StrangeATractor

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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
When covid first started I bought a few hundred, and I definitely managed to get a bad batch in there. 99% were fine, but one box had like 4 break. YMMV.
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
Just out of curiosity, how active were you during recovery?
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
If he isn't he'll need to find new work anyway. Imagine searching that guy's name while looking for an attorney.
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
That guy has some work to do on his resume.
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
I have a neighbor who was looking at those plastic boards some people will use instead of wood for a patio. He goes to the factory for this big presentation with an audience and they start talking about the boards being made from recycled p
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
I love the idea of Gemini, but I feel like you could do the same thing, but better, with git and plaintext or markdown, maybe make a specialized client for browsing/rendering these git pages. "Gemini" as a protocol and name
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
If you're interested in this sort of thing you'd probably like David Kahn's The Codebreakers . It's pretty much the authoritative source of what's publicly known about the history of cryptography. I believe he had
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
> Definitely, it's one of those technologies that needs to be dumb and reliable because of how life and death it's use is. This is why a lot of people still use revolvers instead of automatics. Doesn't get much simpler.
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
Weird fact about Stalker, they were shooting in disused USSR factories that had just been left as-is -- a lot of people on set got cancer not much longer after shooting, likely from being around so much industrial waste. It's also way
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
Depends on if you pay before or after you receive your food.
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
Smartphones are incomparable with other forms of media. You don't have a TV within 3 feet of you 24 hours a day that you can pull out at any time. A TV doesn't ding to get your attention. TV channels aren't individually tailo
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
A lot of comments in this thread remind of cigarette companies dismissing health concerns with tobacco. In my circle of friends and family I've seen the majority of them go from being people you could talk to and spend time with to peo
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
I expect it'll happen in my lifetime, there was a senator a few years ago making a push to ban the $100 bill because he felt it enabled crime by allowing larger amounts of physical currency to be moved in a smaller package. I'm pe
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
> I'd put in the same category as falling from a great height Yeah, onto the surface of the sun.
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
Baudrillard is cackling from the grave.
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
Hah, I'll have to give this a read, I've got Wholeness and the Implicate Order on my reading shortlist.
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
I think Bruce Schneider recommended that most people should just keep their password in their wallet.
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
Ugh, another reason to not trust the legal system. Sorry for your troubles.
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
Probably should have lawyered up. Illegally gathered evidence is supposed to be inadmissible in court. At least in the US. People get off on murder charges because of this, like that lady that killed her infant but the cop searched her tru
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
Have you tried searching through your call history on a Google phone? It's awful. You'd think they'd have a solid search built in but it's nearly useless. Especially considering you're usually searching for that num
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
In many of the burns which I've read about that get out of control, it's because the agency doing it (USFS, usually) had a plan to do it on that date and they didn't consider the actual conditions on the ground before they li
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
The only gripe I have about this is that it appears to be dependent on a microsd card for storage. Is there an alternative? I've been burned one too many times by corrupted storage on those to go there again. Other than that, I want fi
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
Fun story, I was in a loaner car from a dealership which had lane assist. I was driving in the desert around a corner against a cliff so I couldn't see around it very well. Right around the corner there was a small boulder in the road
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
What? You download a blocklist. What gets sent back to ublock?
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
I'd like foldables if they had two separate screens which acted as one, like a miniature laptop with an extra screen where the keyboard would be. The bendy display makes me think I'll wear it out pretty quickly. Pretty sure Micros
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
Ugh, dealing with Minecraft/Microsoft account management is a nightmare. I think somebody really just set out to make it as difficult, obtuse and frustrating as possible. How could Mojang make it painless but Microsoft make it "go
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
It's a 4D gambit, think of all the lotr movies that will get filmed there without copyright restrictions.
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
TBF there's not many nice pictures that could be taken of Birmingham. Half that city is an apocalyptic hellscape.
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
They were GPLv2 for a while but changed course. I'd use the fork going forward: https://github.com/LibreSprite/LibreSprite
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
I had some Odroids...about 9-10 years ago. What're the options like for operating systems nowadays?

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