james-skemp

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by james-skemp 5y ago
> I'd try harder to keep coastal states on the "coasts" Especially for states where the coast is one of the defining characteristics of the state. :) For the final map I think that coast could have been increased in size.
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by james-skemp 5y ago
Wisconsin bias, but I'm glad they decided upon a map that didn't have WI above MN and MI, but the placement of NY is crazy.
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by james-skemp 5y ago
First thing I thought when I looked at the Apple Store version was 'good on you for charging, and for more than $0.99.' Out of curiosity, when were you approached by publishers? After you had launched?
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by james-skemp 5y ago
Sorry, two different lines of thought. The first was the non-transitive Grime dice, the second was the board game/Go First dice. My last comment was only in regards to the second set of dice, that I thought they asked about.
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by james-skemp 5y ago
The math behind it is a little beyond me, but http://www.ericharshbarger.org/dice/go_first_dice.html The dice they have for sale: https://mathsgear.co.uk/collections/dice/products/go-firs
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by james-skemp 5y ago
Grimes' appearances on Numberphile are some of my favorites to watch. I picked up a set of these dice from the official site a while back and they were fun to play with. As board gamers, we also picked up some of the dice that you can
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by james-skemp 5y ago
> rather than to express any genuine feeling on the part of the composer Having found Gunship a few years ago, I'm not sure that this is true. At least one of the members is in their 40s, and based upon their other works, they defin
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by james-skemp 5y ago
For anyone that checks the HN comments first, it's about Jennifer Hale, who was recording Mass Effect 3 (female Commander Shepard) at the time of the piece.
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by james-skemp 5y ago
In addition to the above, GitLab Pages continues to be easier to setup and use (on GitLab.com) than GitHub Pages.
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by james-skemp 5y ago
Yup. Looks like a dup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28407415
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by james-skemp 5y ago
Developer bias, but being able to delete individual cookies is invaluable. Non-developer hat: PlayStation Network store also had a bug where you'd be logged in, but unable to buy anything. Instead of deleting all data you could delete
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by james-skemp 5y ago
Veritasium did a video about this recently, actually. I got the picture and didn't finish it, but it helped me realize how YouTube has pushed junk to me, despite trying to subscribe to quality channels. https://youtu.be&#x2F
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by james-skemp 5y ago
> those who refuse to vaccinate Please don't forget about children who don't have a vaccine, or individuals that can't vaccinate. Last I heard maybe next year children under 12 (?, mine is under 5) will have a vaccine. But
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by james-skemp 5y ago
Link to the map: https://www.fcc.gov/BroadbandData/MobileMaps/mobile-map With all the layers switched on, interesting to see the gaps. Curious what's up with NW Maine, though.
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by james-skemp 5y ago
That makes me feel better, if so. Although reading it again ... > In Mountain View, landlords raised rents when they heard companies were giving a bonus for people living within 15 miles. Some even included it in their advertising. I&#x2
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by james-skemp 5y ago
> Some even included it in their advertising. I'm really curious what the language/spin was to make that something that was included in the advertising.
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by james-skemp 5y ago
> "failing (to work properly) even more than a gun from a fair" Born in the 80s, in the US, I understood that carnival games are rigged in some way, but that arcade games were skilled based. Only as an adult did I start to lear
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by james-skemp 5y ago
Thanks for the reply!
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by james-skemp 5y ago
Do you recall the name of it? Starting a new job and that may finally be enough of a change to trigger me actually trying this after all these years of hearing about it.
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by james-skemp 5y ago
Or uploaders who have died and may have unlisted videos and linked to them in descriptions or comments. I don't recall the creator, but I do recall a video series that used links in the videos that pointed to other videos for a basic q
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by james-skemp 5y ago
Email? Gmail's constantly increasing (at the time) mailbox size was a game changer back when it first came out. I at least still recall who sent me an invite to get access to the service, back when one was required.
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by james-skemp 5y ago
Example link: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/japanese-manhole-cover... (I believe HN had linked to this in the past, which is how I initially found it).
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by james-skemp 5y ago
I wish her a lot of luck. It took me years to get things bearable. And there's a long way to go. There's others, but garlic and onion are two of my triggers, and it's amazing how much food uses one or both. I've also fou
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by james-skemp 5y ago
It's amazing how much of our digestive system isn't known. Having had a bad flu years ago, it had a life altering impact on my own system, where I now have to be very particular about what I eat, because I lost so much of that goo
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by james-skemp 5y ago
I tried to switch to Target, especially for standard household supplies, but they seem to be actively pushing people away. - they killed their subscription service (last year?) - laundry detergent may or may not be taped (they at least bag
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by james-skemp 5y ago
Read the entire article, only to see at the end that this is from 2017. > Written on October 26, 2017
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by james-skemp 6y ago
Whew. I was afraid it was going to link to Super Simple Songs. For what it's worth, we found https://www.youtube.com/user/SuperSimpleSongs via the Khan Academy Kids app. They have select videos (from what we'
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by james-skemp 6y ago
You may have accidentally submitted too quickly. As it is, this quote is a little misleading. Additional context from the article: > "If we had remained on Facebook, we might have had another 5% growth," she said. "But eve
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by james-skemp 6y ago
Gas stations would be my guess, based upon what I've seen. Our UPS driver at least tends to stop over by one right down the road from us. We have a regular driver, which likely helps create a bond with the staff, so you can skip the ne
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by james-skemp 6y ago
I'm a big user of the Subscriptions tab (283 subs, probably more than half from creators that stopped posting), and I've had no issues with lost videos. Well, unless they got temporarily delisted due to an illegitimate copyright c

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