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by hnzix 7y ago
Kanye West has also had eerily similar religious hallucinations. [0] When I recounted the story to a friend who is a drug and alcohol recovery nurse, she snorted and said these kind of pink elephant episodes are common in recovering alcohol
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by hnzix 7y ago
I mean, foreign feral pigs are a big problem in Oz. They aren't native to the recent ecosystem. But that whole cane toad thing didn't work out so good.
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by hnzix 7y ago
Everyone goes on about Wednesdays but I honestly find Monday the absolute best day to take off. If you are working on personal projects, it gives you three full days to spin up to top speed. Fridays just feel like the weekend started a bit
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by hnzix 7y ago
I'm going to spraypaint my corporate logo on the local community center. The volunteers that work there will remove it. The outrage here seems silly!
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by hnzix 7y ago
The buttons are generally used to punish the clerks on duty. All you are doing is griefing minimum-wage employees.
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by hnzix 7y ago
The Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event is theorized to be a massive asteroid strike which "release[d] the equivalent energy of several million nuclear weapons detonating simultaneously" and killed off 75% of extant species. Sur
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Until schoolkids repeatedly mash the frowny face button for lulz.
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by hnzix 7y ago
> The goal of Mars to me is silly. Mars is already worse off in terms of climate than Earth. Why not work to improve what we have? Earth's biosphere has already had five (5) mass extinctions. Guess what happens to humanity if numb
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by hnzix 7y ago
My first thought was that Plaid launched in the UK a long long time ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaid_(band)
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by hnzix 7y ago
I still use SCSI zip drives for all my 90s music gear but am slowly porting them across to SCSI2SD. Akai samplers will physically blow an internal fuse if you forget to switch off the zip drive before unplugging it.
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Noughties, teens, twenties.
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by hnzix 7y ago
Find your "Hell Yes". Settling for lukewarm is almost always a bad choice.
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by hnzix 8y ago
>[the Latin Kings] put on one of the biggest hip hop concerts ever Afrika Bambaataa also used this tactic to reduce gang violence in late 70s/early 80s New York.
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by hnzix 8y ago
I haven't touched puredata yet but C&G's Organelle is looking really amazing right now.
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No different to Chinesium tools.
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>c) the Deutsch limit is a cruel master. I generally despise visual programming but MaxMSP does this pretty well. You can nest components in an almost object-oriented fashion. Prior textual programming experience doesn't massively
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It would be darkly hilarious if NPM gets bought out by a state actor, although Facebook would be nearly as bad.
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> My personnal pet peeve is hearing there is no addiction. I sold pot for years and some of my clients were definitly showing all the signs of addiction. Yep, I've had two friends who were heavy smokers and would become horrible f
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by hnzix 8y ago
Often you can just file the corroded battery contacts clean and it will work again.
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by hnzix 8y ago
Y'all have forgetten about HotDog HTML (best downloaded from Tucows and paired with Webmonkey as a reference guide).
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> work expands to fill the time available for its completion Oh, so if I estimate every task as 1 minute I'll finish really quickly? The 2.4x is to overcome one's innate overoptimism (even if you see yourself as a pessimist),
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by hnzix 8y ago
My rule of thumb: take your estimate, double it, then add 20%. I'm not joking.
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by hnzix 8y ago
Trying to migrate my $work from hosting on manually configured onprem physical servers, I evaluated OpenShift, K8s, Docker Swarm and AWS. I had drank the Docker kool-aid pretty hard and spinning up individual nodes was easy, until I started
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> That's the stage where a lot of problems get introduced At enterprise scale it comes down to how well the consulting team can understand and worm their way into the business processes. They need an inside ally who can enable the
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Heavy caffeine consumption is so normalized in nerd culture that I didn't even think about my intake. A friend of mine who also has social anxiety quit caffeine and made me realize what a large effect it was having on my mood. The phys
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by hnzix 8y ago
I've had a BS II for a while and I was fairly happy with it - cool for an entry level analogue synth. I took the manual's suggestion and added a Moog Delay pedal which improved the tone, it's still no minimoog. Then Novation
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Aphex Twin Releases Firmware Update for Bass Station II(ask.audio)
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Yeah it slows my heart rate and chills me out a little but it's no magic cure for generalized social anxiety in my case. I've had better outcomes from eliminating caffeine. I do like that (for me) Propranolol has minimal side effe
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by hnzix 8y ago
SWIM disagrees on grounds of plausible deniability, but you do you. (There is the persnickety universe inside one's head, and there is actual experience. Please speak from experience or remain silent.)
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SWIM always has very pleasant claymation visuals with K, as opposed to the usual soul-shredding ego death from LSD. However prolonged use can cause bladder damage and (for the extreme mainliners) k-holes seem correlated to suicidal ideation

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