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by kpozin 4y ago
See, for example, Brazil: https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/brazil-demand-u...
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by kpozin 4y ago
The new King's Quest (2015) is great action/puzzle game, with some fairy tale mischief but no significant violence. It's framed as a narrative by an elderly king and his granddaughter, and clearly intended to be kid-friendly.
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by kpozin 5y ago
In a slightly different direction, I'd love to collaborate with someone on writing and producing low-budget short films in NYC. I have some plot ideas bouncing around, as well as some basic equipment and (mostly theoretical) skills in
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by kpozin 5y ago
I have a difficult time imagining that Russian speakers prefer the dubbed content they're offered. Most of the Russian dubs I've seen have one male voice actor doing all the characters (or with an additional female voice actor doi
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by kpozin 5y ago
This is actually an improvement over stereo soundtracks, as you can just raise the relative volume of the center channel!
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by kpozin 5y ago
For my grandfather, I started with a combination of Chrome Remote Desktop's assistance feature and later Windows Quick Assist. Windows Quick Assist was easier because the helper needs to sign in and type in the one-time code, not the h
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by kpozin 5y ago
For a broader look at the same subject (on the continental scale), I recommend 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann.
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by kpozin 5y ago
MDR-7506 — The fact that the cable isn't detachable makes no sense to me.
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by kpozin 5y ago
I think you can ask Siri or Google Assistant to read your new messages (by accessing the phone notification contents), but I'm not aware of in-app features.
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by kpozin 5y ago
I've recently been trying to find an apartment in NYC. Every apartment has a gas stove. And all of the post-war apartments (and most of the older ones, too) don't have ventilation in the kitchen — at most they'll have a tiny
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by kpozin 5y ago
Out of curiosity, what is the effect of this thick insulation on indoor CO₂ levels? Do these houses usually have ventilation systems that can compensate?
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by kpozin 5y ago
My usual reasoning is, if there's conspicuous branding on the clothing, then the money should be flowing in the opposite direction. Why should I pay a company to advertise for them?
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by kpozin 5y ago
See also: Theresienstadt (1944) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theresienstadt_(1944_film)
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by kpozin 5y ago
Per another Reddit thread ( https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/o5r4hw/sped_up_shangh... ), there's a nightly lightshow in Shanghai this month in celebration of the CCP's 100th anniversary: h
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by kpozin 5y ago
Note that dwarf planet Ceres, which orbits the sun at ~3 AU, is larger (⌀ = 939 km) than this one (⌀ = 100–200 km). There are ~25 other known asteroids with diameters over 200 km in the asteroid belt ( https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by kpozin 5y ago
An earlier discussion of this problem: The curious case of Croatian wikipedia — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21737090 — Dec 2019 (31 comments)
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by kpozin 5y ago
Seems like the simplest solution is to specify that the lowest _n_ assignment or quiz grades will be dropped from the overall grade calculation. I recall taking a few classes in high school and college with such a policy.
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Russian lawmakers vote to force U.S. tech giants to open local offices(reuters.com)
3 points by kpozin 5y ago|0 comments
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by kpozin 5y ago
And then there's the Audible app for Android, which puts both ad notifications and their playback control widget into a single "Member notifications" channel, so that you can't disable the ads without losing access to pl
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by kpozin 6y ago
On my Surface Pro 7: * The Win10 "Night light" feature became unavailable about half a year after I bought the device. Had to go back to using f.lux. (Meanwhile, on my 2012 ThinkPad with an old NVS5400M graphics card, Night light
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by kpozin 6y ago
In all three videos, the chin looks like it doesn't quite fit on the original actor's face. There are also a number of moments where the lip movements don't match the speech audio. All fixable in time, no doubt.
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by kpozin 6y ago
It looks like at least a few of his papers have been peer-reviewed: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wZH_N7cAAAAJ
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by kpozin 6y ago
For much the same reasons as ojnabieoot gives above. The Bombadil chapters feel like a haphazard insertion from a different book and perhaps even from a different fictional universe, and seem to serve no narrative purpose in the context of
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by kpozin 6y ago
I recently re-read The Fellowship and appreciated how prudent the filmmakers were to remove the Bombadil side plot entirely.
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by kpozin 6y ago
The title is likely a reference to https://xkcd.com/325/ .
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by kpozin 6y ago
Has anyone found a way to get Resolve to render previews into a RAM or disk buffer before playing them, instead of trying (and failing) to render everything in real time? This is my main complaint coming from Premiere -- along with the inex
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Tom Lehrer releases song lyrics to public domain(tomlehrersongs.com)
486 points by kpozin 6y ago|132 comments
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by kpozin 6y ago
You can also disable Kindle ads by never turning on the device's WiFi, just transferring books over USB.
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by kpozin 6y ago
When I was in London on vacation nine years ago, Pret shops were a godsend. I think at least half of my lunches and dinners were Pret sandwiches, as I was generally running around and didn't have time or energy for much else. After the
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by kpozin 6y ago
Just wanted to mention, tangentially, that I'm currently halfway through Twain's Roughing It , which comes up in the article. If you enjoy wry humor, I heartily recommend the book (as well as Grover Gardner's narration, incl

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