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by bane 4y ago
Almost exactly 18 months ago, my then 87 year old father, after feeling unwell and having some fluid problems with his lungs was diagnosed with stage-4 lung cancer. He turned down treatment and died at home a couple days before Christmas la
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by bane 4y ago
This blogpost from 2014 has been an almost perfect predictor of the last few years of the Meta disaster. It misses some stuff, but it's not really wrong anywhere beyond some minor details. It calls out Carmack as being the canary that
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by bane 4y ago
Ha! Me too! I realized I'd known about her site for a long while but had never taken the time to reach out and thank her.
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by bane 4y ago
Bingo, you get it exactly. It's Wendy's reluctance to "flaunt" it that makes her all the more appealing as a person. I understand that she regrets her time in seclusion, but it makes her unassailable as somebody who was
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by bane 4y ago
So? It's free money.
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by bane 4y ago
I grew up in a very religiously conservative household and was raised to not think "well" of trans people. Simultaneously one of my favorite soundtracks of all time was the music to the original 1982 Tron. I had never heard anythi
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by bane 4y ago
What makes a charity "fake"? If I start a charity, make myself chairperson and CEO or President or whatever, I "deserve" a reasonable salary. If my fundraising events bring in my salary + event expenses + what I can use
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by bane 4y ago
Right, I first learned about this when being forced to watch some of the "Housewives of ..." shows by my wife. I couldn't figure out why all these objectively terrible people all had their own personal charities (many of the
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by bane 4y ago
I bet a cool riff on this would be to simply sample an ambient microphone in the workplace and use that the generate and slowly introduce matching background music that fits the current tenor of the environment. Done slowly and subtly enoug
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by bane 4y ago
It's almost beyond unreal. In the past two weeks I've had multiple discussions about promoting staff with 1-3 years of experience in this, their first job out of undergrad, into positions that have typically required 15-20 years o
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by bane 4y ago
You know, that's surprisingly an elegant hack. I'm sure it's obvious to some folks, but for some reason I never came up with it during my old C programming days.
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by bane 4y ago
I have no idea what the timing of this event is, but there's an interesting confluence of clams and aliens in the world that is almost hilarious off-topic, but I'll bring it up anyway. "Operation Clambake" (xenu.net) is
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First Holographic Sight(youtube.com)
3 points by bane 4y ago|0 comments
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by bane 4y ago
Where I live at least, there's a great library infrastructure. Brand new, state-of-the-art libraries with great physical and digital collections are the norm. It's not unusual to find small maker spaces, recording studios, study r
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Driving Amazon’s electric delivery vehicle: Rivian EDV [video](youtube.com)
184 points by bane 4y ago|177 comments
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by bane 4y ago
I'd say companies like this are a scam, but they're only half a scam -- half the customers know exactly what they're getting. The other half haven't figured it out and think they're getting top-tier stuff and end up
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Driving Amazon’s electric delivery vehicle: Rivian EDV [video](youtube.com)
5 points by bane 4y ago|0 comments
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by bane 4y ago
As a former wanna-be-serious classical musician I heartily echo your sentiment. The general movement in art (the various "modern" movements) seems to have been both to reject traditionalisms and designed to make people feel bad. I
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by bane 4y ago
I find the Beyond product has a strange artificial odor to it. Like it's trying to recreate the smell of fully cooked meat product, but before it's even cooked. It's odd in the way that artificial smoke can be weird. I bought
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by bane 4y ago
This is interesting. There's a few successful "vegetarian/vegan" places in my area, but they're all basically some variant of Chinese food and are from moderately to pretty good. There's also a few Indian place
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by bane 4y ago
Meat from all kinds of animals is delicious. I'm a die-hard omnivore, but don't mind going sans meat for a few meals if the food tastes good -- think more "bear" diet than obligate carnivorous "T-Rex". Intersec
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by bane 4y ago
I've gotten into watching a few travel vloggers. One of the best IMHO is Eva Zu Beck. She's not without some minor controversy, but who really isn't? What I enjoy about her channel is her contemplations on the beauty of the w
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by bane 4y ago
We've been having the same problem getting GPU instances on us-east. Multiple week-long delays to escalate and talk to yet the next person up who can make a decision. It's a mess.
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Dragons Lair on the Amiga – How a laserdisc game fit onto 6 floppy disks(youtube.com)
5 points by bane 4y ago|0 comments
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by bane 4y ago
There are many examples, for example in the state of Pennsylvania, all parties must consent. While it is a felony to record and then playback without consent (you are correct in this case), it is a punishable misdemeanor to violate privac
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by bane 4y ago
It was the late 90s, and I remember going to a LAN party in a guy's garage where we all played various games, swapped pirated software, and second most importantly of all, an absolutely terrible VCD pirated copy of the theatrical relea
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by bane 4y ago
There's also the possibility that once he got inside and saw some of the truly incredibly toxic shit that exists in the twitterspace he realized that he can't own the pipeline that spews that garbage all over the world completely
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by bane 4y ago
See if there's any good vintage computer shows near you. They often have people selling stuff at them.
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by bane 4y ago
This is really interesting and many of the comments here go into the utility of this, however, verify that you aren't recording somebody else without their consent, in many places it is illegal to record to conversations without the ot
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NUON – The Best Console Concept to Fail(youtube.com)
1 points by bane 4y ago|0 comments

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