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by eric_h 9y ago
I had to cover the cliff detectors on my Roomba because it interprets the black patterns on my carpet as holes in the ground. Fortunately I live in a 1 bedroom that doesn't have any actual cliffs.
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by eric_h 9y ago
> IR, it penetrates water better than visible or UV. What? IR is lower energy than visible red and that's the first color to go when you get a few feet under water (with no local light source).
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by eric_h 9y ago
At the time of writing this comment, that's only happened twice so far. See the Death Counter portion of the readme.
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by eric_h 9y ago
Somehow my brain has figured out how to notice that and ignore them. Scrolling through my feed I swipe past the ads faster than the other tweets.
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by eric_h 9y ago
And after a decade or two there would be irreversible damage, regardless of how "adjusted" your body was.
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by eric_h 9y ago
42 hours a week in a physically demanding job is very, very different from 42 hours in a chair. I did a temp job ages ago at a warehouse for 3 weeks, the first of which I was required to pack and move boxes, 8 hours a day, 5 days a week (2
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by eric_h 9y ago
Indeed, never underestimate the power of the brand itself.
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by eric_h 9y ago
I agree that this article was too long and overly sensationalized, but I think at the very least I learned a little bit regarding the progress in the field of treating these behaviors. The concept of coopting the reward system rather than u
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by eric_h 9y ago
That's actually a pretty reasonable defense of what I've generally considered a cringe worthy usage of the word "literally".
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by eric_h 9y ago
That is an interesting comparison, especially given how long it took to make an average person even read those once they were on the box (I'm not even sure how many people do).
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by eric_h 9y ago
> given how off your tidal plant calculation is I wouldn't be surprised if it's way off as well. he showed his work for his first calculation. Looked reasonable to me.
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by eric_h 9y ago
> I'm not sure how things like betting on horse races works, though. You need to be 18 in most of the states where it's legal, 21 in a handful and 19 in Alabama. I've never seen anyone carding at a racetrack, but then most
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by eric_h 9y ago
The fact that the second revision of the watch is actually bigger than the first makes this all quite surprising.
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by eric_h 9y ago
> except for closed appliances (e.g. a video game console) My video game console literally has a camera pointed at my living room (PS4, camera is for the VR headset). Given Sony's less then perfect security record, I accepted this a
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by eric_h 9y ago
> NAT is not a firewall. It's not intended to protect, and usually it doesn't It's funny that this still needs to be brought up, but I understand why some people think that NAT offers some real protection. Basically NAT ma
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by eric_h 9y ago
> It's unfortunate Canadians have been unable to expand in our own territory over the few hundred years Europeans have been in this place. Personally I disagree - I think it's fortunate that there are still large swaths of unde
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by eric_h 9y ago
given that it's made with unicode characters, as opposed to just ascii, I believe it is an emojicon ;)
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by eric_h 9y ago
> difference between a mistake and intentionally transposing two numbers This is slightly rambling/OT: I dated a girl who would do that regularly to guys who were being entirely too aggressive about getting her number. She told me i
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by eric_h 9y ago
Cocaine seems more likely to me. Meth is certainly gaining some popularity (particularly on the west coast), but cocaine is most definitely the goto asshole-bro drug
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by eric_h 9y ago
Fortunately (according to [0]) they were told about it before the dose kicked in. 0) https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/the-oral-history-of-the-b...
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by eric_h 9y ago
I can't even imagine what it would be like to be administered a hallucinogen surreptitiously in a age where zero recreational use of said hallucinogens gave literally no one a chance to be prepared to explain what the hell was going on
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by eric_h 9y ago
My thoughts exactly - in this case given the location I'd imagine they were being defensive about NYU students' underage "drinking", but good lord the quantities required to get drunk (or hell, even a tiny bit buzzed) on
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by eric_h 9y ago
> windshield washer fluid that is used? I got through many litres every winter You must be Canadian ;) I'm an expat of sorts and once went on a ski trip (from New Jersey to Mont Tremblant in Quebec) with a friend and his parents in
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by eric_h 9y ago
This is somewhat orthogonal to your point, but my cats are also perfectly capable of eating through a plastic bag enclosing dry foodstuffs (left a sealed bag of cat treats on the counter one day, found it chewed through and empty the next).
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by eric_h 9y ago
> Kombucha often contains a low (< 1%) amount of alcohol. A coworker of mine was recently carded when purchasing kombucha :P
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by eric_h 9y ago
Yes, it's unfortunate that "fake it 'til you make it" became such a popular meme in SV et. al. There is value in that philosophy in some respects, but claiming that your medical tests are real and reliable when they are
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by eric_h 9y ago
> While it may be true that in this particular instance the FBI might act benevolently Indeed. Didn't the FBI effectively purchase a zero day to break into the iPhone of the San Bernardino shooter? Didn't they also then not dis
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by eric_h 9y ago
I was under the impression that hyperventilating is more about the reduction of CO2 in the lungs, rather than saturating the blood with oxygen. It's basically to fool your body into thinking you've got enough oxygen (since it&#x27
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by eric_h 9y ago
Or could've, which is clearly the pronunciation s/he was going for.
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by eric_h 10y ago
And from what I've heard (from friends who've tried it) has a much higher chance of being not fun at all.

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