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by jancsika 3y ago
> Sometimes the cat will trill Might be at maximum "P," especially if it was darting toward you immediately preceding this. Next time try hanging some spinning pieces of catnip from your rafters to see if your cat can temporari
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by jancsika 3y ago
> but hey they’ll lose their first teeth so who cares Just like learning best practices in computer language-- fire up that REPL and don't do shit because it's not a real application.
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by jancsika 3y ago
> (see Canada). Thanks, I've never seen intricacies of Canadian health care system explained quite as clearly and succinctly as this. :) I can't help but think of that complete set of Beatles transcriptions where the orchestral
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by jancsika 3y ago
> I present to you a real, still-active Russian troll account. Looks pretty recent and active. At this point, is there an employee behind that account or a LLM?
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by jancsika 3y ago
> and it probably drove him crazy that every morning when he came in, I was there standing in the kitchen ready to tell him about all the mistakes he made yesterday (Emphasis mine.) His compulsion to start every morning by enumeratin
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by jancsika 3y ago
Translation: luxury vehicles are the future of car sales. Model Y is 2 times as expensive as a Corolla. Plus you can go and find an older Corolla with 100k+ miles on it and pay perhaps $5k cash for it, then drive it for another 50-100k. I d
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by jancsika 3y ago
This is infuriating, and if I were a filthy renter would have led me to start a smear campaign against the leadership ultimately leading to a vote of no confidence. And this being HN, the odds are high that you or someone you're clos
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by jancsika 3y ago
This reads like pre-Covid auto industry logic. And the car market right now is so bizarre right now that if any of what you wrote still applies it's by sheer chance. There aren't even any base-level trims available from most of th
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by jancsika 3y ago
> It also remains to be seen if any contraindications exist for the LES exercise. Exacerbating the condition one is trying to alleviate comes to mind.
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by jancsika 3y ago
But at a science fiction convention, this is a smell. Person1: Hi, I believe men can give birth. ThisConference: Unacceptable. Person2: Hi, I wrote a scifi novel about a fantastical world where men can give birth. ThisConference: ??? At b
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by jancsika 3y ago
Wow, 53 seconds to render a random page of that PDF in Firefox! Chrome-- takes 10 seconds to even load the PDF reader. While it appears to have loaded most of the pages after that time, the entire window becomes laggy by about 1 second or s
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by jancsika 3y ago
Ooh, they have the manuscript for Rhapsody in Blue, which is in public domain. :) https://imslp.org/wiki/Rhapsody_in_Blue_(Gershwin%2C_George) Ha-- he's got a single grand staff for "jazz band" and just
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by jancsika 3y ago
What we need is a AAA game where the main character fiddles around on an in-game DAW in some abandoned recording studio to unlock a cool zombie-blasting weapon. That will guarantee that any widget redrawing therein happens as efficiently an
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by jancsika 3y ago
> Find someone who grows heritage vegetables, preferably organic, and taste the difference. The heritage vegetables are delicious. What is the nutritional difference between the delicious vegetables and the ones from Subway?
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by jancsika 3y ago
> The toppings you buy at subway that are essentially water in some limp cell matrix bear little resemblance to vegetables. How are these different from the vegetables produced by traditional farming? If I take someone who has always eat
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by jancsika 3y ago
2022 Prius Prime gets better mpg than 2022 Prius, not worse. And that doesn't count how much better things get if you fully charge the electric 25-mile range battery and measure the mpge. Additionally, I offer into evidence what happ
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by jancsika 3y ago
fatneckbeard_in_alt_universe_001: this guy will get little to no jail time? Seriously??? What is even the point of having an FAA when both big corp && small fry are !punished ? fatneckbeard_in_alt_universe_002: I can understand why
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by jancsika 3y ago
Map the decline against the funding decline for grade-school/high-school music and band. Going to rankly speculate that they line up well.
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by jancsika 3y ago
Your wish for no cursing along with your deed of refusing to spell out the word "shit" are textbook markers of prude behavior, in any world. Also-- not sure if this tracks with other people, but in real life I test "prude&quo
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by jancsika 3y ago
It's a recurring vignette where two Martians go around-- often carrying their own guidebook-- and mis-categorize Earth things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTc3PsW5ghQ The one with Bob's computer is a bit less
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by jancsika 3y ago
So in the context of an article about this AMD chip, you instantly downgrade M2 to merely "good" while extolling the virtues of the cooling and battery life? I just love imagining the Asahi Linux folks making a blood oath to rever
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by jancsika 3y ago
tldr; Author should find a therapist if they haven't already. I can perfectly imagine that friend saying "you're making excuses for him," and the frustration both the friend and author have at not seeing the situation fr
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by jancsika 3y ago
> The students didn’t even distribute the keys among themselves in a plausible manner. Then the answer to the headline is, "Have instructors who do not care about teaching ." By the fourth "F major" announced, any mu
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by jancsika 3y ago
What does each of you watch when unaccompanied? With an annual average sample size of roughly 35,600 videos consumed per user, I'll rankly speculate that it can be determined which users focus on either exclusive "L" or &quot
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by jancsika 4y ago
Where are you getting your reality from? Even here in NC in an "unsophisticated" municipality (as far as tech is concerned), the situation is precisely reversed. The municipality started the project for stringing fiber during the
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by jancsika 4y ago
> He means that it implicitly smuggles in a certain conclusion. For instance, "I think therefore I am" seems logically sound, but actually begs the question in presupposing "I" to then conclude that "I" exis
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by jancsika 4y ago
Even better-- do a cron job for the requests you want to make on the end-point phone. Glue that to a car, turn it on, and take off. After a long enough time that the battery has died, ride your skateboard up to retrieve your anon filez.
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by jancsika 4y ago
This link is the most worthwhile hijack of an HN thread that I've ever seen. How is tiny.en so damned accurate? How much faster does this run natively? Do the NEON instructions work for arm devices like an RPI or is it just tuned for A
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by jancsika 4y ago
> LSD is a hallucinogenic drug, promoted a lot in tech circles for both recreation and the expanse of creativity it grants you . Those last six words are troubling. At least in my experience, it's that drugs tend follow the creativ
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by jancsika 4y ago
Side note-- I can just feel the frontend dev's juice running out as they put the finishing touches on the volume slider on that audio player. It suspiciously only updates the attenuation on mouseup. Here's my hypothesis: they in

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