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by Wistar 3y ago
I admire the crispness and precision of your mapping. Zooming in tight so just three or four McD locations are on screen and then sliding a location juuuust off-screen immediately changes the price results.
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by Wistar 3y ago
So, Paula Vennells's Post Office scandal?
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by Wistar 3y ago
I still write a few checks every month and use a dedicated medium-nib TWISBI Classic with Noodler’s Heart of Darkness Bulletproof ink to write them.
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by Wistar 3y ago
My 3 year old Moccamaster’s auto-off feature gave up a couple months ago. It uses a special mechanical switch—an illuminated rocker switch that physically flips and turns the carafe warming plate off after 100 minutes—that I know I could ea
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by Wistar 3y ago
It is a handsome typeface.
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by Wistar 3y ago
A few years ago, I wrote the following comment in another thread here on HN. It is germane to this thread: Back in the early 90s — on a recommendation from a realtor who was a close friend of my brother's — I hired an inspector who was
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by Wistar 3y ago
We’ll just have to.
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by Wistar 3y ago
A recent Ken White (Popehat) essay: “My Free Speech Means You Have To Shut Up” https://popehat.substack.com/p/my-free-speech-means-you-have...
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by Wistar 3y ago
Yes. My property taxes have gone from about $450/mo to about $1,250/mo in 18 years.
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by Wistar 3y ago
Ah. I understand.
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by Wistar 3y ago
That misses the point that was being asked which was about the celebrity photos and not the user photos.
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by Wistar 3y ago
In the 20 or so years I have lived on a small dead-end street with about 16 homes, and where homes that went on the market sold within the first three days and sometimes the first three hours, it has only been in the last 60 days that I hav
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by Wistar 3y ago
Exactly what I was thinking. UV-C.
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by Wistar 3y ago
Although briefly mentioned on the essay, the Hagoromo Fulltouch Chalk is great. I still have a few boxes of it from the mid-90s. Thing is, I don't have a chalkboard on which to use it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by Wistar 3y ago
In the recent past I have admitted I was wrong and switched viewpoints only to then be accused of disingenuously switching viewpoints to shut down the argument.
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by Wistar 3y ago
Rotary encoders, I think.
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by Wistar 3y ago
“…it's nice to be able to manipulate multiple things at once.” Particularly if one thing affects another in a ripple-effect or chain reaction. It is great to be able to adjust at least two values at once. Keeps you from going back-and-
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by Wistar 3y ago
The dressing up of digital controls to mimic analog controls is called skeuomorphic although I have not encountered the term in a long time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeuomorph
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by Wistar 3y ago
My cable/fiber bill is chock full of fees — many apparently imposed by the city, county, and state.
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by Wistar 3y ago
Back when I was working on a photo-memories app in the early 2000s, a PM said, you know, the photo of the outside of dreary hotel near the beach isn’t about the hotel but about the hilarious hotel bar tender you and your friend were enterta
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by Wistar 3y ago
… especially on highly reflective subject surfaces such as cars.
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by Wistar 3y ago
“As a result of her injuries, Ms. Liebeck spent eight days in a hospital. In that time she underwent expensive treatments for third-degree burns including debridement (removal of dead tissue) and skin grafting.” Public Citizen: “Legal Myths
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by Wistar 3y ago
I discovered this site two decades or so ago. I used it to teach my then young son—whose name is, appropriately, Ian—how to tie the fast Ian Knot. My spouse, a kindergarten teacher, used it to learn how to tie student's shoes with Ian&
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by Wistar 3y ago
Pillars of the Earth is one of my all-time favorite epic tales.
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by Wistar 3y ago
Although not specifically about the PT requirement, some stuff on the helium shortage across healthcare, research, and business. NBC: “The world is running out of helium. Here's why doctors are worried.” https://www.nbcnews.
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by Wistar 3y ago
Perfect. Thank you.
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by Wistar 3y ago
Do you have any photos of your filter system? I am curious about the form factor that uses two 5” filters, rather than the four filter rigs I have seen.
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by Wistar 3y ago
Interesting! Earlier this year my spouse fell mildly ill and was diagnosed with strep (throat). She was given a high-strength anti-biotic that had two or, maybe three initial large doses followed by about 20 smaller doses. She felt better f
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by Wistar 3y ago
"Seabiscuit" author Laura Hillenbrand wrote a disturbing (to me) essay entitled "A Sudden Illness" recounting the exact moment of the onset of her struggle with CFS. The apparent precursor infection was strep. https:&#x
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by Wistar 3y ago
Although, that’d be cool.

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