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by gcanyon 1y ago
When I moved to Thailand, I went in a backpack. Granted it was a 40L, but I was moving there indefinitely. I ended up staying two years, and when I returned, I came back in the same backpack.
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by gcanyon 1y ago
Yeah, this was my immediate thought as well, but if the spec for the API says signed int, then at least you're defensible: you haven't broken the letter of the spec, even if you're pounding on the spirit of the spec pretty ha
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by gcanyon 1y ago
Both of these proposals (as far as I've read them, YMMV) fail the evolutionary test. At the scale we're talking about, ideas must proceed as evolution does: not with a far-away goal in mind, but with incremental changes, each of w
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by gcanyon 1y ago
I was bothered by the nearly a-scientific-ness of PHM. The story was nicely done in general, but it feels like he pretends to be hard science fiction when he's really Star Trek-level.
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by gcanyon 1y ago
Orange door hinge. I got the reference.
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by gcanyon 1y ago
>...that's a whole different beast ...so's the donor! (I'll see myself out...)
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by gcanyon 1y ago
My key complaint (in addition to the one cited in TA) is that, if there is a wikipedia article related to what I'm searching for, I want that at the top of the results. Maybe above, or possibly right below, the link to midjourney.com
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by gcanyon 1y ago
This reminds me of a friend of mine from my 20s. Every time I went by where he lived, which was the house we all hung out at, so this was 3-7 times a week, he'd say "Hi G, want a beer?" "No, I don't drink," I&#
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by gcanyon 1y ago
> explicitly banned in the US Constitution There are a lot of things in the US Constitution. But the Supreme Court is the final arbiter, and they're moving closer and closer to "whatever you say, big daddy."
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by gcanyon 1y ago
In The Long Kiss Goodnight, Samuel L Jackson says at one point, "When you make an ASSUMPTION, you make an ass out of you and... <realizes the mistake> ... and UMPTION!"
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by gcanyon 1y ago
Project Farm has a review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9Lu71ewVSw
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by gcanyon 1y ago
HA! I know we're not supposed to do "me too" posts, but literally the second I saw the headline I was thinking of the Technology Connections videos I've seen comparing thermoelectric to <anything else> and how inef
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by gcanyon 1y ago
Is there video online of any knife cutting off the ends of chives in mid-air?
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by gcanyon 1y ago
I upgraded a couple days ago, and so far so good. It seems to work fine for my purposes at least. My assigned keyboard shortcut continues to work, even.
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by gcanyon 1y ago
I think Emma qualifies as literature. This is much clearer than Bleak House: > Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had li
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by gcanyon 1y ago
Yeah, I chose that word on purpose. :-(
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by gcanyon 1y ago
If a copyright holder refuses to make a work available to the public in any way (without a really good reason -- I don't agree with it, but I see Warner Bros. point in withholding certain WWII cartoons, for example) then to me at least
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by gcanyon 1y ago
> A study of English literature students at American universities found that they were unable to understand the first paragraph of Charles Dickens’s novel Bleak House — a book that was once regularly read by children. First, I think thi
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by gcanyon 1y ago
> click and page through a giant iPhone screen 1. Launchpad filters based on what you type. You don't have to page through things 2. As soon as you type anything, the first hit is selected and the return key launches it 3. Launchpad
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by gcanyon 1y ago
For those interested in a lightweight summary, Last Week Tonight did a segment on pig-butchering about a year ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLPpl2ISKTg The interviews with the victims are heartbreaking. There's
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by gcanyon 1y ago
I've long thought that most "opinion" books -- self-help, historical analysis, scientific commentary, policy-recommendations etc. -- are 3-5% the actual point they want you to take away, and 95-97% of the material is the anec
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by gcanyon 1y ago
Not GP, but significantly more than half my perceptual life has been lived since I was 22.
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by gcanyon 1y ago
My head canon is that death is a choice your body can make when you stop experiencing anything new. In the past 20 years I have lived in: - Tujunga, CA - Marina Del Rey, CA (Two very different places) - St. Louis, MO (Three very
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by gcanyon 1y ago
I'm (ahem) over 50 and I just timed 120 second in my head and came out to 2 minutes 9 seconds. I cheat though, since I count to the beat of ZZ Top songs. These days the CPR people use Staying Alive, which feels faster to me, so I tried
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by gcanyon 1y ago
> We still need to overturn national nuclear bans, unlock more funding, and push democratic countries to support clean energy development abroad: especially where it is most needed to compete with Russia’s growing influence. We also need
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by gcanyon 1y ago
> three science museums I'm in. :-) But I'm not coming for five, maybe ten years, so at least I won't be the one crowding your city for a bit. Thanks for taking the risk of overcrowding!
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by gcanyon 1y ago
For me the triggering event was reading about aphantasia, and then thinking about how I have never, ever, seen a movie about a book I've read and said, "that [actor|place|thing] looks nothing like I imagined it" Then I trie
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by gcanyon 1y ago
I emailed Modos and they replied basically that the 1 million or 10 million refresh limits have been pessimistic in their testing — that they have not seen a display significantly “wear out”
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by gcanyon 1y ago
I've lived all over the place. Currently New York, but not looking to replicate that. Goal is someplace walkable with nice weather and people, and adequate health care. We've spent time in Portugal, Uruguay, Argentina, Thailand, E
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by gcanyon 1y ago
I'm curious where you are in Portugal. I visited for a few months back in 2017, and I didn't get a sense of the transit, but there were lots of nice new roads to drive on (which I get is not the right answer here).

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