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by dwighttk 4y ago
My library has been really curtailing the amount I can use Hoopla… Libby is pretty good as long as I can find a less popular book (or wait in line), but Hoopla is almost always already at the daily lending limit.
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by dwighttk 4y ago
I use this on deja vu so I don’t have to spend a while trying to figure out if/when I saw something before.
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by dwighttk 4y ago
Oh yeah definitely. I bet the experience would be at least a little better if I had ever wanted to switch to Linux and spent money on the effort. But I bought the (perhaps unspoken?) promise that it would be an easy test drive to find a cr
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by dwighttk 4y ago
To be fair every time I’ve tried it has been on a cheap or free computer and I haven’t needed to get it running… I’d probably have gotten better results of it was my only option or if I went out and tried to plan my computer purchase to mak
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by dwighttk 4y ago
As a person who has tried setting up Linux like 5-10 times over the years this sounds exactly like my experience and basically what I assume Linux use is always like. It’s just like cars, there are people who are super comfortable just tink
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by dwighttk 4y ago
Apple does give you the choice: Go buy Android.
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by dwighttk 4y ago
After the fall there’s not much of a trend. Sometimes things seem better sometimes worse, but generally people are looking forward to rest, not backward to halcyon days.
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by dwighttk 4y ago
I think parent was writing about the Amazon series.
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by dwighttk 4y ago
>The idea that the world becomes lesser over time used to be a core part of Christian worldview. I would have a very hard time reading Genesis and then claiming that.
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by dwighttk 4y ago
>So, despite it taking objectively longer for users to get their answers, they loved it. As long they had already favorited the trail they wanted to know about.
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by dwighttk 4y ago
Smells so much like burning hair I wonder if dealers cut weed with hair sometimes :D
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by dwighttk 4y ago
Can't tell if name is genius or terrible... Just reading about it here and at github I keep seeing Google instead of Goggle.
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by dwighttk 4y ago
Default list for 1Blocker
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by dwighttk 4y ago
Hit finished reading and got a blank page… Was there an ad or something?
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by dwighttk 4y ago
I dunno… big eye that can see all over the world through palantirs
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by dwighttk 4y ago
>Apple threatened to remove all of their users from tumblr if they didn't That isn’t true. Not allowing the tumblr app doesn’t remove all users.
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by dwighttk 4y ago
I lived at a 600 Carver St for a while. It was technically 600 West Carver. We would get mail for people in 600 East Carver (which was too far away to end up in a list of closest same addresses, and should have been a different address anyw
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by dwighttk 4y ago
Looks like if interest rates get high enough everything will shut down.
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by dwighttk 4y ago
Has anyone gotten less than 400K? Heck, less than 440K?
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by dwighttk 4y ago
I lowered interest rates to 0 slowly and then to -.5 when I realized it could go down. Ended up in the same neighborhood 400somethingK Honestly expected inflation to go up at some point
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by dwighttk 4y ago
But a lot more things have only ever been around for a short time. Only a few made it through that “having been around a short time”, stay around longer than expected, and become exceptions to the rule.
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Why Is This Tiny Frog So Awful at Jumping?(defector.com)
20 points by dwighttk 4y ago|2 comments
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by dwighttk 4y ago
I am not an expert This doesn’t seem to make any sense to me. If taxiing is so inefficient, why not use the pushback carts to push/pull the planes into position? I’ve been to many more airports that make the plane taxi for quite a dist
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by dwighttk 4y ago
What percentage of available battery did that 4 minute loop take?
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by dwighttk 4y ago
I mean that is just how lawyers work. Getting off on a technicality is as good as finding the truth. Former is even better if your client is guilty.
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by dwighttk 4y ago
Kinda funny, when I first started using Twitter I thought of it as an elevated AIM away message.
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by dwighttk 4y ago
I “remember” maybe one dream every 6 months. And those memories are like “aah I was falling” or “I hadn’t prepared for a test!” or “there was a group of people” sometimes the additional detail of “I wasn’t clothed…” Hope my jalopy of a brai
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by dwighttk 4y ago
Get back to me when this continues into the guy’s retirement.
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by dwighttk 4y ago
pretty sure the people paying to deliver the mail would stop paying, so while delivery costs would go down, revenue would drop too...
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by dwighttk 4y ago
Ah gotcha. There’s a line break there for me so I didn’t catch it when I went back scanning for an R word.

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