Nekhrimah

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by Nekhrimah 4y ago
> effected. Just FYI, this should be affected. https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/affect-vs-effe...
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by Nekhrimah 4y ago
> Euthanasia for someone exposed to lethal radiation should be the recommended treatment. That was my thinking too. The poster child for humane avoidance of suffering.
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by Nekhrimah 4y ago
Overwatch's current avoid player system has a limit of 3 players, and only for 7 days per player - and no way to extend unless you run into that player again. Also, it's only avoid as teammate (which was alluded to in the top snip
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by Nekhrimah 4y ago
Vans may be slightly harder to hide than phone repair equipment.
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by Nekhrimah 4y ago
This happened in New Zealand with possums. Originally intentionally introduced to begin a fur trade industry in the 1800s [0], by the 1960s the Government was undertaking eradication efforts. One of these was a bounty, which resulted in pos
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by Nekhrimah 4y ago
I've only recently learned of this site, and being a NZer, with the name Kiwi in the title I assumed some sort of connection to NZ. But it looks like there isn't? It's American based, and when the NZ govt made a request relat
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by Nekhrimah 4y ago
Likely the Inflation Reduction Act.
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by Nekhrimah 4y ago
Watched a few, not really my style. Thanks for the suggestion though.
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by Nekhrimah 4y ago
Scott Manley. Started with Kerbal Space Program videos, now one of the leading freelance Space YouTube channels: https://www.youtube.com/c/szyzyg Tim Dodd, the Everyday Astronaut. Bought a Russian space suit, started w
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by Nekhrimah 4y ago
>Google+ died because it was forced on everyone that had a Google and a Youtube account Today I have two Youtube accounts despite every effort to not end up with a real name G+ account. And while all of my main activity is on my non-real
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by Nekhrimah 4y ago
There is a provision for negative leap seconds. In practice, this has never happened.
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by Nekhrimah 5y ago
> The best info we have is that it was a bio lab release Did you perchance mean wasn't a bio lab release?
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by Nekhrimah 5y ago
Ok thanks.
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by Nekhrimah 5y ago
The desktop app is indeed horrible. To start with, a substantial part of the right hand screen real estate is permanently to your social media presence. Don't want to connect anything? Still can't dismiss this entire waste of spac
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by Nekhrimah 5y ago
Is there an actual list of affected devices anywhere? Or, because this is software, is it effectively every Samsung Galaxy phone within a date range?
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by Nekhrimah 5y ago
Half way through your first example I was thinking it sounded a lot like New Zealand. And then, it was! In that case, it's also affected by (from numerous anecdotes on twitter et al) that a lot of case managers either don't bother
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by Nekhrimah 5y ago
Not really anything new for those that have been following this closely. Reasonable roundup for those that only check in occasionally. And a very impressive backdrop.
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by Nekhrimah 5y ago
> the bay area It's always interesting that anyone who lives in a "Bay", refers to their local as THE Bay. For this phenomenon, which is documented as circling the globe, who knows where this could be!
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by Nekhrimah 5y ago
This post details intentional abuse of Chrome's dominant browser position to push the AMP technology onto the web. > Google throttles the load time of non-AMP ads by giving them artificial one-second delays in order to give Google A
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by Nekhrimah 5y ago
> You can get to net zero carbon emission by shifting it to someone else or dumping it somewhere it isn't measured or is a temporary sink that will eventually re-release. Often referred to as tragedy of the commons.
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by Nekhrimah 5y ago
> Video intro, promo for about 60 seconds, then main video start. Even better are ad sections that are coloured differently to that of the main video. A good example here is Chain Bear [0]. Chain Bear's colour style is based around
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by Nekhrimah 5y ago
>>"Is it worth paying for YouTube?" >I think that largely depends on your personal ratio of income vs perceived value of time vs annoyance by ads. What boggles my mind, is the number of YouTube channels that have jumped o
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by Nekhrimah 5y ago
This is an amazing mission, and I'm really looking forward to following their progress. I am disappointed however, at casual factual errors being stated by the presenters. They produced a graphic showing that this mission will be targe
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by Nekhrimah 5y ago
At the time the design was locked in, there was nothing even planned that would be capable of supporting a crewed servicing mission. They have however included a grapple bar so that there is something to connect to should there be something
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by Nekhrimah 5y ago
> complete eradication of COVID which by all expert account is impossible. Several countries succeeded in elimination of community transmission, some more than once. Sadly, global coordination is just never going to allow for that at sca
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by Nekhrimah 5y ago
> this fiasco Your comment is informative, but, come on. This "fiasco" is supply in demand in action. When it (occasionally) favours the workers, it doesn't deserve to be described so negatively.
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by Nekhrimah 5y ago
My understanding based on the blog post was that it was cautionary due to the threat of legal action. It seems clear that there isn't any doubt - it's caution due to the stakes.
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by Nekhrimah 5y ago
Dvorak also designed left and right handed keyboards [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_keyboard_layout#One-han...
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by Nekhrimah 5y ago
Pity about the live video streaming problems, but looks to be a fantastic outcome. Looks like they may have lost a few of the lower windward tiles there.
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by Nekhrimah 5y ago
Nasa Spaceflight's stream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPNvB5ComFw are also really good at explaining, answering viewer questions, and tracking the progress of the countdown.

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