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by dwringer 5y ago
If you have an original Advantage, IIRC that was one of the known issues that got fixed in the Advantage2 (or perhaps one of the Advantage2 firmware updates). I'm having trouble finding a source now, but Kinesis' site does state:
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by dwringer 5y ago
I always heard a mixture of wine and soda pop called a "wine cooler", a use that would have gone back several decades, but Wikipedia seems to think that specifically means a mix of fruit juice and wine. There is some discussion in
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by dwringer 5y ago
The Google street view [December 2020] under the bridge appears to show a pair of cross braces entirely missing from one side of the main supports [0] (compared with the other side[1]). [0] https://www.google.com/maps/@
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by dwringer 5y ago
The topic of this post is covered in an interesting book by John C. Gowan, called Trance, Art, and Creativity [0] which was brought to mind by another recent submission, "What it means to teach gifted learners well"[1] (Gowan was
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by dwringer 5y ago
Prompted by seeing the popularity of submissions like "What it means to teach gifted learners well"[0] and "My out-of-body experience in a sensory deprivation tank"[1] I thought this could be interesting. On the author,
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Trance, Art, and Creativity(web.archive.org)
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by dwringer 5y ago
I like the separation of controls but I really miss the navball.
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From my limited readings I think you are correct, Jung's technique seems very dissimilar to Freud's. AFAIU Jung emphasized that the terminology used unconsciously by the patient in first describing a dream contained most if not a
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by dwringer 5y ago
> I think trusting a device like a family friend has been an error, I think I was too verbose and meandering to convey it, but I agree with you on this 100%
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by dwringer 5y ago
Perhaps I should have made clear that I agree Amazon has some responsibility here in what kinds of things go onto their platform, but to me it seems like a problem with no obvious solution. Particularly as we move toward more dynamic digit
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by dwringer 5y ago
The article mentions the mother being there at the time to turn it into a lesson about not trusting strangers or the internet. The child was 10 years old for the incident - at that age most children have been in public school for a few yea
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by dwringer 5y ago
Informal diagnoses can be useful as hypotheses to present to qualified practitioners, and may even help in cases like those at the linked site to give the affected parties peace of mind and a feeling of insight, but I believe there is somet
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by dwringer 5y ago
The grandparent comment immediately brought to mind [0], which evidently occurred right on the front page of reddit. Edit: This was discussed here on HN at the time [1] and again about six months ago [2]. [0] https://www.theawl.co
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by dwringer 5y ago
This was exactly my experience as well.
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by dwringer 5y ago
I didn't suffer from carpal tunnel but I'd get a lot of tension in my back and shoulders leading to sharp pains and deep aches that would last for days. Started using an Advantage2 and trackball in my non-dominant hand at work an
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by dwringer 5y ago
Perhaps the concept of nominative determinism[0], or (more generally) the saying from Latin, "nomen est omen"[1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism[1] https://en.wiktionary.org&#
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by dwringer 5y ago
He was responding to the "I wouldn't blame him" part - the following day he posted that Tesla had not sold any, and he's stated that they plan to accept BTC as payment in the future once more of the mining is transitione
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by dwringer 6y ago
It's been possible to buy and sell cryptocurrencies in one's PayPal account for months (including right before buying something with the resulting balance in fiat currency); what seems to be new here is that one can have PayPal ha
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BNY Mellon to offer Bitcoin services(cnbc.com)
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by dwringer 7y ago
This made me recall reading about Douglas Engelbart's project from SRI (whence the computer mouse originated) that used a 5-key chording keyset that had pneumatic actuators for using the keys to output a data stream to the user haptica
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by dwringer 7y ago
I've never particularly minded general office noises of the kind that can be cancelled out easily, but what gets me is when coworkers start to become stressed and physically vent this in a way that makes noise - particularly when I can
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by dwringer 7y ago
This has always been my default: including the entire reply chain for the same general reason you've stated, and top-posting my reply so it doesn't accidentally get read by someone later as part of someone else's previous mes
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by dwringer 7y ago
When I view that page[1] I see two different techniques listed, isoformat() being the second. The first is to use d.strftime('%Y-%m-%d'). In regard to the second, isoformat on a "datetime" will give increased resolution
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by dwringer 7y ago
> What is the most environmentally friendly analog writing tool? I don't know how practical it is, but the wax tablet[1][2] is perhaps the closest thing meeting this description that I've seen currently available [that I can th
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by dwringer 7y ago
These later exhibitions seem reminiscent of "CowParade" (established first as Zürich's "Land in Sicht" in 1998), which was ultimately developed into an exhibit not specific to one city, but appears to have inspired
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by dwringer 7y ago
I certainly know nothing of the motives of this investigation, but a quoted passage in the main article states that the inquiry is about "whether the Department of Defense experimented with ticks and other insects regarding use as a bi
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by dwringer 7y ago
Very cool stuff. From what I've read, I gather that the actual keysets developed by Engelbart's team for NLS differed a bit in style from the one in that link, but more interestingly/importantly(?) could also provide haptic f
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by dwringer 7y ago
My experience has been the same, not once but many times. Often I consider the lyrics on Genius to be more accurate, to the point where I am in the habit of bypassing whatever Google tells me the lyrics are and searching directly for the f
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by dwringer 7y ago
I have been doing this for a while by following a pattern found here[0]. I typically follow this and copy every asdf package dependency into the working directory of whatever project I'm working on [setting the subdir-search-registry
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by dwringer 7y ago
> The kind of math musicians talk about are elementary ratios that concern the relationships between tones and between frequencies, nothing to write home about. Perhaps in general this is often true, but Guerino Mazzola might have a thin

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