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by iak8god 9y ago
That'd require me to change my email address, when I've spent the last 10+ years training everyone to use my @gmail.
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I don't know if that's actually viable. I've grown all kinds of veggies, but it'd never occur to me to grow grain. It takes a lot of space, for one thing, but also is difficult to harvest and process on a small scale (i.
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by iak8god 9y ago
> Is Gmail even their priority anymore? Didn't they come out with Inbox some time back? They'd better not kill GMail without adding an Inbox option to not show attached image previews inline in the inbox. I had to stop using
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> I went to grad school at a unionized school Me too. One time the department admins decided it was too expensive to have the restrooms in the grad student offices cleaned more than once a week. We're talking about a men's room
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by iak8god 9y ago
> Too bad we can't print GIFs. This is the best approximation I've seen: https://www.giphoscope.com/
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by iak8god 9y ago
I'd love to see this tried on Mockingbirds, which mimic other bird songs but also a huge variety of sounds. The ones in my neighborhood even do car alarms, and rapidly cycle through a whole range of noises at the top of their little lu
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by iak8god 9y ago
> But I hope we can continue to question the validity of "feminine" social constructs while also creating products like this, which bridge the gap after socialization has taken its toll. Yep, just because this product doesn&#x2
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by iak8god 9y ago
What do girls want? (after being socialized for their entire young lives to only express and develop interests in traditionally "feminine" pursuits) might turn out to be a quite different question from What's the best way
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> god what conservative bullshit > No one says that you disingenuous weasel Is there any reason you're being so rude and hostile? It's very off-putting, distracts from your point, and is not in line with HN comment guideline
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by iak8god 9y ago
> I think "most" people relate themselves to Rick, and can enjoy the show from Rick's perspective. Yikes. This has never even occurred to me before. I certainly hope you're wrong about this.
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Not that I agree with everything you’ve said here, but I just wanted to say that I really appreciate this comment and the ensuing thread. > The solution is a massive increase in our ambition as a species. Here are some real first world p
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by iak8god 9y ago
Thanks!
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This sounds interesting. Do you happen to have this up in a repository somewhere? I would love to use this set of tools, am familiar with beamer for slide decks, use omni and gimp for graphics, etc ... but currently just end up making my po
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> you get to communicate on a _much_ deeper level with a poster I used to hate poster sessions until I realized this. Something poster sessions provide, that other formats like podium talks really fail at, is pretty fine-grained control
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Taking a close look at the living room photo, the orange wall on the right behind the sofa looks like it may just be a facade over what is presumably a thicker, insulated wall like those drywalled exterior walls visible on the other side of
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> few police have the discipline to think twice and exercise caution despite personal risk. Then shouldn't police departments improve their hiring and training practices until this is the case? These are people who are sanctioned to
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by iak8god 9y ago
All too often with opioids, the answer is: because you are in pain, and your doctor prescribes you these drugs as the recommended treatment for your pain, and you followed the doctor's instructions and got hooked.
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Every year a shocking number of people die from illness caused by air pollution [1]. While it might be difficult or impossible to put a head count on "Dieselgate," the increased emissions certainly killed some. [1] http:/&#x
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by iak8god 9y ago
> it's an arrogant and misanthropic view of Facebooks two billion actual users as ignorant victims of something that sounds almost like a scam) Do you really think most of Facebook's users have any idea of the value of what the
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> Strangely I had someone submit a bunch of slightly passive-aggressive "Py3 support" pull requests Is there a more polite way to go about this? I submitted some "Py3 support"-style pull requests to a repo out of the
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by iak8god 9y ago
> still works at a very prestigious university for CS > document and present on the software without making sure it even worked? That seemed excessively stupid to me It sounds like that individual is responding rationally to the incen
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by iak8god 9y ago
"my eyes were brown when I was born, and here's a random string: fd0987as0fh98a0b89safhsa"
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> Can't wait to get my refund :) There's no chance of that, right? (Hence ":)") At the time of the MtGox implosion I was bummed to have lost a few hundred $ worth of BTC. Now I'd be very interested in recovering
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by iak8god 9y ago
FTA: "The results, published in the journal Human Reproduction Update, showed a 52.4 percent decline in sperm concentration and a 59.3 percent decline in total sperm count among North American, European, Australian and New Zealand men
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An addendum to my sibling comment here: A cusory web search turns up indie bookstores, restaurants, literary publishers, community groups of various sorts, etc in Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit that embrace the term "rust belt". I
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by iak8god 9y ago
Interesting. I've always viewed it as a slightly clever term connoting the region's heavy reliance on the steel industry in the past and the undeniable economic/demographic decline that followed. I obviously don't know a
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> we ask everyone here to please continue to refrain from using the pejorative "rust-belt" Who is "we"? I spent the first few decades of my life in a great lakes rust belt city and this is the first time I've hea
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The landlord will very much care if the reason you're using so much power in your residence is that you're running an energy-intensive business there. In many states this would give the landlord really solid grounds to toss you ou
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A friend of mine flipped a brand new GPU on eBay for ~twice its MSRP last month. It'd be hard to do that consistently though, as the limited availability in stores was temporary, caused by the surge in ETH mining. Also the fees and ris

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