dorkwood

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by dorkwood 5y ago
> First, if you can remember only 3 things: > Zh is like a J sound (as in "Jam") > X is like a Sh sound (as in "Shot") > Q is like a Ch sound (as in "China") This is very useful to know, but I have
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by dorkwood 5y ago
Discovering that my TV had teletext as a kid was definitely one of my first "hacker" moments. I can remember enjoying the fact that I, a small child, knew all of the day's news events before my parents did.
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by dorkwood 5y ago
It's never been confirmed that the language of chess is the reason the channel was flagged. It's all speculation. A fishing channel being taken offline due to hate speech, for example, is a boring story. The same thing happening t
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by dorkwood 5y ago
Future alien civilizations are going to think the cool S means something. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_S
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by dorkwood 5y ago
I received a notification from Uber on the weekend. It said something to the effect of "it's a nice day today, why don't you take a ride?" I've never told my phone to fuck off faster. How many people out there were
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by dorkwood 5y ago
I can hear instruments, but after reading about the humming guy I could suddenly only hear myself hum. I had to force myself to switch back to instruments, like some sort of optical illusion. This makes me think it could be a learned abilit
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by dorkwood 5y ago
Interesting question! I can "hear" the Star Wars theme, and the brass and strings or whatever it is that makes that iconic sound, but it's not the same as the real thing. I think the best way to describe it is that the music
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by dorkwood 5y ago
Thank you for your answer. The reason I wanted to give this test is that I think we may be experiencing the same thing, but interpreting what we see differently. I too can recall scenes from my last holiday trip. I can "see" the n
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by dorkwood 5y ago
There's a test I'd like to give someone with your abilities one day, and I'd love if you took the time to try this. I forget where I originally saw it, but it goes something like this: Imagine you're looking down on a gr
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by dorkwood 5y ago
Barely. If I try to recall a friend's face, I sort of get small pieces. Maybe the way their eyes squint when they smile. I have more success if I try to remember a photograph I've seen of that person. I can kind of "see"
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by dorkwood 5y ago
I stumbled across a similar trick recently, which is to basically start thinking in dream-like imagery with dream-like logic, until your brain begins to adopt the pattern itself.
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by dorkwood 5y ago
I watched this for ten minutes and didn't see anything (apart from a flashing red screen). I'm supposed to be the artistic one in the family, so I can't help but feel slightly disdapointed. I've always suspected that peo
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by dorkwood 5y ago
In an attempt to gamify my own fitness, I wrote a simple workout tracking app that used energy bars which depleted and refilled over time. If I hit a particular muscle group that day, the energy bar for that muscle group would deplete and
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by dorkwood 5y ago
My experience with Tinder was that all the women I met turned out to be more interested in hooking up than anything else. Is there an app for people who don't even really want to sleep with each other, but would prefer to just hang out
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by dorkwood 5y ago
I still resent my parents for not keeping any books in the house apart from the dictionary. I can't remember how many times I flipped through the dictionary out of boredom growing up. Whenever I'd go to my grandmother's place
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by dorkwood 5y ago
I have a feeling there are different tiers to this phenomenon. Take a 15 minute break, and you'll be better at that piano piece you've been practicing intensely for the last hour. Take a week long break, and you'll be better
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by dorkwood 5y ago
I love this video of Kare giving an introduction to the Mac interface on "Computer Chronicles" back in 1984 [1]. At first it seems quaint to see how slowly and carefully she explains what we now consider to be basic UI features. B
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by dorkwood 5y ago
I think we need to be a bit more imaginative rather than just jumping to "aliens" every time. There are other possible explanations that are just as fun! An animal species we've never seen before, for example. Or time travell
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by dorkwood 5y ago
It's the other way around. I think it's the worst game in the world.
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by dorkwood 5y ago
My sister often buys nothing. She has this weird idea that certain colors and utilities aren't worth buying. I beat her every time with my "buy literally everything" strategy.
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by dorkwood 5y ago
Now that he's written the phrase "turtle neck" online, the whole experiment is compromised. Best to start thinking of another item altogether.
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by dorkwood 5y ago
I agree that the follow topic suggestions are awful. They don't even respect muted keywords. I can be browsing my timeline, peacefully looking at art and developer side-projects, and then out of nowhere I'll get hit with several p
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by dorkwood 5y ago
> If internet "celebrities" are able to cash in on this nonsense, I see no harm in it. It's sort of like living off of VC subsidized products. If you only look at it from the perspective of the influencer, it doesn't
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by dorkwood 5y ago
In the US, perhaps. In Europe you see quite a few cars that size.
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by dorkwood 5y ago
I see where our difference in opinion lies now. I don't put graphics cards into the same category as gold jewellery. There are entire industries of independent contractors who rely on GPUs to remain competitive, such as VFX and motion
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by dorkwood 5y ago
> And if those aren't enough, I have several more useless projects planned! I can't wait to get started on them: I feel like this is such a key technique for maintaining momentum with your personal projects -- always keep a lis
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by dorkwood 5y ago
Could the price ever reach a point where you would say it infringes on the general public's freedom to purchase? Or are all prices simply greater and greater inconveniences?
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by dorkwood 5y ago
Throwing an empty can into the river has a miniscule effect on the environment. You do more damage when you ride the bus to work.
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by dorkwood 5y ago
From the article: "In the end, he generated about 700 variations of the phrase on t-shirts, and put them up on Amazon."
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by dorkwood 5y ago
Is that an Elizabeth Holmes quote?

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