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by extragood 3y ago
Even more extreme. 'Antisocial' means against others. "Antagonistic, hostile, or unfriendly toward others; menacing" 'Asocial' means reclusive or unwilling to be social, but isn't necessarily antagonistic
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by extragood 3y ago
Qbasic was also my first language too. A friend and I spent the evening drawing a face on the screen then updating it so it moved back and forth. No formal training or anything, just childhood curiosity and experimentation. It is very appro
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by extragood 3y ago
I had my S22 upside down in my pocket and happened to splash water directly into the USB port and nowhere else. The precision was honestly kind of impressive. I only knew about it because my phone freaked out. I let it dry overnight rather
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by extragood 3y ago
I've been running TrueNAS for years on commodity hardware that's been upcycled from my personal workstation after major upgrades. Current iteration is: a skylake era CPU, 16 gb ddr4, 4x 14TB WD Reds, 2x 512 GB SSD, and a m.2 boot
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by extragood 3y ago
I have to say that is precisely the opposite of my experience. I held on to a 2012 4 GB MacBook Air until fairly recently as my casual web browsing machine. With such low system memory, I had to be extremely economical with my open tabs; no
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by extragood 3y ago
I had a similar revelation at work recently. I've lead a team for the past several years. Our productivity and the quality of the work never was never questioned for the first ~4 years. We consistently met or exceeded expectations, and
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by extragood 3y ago
I have a similar feeling. My team builds out a lot of one-off projects for customers, and a lot of them don't need to be especially performant. That has always been the case for reporting/analytical projects. You know what does ma
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by extragood 3y ago
That's (b)ananas
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by extragood 3y ago
My favorite teacher in high school was my calculus teacher. He would regularly ask a student to solve a problem or answer a question. Students would often ask for confirmation as they worked through, and his response invariably was "wh
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by extragood 3y ago
I'm far from an expert, but I'm pretty sure they're referring to Spectre and Meltdown exploits: https://meltdownattack.com/
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by extragood 3y ago
Fair enough. I have a few gripes with the channel, particularly how they title videos and the thumbnails are usually cheesy. The content can be hit or miss, but the smart house series is especially relevant to me as I'm going through s
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by extragood 3y ago
Actually, no - their thing for the past few years has been to build out the most comprehensive test bench across all PC hardware components. "LTT Labs." They are aiming to become the authority on hardware performance and reliabili
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by extragood 3y ago
I went to a talk by PayPal founders - Peter Thiel and Max Levchin - more than a decade ago (before I had any opinions about the former), and they essentially said the same thing. And from what I see in the comments here, a lot of people are
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by extragood 3y ago
I'm surprised that there weren't any sinusoidal representations mentioned. Scandinavians traditionally celebrate both the summer and winter solstices, and the change in light over the course of the year is dramatic at that latitud
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by extragood 3y ago
Super interesting - thanks for sharing! Glad to hear that there is so much momentum pushing this forward. I'm with the presenter: I desperately want this to happen in my.. I mean our.. lifetimes.
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by extragood 3y ago
It may be possible to get much higher resolution images of exoplanets in the not too distant future by taking advantage of gravitational lensing and our own sun [1]. There are a few related advancements required before we can do that, altho
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by extragood 3y ago
While the image quality is better (and the price difference is beyond compare), I've noticed that a lot of channels are still broadcast at 720p.
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by extragood 3y ago
> In b2b you never say no, always have an option for what they're asking and charge more for it. This was a somewhat recent revelation for me, and it totally works. "Well, we don't really want to work on this or agree with
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by extragood 3y ago
There was one in '99 - $800 for a whopping 1.2 MP image [1]. It did not do well [2], although to be fair there were a number of issues with that implementation: > The lack of battery space, the need to open the camera to change ISO,
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by extragood 3y ago
I'm sure there are valid reasons for doing that, but whenever I see multiple franchises within spitting distance of one another, I can't help but be reminded of Gob Bluth's "market research" for a 2nd banana stand i
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by extragood 3y ago
Absolutely. I spent an entire summer writing translation layers for a bunch of different microscopes so that they could interface with the detector software of the company I was interning for. It was tedious work!
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by extragood 3y ago
I had the same thought. As far as I can tell, they are leaning on the ability to pause recording at any time, meaning that in all-party consent states, it's up to the user to disclose that they are employing a recording device. That se
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by extragood 3y ago
The US leads the world in both mass incarceration and recidivism. Jail time is not only not a deterrent, but actively makes the problem worse because incarceration in the US is punitive and is much less focused on rehabilitation. An ex-conv
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by extragood 3y ago
Copyright doesn't protect style or genre [1], so these suits seem destined to fail. That said, it seems like it is time to reexamine those laws in light of current technology before it kills off creative works. https://creat
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by extragood 3y ago
My AP Lit teacher in high school encouraged us to read the bible - not for any type of religious reason - but because it is so frequently referenced by western literature, especially in older texts. If you don't pick up on the biblical
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by extragood 3y ago
I can't imagine the pain you must live with every day. I'm so sorry. The article does disambiguate between (what they call) "true sadness" and depression: > Gold dismisses the common idea that depression is medicalise
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by extragood 3y ago
First of all: amazing. Secondly, have you followed Linus Sebastian's ultimate tech/gaming home videos at all? He has a slightly different objective, but he's done some creative things which you may appreciate.
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by extragood 3y ago
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by extragood 3y ago
I think that approach might only work if both locations are directly north/south from each other, unless I'm thinking about this wrong. If the locations are east/west relative to each other, the shortest shadow won't occ
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by extragood 3y ago
That is clever! Thanks for sharing these. It's endlessly fascinating to read about how such accurate conclusions were made via simple observation and deduction.

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