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by abruzzi 4y ago
yes, but 'Distant Thunder' is my favorite from the same director.
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by abruzzi 4y ago
this page makes a comment that I wish more site developers understood–no results to my search is a much more meaningful result than changing my search to provide results I didn't ask for.
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by abruzzi 4y ago
I’d much prefer a website—I don’t really download apps anymore, and an application for Mac seems overkill.
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by abruzzi 4y ago
On the other hand, many of the vacants in Philadelphia are vacant because the owner has fled because the back taxes are more than the building is worth.
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by abruzzi 4y ago
All of the ones I participate on specifically don’t lock old threads, and for specific discussions, it’s expected that instead of making a new post on the Prophet 12, you look up the old one and add your post to it. If found forums that lo
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by abruzzi 4y ago
Lots of reasons, but one of the big ones is a year round growing season. It’s never so cold that you can’t grow, so over the course of a year the same field may host four or five crops. The other big ones is that it started when there was
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by abruzzi 4y ago
I miss dyn.com. They were my registrar for over a decade before Oracle bought then and made them suck. They were the one registrer where you felt like you were dealing with a professional company, not "Crazy Eddie's discount Dom
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by abruzzi 4y ago
I remember when I visited Paris and Germany I tried really hard to use the rudimentary language skills I had. The French always seemed too frustrated to slow down to the speed I could manage, and the Germans were just excited to have a cha
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by abruzzi 4y ago
I tried and tried to get co-workers to use S/MIME. I was reliably able to get one other person on board, but no one else wanted the go through the hassle (and its not that much hassle!). So the two of us eventually abandoned it.
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by abruzzi 4y ago
I have a really hard time with motion--my brain is unable to block it. I've become very frustrated with, for example, news sites that instad of text and still images, have started showing animated clips or short videos. I've tri
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by abruzzi 4y ago
I may be the only person, but when I need to focus, and drown out the outside world, the best stuff for me is early Philip Glass--essentially anything up to the Koyaanisqatsi soundtrack. Einstein on the Beach, Music in 12 Parts, Northstar,
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by abruzzi 4y ago
Usually, a year in parentheses on a HN post indicates the publiction date of the article--specifically when the article isn't current--not the dates of the events recounted. In this case the article is from 2016 as the date suggests.
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by abruzzi 4y ago
I can’t count how many times I’m typing something (and since I don’t touch type, I’m looking at the keyboard, not the screen) and when I look up half of my text has gone into another app. I actually wish I could enable this one everything,
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Crypto hackers steal $100M from blockchain bridge(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by abruzzi 4y ago|0 comments
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by abruzzi 4y ago
I haven't bookmarked anything in over 20 years. I just use my memory + search. Obviously bookmarking can retain far more than my memory, but my use of the web is deep, not wide (i.e. small number of sites, used heavily) so is easily
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by abruzzi 4y ago
> I don't see us repeating the IE6 era however. The Internet is core to Google's business in a way that it never was to Microsoft. Depends on what your takeaway from the IE6 era was--if its that MS abandoned development and the
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Amazon drones are coming to town. Some locals want to shoot them(washingtonpost.com)
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by abruzzi 4y ago
My favorite is a fun little time thing--Arizona, somewhat famously does not recognise DST, unlike surrounding states, so in the summer it is no longer mountain time. inside AZ, is the Navajo Nation (which is also in the three other sourrou
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by abruzzi 4y ago
I've always thought a shepard tone is basically an audio version of a barber's pole. When it spins, it looks like its endlessly rising.
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by abruzzi 4y ago
> I found Finnegans Wake utterly baffling. Some people love the humor they find in it, but it requires effort to understand the basic language the Joyce is inventing. Most people do. I have an english prof who did his dissertation on it
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by abruzzi 4y ago
if a physics/acoustics class the professor set up a pair of speakers 30ft apart each playing a simple sine wave. The students then marched in front of the speakers, probably 50ft away, and as you walked you could clearly hear where th
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by abruzzi 4y ago
I never thought of usenet as tech focused. There were many areas that were non-tech topics. Sure there was comp.sys. , but all the alt. boards and others. Web forums were kind of the spirtual successor, and many of them have subject sub
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by abruzzi 4y ago
this is exactly what I do for most apps-install to use, remove after use. For Uber its easy since I only use Uber when I'm traveling in a country where I don't speak the language (Uber makes hailing rides in a foriegn country eas
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by abruzzi 4y ago
I don't know how well iTunes tracks with music available on other streaming platforms, but when I imported my library of ~700 CDs to iTunes Match about 40% of my tracks matched, and 60% had to be uploaded, so I suspect that for me ther
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by abruzzi 4y ago
its good to see you here--I've read your posts on other music forums. Many of us who work in tech, play in electronic music. While I know the P5 and being part of the analog renaissance are what most will remember him for, to me his
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by abruzzi 4y ago
it does come off as a bit one sided becuase the implication is that when you say "progressives do this" you are also implying that non-progressives don't--even if its not explicit. As someone who sits squarely in the middle,
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by abruzzi 4y ago
some of these criticisms are probably fair. I only speak english so can't comment on non-english results, but it wouldn't suprise me if the Kagi creators were primarily or only english speaking and step one is optimizing for engl
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by abruzzi 4y ago
Personally, I’d prefer not to have a generator nearby. Storing fuel, noise, exhaust—all things I’d prefer to avoid. And as I said, this is not the vehicle that will solve the problem for me, since nobody yet makes an EV that would work fo
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by abruzzi 4y ago
Since slashdot is mostly a link aggregator like HN, unless you want to read their discussion, you should go directly to https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/articl...
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by abruzzi 4y ago
while I don't see me buying one of these, its the most interesting auto feature I've seen in a very long time. I don't want backup power for when the grid fails, I want primary power for a small cabin I'm building far f

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