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by currency 3y ago
I have no problem with sponsored YouTube videos where the host inserts a quick ad. If it's too long I can fast forward through it. I'm at the point though where if I want to watch a YT video I'll download it.
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by currency 3y ago
Elon's doing so many things that will gut Twitter/X. When he gives up trying, what lessons will he learn? This is my breaking point. I will not give up anonymity on this platform.
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by currency 3y ago
It's a discussion about motivated reasoning. Whether being happy is more important depends on your motive for what you're trying to reason out. If you're trying to reason out how a biological system works, your emotional cont
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by currency 3y ago
My ISP is Verizon, so I changed my DNS settings shortly after my first typo led me to their capture site instead of my browser's page-not-found page. "It looks like you're trying to find example.com. Here are the advertisers
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by currency 3y ago
How are people being added to the database? Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? How is abuse prevented in this system? There absolutely should be an open review and appeal process. After that: If you're homeless, you can't get grocerie
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by currency 3y ago
I might talk about allegations and suppositions about an individual's behavior until I've seen evidence, but the hate and disinfo groups aren't imaginary. Groups that promote hate speech and misinformation do so by invading o
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by currency 3y ago
More worrying that they could grab a photo off FB and spoof a family member. Lots of people would ignore the number if the face and name were familiar. How many people actually memorize phone numbers any more?
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by currency 3y ago
In red!
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by currency 3y ago
I don't think it's classical high-voltage ESD reaching the monitor; it's RFI generating enough voltage to mess with the HDMI signal. Voltages generated by RFI will be relatively low compared to direct ESD.
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by currency 3y ago
Yess! I'm currently reading The Fuller Memorandum and it's wild finding this today.
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by currency 3y ago
I was a computer labs staffer in the early 90s, and for a lot of students our labs were their first exposure to word processors, and man, I hated supporting WordPerfect for DOS. Students couldn't figure out how to apply formatting corr
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by currency 4y ago
Solid tires crawl around the rim as you ride them. Okay for very low speeds; not okay for cycling speeds.
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by currency 4y ago
Probably depends on how you use recipes. If you prop the book up next to your work and don't want to worry about getting it messy, you'd want to buy it. If you tend to use one or two recipes per book, and copy them out and make no
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by currency 4y ago
PNC has ads for special offers in their banking app.
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by currency 4y ago
Copy a selection of pages from an existing PDF, choose File > New from clipboard. From that point you can edit the pages in the PDF using the thumbnails sidebar and drag pages from other PDFs into the bar.
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by currency 4y ago
He did do the firing whole teams bit, but not the fucking up the product bit. I assume, for example that Apple didn't need as many finance people after the cuts, but he didn't manage to make the whole department quit in disgust.
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by currency 4y ago
This sounds so much like a GPT-3 response....
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by currency 4y ago
Yeah. Amazon didn't start the answers section like this. Once Amazon started emailing random purchasers to answer questions about the item they purchased, the quality of the answers went way down.
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by currency 4y ago
>>The only problem I've had was ear wax buildup I purchased a hearing aid cleaning kit[0], and the little wire loop tool is excellent at removing wax. [0] https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B089QMMSWW&#x
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by currency 4y ago
That's plenty of time for selection pressures to modify a culture. Culture—shared knowledge—is communicated much more quickly than genetic changes.
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by currency 4y ago
I love the presenters, but I can't listen to too many BtB episodes. They are very bleak.
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by currency 4y ago
And I profoundly disagree that removing children from their daily lives and sending them to to punitive institutions for misdemeanor failures of judgement is good for society. Setting an example almost always happens to marginalized individ
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by currency 4y ago
From the article, one is still in jail in Kentucky, and one is at home under house arrest following release due to COVID mitigations. Nothing there about the jail security level.
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by currency 4y ago
Yes, exactly. And that plate amp has the passthrough I mentioned, which not all plate amps do.
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by currency 4y ago
2.1 systems generally use powered subs, not passive subs. For use with higher-quality bookshelf speakers, you can send the stereo line level signal to a 2-channel amp and pass the high-level speaker lines through your sub. I do this with Be
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by currency 4y ago
Speaking of that chemical reaction, J. Kenji López-Alt says that if the garlic is cut or crushed in lemon juice (and I'd guess a citric acid solution would work by itself), the conversion to allicin doesn't happen. It's the b
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by currency 4y ago
There's a fine line between preferring fresh garlic, and turning your nose up at garlic in a jar, and your preferences can be a lower priority. It's very situational. If I'm making it myself? Fresh. If I'm at a restauran
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by currency 4y ago
Hacking systems was just something a lot of computer users did. Often interest in hacking and interest in computers were strongly related. Check out any history of phreaking [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_box
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by currency 4y ago
Specifically for computers to smart speakers, I use AirPlay 1, but this works better from Windows with a 3rd-party app than from iOS or MacOS—the 3rd party app is perfectly happy to play to as many endpoints as I like, while Apple will only
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by currency 5y ago
Being able to turn on cooking appliances remotely couldn't possibly go wrong[0]. /sarcasm [0] https://www.nfpa.org/Public-Education/Fire-causes-and-risks/...

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