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by ashleyn 5y ago
Being trans also isn't a "delusion". A trans person doesn't believe they literally have the same body as the opposite sex, although admittedly the bumper sticker slogans surrounding this issue ("trans women are wome
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by ashleyn 5y ago
This was my first thought as well! Our first computer came with Spry Internet in a Box in 1996. Mosaic was already aging pretty badly at that point, the early web changed fast.
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by ashleyn 5y ago
You would probably want to think about the design of the actual house more than thinking about gains in AC efficiency. There are unconventional home designs that passively make a home tend either cool or hot using the surrounding environmen
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by ashleyn 5y ago
I have this exact same phobia. Except it's having left the gas on the stove on or having bumped it. I bought a methane alarm and put it not too far from the stove. Now all I need to do to make sure there's not a gas leak in the ho
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by ashleyn 5y ago
Many tor services eschew javascript because it's recommended not to have javascript enabled for services requiring anonymity/security (or, at least it was several years ago when I last checked). A lot of the sites will be very tec
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by ashleyn 5y ago
Really not a fan of the trendy and fairly recent idea that anything justifies "saving lives" (regardless of whether or not it actually does so).
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by ashleyn 5y ago
It's opt-in, you can turn them off entirely if you want.
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by ashleyn 5y ago
This led me to install Brave after being irritated at the umpteenth mid-article malvertising redirect. Definitely recommend Brave. They even pay you about 75 cents an ad for fairly unobtrusive, plaintext, notification area ads.
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by ashleyn 5y ago
Explanations I've heard tie it to the SolarWinds breach, which is far worse in implication than we may have ever thought, or that Russia's Internet Research Agency may be amping up political pressure on Joe Biden through state-spo
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by ashleyn 5y ago
US consumers are well-known for wanting cars that are extremely oversized. Most American nameplates don't even make sedans anymore. Entry level is SUVs.
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by ashleyn 5y ago
The older I get, the more I realise "high school" wasn't really the problem at all. High school, like any other government institution, is ultimately a reflection of the values of the people who run them. And in some places -
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by ashleyn 5y ago
One notable, and very underreported exception, is Pennsylvania's filial responsibility law[1]. In Pennsylvania, if a resident of a nursing home is indigent, the liability falls statutorily on their family, who the home is free to sue a
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by ashleyn 5y ago
Car with level 2 autonomy, 2018 Volvo S90 with Pilot Assist. You still have to pay attention to the road when driving, but long highway drives (which I take a LOT of) are a hell of a lot less tiring. I've been able to do 6 hours in a s
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by ashleyn 5y ago
The one example I usually give people is the one that led me to the realisation myself. Try searching "how valve index works" or "how valve index controllers work". My interpretation of "how it works" is "
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by ashleyn 5y ago
Snapshots, RAID, etc are not substitutes for backups
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by ashleyn 5y ago
I feel like the easiest way to accomplish this is just investing into stable dividend stocks. I don't know the first thing about running a vending machine, or upkeeping a condo. But I know people who do - dividend-paying companies. I g
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by ashleyn 6y ago
Title is inaccurate, it wasn't sat nav, it used dead reckoning which is relative from where you start.
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by ashleyn 6y ago
I wonder if the spectre/meltdown mitigations have anything to do with it. Or stack smashing protection perhaps. A LOT of security mitigations over the years probably will make considerably slower code on older processors.
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by ashleyn 6y ago
I suppose I'll add this to the growing constellation of add-ons considered essential just to even get around the web without annoying, managerially-imposed dark patterns interrupting my workflow.
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by ashleyn 6y ago
> He was not convicted > the assassination attempt was taken into account by the judge for sentencing There are a whole slew of problems advocating for the ability for judges to sentence people for crimes they were never convicted of.
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by ashleyn 6y ago
What makes the destruction of Columbia even worse is that NASA had more or less seen the same issue before - shedding of the SRB foam insulation - not even two missions after the Challenger disaster. The mission was nearly lost for the
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by ashleyn 6y ago
First thing I thought of. Can't even believe this kind of stuff is still happening in Windows in 2021.
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by ashleyn 6y ago
Cold storage would be just as secure.
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by ashleyn 6y ago
This is believable if you remember that complication rates are a variable independent from a virus's infectiousness. The more aggressively it spreads, the more likely at least one person will need hospitalisation, even in a virus with
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by ashleyn 6y ago
Or could it be that it was never realistic in the first place? I remember a show of the same contemporary, Roseanne, lauded for its actually-authentic depiction of working class life and precarity. Meanwhile it always struck me as absurd th
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by ashleyn 6y ago
Write a toy compiler for a basic like language, you'll learn about what your languages are actually doing.
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by ashleyn 6y ago
In my experience and where I work, the build system tends to be the most neglected part of the pipeline, most trouble-prone and frequently the source of headaches nobody wants to bother with. I think the days of build being the red-headed s
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by ashleyn 6y ago
I've been mostly Linux since 2011 and the few times I had to install Win10 for something I've been very displeased. We've fallen quite far in Windows, with ads everywhere, hundreds of services that do God-knows-what, fresh in
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by ashleyn 6y ago
There is the MegaWiFi ( https://github.com/doragasu/mw ), an ESP8266-enabled Sega Genesis cart which exists as a open source hardware specification but not a commercial product. You could put one of these together from t
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by ashleyn 6y ago
Pardon my ignorance but is this something that could, in theory, trigger a cell to become cancerous or trigger the body to develop an autoimmune condition (as the spike protein is created by the body's own cells)?

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