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by bdowling 4y ago
His reviews are great, but I find it mind-boggling that Thomas Ran (Chyrosran22) doesn't touch-type when he demos typing. e.g., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9LcLgcCmus&t=644s . Is he able to touch-type but simpl
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by bdowling 4y ago
> For-profit prisons with state minimum occupancy clauses. That kind of clause is common for a supply contract (e.g., Buyer promises to purchase goods/services from supplier, minimum order of X units per year.). If a state purchased
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by bdowling 4y ago
He’s trolling and/or role-playing an extremely sexually insecure character.
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by bdowling 4y ago
You can also look up the fastest CPU that your motherboard supports and buy a used one on eBay. A top-of-the-line CPU that cost $1000 years ago will be trading for far less today. This is particularly true of Xeon CPUs pulled from retired s
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by bdowling 4y ago
How to make shredded wheat has been publicly known since at least 1895. [0]. How to make it efficiently at large scale is a trade secret that the company invested in and has a right to protect. None of this is related at all to the teaching
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by bdowling 4y ago
> Someone muting his criticism against an open segregationist ... You're assuming that there was criticism to mute. Many people just want to live their lives without being dragged into politics and forced to choose a side.
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by bdowling 4y ago
> This was always our problem with moving flight simulators to pure SAAS: if the Air Force couldn't use it we couldn't afford to make it. Why not make a custom build that connects to a local server? The Air Force can probably p
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by bdowling 4y ago
YouTuber That Japanese Man Yuta recently posted a good video explanation/exploration of this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9JdP6pA5LY
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by bdowling 4y ago
> When I checked the terms of the warranty, it said that it was only covered if it failed on the first or second use out of the box. According to the warranty page you linked, "first or second use" is not a limitation. The lang
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by bdowling 4y ago
> How Long Coverage Lasts? > The Lifetime warranty lasts for the manufacturer’s defined lifetime of your vac. The vacs are designed to have a run life of 500-700 hours. The warranty coverage ends the shorter of: after such run life or
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by bdowling 4y ago
Almost all contracts concern promises to do something in the future (e.g., deliver goods, perform services, pay money).
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The only people who treat data as plural are academics, usually social scientists, and overeducated journalists. Sentences like, "What do these data tell us?" are awkward for everyone else. Like "information", "data
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by bdowling 4y ago
> ... the succinct summarization of the legal opinions. LexisNexis and Westlaw produce succinct summaries of legal opinions. That's the basis of their value, because the legal opinions themselves are not copyrighted. They also categ
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by bdowling 4y ago
A conclusion supported by carefully collected data is science. A conclusion based on common sense is not.
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by bdowling 4y ago
That English dub has two serious flaws. First, they took out the two fun 70's J-POP songs, which really set the tone of the film, and replaced them with forgettable American songs written for the movie. Second, they inserted background
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by bdowling 4y ago
> Before high speed internet was affordable For years before that, people were sharing fansubbed anime on VHS. There were networks of fansubbers and distributors sending tapes through the mail.
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by bdowling 4y ago
No, the flash is an external QSPI part.
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by bdowling 4y ago
The N64 cartridge bus is just a parallel bus. Commercial cartridges may not have included coprocessors, but there isn't anything that prevents them. (Edit: The cartridge bus is set up to be most efficient when reading/writing bloc
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by bdowling 4y ago
Probably Lik-Sang. [0]. RIP. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lik_Sang
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by bdowling 4y ago
> In no other case ... Forced conscription of soldiers. Men literally lose their freedom for long periods of time and are forced to follow orders and charge into battle and risk being killed by the enemy (or by friendly fire or other acc
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by bdowling 4y ago
> It took an issue that was gradually being moderated naturally, and then suddenly forcibly swung hardcore in one direction. Justice Roberts made a similar point in his dissent in Obergefell .
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by bdowling 4y ago
The essay could be summed up using the following quote from Ghostbusters (1984). "Personally, I liked the university. They gave us money and facilities, we didn't have to produce anything! You've never been out of college!
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by bdowling 4y ago
The problem with that quote is that if you don't learn to get good grades (e.g., because you are actually learning and not studying for the test), then the resulting bad grades can be extremely damaging to your future.
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Or some people stopped reading the prompts after they started getting repetitive.
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by bdowling 4y ago
YouTube’s search is carefully optimized to keep viewers watching video after video, and ad after ad, for as long as possible. That’s why the search returns popular videos, ones that suck in viewers, rather than ones that match your search t
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by bdowling 4y ago
A small creator doesn’t need a lot of money to sue a big corporate entity that infringes their work because (1) the statutory penalties for copyright infringement are intentionally high and (2) lawyers will take cases on a contingent fee ba
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by bdowling 4y ago
> Or, you could just leave your phone at home… Nobody does that. Not even criminals.
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So, if you want to commit a crime, do it near an abortion clinic so that Google won't have your location data to give to the prosecution?
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by bdowling 4y ago
FYI, that's the coffee equivalent of the one-of-a-kind mechanical keyboard with custom layout and custom QMK firmware with modal overlays.
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Does this affect private schools or home schooling?

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