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by hirundo 4y ago
The propensity of things to wane.
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by hirundo 4y ago
Or about 1 in 400 people. This estimates that in the US about 1 in 4 of those deaths was from something other than Covid: https://brownstone.org/articles/deaths/
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by hirundo 4y ago
Dear Gimp developers, my walls are covered in photos printed with help from Gimp, making my home a little brighter wherever I look. Multiply that by half a bajillion users, and those lines of code you wrote have made a concrete difference t
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by hirundo 4y ago
I also eat butter, some eggs, chicken and pork, lamb, buffalo, etc. occasionally. Probably 90% beef. I try to eat more eggs just to keep the cost down. I remember sitting down to my first meal on this diet, when I intended a month "cle
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by hirundo 4y ago
I eat beef and salt. I haven't gotten much pushback about the salt.
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by hirundo 4y ago
I was obese for fifty-one years before discovering a simple dietary fix. For most of that time I was morbidly obese. Among yo-yo dieters I may be world class, being on a diet for most of that time, losing and gaining over 100 pound four tim
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Apple hobbled a crucial tool of dissent in China(finance.yahoo.com)
7 points by hirundo 4y ago|0 comments
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Thinkers Must Be Heretics(overcomingbias.com)
1 points by hirundo 4y ago|0 comments
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by hirundo 4y ago
There's a story that the translation of "witch" in "Thou shall not suffer a witch to live" (Exodus 22:18) was incorrect, and a plague of witch-burning resulted. https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology&#x
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by hirundo 4y ago
> The idea of robots being legally allowed to kill has garnered some controversy. Since these "robots" are not autonomous, you can substitute "guns" for "robots" in the above sentence. The sentence remains t
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by hirundo 4y ago
Getting back to sleep is less about what you do at 3am, and more about what you do during the day: * Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj8FTWCb010 * Make a point of getting outside under the sun each day, and sunshi
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by hirundo 4y ago
To make policy we should measure lethal heat events against lethal cold events. Cold events seem to be more dangerous on the whole. Do they decrease as the globe warms? "Researchers analyzed data on heat- and cold-related injuries
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by hirundo 4y ago
"When buying male fittings, it’s best to always get tapered ones so they fit in either." I tried that with a shop compressed air system and got lot of leaks, hissing, and the compressor turning on frequently. And I never did get t
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by hirundo 4y ago
My nearest neighbor is more distant than yours at .48. I suppose that makes my word choices more {weird,distinctive}. I'd like to see a list sorted by such a distance measure. Would voices with high distances have more distinct thought
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by hirundo 4y ago
It's a bunch of Visual Basic behind an Excel spreadsheet, that helps you generate gcode directly, rather than via CAD/slicers. That gives a level of control that is awful and wonderful. There are a bunch of youtube short videos wi
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by hirundo 4y ago
PLA gets so much stronger when annealed. Would it be within the spirit of the challenge to print this upside-down so that it can support the sphere, but only after annealing? Or you could anneal the pillar with a small heater as you print i
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by hirundo 4y ago
You can now buy three new laptops for the price of a Raspberry Pi 4 kit.
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by hirundo 4y ago
2022-11-22 22:11:22.02
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by hirundo 4y ago
I would like to pass along my master password and safe combination, but those would allow an attacker to help themselves to most of my estate. Is there a way to do that with your service that you feel includes sufficient security?
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by hirundo 4y ago
"Death is our eternal companion. It is always to our left, an arm's length behind us. Death is the only wise adviser that a warrior has. Whenever he feels that everything is going wrong and he's about to be annihilated, he ca
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by hirundo 4y ago
Easy choice given that list: War and Remembrance.
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by hirundo 4y ago
Yep, he ran his ship aground, and vigorously undermined his officers' authority. I love that book and everything else Wouk wrote.
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by hirundo 4y ago
At this price it's as if the buyer expects that those sandals were the secret to Jobs' success, and by wearing them they too can become a genius tech entrepreneur. Which is ridiculous of course. It was his turtlenecks that did tha
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by hirundo 4y ago
It was Queeg's paranoia that was his downfall, not an insistence on excellence.
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by hirundo 4y ago
It can help with the commitment aspect to make that commitment with another person. If that isn't an issue for you then this is just distraction. By preference, at least for small things, I'll cheat myself before I'll cheat a
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by hirundo 4y ago
> But he said the absence of international norms for "killer robots" is problematic. It's not the absence of a norm that's a problem, it's the presence of the norm that the use of drones doesn't raise much m
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by hirundo 4y ago
The only reason I've stuck with Evernote is because it scans all of my old paperwork and lets me search by the OCRed text. Without it, so many years of personal data would be locked in images I'd never have time to eyeball. Please
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by hirundo 4y ago
Now that this is known they'll need an approach that can survive retyping, like word choice and order. That can be defeated by rephrasing but requires even more work, and is somewhat identifying of the rephraser. If you find a corporat
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by hirundo 4y ago
The video has airplanes on the roof, next to the helicopters, presumably VTOL.
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by hirundo 4y ago
"The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them ... shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individu

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