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by NikkiA 3y ago
It's much more likely that your TV suffered in-transit knocks and bumps that rendered it out of alignment, and too out of alignment to be able to be re-aligned.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
Russia had many successful lunar landers before apollo even got near the moon, to say '[it] landed in the trash can' seems incredibly stupid.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
s/figma/pigma/ ... of course.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
One of the things that I loved about ISO9001, sure, it made every sysadmin action something that made police paperwork look 'light', but it ensured you didn't hit this kind of thing, or if you did, it was an instant gross neg
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by NikkiA 3y ago
What exactly do you think the IRA achieved?
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by NikkiA 3y ago
> suicide quadcopter RC drones (carrying e.g. grenades); and other extremely-low-cost impossible-to-restrict solutions to “leverage” ordinary weapons grenades are illegal to own for a civilian in the US, so that situation isn't that
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by NikkiA 3y ago
One of my earliest memories is of a 'giant' snake-like worm. It turns out it was a slow worm at about their full size, 50cm long, when I was a toddler.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
Sakura figma series glide well, and are what I settled upon. But I needed to go down a few steps of tip size to 0.2mm to achieve the same line width as my previous favourite of pilot v5 hi-techpoint.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
They're fishing for someone donating the hardware free.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
Which is ironic given 'velcro' is a deliberate portmanteau of 'velours crochet'
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by NikkiA 3y ago
Also 'groove pool' as a term comes from acid pro, which predates ableton (and has always been able to extract groove timing from audio as well as midi)
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by NikkiA 3y ago
Eh, I clicked on it wondering what kind of physical lego-compatible bricks they were offering, so I'm not so sure.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
Every day I get dozens of 'your account was hacked and we used your webcam to record videos of you jacking off' bitcoin 'blackmail' spam to various accounts that have been either hack-harvested or the company went bust a
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by NikkiA 3y ago
UTC <> EST is a 5 hour difference, with UTC being ahead of EST, and 05:14 UTC would be 00:14 EST, so just after midnight. 08:14 EST would align with 05:14 PST though
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by NikkiA 3y ago
You're supposed to know your speed at all times, stating that you weren't aware you were speeding is admitting to driving without due care, possibly reckless driving, if the officer wants to be an ass.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
I haven't had any yet, age 52. I thought I had them when I was young, but I learned they were just a form of phosphenes.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
IIRC the Swiss assisted suicide orgs all specifically exclude depression as a valid reason anyway.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
Old enough to have been submitted to HN multiple times already.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
> But I also say /etc like "e-t-c" rather than etsy I've never heard anyone use anything other than either 'slash e t c' or 'slash et cetera', I think I'd probably have an immense urge to punc
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by NikkiA 3y ago
> Obviously, one solution to the problem is that DHCP leases on planes should be drastically shorter, like at 1 hour intervals. Secondly, the number of leases should be drastically increased. Or just hit the 'internet reset' be
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by NikkiA 3y ago
WTF you blaming me for?
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by NikkiA 3y ago
30 Years ago Watcom would be ripping through Borland's assumed monopoly and rapidly becoming the most used C/C++ IDE, only to have Visual Studio do the same to it in 2-3 years time.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
> The strawberry cake has an extra layer of strawberries in the bottom, replacing a red jelly / jam layer. Also, some of the blur it removed from the strawberries on top are clearly a dusting of icing sugar that it simply discarded.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
The used mac market is too risky, it's too easy for the seller to remote disable it, or it be locked into bullshit like this. I'm surprised anyone still dares to buy used.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
I remember installing Win32S sometime in (earlyish) '93 to be able to run an app that had only been released for NT beta; seems so far away now.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
For me it was: BASIC→Z80→6502→6802→6805→68000→8086→Pascal→... And honestly, 6502 was the odd one out that felt like programming in mud.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
I figured putting 'less-confusing' in scare quotes might have been enough to signify sarcasm, I guess HN needs /s now.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
They word that as vaguely as possible, far more vague than the actual law states, but basically no, only if the stream is the equivalent of watching live on a BBC channel. They're just hoping you interpret their vague nonsense as liber
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by NikkiA 3y ago
I'm really glad they switched to this 'less-confusing' name system than the old confusing i3,i5,i7,i9 system.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
They still hang out by the local corner shop, sit on the telephone switchbox, and chatter noisily, here. Not so much now we're in winter, obviously, but there are still teens out there some days.

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