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by ashark 9y ago
One of the grocery stores around here (a Price Chopper, maybe?) has a "cooking class" thing on weekends that's more like bulk meal preparation. You prep a whole bunch of the meal you signed up to make, and get some number of
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by ashark 9y ago
Food shopping definitely sucks, and on top of the time commitment, having to keep a catalogue of typical prices per quantity and freshness/ripeness-determining markers in one's head is fairly burdensome. One of those great things
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by ashark 9y ago
I think too much ambition to be able to home-cook every kind of food under the sun leads to much of this trouble. Focus on a narrower set of things—say, 2-3 national/regional/ethnic cuisines, and/or cooking techniques—and mos
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by ashark 9y ago
My wife and I recently spent a few nights at an Airbnb in the mountains where we couldn't get cell reception and the wifi had a crappy satellite Internet connection we'd been asked to avoid using as much as possible. Also none of
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by ashark 9y ago
I've had trouble getting it to "remember" the Wiimotes, so I always have to do manual fiddling to get them connected. Meanwhile PS3 controllers are working great over Bluetooth, no such problems and totally painless set-up. B
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by ashark 9y ago
I really want a good to-USB adapter for those things. I love the Wii Classic Pro controller, and now these.... I've tried two different models from Mayflash, but the first stopped working after a couple months and the second liked to
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by ashark 9y ago
Or they want it plugged into their TV and don't want a dedicated PC for that, or to have to move a laptop over by the TV every time. Or for someone to be able to play this while the PC's in use for something else. Or they like the
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by ashark 9y ago
It's also short all Disney-owned games (including Lucasarts) despite many of the being fairly well-regarded. Lion King, Aladdin, Zombies Ate My Neighbors, Star Wars trilogy.
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by ashark 9y ago
1) no fussing about with stuff that most people can't or don't want to do, 2) nice controllers included, no config faffing about, 3) last I checked even the Rpi3 had noticeable slowdowns and/or frame drops on Starfox and Supe
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by ashark 9y ago
I've found that I can manage a day without taking in any calories, if I'm willing to feel really tired and have a moderate headache by ~1pm, and be horribly brain-fogged and useless by ~2pm. I've got a job and kids to take ca
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by ashark 9y ago
At some point... god, most of a decade ago now, I guess, it seems like the kinds of people doing web design changed and this new crop didn't care about or understand bandwidth constraints like the old ones did. Strangely, this was ar
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by ashark 9y ago
Yup. With young kids and a spouse you're lucky if you get 15 hours of actual solo free time a week, unless you're cutting into sleep. And they'll be scattered throughout the week, then further broken into smaller parts by var
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by ashark 9y ago
The older I get, the wiser the conclusions of Vonnegut's Galapagos seem. Shamelessly stealing from Goodreads, which shamelessly stole from the book itself: “Just about every adult human being back then had a brain weighing about thre
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by ashark 9y ago
“You want to play house, you got to have a job. You want to play very nice house, very sweet house, then you got to have a job you don't like. Great. This is the way ninety-eight-point-nine per cent of the people work things out, so be
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by ashark 9y ago
No, and other high-fps video I've watched (all on much smaller screens, though) hasn't had that effect. I've wondered if the sensation was generated by some combination of 3D + 48fps + viewing angle. Or maybe something to do
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by ashark 9y ago
My complaint about the 48fps (after going in hyped to see this Spiffy New Format) was that everyone looked like they were speed-walking all the time, which was really distracting. It was like a sped-up silent film. Nothing else I've se
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by ashark 9y ago
> That's a very "class conflict" approach in the Marxist sense. It's not clear this was what was argued in the post I was answering to. The topic under discussion is the changing of economic rules to benefit some at t
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by ashark 9y ago
> Ultimately globalization is a must, as it just increases efficiency and cuts prices. Unless I'm misreading the paper, one of its points is that lowering trade barriers has sharply diminishing returns-relative-to-harm, i.e. cutti
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by ashark 9y ago
> Nobody is supposed to "give them" anything. They are supposed to be responsible adults, and as such they are supposed to earn their living themselves. The point is that the system shifted to "give" some people more,
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by ashark 9y ago
- ebooks: I don't love Calibre, but it's the only game in town. - music: Musicbrainz Picard to get the metadata right. I've been favoring RPis running mpd as a front-end to my music lately. - movies/TV: MediaElch + Kodi
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by ashark 9y ago
Plus external CD+DVD burners from major brand names are now dirt cheap and run entirely off the USB port with no extra power adapter needed (!!!) so they're convenient and inexpensive to add if you really need one, with the bonus tha
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by ashark 9y ago
One was not presentable without a hat! Now we commonly sport sailors' underwear (t-shirts) as outerwear in public, and even in places of business! And low-class rugged laborers' trousers (denim jeans) are worn about by merchants
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by ashark 9y ago
Oh, I know it's not politically feasible and is fairly horrible. It's damning of our current system, though, that it's de facto very nearly the same thing and also incredibly expensive/stressful .
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by ashark 9y ago
Well, more to the point they took their bound-to-be-good-students-on-average children to the suburbs. If you do it right ( i.e. you don't make a bad choice and get ripped off) you're buying your kids' peers more than any
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by ashark 9y ago
> Just look at any suburbs: the inhabitants clearly disagree with me. Some of us just have kids and have noticed that all the city housing is either incredibly expensive or in slums, and the schools in the city proper are dangerous and
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by ashark 9y ago
> Most of us commute around 15 miles each way. The really crappy part is how much of that 15 miles is caused by car infrastructure. Imagine how much closer one might be to work if the distance were compressed, removing about 80% of all
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by ashark 9y ago
Beware the version of the Modern Library list that was voted on by the public. That was before people realized that any such vote would be carpet-bombed by Randroids and Scientologists, which is exactly what happened. Here's a good &qu
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by ashark 9y ago
> I think I'm slowly coming to the realization though that the news really isn't all that valuable to me, and I read way too much of it, and far too few books. Keeping up with the news has about as much value as watching soap o
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by ashark 9y ago
I'd think even a dinosaur-killer-stricken earth with all kinds of climate and other problems would still be a lot more pleasant to live on than Mars. I mean, if you imagine an Earth that's been totally ruined in every imaginable
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by ashark 9y ago
What might plausibly happen to Earth that'd make it less appealing than Mars, even temporarily? You've gotta practically melt the whole planet's surface or strip a bunch of its atmosphere or something wild like that to even

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