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by jbm 2y ago
So... when my daughter is building a train track and a house in the game, what specifically is the psychological effect that the intelligence services want?
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by jbm 2y ago
A lot of the people I respected from Heroku went there, glad they got a chance to use their skills to build something useful and profitable; glader still that they got their payout. Sadly I echo your sentiment about the future, as someone w
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by jbm 2y ago
This is exactly why I switched to computer science after finishing my biology BSc. I don't get nightmares about analytic chemistry anymore, but the level of self-loathing you get from doing labs that never work out for reasons that def
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by jbm 2y ago
I can see how it could be seen as random after reading that. It certainly wasn't a "fair" layoff in that there was literally nothing an employee could do to keep their current job from a performance standpoint. Incidentally,
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by jbm 2y ago
Yes, I have the exact same feeling. Literally extracting water from an area dealing with drought; it feels icky and not environmentally conscious at all.
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by jbm 2y ago
When I got laid off at SFDC, I found out that they wanted to get rid of certain localities. Heroku was always a remote friendly place, which apparently irritated some of the new Microsoft-derived management; the story I heard was they want
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by jbm 2y ago
I was playing it on a 486 DX-2 66 Mhz, which probably is why I am having such a hard time believing it.
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by jbm 2y ago
I'm convinced that this is why every recipe on Youtube now suddenly involves "delicious" Almond milk (which is not delicious and not milk). If you are going to be shilling for the vegan processed food industry, at least use o
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by jbm 2y ago
Wait, they managed to get Wing Commander 3 working on Windows 95?? > Bonus chatter: During one of the many iterations of this story being retold, someone remarked that they got a copy of the video game Wing Commander III through this exe
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by jbm 2y ago
I looked it up, and as I expected, it was a .mod format. My favourite soundtracks of that era almost always had .mod soundtracks (I despised midis back then, although I guess Monkey Island was an outlier). The composer of the soundtrack le
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by jbm 2y ago
I don't know why you are being downvoted. At one point "pacifist" Japan was one of the top world spenders on "defense". It's a sham and has always been so. The only benefit was that Japan didn't have to j
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by jbm 2y ago
This entire thread led me down a long, long rabbit hole; I remembered the name "Descent", but I couldn't recognize anything about it in the online videos I saw on Youtube. After hours of searching google, I realize that I was
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by jbm 2y ago
Ah, I have an Airthings Wave Plus (I thought it the parent was asking about air quality meters in general.). The information is in the app; I've never used an airgradient device.
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by jbm 2y ago
I don't doubt you are correct, but have you tried any of those mouthguards? Do they have any benefits at all?
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by jbm 2y ago
I live in Canada, where radon is an issue. The item I got from Airwave gave me a half year of data that was close enough to the safety limit that I decided to add radon mitigation to my home. I then lent it to a friend who decided to do t
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by jbm 3y ago
Yes you did, this is not a novel idea and I was referring to the near future, not the present (although some inflation is indoubedly caused by climate change) Over the medium term, climate change will result in more failed crops, which will
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by jbm 3y ago
Context is important here. Considering Asia's history with drugs (European imperialists growing drugs in their colonies and then selling them to China to destroy their population), it is completely understandable and a societally accep
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by jbm 3y ago
> Whatever the amount of stolen money, currency theft on its own it will never rise to the objective moral and logical base-level required to apply the death penalty If we take it as a given that people spend large parts of their lives,
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by jbm 3y ago
It seems disingenuous to start off a comment admitting that something is a complex subject and then doing a long-winded vaguebook-style one-sided criticism; it's not convincing at all. Crime will be going up regardless of any statistic
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EV Conversion under $3000 [video](youtube.com)
5 points by jbm 3y ago|0 comments
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by jbm 3y ago
I'm trying to understand why you feel so strongly about this. Is this a culture wars thing? Or is it their technical culture? I can respect the latter, but wrt the former, I can't see why Tesla is worse than any other conglomera
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by jbm 3y ago
Why would you buy it because you hate Musk? I would buy one based on price (assuming that BYD is a battery company at heart and probably will take better care of their battery packs than Nissan)
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by jbm 3y ago
Possibly; but that means the article is close enough to the truth that Musk's comment on X is disingenuous at best.
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by jbm 3y ago
What's the point of denying the report when they have emails saying as much? Tesla's higher up(s?) need to get off Twitter.
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by jbm 3y ago
(Don't let them know about minivans, they already have an years-long waiting list where I live...)
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by jbm 3y ago
> Rather than turning quickly, the rollers labored and the craft could barely break a dozen miles an hour according to a contemporary account. Even for the late 19th century, that was slow This reminds me of a lot of my failed efforts to
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by jbm 3y ago
> async: false is the worst I suppose the reason is because it takes more time? (The article doesn't mention, and just takes it as a given)
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by jbm 3y ago
I can't speak for everything else, but LINE was not well known for privacy. Everything people complain about WRT Meta was being done with impunity; their privacy policy basically said that they could read your messages and tailor ads b
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by jbm 3y ago
I managed to connect. I don't know how much I can copy, since it's quite a long thread, but here is the first message. > Something exceptionally grim is happening on the Internet. > In the last few months, the constant floo
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Learn About Batteries(batteryuniversity.com)
2 points by jbm 3y ago|0 comments

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