bittercynic

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by bittercynic 3y ago
I keep my "Hue Bridge" on a network that can't reach the internet, and it can still control the lights.
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by bittercynic 3y ago
According to this, it is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avgas edit to add: I suspect a small plane flying over you one day is no problem at all, but there are many general aviation airfields very close to places where
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by bittercynic 3y ago
Yes, I think that's a big part of what makes it so scary. Maybe the part of you that would do /anything/ to avoid dementia will be the first thing to go.
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by bittercynic 3y ago
You are entitled to your beliefs, and I don't think that you're engaging in bigotry in this discussion, but I would consider it bigotry if you expressed those same beliefs as part of an argument that gay people should not have equ
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by bittercynic 3y ago
Openly expressed bigotry seems like a special type of disagreement to me.
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by bittercynic 3y ago
Some of it may be cautious attitudes re: the next few decades on Earth. Climate change may make it even more competitive to survive in areas where the weather is pleasant. People are already being displaced by climate change. Horrible for t
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by bittercynic 3y ago
The order page says "pre-order your pibox", but later says in-stock, and next-day shipping. Very tempting looking product!
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by bittercynic 3y ago
Replying to myself - I didn't understand the context of this conversation before, but I just read Mark Wahlberg's wikipedia page. Yikes. Seems like the guy was (and is?) a violent, hateful, lunatic. Something smells very off about
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by bittercynic 3y ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but it seems like we're in agreement, no?
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by bittercynic 3y ago
If you make a mistake like this, where you owe a debt that can never be repaid, I think we need some social mechanism where you can do your best to make amends and get some measure of closure. This probably should follow you around forever,
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by bittercynic 3y ago
I'm not the one you asked, but I think those are all various degrees of disturbing. Don't you?
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by bittercynic 3y ago
I'm also a customer (mk4 kit just arrived - I'm excited to build it!) and I have mixed feelings about the accusation of "coasting". Prusa seems to keep making the classic mendel design and making it better and better. Ba
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by bittercynic 3y ago
Agreed, but I also have some sympathy for their position. Encouraging others to make clones had a different feel in the early days of reprap, when the industry was growing very rapidly and the extremely cheap cloners hadn't come on lin
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by bittercynic 3y ago
I don't quite agree with the economic assessment, as I need the jack, jack stands, wrench for the drain plug, etc. for other maintenance and repair tasks, too. The only single-purpose tool is the oil filter wrench, and that was about $
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by bittercynic 3y ago
They're compelling and useful largely because of enormous public investment in supporting infrastructure. Without gigantic roads they'd be much less appealing.
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by bittercynic 3y ago
Emissions testing is only once every other year, and changing oil is easy to do at home and takes less than an hour including gathering the tools and cleaning up after. Every time I've rented a car it's been a substantial hassle,
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by bittercynic 3y ago
This is probably very different from person to person. Most of the poor people I know personally are hard-working, intelligent people, and are not poor because they screwed some important thing up. It's just circumstances/family o
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by bittercynic 3y ago
I suspect it's sometimes just a person's tradition to express one preference in public and another in private, and they might not have given much thought to their genuine preferences or how they compare to what they're expres
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by bittercynic 3y ago
High ability to immediately recognize complex patterns might not correlate with high ability to navigate systems more complex than what you can recognize immediately. edit to add: I think most interesting systems are more complex than what
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by bittercynic 3y ago
I think GP was referring to the increase in methanol poisoning during prohibition.
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by bittercynic 3y ago
I'm sincerely happy for their success, and it an important feature of the US that some sharp, driven people are able to create a substantial fortune for themselves. In some ways this is in direct conflict with working-class people bein
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by bittercynic 3y ago
I think reddit has run its course for me, and I don't think they're losing anything of value when I stop browsing. I've been using old. for years, and always been pretty strict about blocking ads. In the past few years, it&#x
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by bittercynic 3y ago
That's true only if you manage to ride the heavier bike almost as much. You might find it much more enjoyable to ride the more expensive bike, and end up riding more because of it.
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by bittercynic 3y ago
This is scary news to me. I usually assume Firefox and Chromium on linux do a reasonable job of balancing security and usability. Is the situation really that bad?
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by bittercynic 3y ago
They might differ on what's a problem, too. I've installed arch a few times, and there were some things I had to do, but I wouldn't say I had problems. It was generally a pretty enjoyable experience.
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by bittercynic 4y ago
Found that article! https://archive.org/details/Mondo.2000.Issue.04.1991/page/n3...
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by bittercynic 4y ago
I think the discourse makes a lot of sense if part of the purpose is to show the extent of the imbalance of power between Apple and its retail employees - even if they are able to unionize. Apple is so enormous, and so powerful, that it&#x2
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by bittercynic 4y ago
I think they appeal to a different crowd. I built a Prusa kit, and enjoyed building it, and enjoy printing with it. I consider it a bit of a hobby product, and wouldn't recommend it to someone who isn't interested in learning anyt
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by bittercynic 4y ago
I suppose there are different pollutants all the time, but the areas I'm familiar with (SF Bay and LA) have gotten much less polluted in the last few decades, at least by how they look and smell. I suspect our air and water is safer no
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by bittercynic 4y ago
No, but it nicely illustrates the contrast between serious dangers we all end up facing and the relatively minor (and likely useful/educational) dangers posed by play structures.

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