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by angst_ridden 3y ago
Had a related thing, back when landlines were expensive. A roommate went off on Peace Corps to Sierra Leone for a year, and I inherited her landline. A telemarketer called asking for her, and I said "oh, she'll be in Africa for a
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by angst_ridden 3y ago
Not T̶w̶i̶t̶t̶e̶r̶. Not X. Tik-tok maybe?
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by angst_ridden 3y ago
Not to be confused with NightOwlConnect, which allows one to remotely access NightOwl-brand security camera DVRs. I'd not be surprised to find that that app has some sketchiness baked into it as well.
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by angst_ridden 3y ago
We used fake food all the time in product photography. I could tell you stories about motor oil (to simulate syrup), lucite ice, agar or glycerine "dew drops" or the shine of "fat" on grilled meats, shaving cream (to sim
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by angst_ridden 3y ago
My English teachers always taught Kafka largely on the depressing negativity of his writing. Yet he’d hold salons to read his work to friends, and they’d all roar with laughter (Kafka too). Absurdism can also be cathartic humor.
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by angst_ridden 3y ago
Spoken like someone who has never worked retail.
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by angst_ridden 3y ago
When it comes to Apple Maps versus Waze, Apple Maps tend to be more realistic about arrival times, too.
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by angst_ridden 3y ago
I had a 1973 2.0 for much of the 90s. It was definitely the most fun car I've owned. I foolishly let it go and "upgraded" to a Boxster, which may have been faster and more comfortable (stuff like A/C was a cool innovatio
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by angst_ridden 3y ago
The difficulty is in the "what actually happened" when the only documentation is from hundreds of years after-the-fact.
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by angst_ridden 3y ago
The gear from SCW can be used without any internet connection at all. https://getscw.com I am not affiliated with them, other than that I've bought equipment from them in the past.
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by angst_ridden 3y ago
Back in the day, I worked at a print shop as a press operator for AB-Dick 360CD printing presses. We'd clean the ink off the rollers between separations with benzene. We didn't have any special ventilation (or even use gloves, for
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by angst_ridden 3y ago
It did indeed! Also, Voyage of the Valkyrie... That was a hell of a game, and wasted many, many hours of my life.
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by angst_ridden 3y ago
I too have made "bow-coupe" such errors.
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by angst_ridden 3y ago
I think Diamond's greatest fault as a researcher is his reliance on reductivism. Anyone can cherry-pick history to support "5 simple rules that explain X" if the rules are even reasonably sane. It may be satisfying and entert
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by angst_ridden 3y ago
I always found McNeill's "Plagues and Peoples" a much better read than Diamond's book on semi-overlapping topics.
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by angst_ridden 3y ago
It wasn't his hating on the victim that got him fired. It was his stating that the raging mob was not behaving appropriately for his race-based expectations of them.
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by angst_ridden 3y ago
Back when I was learning to wire up a Z-80 to make my own first primitive 4kb RAM computer, I really didn't think I'd live to see the day when there were 32-bit CPUs with 32kb RAM in lightbulbs.
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by angst_ridden 3y ago
In the early 80s, my dad bought a Heathkit oscilloscope, and we assembled it together. My father's in his 90s now, and I think he still uses that scope!
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by angst_ridden 3y ago
I run a site for a large corporate client. People can sign up to get a quote from a regional dealer for a specific type of complex product. To get a quote, they have to fill out several forms, and select detailed specification, etc, and ch
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by angst_ridden 4y ago
yes, but the difference between having your biological processes disrupted and being smashed with a rock are pretty significant, and the evolutionary responses are quite different.
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by angst_ridden 4y ago
Yup. They have an FAQ on the subject, and claim it's a Ventura bug and not one of theirs. I've filed a bug report with Apple, for all the good that will do. What's weird, annoying, and frustrating is that it will work correct
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by angst_ridden 4y ago
People are expendable. There's a new crop every year. Corporate profits, on the other hand ...
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by angst_ridden 4y ago
Same here. Maybe it's happening by region?
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by angst_ridden 4y ago
When I bought a place in the LA area, the house had neatly trimmed lawns and flowers planted with perfect spacing around the borders in both the front and back yards. Over the past twenty years, it's been converted into a wild, exubera
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by angst_ridden 4y ago
Yeah, well, being very old myself, stuff like Mosaic / Navigator / NetExplorer / SpyGlass still all seem sorta recent to me.
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by angst_ridden 4y ago
Well, the solution to search / archive. I could argue that those are two very different functions. I could also argue that with a new architecture, Thunderbird could satisfy both functions well. It just doesn't now.
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by angst_ridden 4y ago
I've found that keeping all my old mail--including from old dead accounts--in Thunderbird has been a big part of the performance problems I experienced. Having been using Thunderbird from the very earliest of days (after migrating from
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by angst_ridden 4y ago
ChatGPT sometimes reminds me of a junior programmer. I asked for a code example of clipping a polygonal shape with another polygonal shape, and it wrote code that just deleted vertices from the subject polygon that were outside the clipping
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by angst_ridden 4y ago
Yeah, the "snag this roll of film with a plane as it parachutes down" is the kind of thing that elicits a "wait .. what!?" reaction. But then, so does the quality of the images they captured relative to what would be exp
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by angst_ridden 4y ago
I did work on the Inertia Upper Stage (IUS) project. That was the booster that would take satellites from the shuttle bay into their final orbits. A lot of the IUS specifications were classified because of the payloads that were intended. E

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