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by acheron 2y ago
My oldest kid loved Mighty Machines so much when he was little.
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by acheron 2y ago
Should have picked a different name then, Washington DC had already been around for a century. (Also, New York has to append “state” too.)
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by acheron 2y ago
Where do people actually handmaking stuff sell now?
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by acheron 2y ago
Seriously. Google built trust from maybe 1999 through 2008, and rapidly burnt through all that long ago.
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by acheron 2y ago
I figured by 1985 it’d be available in every corner drugstore.
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by acheron 2y ago
That was a very widely-held opinion at the time.
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by acheron 2y ago
Hm, no -- I am in my early 40s and have never had any issues. Other than the scar on my stomach there has been no lasting effect that I've ever noticed.
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by acheron 2y ago
When I was a newborn I had a "pyloromyotomy", wherein they cut the pyloric muscle. As I understand it, an -otomy is cutting something, a -myotomy is specifically cutting a muscle.
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by acheron 2y ago
This is good. Worked fine in desktop Firefox once I got the hang of it.
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by acheron 2y ago
"What are letters?" "Kinda like mediaglyphs except they're all black, and they're tiny, they don't move, they're old and boring and really hard to read." -- The Diamond Age (Neal Stephenson)
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by acheron 2y ago
oh yeah, it is on Amazon. huh! well I'll keep that one in mind.
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by acheron 2y ago
I searched that one up and it's on the "commercial" section of Panasonic's website with a price of "contact sales". How did you end up with it?
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by acheron 2y ago
The difficulty remains that in a lot of categories, the choice is between "cheap junk" and "expensive junk". "not junk" is not an option.
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by acheron 2y ago
Yeah I spray the clothes in the garage and let them fully dry out there. Everything I’ve read says once it’s dry there’s no issue, it’s only the liquid that’s dangerous for them.
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by acheron 2y ago
It says to use DEET? No. Use permethrin (on clothes) and picaridin (on self).
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by acheron 2y ago
ohh, I see. that's clearer than any other explanation I've seen, thanks.
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by acheron 2y ago
Yeah I’m not sure what’s going on either. Is this just a rebranding of mutual-auth SSL client certs?
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by acheron 2y ago
We don’t actually consider that in the US either, you probably shouldn’t get your views of the US from Reddit or the Guardian.
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by acheron 2y ago
Whew, glad we can finally use the Internet again! It's been a long 7 years since the Internet was entirely destroyed.
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by acheron 2y ago
Would be illegal in some states. https://www.familyhandyman.com/article/collecting-rain-water...
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by acheron 3y ago
What are you going to do, take your business to a competing agency? “We don’t care, we don’t have to.”
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by acheron 3y ago
The web has been overrun by drivel for over two decades now.
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by acheron 3y ago
> I’d have to give up my headphone jack Not to mention your 3.5” floppy drive!
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by acheron 3y ago
Have they? You’d think after 30+ years of commercial ISPs they’d have actually done something by now if they were “trying”.
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by acheron 3y ago
> I agree with some of the post, but the author seems to be an insufferable human. This has all the characteristics of terminally-online people that spend way too much time being angry on social media, and needing the world know how angr
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by acheron 3y ago
I remember the MS-DOS variations.. README.DOC (before .DOC applied only to MS Word files), README.TXT, READ.ME, README.1ST, README.NOW...
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by acheron 3y ago
Not sure if serious, but literally none of those are true.
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by acheron 3y ago
Not that complicated, just a combination of cache invalidation and naming things.
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by acheron 3y ago
Clicks are currency. If you follow a link you are implicitly endorsing whatever is at the link, which I'm not going to do unless I'm already really sure of what it says. (Maybe you say "but I hated the article!" They don
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by acheron 3y ago
Google shills, presumably.

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