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by Vrondi 2y ago
What model truck do you have?
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by Vrondi 2y ago
Yes, #1 really is that bad. Especially for _small_ children.
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by Vrondi 2y ago
My first thought was of The Luggage! GNU, Sir Terry.
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by Vrondi 2y ago
I usually just use SMB shares within my LAN. It serves my modest needs. I have used WebDAV or FTP in the past. Depends on the specific use. Away from home, VPN is essential. Too risky to just forward ports these days.
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by Vrondi 2y ago
This is why I really wish Samsung did Android ereaders.
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by Vrondi 2y ago
Most CMS/blog apps have it built in. You might need to look up how to enable it (Drupal) or you might already have it enabled, even if you don't realize it (Wordpress). Check the documentation for your blogging/site content f
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by Vrondi 2y ago
WHOA! This is shocking ignorance for an HN user. RSS still exists for most of the web if you can be bothered to use it. It just isn't in your face anymore. I consume a lot of content through RSS to this day. You also don't need t
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by Vrondi 2y ago
...and you will not know if the answer is accurate or where it came from.
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by Vrondi 2y ago
The easy solution is to just not enable comments. Nobody has an account on my site but me. I'm endangering nobody's data but mine. No worries.
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by Vrondi 2y ago
The current moment is great if you never need to find an old book, fix an old car, fix an old house, identify an old variety of plant, or any of a thousand other things. Basically, if you have no other interests, responsibilities, or desire
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by Vrondi 2y ago
Nobody is owed validation. We want it, but we are not owed it. Learning to cope with that desire is one of the chief signs of maturity and wisdom.
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by Vrondi 2y ago
...these things still exist. They are not surfaced by search engines, because they are too small, and no companies are paying the search engines to do so. Most people stay inside their social network bubbles and never look at regular websit
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by Vrondi 3y ago
You're an idiot who doesn't understand that primary sources trump other citations.
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by Vrondi 3y ago
Why should anyone believe you, who is a third party on these things over the first-party primary sources? The primary sources disagree with you, and any Historian or Journalist worth their salt should value primary sources more.
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by Vrondi 3y ago
A quarter of an acre of trees is a "forest"? Whoa. As someone who grew up amidst a thousand miles of trees, I shall be laughing for a week to myself over such an idea.
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by Vrondi 3y ago
But before that, forums existed that let you subscribe to threads in your forum account. It's just that the mundane masses used them a little less than the geeky folk. All Reddit added was stealing the upvote/downvote thing from S
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by Vrondi 3y ago
I had one like this (Toshiba), and I did the initial setup, then blocked it at my router from ever accessing the Internet again. Next TV purchase was a different brand (TCL) that didn't require such stupidity.
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by Vrondi 3y ago
Install uBlock Origin on Firefox for him. Educate him not to click ads. Ever. If you emphasize long enough that clicking an ad can lose him his bank account and entire identity, it can sink in. I've spent years on this with my parents.
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by Vrondi 3y ago
In the first study: "In a secondary analysis, when coronary artery disease was added to the investigation, the risk of heart failure dropped from 34% to 27%, suggesting that coronary artery disease is a pathway through which daily mari
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by Vrondi 3y ago
But not for method of cannabis ingestion: smoking? eating? vaping? This isn't included and might make a huge difference.
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by Vrondi 3y ago
...and they will not keep my data in any sort of database to be hacked some day?
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by Vrondi 3y ago
HEVC is great for giving you quality in a smaller file size, for your local video files (due to being supported by more cameras and phones so far). AV1 has wider support for streaming video online at a higher quality (due to more browser su
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by Vrondi 3y ago
It is absolutely cultural. For example, most Historians believe that while certain times of the year were packed with grueling hard work, the average medieval farm worker had absolute hordes of time off compared to the average modern worker
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by Vrondi 3y ago
This is a brilliant example of someone who is so indoctrinated that they don't even realize it.
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by Vrondi 3y ago
The takeaway is that people vary hugely in their sensitivities and the different medical histories behind the same condition. I know someone who is extremely sensitive to salt, and even on BP meds, they must have quite a low salt diet to co
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by Vrondi 3y ago
Here are all of them (Not just the one for Netscape 4): http://www.netscape-communications.com/netscapes-throbber-an...
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by Vrondi 3y ago
No, it was all flat 2D BMP. Just a row of frames full of pixels. Super simple. Most were made with GIF Construction Set and MS Paint.
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by Vrondi 3y ago
It was a bitmap image that consisted of a strip of individual frames. It was common for a while to make them from animated gifs (which were plentiful and popular on the web). http://leighb.com/throbgif.htm
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by Vrondi 3y ago
I used to have a lot of fun making replacement Netscape "throbbers" (as they were called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throbber ). I made a color changing dragon, the USS Enterprise flying by, Xena animations
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by Vrondi 3y ago
How much of this went on was highly variable by state and county (sometimes even municipality). In some places, restaurants closed or became takeout only. In other places, they stayed open, but had to close any buffets. Schools and librarie

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