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by dwringer 4y ago
I get an unfiltered spam message in my inbox maybe once every month on average. I always assumed these are new campaigns with the newest "zero-day" exploits of the spam filter. Much more common is getting newsletters for which I h
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by dwringer 4y ago
Sorry if this is a nitpick, but by design, sound doubles in perceived loudness (roughly) every 10dB, and dBa is a calibrated version of dB which is intended to correspond to how people experience sound, so that increase is only around a t
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by dwringer 4y ago
Although it's in passive voice and thus not always taught or preferred, "<x> was copied by <y>" means that <x> came first, not <y>.
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by dwringer 4y ago
I'm not sure where "one hundred and seventeen" would mean 100.17. To me, as someone from the US, it unambiguously means 117. I probably wouldn't use the "and" myself, but it makes no difference in interpreting
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by dwringer 4y ago
I agree, Ubuntu's seems far more legible than the others. The "new Windows console" design still seems a lot closer than the pathological example they show than it does to the Ubuntu text. It is certainly a step toward being
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by dwringer 4y ago
Without using the browser find tool I suddenly realize it's nothing like how I usually use Wikipedia. I have to scan a lot differently to find what I'm looking for. I'm not sure if that's a positive or negative thing, si
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by dwringer 4y ago
Generally (at least in my part of the US) people stopped being asked to sign for small purchases several years ago; usually now convenience stores and big box stores under a certain dollar amount just ask you to tap a button instead of sign
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by dwringer 4y ago
What you describe is what we were taught in drivers' ed as "steer into the direction of the skid". If your back end is whipping out (oversteer) then turn to the outside (the direction the wheels are skidding). If your front e
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by dwringer 4y ago
I expect they algorithmically tailor this sort of thing so when they detect a spike in "hide" activity they temporarily scale it back so you think it had an effect, making you more likely to methodically spend 20 minutes poring ov
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by dwringer 4y ago
Have you tried something like a TrackIR? It gives you the ability to do what you describe in a cockpit, as well as using your head to fix your eyes on a point of the horizon/landscape/object during maneuvers. I haven't tried
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by dwringer 4y ago
To me Roger Ebert fills the role of legendary but I'm not sure I could think of anyone else. Like all movie critics, Ebert would sometimes express opinions that would surprise or vex me, but - more or less uniquely to him - by the end
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by dwringer 4y ago
> everything from their projects, to their websites is outdated and distant from how people actually use tech everyday. That's... kind of the point, no? Most people use computers most of the time in a way that's not free by F
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by dwringer 4y ago
I was a huge fan of the books and frankly I think the book series itself went off the rails at some point. I'm still not even done with book 9 and don't really plan to finish it. I still enjoyed the Amazon series, but I will admit
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by dwringer 4y ago
I think one problem is people have vastly different thresholds of pain. Somebody else having the same injury might be calling their doctor back begging for a refill because they can barely function. Of course determining how much of that is
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by dwringer 4y ago
There's also the folk tradition of just cutting off an angled piece of scrap lumber to use.
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by dwringer 4y ago
I'll go so far as to say that lots of people do check the zipper when buying any clothes with a zipper, and usually put it back if it isn't YKK. I picked up this habit decades ago shopping with my mom and great aunt, but they
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by dwringer 4y ago
If you want to argue against the modern music industry I'm right there with you, but (as just one example) I can't imagine movies of the last 50 years without synthesizers. Also, some of my favorite guitar players of all time also
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by dwringer 4y ago
Unfortunately I can agree with this completely. I stopped playing Fortnite because of this. Although it can be fun without winning, when they introduced the victory crowns to reward multiple consecutive wins (along with an emote to rub it i
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by dwringer 4y ago
Reading this thread got me to pull up a map and notice the Mohenjo-Daro site[0] is evidently being damaged by the current flooding, particularly in excavated areas[1]. It would appear that in the 1960's there was a flurry of publicatio
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by dwringer 4y ago
I am also reminded of the series Maniac on Netflix, which I highly recommend.
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by dwringer 4y ago
It's definitely worth watching again. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE
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by dwringer 4y ago
I don't really like the idea of double-tapping control either, for much the same reason, but wiggling the mouse seems gentler. I still use trails, though; I'll take all the help I can get.
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by dwringer 4y ago
A perfect fifth is just 150% (3/2) the frequency of the root, just as an octave is 200% (2/1). "What sounds good" is in a certain sense based on the harmonic series, and in that sense it is equivalent to what makes sense
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by dwringer 4y ago
I always use trails, along with the largest pointer I can set and inverted coloration. It makes it a lot easier for me to always find the mouse at a glance when I move it slightly. I didn't always do so in the past, but the move to 4k
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by dwringer 4y ago
Shape and size won't really help since we'd need to know the string tension and spacing. Otherwise it could be literally any scale with any shape and size. It's hard to express just how enormous the difference between musical
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by dwringer 4y ago
I was hoping to see some replies to this comment, lol. Sadly it just makes me think of companies like Cambridge Analytica and ultimately big tech in general, no doubt using software with similarities to this but not available to, or necessa
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by dwringer 4y ago
The commentor above appeared to use the term in both ways, referring to both "hot spicy soup" and "burning hot coffee"
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by dwringer 4y ago
Definitely a Far Side cartoon or two in all of this.
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I doubt you'd be called non-white but it's probably contextual. I have a hard time imagining a scenario where it would be likely to come up. You would not be confused with sounding like a "white American", though. The ri
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by dwringer 4y ago
I noted that it simply defines "light drinker" as <= 1 drink per day. It's not clear to me from reading the study how someone who drinks once every two or three days, or once a week, would be classified. The authors note s

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