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by jnevill 11y ago
When I was a kid we would spend days picking out the perfect site for a water mill. We'd toil getting a mill dam set up and some of the finest carpenters in town would build a great water wheel that would supply enough power to run the
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by jnevill 11y ago
tl;dr: Bonnie ordered an Uber SUV and is bad at math.
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by jnevill 11y ago
This is of the devil. It needs to be burned with fire and the ashes should be sunk in the Mariana trench and the trench should be filled with dirt that has been cursed by a witch that was formerly dead but was reanimated by Cthulhu and then
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by jnevill 11y ago
It's insightful links like this that bring me back to HN everyday.
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by jnevill 11y ago
This is it too. We use Netflix on the SmartTv, but everything else runs through Kodi on a little HTPC I built. It's updated automatically, has plugins to access internet content, and works nicely with my HDHomeRun for Comcrap cable. I
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by jnevill 11y ago
I wish this would make it out to the `burbs, but it's not likely. Just the same, fuck Comcast. I would switch in a heartbeat.
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by jnevill 11y ago
Let's not forget about the folk's from the "Show Me" state's second-person plural: "Ya'llsins"
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by jnevill 11y ago
patrickfl wished to be referred to with the gender-neutral, and more recently invented pronoun "xe", but no one could figure out how to pronounce it so they referred to them as they when they were using the third-person to refer t
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by jnevill 11y ago
Is "thou" third-person though? I never use it, so it might be. I dunno.
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by jnevill 11y ago
Perhaps "Newly invented pronouns" would have been more clear. The distinction being Singular "They" has been around for a long time, and "Xe" can't be pronounced by the human mouth and confuses the older f
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by jnevill 11y ago
I've been really getting into the flat file CMS's recently. I just did a quick project using Grav and its use of twig and yaml made the set up a breeze. With NGINX and not having to muck around with a database I was able to stick
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by jnevill 11y ago
This just doesn't seem feasible in the real world. Sending out high frequency sound from a device is one thing, but having the other devices actively listening for the sound, is quite a feat. It's mentioned inside a block of text
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by jnevill 11y ago
NatGeo tried to spin the sale to Murdoch by saying that Murdoch's cash would bring stability to the troubled magazine. It looks like cash is being taken, not given. This is a strange form of stability...
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by jnevill 11y ago
I wish they sold their panels outright. I could use a few 100 watt panels at 55 bucks a shot. Even double that price, this would be a steal.
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by jnevill 11y ago
Before realizing this was on a site for the RTL-SDR software, I found it very odd that the author felt the need to define "Pulsar" but not "RTL-SDR". For those punching through without investigating, "RTL-SDR is a v
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by jnevill 11y ago
In English we probably have 421 words for "Penis"... Tells you where our priorities are.
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by jnevill 11y ago
Oh man I miss olga. I had completely forgotten about it. These "newer" sites are the pits and every single one of them does this BS app install crap. Thank goodness for the "View as desktop" button in mobile browsers.
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by jnevill 11y ago
You can search out private GPG keys as well, which is crazy-bananas. https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=filename%3Aasc+BE...
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by jnevill 11y ago
It's the author that made the comparison. And NO, I don't think they are comparable. I'm also the one that is not making the comparison. I think if you try to compare them you are an ass. That's my point, that it's
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by jnevill 11y ago
Further, form that article: "Our car did exactly what it was supposed to," she wrote. "Our car saw the Google car move into the same lane as our car was planning to move into, but upon detecting that the lane was no longer o
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by jnevill 11y ago
Oh god. So much this. Author is a ding-bat for pulling that terrible argument out. It makes it very hard to take the rest of the argument seriously when poorly thought out garbage like that is introduced. "I don't notice or feel t
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by jnevill 11y ago
I'm a big fan of "Folks". It's not too informal and not too dressed up. It's 100% inclusive and it doesn't make you sound like a redneck.
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by jnevill 11y ago
Yep. "Folks". I use it in all of my communications to my group (I am not the manager). I've tried others: "Guys" is clearly gender specific, "Ya'll" is pretty informal (although I use it on occasion)
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by jnevill 11y ago
Nah. I was just being a jerk. My first attempt I got a 31, my second attempt I got 19. My third attempt I was sick of staring at colored blocks and my eyes hurt so I threw the game at 3.
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by jnevill 11y ago
3. Beat that.
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by jnevill 11y ago
I've been using them for over a year. Their UI's are just the worst. They look like they've been designed by someone who has only seen Window's 95 software. Other than that, though, the service and underlying software se
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by jnevill 12y ago
I've had my kid brought home by the cops twice. Both times he was playing on the sidewalk less than 50 feet from our front door. What do you even say to a cop that thinks allowing your child to play in their own front yard unsupervised
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by jnevill 12y ago
I would think that not owning a smartphone or a tablet would be a really great reason for not owning one. Is there more... like were you already dead set against this keyboard, but then you were like "Shit.. I don't even own a sma
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by jnevill 12y ago
I agree completely. I helped a store migrate from Etsy to a custom CMS because they had outgrown Etsy, and they did so in about a year. Etsy would do well to pivot their marketing from Handmade/Craft to Small Business Incubator. Or may
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by jnevill 12y ago
Yes... the rest of her argument is moot because of the use of one word. That's really all it takes to ruin her credibility and ignore what she says. Either you are incredibly stupid or incredibly sexist... my guess is both.

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