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by akeck 4y ago
You know how sometimes you become aware that you need to breath and this completely messes up automatic breathing? Well, during the tail end of full WFH (we're hybrid now), I became acutely aware of what I did every day in the house in
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by akeck 4y ago
I use both a NUC Debian server and an 8GB Rpi. I've been pleasantly surprised how much day-to-day stuff I get done on pi lately.
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Burning wood from B.C. forests for electricity deceptively billed as green(cbc.ca)
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by akeck 4y ago
I love this. Lots of details I didn't know.
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Google Picasa. Its ability to find local images was magical.
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Ever since I used a Model 100 at a collector friend's house, I've wanted try my hand at making something in this form-factor with a Raspi Zero.
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One fun feature I like in dd is the ability read/write from block offsets.
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Fully mature hair follicles grown in cultures(eurekalert.org)
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Invisible and Vital: Undersea Cables and Transatlantic Security (2021)(csis.org)
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For me, it ended up becoming my primary, and eventually only, 2D digital art platform (my main avocation) via the Procreate app.
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This sounds very similar to the experience Henry Shukman had in his teens on a beach in South America. It started his journey to becoming a Zen teacher. He writes about it in the early chapters of "One Blade of Grass" (which I&#x2
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by akeck 4y ago
Btw, Everest and many other mountains are included in Wii Fit U when you have the fit meter, which has a basic altimeter. The game has both distance (walking and running) and height challenges. My SO and I had a lot of fun competing.
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Mystery hackers are “hyperjacking” targets for insidious spying(wired.com)
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After watching Dr. Eric Cline's lectures on the Late Bronze Age Collapse, I was struck by the similarities between the LBA's supply chains for making and using bronze and our current supply chains for making and using chips.
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Physicists rewrite a quantum rule that clashes with our universe(quantamagazine.org)
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It might take a few attempts, but I would try to find a good therapist and work with them to figure out this state-of-being and how you can change or augment it in a way that both meets your desire to spend time alone and to resolve your lo
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Why your life could be part of someone else's game(bbc.com)
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This is one of the primary points of the book "The Halo Effect."
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Mathematical Curves Enable Advanced Communication(quantamagazine.org)
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I would send a certified letter, perhaps even drafted by one's attorney, to Google's legal correspondence address requiring them to resolve the situation.
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EU: Proposed Artificial Intelligence Law Could Affect Employers Globally(shrm.org)
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Many thanks to the developers over the years! The app saved us all from getting drenched at a wedding celebration. I'm forever grateful for that.
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I've always wanted to try the following process (hopefully powered by solar): fast growing plant (hemp? bamboo?) -> charcoal -> plasma -> diamond
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In certain parts of the US, there's a somewhat under-reported food grade CO2 shortage.
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A Very Old Man for a Wolf (2017)(outsideonline.com)
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My general impression after seeing this happen several times over the past few years is that Apple employees should keep any social media accounts connected to their real identities private and never talk about anything Apple on public soci
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by akeck 4y ago
Does anyone know of a Darn Tough Socks equivalent for blue jeans? I only get 6 months - 2 years out of mine.
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by akeck 4y ago
The highest quality t-shirts I've purchased have been L. L. Bean Unshrinkable Tees. They're not cheap but they last close to a decade.
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by akeck 4y ago
I still have FB and IG accounts, but I don't use them much anymore. The non-chronological feed on both sites eventually required either lots of effort (do all of posts, videos, stories, replies, likes, etc. all the time) for organic vi
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by akeck 4y ago
This essay will help with tone and format: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2017/09/09/identity-theft-credit-r...

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