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by lastofthemojito 9d ago
My mother-in-law could have been a case study for this article too. A couple decades ago she was short on cash and long on wanderlust, and her kids were grown so she packed her stuff (mainly unexceptional furniture) into a storage unit, go
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by lastofthemojito 9d ago
You can also sail on the Neoliner Origin as a passenger if you want to get a closer look: https://www.sailcoop.fr/en/our-crossings/north-america/
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by lastofthemojito 20d ago
I don't think that's true and Googling for it didn't come up with anything. Croatia and Montenegro do share a border but that must run afoul of the map creator's "no exclaves" rule as that bit of Croatia isn&#
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by lastofthemojito 22d ago
> With Apple, you can't repair it yourself Generally with Apple, you can: https://support.apple.com/self-service-repair
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by lastofthemojito 23d ago
What's that device on a pole the man is holding in the field along with a phone?
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by lastofthemojito 2mo ago
I believe it's actually unresolved whether NASA left poop on the moon or not: https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/37952/did-apollo-l...
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by lastofthemojito 2mo ago
Man, I clicked on "American Giant", which the website says is known for "Quality US-made staples at mainstream prices". Then I see how much a zip-up hoodie costs: $168. I guess I'm not in the mainstream anymore, y
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by lastofthemojito 3mo ago
This feels like the car market during COVID. In December Best Buy had a $1999 configuration of the M5 MacBook Pro on sale for $1749 and I scooped one up. Now that model is $2199. I suspect I could sell the computer I've been using fo
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by lastofthemojito 3mo ago
> If every couple had one EV truck for heavy lifting and a small ICE hatchback for long distances Maybe it's because I'm a dad but I can't imagine telling the family, "Roadtrip time! Let's all pack into the smal
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by lastofthemojito 3mo ago
I blame the dealers, at least somewhat. In the early days of the Scion brand, the idea was something like, all of the cars are shipped to the dealer as base models, customers could choose from a menu of add-ons, and the dealer would instal
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by lastofthemojito 3mo ago
It's also (according to some in Congress) an illegal action as Congress authorized and funded the project: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/lawmakers-fight-to-stop... But that just seems like par for the
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by lastofthemojito 4mo ago
> Iceland (only 4 hours from Logan) Were faster aircraft operating on this route at some point? Nowadays Icelandair says 5hr15min BOS->KEF and 5hr50min on the way back.
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by lastofthemojito 5mo ago
Here's an example (not mine): https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1s0n9al/... I also saw this in a gas station convenience store near me but I did not take a photo. I haven&#x27
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by lastofthemojito 5mo ago
Kinda lost me when he got to the bit about English proficiency. According to the first ranking I found[0], Germany is in the the "very high proficiency" group, and actually ranked ahead of Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands. And
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by lastofthemojito 5mo ago
Jason Kottke occasionally uses the term The Great Span over at his blog on similar musings: https://kottke.org/tag/The%20Great%20Span I think his post that really got me was the 2021 headline, The Last Documented Widow
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by lastofthemojito 5mo ago
As a thought experiment, it'd be interesting to imagine how things would play out if each taxpayer could adjust little sliders on each category to allocate where they personally would like their taxes to go. Agencies could recommend fu
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by lastofthemojito 6mo ago
I get weird behavior if I enter a Korean Hangul symbol like 소, it doesn't show visually similar symbols, it seems to be random stuff.
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by lastofthemojito 6mo ago
The design is fun. I think matching the drawing input to emojis need some work - no matter how I draw a smiley face, I never get any smiley face emoji (or any emoji) as a suggestion.
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by lastofthemojito 6mo ago
> The past which the 'make america great again' people want to take us back to absolutely loathed Catholics, something I don't think modern Catholics realize. The past that MAGA refers to is imaginary. It's "the
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by lastofthemojito 6mo ago
Google pays Apple 20+ billion dollars annually to be the default search engine in Safari. I don't know whether the absence of ad blocking is a stipulation in that deal or not, but I have to imagine that if Apple blocked ads in Safari
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by lastofthemojito 6mo ago
Even those of us who don't see ads see the structure that the ad-driven internet economy creates. Listicles, clickbait and AI-generated slop web pages, just trying to get more ad impressions. Sure, with an ad blocker I can see the lo
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by lastofthemojito 6mo ago
> this is why I run ad blockers. It's pretty wild that we live in a world where the actual FBI has recommended we use ad blockers to protect ourselves, and if everyone actually listened, much of the Internet (and economy) as we know
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by lastofthemojito 6mo ago
I'm not sure what law you're referring to. The linked article discusses the implementation of an executive order in Oregon that mostly bans use of cell phones during school time. Some schools may do things differently, but it see
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by lastofthemojito 6mo ago
Yeah, there was a recent NYT article about the ongoing phone ban/pouch discussion and one parent reported having a shared Google Doc for emergency communication with their kid to work around the lack of a cell phone. The nature of suc
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by lastofthemojito 6mo ago
From my teacher spouse's perspective, a lot of it seems to be the monetary value of smartphones. Some kids are coming to school with the latest and greatest $1000+ smartphone, so if the teacher drops it, scuffs it, misplaces it, etc,
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by lastofthemojito 6mo ago
> It took them a long time to arrive at hybrid The Honda Insight went on sale in 1999. They were 2 years behind Toyota's Prius but at least 5 years ahead of everybody else.
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Sigma's New Rice Company Is Less About Rice and More About Aizu(petapixel.com)
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by lastofthemojito 7mo ago
As sort of a tangent, am I the only one who has had bad experiences doing what the woman in the press release is doing? Ya know, touching the laptop while it's connected to external devices via Thunderbolt and/or USB-C. Sure, mos
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by lastofthemojito 7mo ago
Submitted as a Show HN 10 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46939312
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by lastofthemojito 8mo ago
> around 40% of users in the West use ad-blockers at least some of the time And doubtless many of them use intentionally use TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, etc, where "influencers" subtly (or not-so subtly) advertise to them in th

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