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dwighttk
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dwighttk
5y ago
… and canceled after 2 seasons…
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dwighttk
5y ago
If it were solved, the captchas wouldn’t stop bots
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dwighttk
5y ago
Stephen Tobolowsky’s podcast is a great listen if you liked that short article https://tobolowskyfiles.com/
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5y ago
> Monkeytpe won’t let Keen run up the leaderboard, but he did win another typing competition using the CharaChorder to hit 267 WPM with 76% accuracy. Oof. That’s bad. No other mention of accuracy anywhere else.
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5y ago
It should. There should be a way to mark a card as your own, but I can’t tell you because I don’t see a quick way to unmark mine so I can tell you. (My card is at the top of the list above the alphabetical sorting, so possibly there is a bu
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dwighttk
5y ago
Do you have your contact information in the contacts app?
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5y ago
> Note that I have adblocker so I don't know how many ads you see Be careful. I also have an ad blocker and sent a fun link to my mom a friend had sent me and she saw Alllllllllll the ads. It was not a fun link for her. Didn’t even
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5y ago
>The standard guidance is 1 gallon (~4 liters) of water per day Unless you are in the Italian army, they need more.
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dwighttk
5y ago
Currently seems to be running at about the ratio I see things as they currently stand.
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5y ago
Maybe, but it seems there’s something about development teams that choose to write native apps that avoid that because I’ve never guessed an app was electron and been wrong using this method.
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5y ago
My problem with electron is not that the apps are slow it is that I can (usually) guess if an app is electron by seeing which ones are using up an entire core when the app is just sitting doing nothing
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5y ago
I can do whatever I want, I’m going light speed!
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5y ago
You’d have to outlaw going to another country to get healthcare
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5y ago
Don’t forget cleaned
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dwighttk
5y ago
Yeah one of the things we like about plastic is that it isn’t (very)biodegradable. Once we are done with it, sure we might be fine with it biodegrading, but not before.
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5y ago
I remember when my grandparents’ phone company did some sort of upgrade in the 90s that forced them to use a touch tone phone. They returned the rotary phone they had been renting from the telephone company since sometime in the 50s.
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dwighttk
5y ago
This is a better description than I’ve been using… since it was so underpowered it was more like a smartwatch than a phone. But it wasn’t even mostly always in view… when you weren’t focused on it I guess it could kinda flash and make you f
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5y ago
Wasn’t even that.
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5y ago
Sure if the experience of using it had been anything like that video it would have been AR, but it was not like that. I’m sure they wanted AR glasses but instead they built a tiny screen you could look at when you weren’t looking at what wa
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dwighttk
5y ago
Glass had no overlay. You don’t see reality and the screen at the same time. It is reality or the screen. (Just like a phone that isn’t running an AR app) Looking at the screen does obscure your perception of reality because your eye has to
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5y ago
Glass was not AR. It was a tiny screen you had to shift your focus to. I should change my usernames to glasswasnotar because I feel like I am always saying that when people talk about glass and ar
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5y ago
You woke up and it is 2024! Welcome back.
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5y ago
If so it is a novel use of “wax” for me.
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dwighttk
5y ago
> it’s very tempting for a payments geek to wax laconic about… That’s a novel use of laconic to me. Maybe he meant lyrical?
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5y ago
Marketing is scary for most people with souls
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5y ago
Most of the time… sometimes with not so good graphics (e.g. the explosions and the characters in the car and…)
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5y ago
> If the tech gets past the uncanny valley then you'll never know. This is basically true by definition. No they’ll tell me (And I’ll probably not agree, but if I do they’re still going to tell me, trust me they haven’t stopped tell
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5y ago
> Local TV stations are required to broadcast weather. It's actually part of their licensing. So if you're not in the habit of turning on the local station because of crappy programming (like me), then you should at least be wi
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5y ago
I mean. Drop the bomb and just don’t let it go off until the plane is far enough away. You’d miss out on the airburst, but it’s big enough that probably wouldn’t matter. Or throw it out and give it some sort of self propulsion that keeps it
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5y ago
Paying them only to avoid the PR disaster is fine. Kinda what PR disasters are “for”
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