helterskelter

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by helterskelter 3mo ago
Do you believe closed-source software is entitled to people's usage and good opinion? Who wants to use a privacy-focused browser which isn't FOSS in this day and age, especially given the mature alternatives?
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by helterskelter 3mo ago
Still not enough.
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by helterskelter 3mo ago
Most (all?) new vinyls these days were originally digital files anyways. I like the big album covers though, and the ritual of turning them over in the middle.
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by helterskelter 3mo ago
Kids these days want CD's, ipods and the original apple headphones. They call it "retro".
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by helterskelter 3mo ago
USB3 has/had some color labeling standards, but I only remember seeing it with type A.
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by helterskelter 3mo ago
Looks interesting, I'll give this a listen and a read. :)
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by helterskelter 3mo ago
OT, but if we made kids learning math use log tables and slide rules for all their calculations I expect that they would engage their brains more and actually think about what they were doing, ie: form a strategy to solve a problem before
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by helterskelter 3mo ago
Takes a few seconds for audio to start.
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by helterskelter 3mo ago
This is what I've been looking for! I've wanted to learn CW for years now but had nobody to talk to and the idea of going on public airwaves without any CW experience except practice drills didn't do a whole lot to motivate m
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by helterskelter 3mo ago
> I also tend to read multiple books at the same time. Sometimes it happens that I get so into a book that I put the rest on pause because the story is grabbing all my attention, but in general I like to have a few books that I read in p
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by helterskelter 3mo ago
I believe it was Optum.
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by helterskelter 3mo ago
Great now we all need to wear mylar blankets under our ghillie suits now.
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by helterskelter 3mo ago
Story time for NC's. I had a doctor that lived near me working at a medical clinic that got bought up by PE. He signed the new contract with them and kept working for a while, but decided he needed to move for one reason or another. Af
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by helterskelter 3mo ago
I hate dealing with USAA, and probably should have had a life insurance policy before I even tried. Their phone trees are designed to misdirect you, the agents do not help at all (let me transfer you...[half hour hold time]...Sorry wrong de
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by helterskelter 3mo ago
> A desire to try to avoid having visible markers in text around the transitions is partly why the Unicode spec around bidi text is so complicated. Yeah but at least we can read ancient boustrophedon-style texts in plaintext, the way the
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by helterskelter 3mo ago
Just a heads up, "I want to push back on" is an idiom Claude frequently uses. It is depressing though, writing feels like it's in part becoming a game of outpacing the latest LLM's idiosyncrasies so we can signal authent
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by helterskelter 3mo ago
Depends on how you use the flashcards. You can use them to memorize definitions and equalities, and you can also use them as quiz questions which excercise your reason and not simply your memory. For example, you make a flashcard for each e
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by helterskelter 3mo ago
Practicing your retrieval is actually one of the best ways to retain knowledge of something. Flashcard programs like Anki are really great because it identifies where you need more work and drills you on your weak points -- it feels awkward
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by helterskelter 3mo ago
You used to look at the sun or stars to make an estimate, then we had sundials. For larger time scales, there are tons of archaelogical sites around the world which tracked the solstice, equinox, etc and there's evidence that a few cul
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by helterskelter 3mo ago
> They've done studies, you know. Sixty percent of the time, it works every time.
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by helterskelter 3mo ago
Huh? You talking about Iran? (.../s)
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by helterskelter 3mo ago
All I remember is that it had some to do with Bill Clinton sleeping with underage girls and Bill Gates with a nasty case of VD.
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Geocentric Orrery(navlist.net)
11 points by helterskelter 3mo ago|1 comments
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by helterskelter 3mo ago
There was a study from a few years ago that associated almost all increase in traffic deaths in the past decade or so with in car displays. Almost all deaths were pedestrians being struck at or after twilight. The thinking is that infotainm
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by helterskelter 3mo ago
I'm fine with idiots blowing their own hands off, I just worry about wildfires.
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by helterskelter 4mo ago
Probably the lack of water. I don't know why they need to continually pump it instead of doing a closed loop and cooling it through a few miles of pipe underground which is practically free, after you install the plumbing. Sure evapora
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by helterskelter 4mo ago
I'm not sure if this is what they're talking about, but I've heard it said more than once that a lot of Utah politicians have conflicts of interest with respect to allowing more water to flow into the lake (ties to agricultu
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by helterskelter 4mo ago
Yep, build up your interior knowledge graph, each connection reinforces the nodes it joins.
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by helterskelter 4mo ago
Yep, it's mostly used in for navigation, especially as a backup in case GPS fails (in the case of a lightning strike on a sailboat, for instance, probably all your electronics are toast). The military still uses it with slide rules&#x2
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Te Lapa(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by helterskelter 4mo ago|0 comments

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