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by fhdkweig 10mo ago
Could you please re-edit this comment? I think you forgot a word towards the end.
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by fhdkweig 10mo ago
I'd be concerned about exactly what price would be asked. No one country spends their cash and soldiers to "liberate" for free. I've turned down free gifts before because I knew they came with strings attached.
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by fhdkweig 10mo ago
I recall on the morning of September 11, 2001, CNN had to completely redesign their site into a text-only version (no images or videos) just to keep up with the strain. Slashdot.org was the only site I went to that was able to keep functio
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by fhdkweig 10mo ago
I don't know if the Home Depot in question is using The Mosquito, but it is a product that has been on the market for about 20 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mosquito
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by fhdkweig 10mo ago
Second paragraph mentions "regulatory restrictions". Clinuvel Pharmaceuticals intended to offer it as a cosmetic, but abandoned this pursuit in the 2000s due to regulatory restrictions and concerns about the promotion of suntannin
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by fhdkweig 10mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanotan_II says it is banned in the United States, and anything you get on the black market isn't guaranteed to be pure.
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by fhdkweig 10mo ago
It is particularly annoying in a screenshot or printed document. I rarely print onto paper, but occasionally, I will "print" an interesting blog post into a PDF.
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by fhdkweig 10mo ago
Mark Redwine murdered his son in 2012 after scat photos were found on his phone. (There are photos online, but not at this link.) https://www.kktv.com/2021/06/28/warning-graphic-content-phot...
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by fhdkweig 10mo ago
negative 267 C would be 6 Kelvin ???
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by fhdkweig 11mo ago
Are real people worried about thinness? I don't think I have ever met anyone outside of a marketing department that has asked for a thinner phone vs one with more battery life.
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by fhdkweig 11mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVhlJNJopOQ from 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8PdffUfoF0 from 2024
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by fhdkweig 11mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxC770lpSLw shows one of the old tide prediction mechanical computers briefly mentioned in this article. It is effectively doing an inverse Fourier Transform, summing all the various 30+ sin
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by fhdkweig 11mo ago
I was told a story by some hackers in the old multi-user mainframe days. They said that a good speed booster was to have the program open a terminal because it made the mainframe OS think it was a real-time user interactive program and giv
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by fhdkweig 11mo ago
Paying to break things is a valid business plan. In Tokyo, stressed business men can pay to break dishes by throwing them against a wall. https://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyle/dishing-out-anti-s...
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by fhdkweig 11mo ago
It is for the ones that do deliveries. I never looked up the numbers, but my gut feeling is that Amazon did well during the pandemic.
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by fhdkweig 11mo ago
Atheism doesn't turn into worship of anything. That's the point of atheism. It is clear to me that you have never met an atheist.
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by fhdkweig 1y ago
While that was the way it was taught to me as a kid, I thought it was more of a story about con men who came to a village and tricked the townsfolk to eat their entire winter rations in a grand feast and then skipped town before anyone real
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by fhdkweig 1y ago
You can even make a rug out of it. https://www.righto.com/2025/09/marilou-schultz-navajo-555-we...
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by fhdkweig 1y ago
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell posted two videos studying the possible ways a malevolent society can cause problems without even leaving their star system at all. The Dark Forest solution to the Fermi Paradox (the first strike advantage): htt
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by fhdkweig 1y ago
Today? No, 30 years ago. https://www.militaryaerospace.com/communications/article/167...
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by fhdkweig 1y ago
In a smoker's household, everything reeks of the smell for years. And the porous nature of paper causes it to retain the smell too.
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by fhdkweig 1y ago
If you want to steer the solar system in a new direction, you can use a Shkadov thruster. Why leave home behind when you can just carry it with you? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_engine
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by fhdkweig 1y ago
I've heard of users using a similar trick on email addresses for the purpose of finding out which site leaked their information in the future. At least now you know which sites have bad security with passwords.
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by fhdkweig 1y ago
Coincidentally, Technology Connextras (the low-effort side channel for Technology Connections) posted a video this week on ozone generators. He swears by them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYKpKMFIdGQ
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by fhdkweig 1y ago
You say that in jest, but it happens. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2987251/Charges-aga... https://www.theroot.com/atlanta-garbage-man-sentenced-to-jai...
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by fhdkweig 1y ago
The advice I heard was to write it on your arm. I thought I was being overly paranoid until I saw someone else there with a marked up arm. I also found out that a Sharpie marker will still fade if you get sweaty.
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by fhdkweig 1y ago
I also keep a list of important phone numbers written on a piece of paper and stuck in my wallet. I started doing that when payphones were a thing, but I stopped doing that when I got my first cell phone. In recent months, I restarted the
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by fhdkweig 1y ago
'Because it isn't "if" I lose my phone some day, it is "when". So, preparing for that is really important to me!' The problem at hand is that he is afraid he is going to lose all his data.
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by fhdkweig 1y ago
The default contacts app on Android has an export/import feature that will let you backup all the stored numbers into a .vcf file that you can then copy to a backup site.
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by fhdkweig 1y ago
A map can only tell you where the fixed position cameras are. Both police cars and tow truck companies are scanning every plate on every car they drive past and share that info with each other.

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