jen729w

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by jen729w 3y ago
Once we overcome our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome universe that utterly dwarfs, in time, in space, and in potential, the tidy anthropocentric proscenium of our ancestors. - Carl Sagan
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by jen729w 3y ago
Bloody marvellous, and I know I should just upvote to express how bloody marvellous I think this is, and I’ve done that, and it didn’t feel like enough, so here I am. It’s Christmas, shoot me.
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by jen729w 3y ago
I’ve been a DDG user for years now, so I guess a bunch of my results come from Bing. I don’t generally compare to Google, so I can’t say for sure that the results are ‘as good’, but my experience sure as shit is better. I search for a thing
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by jen729w 3y ago
I wonder something every time I download Mullvad’s updated VPN client. ‘Verify this download with the GPG signature’, it tells me. But surely if I’m in a position where I’ve poisoned Mullvad’s executable, I’m also in a position where I’ve d
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by jen729w 3y ago
So now you have three jobs? You work too much.
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by jen729w 3y ago
> Try to work two or more remote jobs What, routinely? No.
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by jen729w 3y ago
As an independent content creator I just called my rental agency and asked them if they would take ‘views’ as partial payment and I can confirm that they will not. Bummer!
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Filmic's entire staff laid off by parent company Bending Spoons(petapixel.com)
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by jen729w 3y ago
Hey, fellow Australian. We have chickens -- you heard me, chickens -- and I'd pay anything to keep them healthy. We love them. Never be ashamed to love your pet. I don't have a lot at the moment, I 'went solo' earlier
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by jen729w 3y ago
Does anyone know the origin of this company’s name? ‘Spoon bending’ of course is the fraudulent claim by people like Uri Geller that they have supernatural powers that enable them to bend spoons. Whereas they’re just performing a magic tric
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by jen729w 3y ago
Disagree. I sometimes have cause to comment here and obliquely reference my own project, without its name. Because its name isn’t important to the context, and mentioning it seems gauche; I don’t want to ‘make the conversation about me’. It
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by jen729w 3y ago
Cartridges that you can get from cheapinkcartridges.ru and they work just fine.
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by jen729w 3y ago
Can 100% confirm this, still in Australia. I was at a drop-in health centre the other week. There was an old guy - 80s - who had come in from country NSW to have his wounded leg looked at. While we were waiting he told me that there were n
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by jen729w 3y ago
This is an Australian article, where I am. House prices are, I can confirm, insane. And I've always wondered whether it isn't a bit of a scam, really. Not a deliberate scam, just one that we've all fallen in to. [0] People bu
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by jen729w 3y ago
Well that’s handy, but I just checked my local library and the next closest library, and they don’t have copies. By the way, the ‘next closest library’ to where I live is the National Library of Australia. Let’s assume they had it. Both bui
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by jen729w 3y ago
Sorry, I should have been clearer: Without transformers, we can’t build new transformers. Think of the supply chain involved. It all runs on electricity. We’ve built ourselves in to a corner where basically nothing is possible without pow
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by jen729w 3y ago
This sort of thing has been weighing on my mind of late. The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced that this is why the stars aren’t full of spaceships. And I’m an optimist. But bear with me. We are at the point where we, as a socie
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by jen729w 3y ago
> I can understand the skepticism against a paid font. Me too! But that's not what upset me. What upset me was the assumption of deceit in the parent post. It's like drive-by shootings here sometimes; people see a thing, they
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by jen729w 3y ago
Downvote me for your life here, I don’t care. This sort of comment is why I have a love/hate relationship with HN. Love, because yesterday I learned some amazing stuff that I told my partner about in bed. Hate, because of the assumptio
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by jen729w 3y ago
It’s a lot compared to free, but it’s a steal compared to most fonts. Support Neil, he’s a good chap. I can’t wait for Houston!
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by jen729w 3y ago
Does not sound like someone who has something to hide. See previous speculation about past abuse of partner/sister? Sorry I don’t recall but you know. Sounds like someone shitty about being treated wrong.
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by jen729w 3y ago
> and increased imports From France, who has a shit-load of nuclear. :-)
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by jen729w 3y ago
See my post, which I may have updated since you wrote this. Renewables, without massive grid storage to dampen their unreliability can not be the base load upon which your grid depends. This storage could exist, but we haven’t built it an
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by jen729w 3y ago
Base load. Wind and solar are terrific but unreliable. What if it’s not windy or sunny? So we need something to replace coal, which provides the grid’s base load. That thing can basically only be nuclear at this point. The grid is really de
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by jen729w 3y ago
That sounds really boring, so I’ll say no thanks. The web isn’t just about the words. It’s about the look and the feel and the imagination. Just like print was, and still is.
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by jen729w 3y ago
Been sitting in the garden all afternoon reading Arkady Martine’s A Memory Called Empire . So far: terrific. About a quarter the way in. Space opera with political intrigue.
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by jen729w 3y ago
I’ll chip in as john.<reasonably common surname>@icloud.com. I still get email from AT&T for John Notreallyme who I believe is in his 80s and lives in Montana. He signed up in-store and I got emailed all of his details. I got th
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by jen729w 3y ago
As it’s not been mentioned, I’ll say that you should pay very close attention to your desk height. I had no idea that mine was too high. And then I sat at a colleague’s desk and it was low . Like lowrider-car low. Crazy low. And wow did it
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by jen729w 3y ago
Ha! What a lovely way with words you have. That made me laugh. I’ve recently ‘gone solo’ and I decided to experiment with caring a little less about time. The only starkly visible clock in the house is on the oven, so I reset it. But it sti
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by jen729w 3y ago
I’d work for a couple of days for $11k and I live in Australia!

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