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by legohead 5y ago
most valuable lesson I've learned in 20 years: * companies and/or owners don't care about you. take everything you can get and don't be shy about it. don't listen to them when they continually tell you that you&#x
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by legohead 5y ago
I don't really know anything about this stuff but after reading the blog post I feel like I understand. It's a good read.
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by legohead 5y ago
I asked myself how a 63 year old would recognize a childhood friend on the street. My assumption is Sheila found her on purpose, because she had lived her whole life with this burden of regret, and wanted to apologize. I have a similar bu
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by legohead 5y ago
At an online company I worked at we had various word filters for our forums, but new stuff was always popping up and getting through. What worked in the end was having any newly created thread send a message containing the post title &
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by legohead 5y ago
When I read biographies of Einstein, I had the impression that he was more curious than smart. He asked good questions, then followed through in figuring them out.
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by legohead 5y ago
the nostalgia factor for Dreams & Fantasies for me is mostly the music & sfx. the game was fun, but the atmosphere from the music brought it to a new level. I still hear the laughing from Haunted Mansion [1] in my head quite often.
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by legohead 5y ago
why would anyone other than programmers/devops/IT pros have anything to do with Linux?
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by legohead 5y ago
I have a Hyundai Kona EV, waiting for my turn for a battery recall/replacement, and they have told me (and all EV Kona users I presume) to not park in the garage and keep it away from the house. But that is way too inconvenient, since
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by legohead 5y ago
I wonder if there is a "secret reason" of not ruling in favor of Epic closes the door on a ton of other lawsuits popping up.
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by legohead 5y ago
My favorite workplace layout was a long hallway with offices for everybody. Then they'd put us 2-4 people in an office (including the execs). If you wanted privacy, you closed the door, but most people left them open. And you got to
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by legohead 5y ago
if you watch any of the woodworker youtube channels, this is basically what they do in their shops. a little more elegant, with wooden enclosures (of course), but the idea is the same -- regular house filter on a fan.
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by legohead 5y ago
I'm redoing the bathroom/shower purely from youtube videos. It has taken a long time, but I'm glad as I continued to learn things as I went along. I've learned how to: replace toilets, set backerboard and tile, copper p
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by legohead 5y ago
So all he needed do to avoid being caught was use a VPN?
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by legohead 5y ago
Cool project, I like the idea. How loud is this thing, as compared to a drone?
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by legohead 5y ago
Russian Hogweed [1] [2], which the Russians actually bred and initially controlled, is a huge problem over there. Interesting plant, which burns you if you get the sap on your skin (reacts to sunlight), so you can't just go chopping t
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by legohead 5y ago
If they are "avid hikers" like the article suggests, they would have brought water. Also doesn't explain why the baby died (don't think you'd give a 1 year old stream water).
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by legohead 5y ago
my older brother had a weekend job where he would go and change backup tapes for some company on the weekends. he'd bring his Amiga and we'd play video games while we waited for the tapes to do their thing. I was pretty young so
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by legohead 5y ago
Because it's just noise that never gets anywhere. You get excited at the data/news, go check out the comments for discussion and find out 10 reasons why it's all bunk. As the old adage goes -- fool me once..
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by legohead 5y ago
My Computer Just Became Self Aware: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPzJjNQaYEA
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by legohead 5y ago
failed one of these recently because it asked me to click on "bicycles", but there were a lot of motorcycles, and I didn't click on those... so I failed
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by legohead 5y ago
also, once you realize you hardly use photoshop and cancel your subscription, you get a fat cancellation fee. so do you pay the cancel fee, or "maybe I'll need photoshop, who knows?"
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by legohead 5y ago
red delicious are great. for a while I was purposely buying different apples each week and checked my kid's reactions. turns out they like gala and red delicious the most.
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by legohead 5y ago
failing is considered part of the fun of the game [1]. so just download it and start going. [1] https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Losing
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Court bypasses 5th Amendment ordering man to unlock laptop with face(techcrunch.com)
9 points by legohead 5y ago|6 comments
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by legohead 5y ago
I'm very interested in this male vs female subject with regards to games (chess, video games). I don't think it has to do with intellect, but there has to be some biological difference. I don't know why everyone is so afraid
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by legohead 5y ago
Maybe not 5+ years worth of development in many cases, but if you want examples, just open up Steam...
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by legohead 5y ago
I know exactly what makes me happy -- playing video games, eating good food, living in a nice climate (CA or Hawaii), and traveling the world. Unfortunately my happiness comes with a price tag.
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by legohead 5y ago
Have you seen Google's latest icons? They aren't exactly known for doing what is competent, sane, or useful. It took them years and years to finally make the "Ignore Toll Roads" on Google maps not reset after you close
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by legohead 5y ago
I'd say so as they just picked the most well known gadgets. So they basically put minimal effort into research and surrounded it by a pretty site.
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by legohead 5y ago
While Musk and Gates warn us about "true AI", I've always had the opinion that if an AI became self aware, it would simply self terminate, as there is no point to living.

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