y ago
What? It’s the opposite He likes doing scrum when it’s actually scrum and not “scrum”
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by Lewton 6y ago
Older people with COVID bad enough that they end up in the hospital usually stay there for 3-6 weeks
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by Lewton 6y ago
I agree that it’s crooked to block buying of gme stock, but the resulting margin calls are well within the risks you agree to once you start trading with borrowed money
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by Lewton 6y ago
This is not about reading a TOS, this is about borrowing money from a brokerage and then losing them on the stock market

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