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by Strom 8y ago
The Windows 10 version removed microphone volume control. You would think that this is a core feature for Skype, but apparently not. To make matters even worse, Skype now not only automatically chooses the microphone volume but also changes
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by Strom 8y ago
Bloomberg offers 10 articles for free, so it would seem that they aren't asking for $35 for 3 visits.
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by Strom 8y ago
That depends heavily on both your own and your doctor's knowledge/ability. If you're unsure if you can safely extract value from these articles then you should only listen to your doctor.
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by Strom 8y ago
Another common version of this is: video game project turning into a video game engine project, usually not even reaching the actual content phase.
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by Strom 8y ago
> Though I guarantee you're overestimating the number of touch ups Is this really your experience? Because that would be surprising. I see the damn snapchat eye enlargement on pretty much every second female dating profile photo n
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by Strom 8y ago
You can bypass the paywall with some referrers like Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=LINK_GOES_HERE
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by Strom 9y ago
Sure, systems like this have been used at least 15 years by online poker bots. Poker software has some of the strongest anti-cheat systems in the world. The arms race didn't stop there, I know PokerStars moved on to behavior modeling a
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by Strom 9y ago
> The Hollywood mention is the non sequitur, because Hollywood does produce lots of original work. Hollywood producing lots of original work is exactly why I chose that example. You seem to be agreeing with that, but somehow at the sam
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by Strom 9y ago
Regular speaking is definitely important. I'll add a related advanced tactic. Switch your inner monologue language to English. So whenever you're thinking with the help of language, do it in English. This will go a long way toward
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by Strom 9y ago
> It's a sad brag, because it's conceding entirely the ability to become good at making original things. That's a non sequitur. Being good at dubbing/tracing doesn't concede originality any more than Hollywood
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by Strom 9y ago
Sure, that's possible. A pretty similar scheme is possible in pretty much every other EU country as well. In Estonia you can take your sweet time with transferring the money offshore, in other EU countries you have to do it yearly so i
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by Strom 9y ago
Not sure if there are additional requirements for e-residents, but for the standard end of the year accounting requirements you don't need to have cash. There's a general net worth requirement, which can pretty easily be filled wi
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by Strom 9y ago
The Apple chips are manufactured by TSMC & Samsung.
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by Strom 9y ago
True but the ESTA application has been asking for social media accounts for some time already. I was definitely surprised to see them explicitly asking me for my github account. Luckily it’s optional right now and I got approved without giv
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by Strom 9y ago
> UWP is the way forward, like it or not. In Microsoft's plans perhaps. I don't know of a single person, offline or online, who uses UWP. I've seen some UWP apps benchmarked by magazines, that's about it.
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by Strom 9y ago
> This is an example of bad technology failing its user. I don't think that's fair to say. You can literally import PDF files in Word via the most common File > Open dialog. [1] You can also save as PDF in Word via the
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by Strom 9y ago
I also think reproducable builds are very important. Vendoring has solved this for me in Go even before it was officially supported. My main fear is that when people get used to the idea that their master repo doesn't have to have a ba
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by Strom 9y ago
> People break library interfaces, that's just a fact of life. Sure, but in my experience it happens at least 10x as frequently in NPM than with Go. It's really common for me to update all my Go dependencies and everything ju
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by Strom 9y ago
Psychedelics permanently increasing your openness to experience sounds true to me based on my own experiences, however not in the way that the author seems to be fearing. It's not some subtle unconscious change. It's a conscious
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by Strom 9y ago
There seem to be two different talking points here and I think we should separate them. First is the one that psychedelics affect neuro-chemistry in a radical way. We can also include the radically different perspectives here. I can confirm
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by Strom 9y ago
I have most of the symptoms described by the OP, including a severe difficulty focusing on movies/books. For me, it's basically that my mind wonders if I'm not very interested. It's my mind's default mode of operati
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by Strom 9y ago
The problem is that most of these medications have bad side-effects and only suppress the symptoms. It's not that these drugs are inherently evil, but that they are erroneously used way too early and often. The biopsychosocial model [1
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by Strom 9y ago
> eating meat only can be sustainable. Not sure how long, though. I've heard of several people who have eaten nothing but meat for decades and swear by it. It's fascinating. There's a 2 hour podcast with a seemingly smar
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by Strom 9y ago
Only technical people have a clue what virtualization even means. Generally speaking, gamers haven't even heard of the word. Thus whatever virtualization soulution is used must be pretty much automatic. However if Windows already autom
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by Strom 9y ago
> where people don't run More accurately it's where people don't send their tracking data. Plausible to also say that it's where people don't own this tracking software/device at all. However it seems like
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by Strom 9y ago
> Eventually you'll be firing good people. Not good enough to be in the top 98% though! I think the issue here is that we don't have a good way to even assign ranks. It's either a social game of politics, or some sterile
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by Strom 9y ago
Can you share any examples of what type of data they shared that is going to cause problems? Seems like a very non-revealing post to me.
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by Strom 9y ago
I have 18 years of programming experience and it's definitely still true for me. [1] Unless I get some brain degenerative disease, I fully expect to keep improving at least until I'm 80 years old. I've also seen this echoed b
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by Strom 9y ago
The final walk around habit is great. It's even better if routine checks like these are part of a checklist you follow. When performing habitual actions it's possible to get a minor interruption/daydream and accidentally skip
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by Strom 9y ago
Nordea is headquartered in Finland and even has a Finnish CEO. I think it's fair to call it a Finnish bank.

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