ThinkingGuy

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   by ThinkingGuy 8mo ago

   The focus on a small set of core vocabulary is one of the main principles of the Pimsleur method, along with a strict spaced repetition format. When I travel to a new country I always spend about 15-20 hours beforehand doing the 30-minute P
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   A $15M Mansion Designed Around Security(wsj.com)

   2 points by ThinkingGuy 8mo ago|1 comments
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   by ThinkingGuy 8mo ago

   I was hoping someone would mention CoyoteLinux. It was my residential router for several years in the early 2000s. My 'disaster recovery plan' consisted of a second floppy disk (which fortunately I never had to use).
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   by ThinkingGuy 8mo ago

   Sorry, I meant to type "Alphabet"
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   by ThinkingGuy 8mo ago

   This one worked for me: Apple II 6502 Assembly Language Tutor (1983) Richard E Haskell
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   by ThinkingGuy 8mo ago

   Google AI (owned by Meta) favoring YouTube (also owned by Meta) should be unsurprising.
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   by ThinkingGuy 9mo ago

   E-1, according to Snopes, citing the Washington Post: https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/07/02/melania-trump-einstei...
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   by ThinkingGuy 9mo ago

   Presumably under the War Powers Resolution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Powers_Resolution#Provisio...
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   by ThinkingGuy 9mo ago

   If you're not already familiar, you sound like you may enjoy the works of Douglas Rushkoff: https://rushkoff.com/ https://teamhuman.fm
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    by ThinkingGuy 9mo ago

    I reread “The Screwtape Letters” by CS Lewis for the first time since high school and appreciated it even more. Although it’s written from a Christian point of view, the principles are applicable to any moral framework.
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    by ThinkingGuy 10mo ago

    Are there any images (or actual demos) of the actual user interface? Every variant of search for "Fedora repository screen shot" just brings back instructions for taking a desktop screen shot on the Fedora operating system.
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    by ThinkingGuy 10mo ago

    Supposedly this "trick" works on airline flights, too.
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    by ThinkingGuy 11mo ago

    CGP Grey has an informative video on the City of London: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrObZ_HZZUc
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    by ThinkingGuy 1y ago

    You might try posting this question on https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/ They specialize in finding and identifying obscure childhood memories like this. Good luck!
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    by ThinkingGuy 1y ago

    Authentic haiku need a season word ( kigo ). It's true; look it up.
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    Handling the Loads (2001)(news.slashdot.org)

    3 points by ThinkingGuy 1y ago|0 comments
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    by ThinkingGuy 1y ago

    Mine, too. 1. Wikipedia for general knowledge questions ("What languages are spoken in Nigeria?") 2. Wolfram Alpha for time/date/number questions ("How many days until 2026-07-01?") 3. Mapquest for driving dire
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    by ThinkingGuy 1y ago

    Also relevant: The Two Ronnies - "Four Candles" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi_6SaqVQSw
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    by ThinkingGuy 1y ago

    See also: The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)
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    by ThinkingGuy 1y ago

    When I started college I thought I wanted to work in television production. One semester of interning at a local TV station cured me of that.
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    by ThinkingGuy 1y ago

    I would be, if they weren't so embarrassingly bad!
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    by ThinkingGuy 1y ago

    I was there in the 1980s; writing your own Infocom-style text adventure games was a common project among my peers. There are probably lots of unfinished (or even finished-but-unshared) games out there on old floppy disks in closets. I have
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    by ThinkingGuy 1y ago

    My initial thought was: ambiguous regulatory environment. Not being physically located the US, the EU, or any other sovereign territory, they could plausably claim exemption from pretty much any national regulations.
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    by ThinkingGuy 1y ago

    I've been very happy with Kaffeine, installed on my regular desktop PC, for recording shows. https://apps.kde.org/kaffeine/
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    by ThinkingGuy 1y ago

    Don't forget prescription drugs (mg).
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    by ThinkingGuy 1y ago

    For more background, see this Esquire Magazine interview with Teller from 2010 https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/interviews/a15810/tell... (Scroll down to the paragraph that begins "When Teller was i
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    by ThinkingGuy 1y ago

    The largest item on their revenue chart seems to be "corporate sponsorships." You know, the companies in all those totally-not-commercials you hear on your local non-commercial stations. https://www.npr.org/about-n
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    by ThinkingGuy 1y ago

    Ironically, it doesn't work on a text-only browser. All you get in ELinks is: Link: preload Link: preload
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    by ThinkingGuy 1y ago

    More like 54TB https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tile_disk_usage
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    by ThinkingGuy 1y ago

    There's already a project to serve the use case you're describing (school in a disconnected village): Internet in a Box https://internet-in-a-box.org/ They provide offline access to Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, Proje