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> So the solution is to design a product which suits to the elderly but seems like its designed for young generation. And thus, "Where did the soda go?"...
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7y ago
> Is there anything that survives a chlorhexidine rinse? At first I was going to ask if that was the stuff in original Listerine (if you don't recall or remember, or too young to know, Listerine used to sell a version that was a yel
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7y ago
> It's not easy to get in the West yet. IIRC - it used to be "easy" - then it was pulled from the market: https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1372067 Conspiracy theories abound of c
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7y ago
> When I don't floss, after 3 or 4 months, my gums start to puff up and bleed when brushed. When I do floss at least once a week, they don't. That's effectively the very beginning of "gum disease"; your brushing
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7y ago
> I mean the US likes to forget it had concentration camps for the Japanese after Pearl Harbor. Yeah - my wife was mentioning such camps near here in Phoenix to one of her coworkers who's younger and they'd never been taught ab
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7y ago
This is an interesting comment; first, we have something akin to > Web site looks fine, probably done by an engineer..."that looks like a poorly constructed phishing attempt" ...an amalgam of your's and parent's (to y
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7y ago
Regarding "HeyLaughingBoy"'s comment - that market would be tubes of caulk and glue/epoxy. While in the industrial space most use the common "gun" style applicator with the large tubes of product, and certain o
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7y ago
Since I started really playing with hardware/software integration (hobby level) a couple of decades ago, and also knowing what I learned from various efforts I've been involved in at employers to "bandaid patch" in secur
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7y ago
Hmm - that's not good. That said, once I read the article title, my first thought was "Therac-25"? A quick skim before I read it confirmed that suspicion. ...and I have to add that I'm one of those "informally educa
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7y ago
Is it? Look at the rest of the document. It is almost clear from the errors you can find throughout the document that this "report" was posted from some original hard copy run through some form of OCR. I think this is a particular
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7y ago
Ultimately we need to get off this rock as a species; the Earth is fairly overdue (statistically as I understand it) for a major asteroid hit. We seem to have this hubris that we'll be able to "detect and deflect" - both of w
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7y ago
If you're looking for a replacement to reddit - there's https://saidit.net/ - it's still fairly new, and if you sign up (well, happened to me - maybe it's changed since a few weeks ago?) they subscribe y
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7y ago
I've personally found Budgie Linux to be the most "MacOS-like" distro. It is also based on Ubuntu. Earlier this year I was forced to do an OS refresh on my home system, and I decided I wanted something closer to MacOS; before
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7y ago
Though I don't expect it to happen in this case, I wonder if some kind of wood and metal composite structure couldn't be implemented? I'm certainly not an architect or engineer; maybe that suggestion is currently impossible.
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7y ago
LS engine all the things...
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7y ago
> In the 2015–2016 academic year, colleges and universities spent $559 billion Talking out my nether regions here - but is that broken out in any way? Basically - I'm wondering how much of that spending is on actual academics vs non
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7y ago
I know this info - but just reading it makes me wonder why people go along with the scam. I get it - I once had a car loan too; it wasn't even a new car (but I bought it from an actual dealer, so it wasn't some weird sketchy loan)
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7y ago
Hah - s/he's complaining about "slow" being 2-7 seconds... ...I remember back when I was in high school making a generator for this in BASIC on an Apple IIe, running 16 colors in the "double high res mode" (nee
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7y ago
If I were going to do this, and I thought it would cause such a storm, I'd take a raspi wardriving and find an open router somewhere, and then upload it via TOR to liveleak or imgur or something like that using an old netbook sourced f
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7y ago
I wonder if it'd be possible to "deepfake" the crypto sigs...?
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7y ago
> It is naive to think that companies wouldn't want to show ads to paid members. It used to be, back in the olden days of pay-TV, that you'd get HBO, etc in order to not have commercials shown to you. I haven't seen HBO in
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7y ago
Check the comments on that public pi-hole link; the guy gives a few "tips" (in the form of a paste of shell commands and apache config changes - so you'll have to understand all of that) on how to begin to set up your own &qu
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7y ago
I don't know if this is what you're getting at (probably not), but I've often thought a lot of the "ills" we see with the current web ecosystem (particularly so-called "fake news", disinformation campaigns
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7y ago
I only switched from firefox to chrome, many years ago, for two reasons: 1. Better dev tools 2. Better WebGL performance But today, Firefox has upped their game on both, and really, I don't play much with WebGL anymore so it doesn'
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7y ago
The author of the tweet (and supposed ident system) or the author of the article? I think if the latter - there was no "spin", just reporting. But if the former - then I'd say it's because the author knows they are in th
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7y ago
The other thing - this engine does orthographic projection, which preserves (IIRC) the distance aspect between points without any distortion. It's a commonly used projection method for when you don't want scaling issues, where the
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7y ago
Back in the day it was also referred to as "2.5D" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2.5D Also, the whole sprite thing was used in a lot of Amiga demos in the late-80s-early 90s and was termed "vector bobs&qu
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7y ago
> Fining hospitals that are unsanitary is not attacking your reproductive rights. That would be perfectly acceptable if there were more than one service provider of these services, but in the case of MO - there isn't. There's a
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7y ago
> We need laws to standardize plastics so that only purely recyclable plastics exist and no more single-use plastics, or compostable containers. Anything else should be banned. Do you have any idea how much this would change the world, i
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7y ago
But first past the post already works... ...for the people who would need to vote to change it. They ain't gunna change something that will work against them after they change it...
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