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by baerrie 3y ago
I recommend getting a used receiver from pre to early 2000s and getting some used passive speakers and a sub to go with it. I spent $100 on my setup and it sounds better than any sound bar and can be endlessly adjusted to match my room’s ac
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by baerrie 3y ago
This probably won’t help the situation in the US but would be a major step forward for the openness of the iPhone platform
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by baerrie 3y ago
Google’s search results page is a mess now. It is now an endless feed mimicking social apps cluttered by obtrusive images and suggested content that is never really what you want
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by baerrie 3y ago
You are free to pick up the better system in your opinion but if you want interoperability and consistency with other US measurers then you may have issues.
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by baerrie 3y ago
Languages are validated by their use. All other interpretations of their value are abstractions from the only real metric, that people use it and it is alive in that way. We don’t speak dead languages and we don’t adopt them either.
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by baerrie 3y ago
I miss these places so much. The nikuman and famichiki were my go-to breakfast along with a hot can of coffee and the occasional pack of cigs (where they had all of the nicotine levels labeled). Konbini have some of the few publically acces
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by baerrie 3y ago
It’s pretty simple, operate at 85% so that when unexpected work crops up, adding 5-10% more effort doesn’t break you
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by baerrie 3y ago
Tldr, React is overcomplicating things like Angular did
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by baerrie 3y ago
I saw a medieval comedy with a killer rabbit when i was a kid…by some troupe known as “Monty Python”
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by baerrie 3y ago
Understanding that atoms are the foundation of matter and evolutionary adaptation are fundamental to life goes directly against any religion that purports alternate explanations. There is nothing innocuous about this, it is a theocratic cen
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by baerrie 3y ago
Google and OpenAI are shaking in their boots from open source ai and want to make their moat however they can. Positioning with a moral argument is pretty clever I must admit
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by baerrie 3y ago
Fun facts I gleaned: - they live and hunt in trees, on the ground, and in water which makes them hard to classify - their unique feet that allow water running were probably evolved to run across leaves in arboreal life and not for water - t
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by baerrie 3y ago
No, the person that invented the smiley face drawing is the most faked :)
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by baerrie 3y ago
Source (i dont have one for my claim lol)? Thematically, Le Guin’s fits Avatar’s world mythos and some of the characters are extremely similar (the colonel from avatar is basically the same as one of the narrators of Word for World). Also,
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by baerrie 3y ago
If you talk to this tech person (me) I will not tout that I know what the next step in evolution is. I would love for tech and all “progress” to slow down so we can more efficiently capture its value. At the same time, the real vote we have
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by baerrie 3y ago
The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin (Avatar definitely was inspired by this one)
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by baerrie 3y ago
I played Demon Souls and Dark Souls and Elden Ring. The controls of RDR2 are like the opposite of those games, clunky and imprecise and full of unneeded animation. Souls has very tight mechanics in comparison
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by baerrie 3y ago
His Masters Voice by Stanislav Lem Roadside Picnic by the Strugatsky Brothers Cyteen by CH Cherryh
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by baerrie 3y ago
The Lathe of Heaven Ursula K. Le Guin
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by baerrie 3y ago
I picked up that game and put it down an hour later because the detail of the character movement and how tedious it is to climb a ladder or do anything killed the fun.
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by baerrie 3y ago
Unfortunately dietary science in the US is largely funded by private companies and leans towards their interests. Furthermore, there are very few international studies comparing different diets. Also, i see very few comments on HN with cita
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by baerrie 3y ago
I grew up eating pinto beans in the Southern US. When covid hit, we ate beans every week and were happy and healthy
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by baerrie 3y ago
Protein requirements are vastly overestimated in America compared to plenty of countries where there are long living people eating a lot of carbs and less protein
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by baerrie 3y ago
No human or group of humans can have enough certainty about the future to make decisions for it now. Effectively it is such a ludicrous task to predict the future that it is akin to saying god told you so, rendering this belief system just
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by baerrie 3y ago
I didn’t mow once last year. I do weed out non native weeds but I keep most of the weeds that I find pleasing.
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by baerrie 3y ago
I also do grunt tasks when i’m too mentally exhausted to do the things I like
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by baerrie 3y ago
AI as a simulation of human cognition is definitely getting close. What I still think is quite far out is a type of intelligence uniquely suited to computers and machines that is based in taking full responsibility for their own lifecycle.
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by baerrie 3y ago
Food in general is essential but not any one specific form of food. If wheat was the only food then I would agree. The same could be said for housing but housing in a particular location is mostly fixed and limited unlike the flow of food a
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by baerrie 3y ago
Shelter is a unique and essential commodity. To me, it makes sense that it appreciates faster than your average good which is rarely essential. At the same time, if housing was made universally available, I think the great lift in burden on
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by baerrie 3y ago
The main issue is that even if you give them two weeks or more notice, they can let you go effective immediately leading to lost income. Depending on the company, giving no notice may actually be the better approach.

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