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by leviathant 1y ago
I went 14 years between dental visits, and the move to ultrasound cleaning was the biggest change I noticed. The cleaning had always been a bloody affair, scraping and scratching in a way that would leave me with a throbbing pain after my a
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by leviathant 1y ago
Philly's transit access can be hit or miss, but when transit lines up, it's transformative. I moved from central PA to a Philadelphia suburb in 2006, a three minute walk to a regional rail station. It was an hour fifteen into the
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by leviathant 1y ago
I took a business to small claims over a $1500 invoice they decided they weren't going to pay. It took a year before I was in court, the judge decided in my favor, and I had to schedule a sheriff's sale because the bully I was dea
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by leviathant 1y ago
Re: preservatives, I remember watching a video a few years ago, where a woman decided that she didn't like all the preservatives in store-bought tortillas, so she was going to make them herself at home. It's a really simple thing
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by leviathant 1y ago
I started replying "No agenda, no attenda" after being in a few too many meetings where things dragged on, or where I clearly was not needed. Didn't matter if I was telling this to someone at the same level as me, or someone
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by leviathant 2y ago
This is exactly it. Rick Santorum was beating this drum decades ago (given that Accuweather is based in Pennsylvania)
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by leviathant 2y ago
When I got tired of having to manage my NIN news website (circa June 1999) by myself, I grabbed the Guestbook script from here, tweaked it a little bit, and it became a very rudimentary CMS for a volunteer staff of about a dozen contributor
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by leviathant 2y ago
I'm not sure why this is down voted. The forum I run was hitting monthly bandwidth limits within days because of bots. Changes to htaccess and checking environment data in the PHP code was a cat and mouse game. The free Cloudflare tier
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by leviathant 2y ago
Neat! Both Linux and Git are examples of terrible product names.
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by leviathant 2y ago
"Why hasn't Gimp found mainstream success?" "Adoption of our Ogg Vorbis format isn't where we hoped it to be" "Fork me on Git"
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by leviathant 2y ago
Without a doubt, Microsoft wins on backward compatibility. I was running a circa-2006 Firewire audio device on Windows 10 in 2021 using drivers that had not been updated since 2012. I had a Dell Laptop that, when I bought it in 2006, had Wi
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by leviathant 2y ago
>SIGGRAPH from over a decade ago has entered the chat... > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oie1ZXWceqM A version of this was available in Photoshop for a long time, but I think the feature was deprecated and remov
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by leviathant 2y ago
>I have to see something to know how it will look and make a decision. Basically near impossible to be an artist or designer. When I became aware of the concept of aphantasia, it gave context to how I work in the visual arts. I was never
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by leviathant 2y ago
I'm so glad there are conversations about this. I'm the same way here - in fact, part of the way I keep track of time passing is to listen to a song in my head. I've had really strong aural hallucinations here and there in my
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by leviathant 2y ago
>No wonder they donated anonymously, what an insane law. By contrast, where I live in Philadelphia, developers are not required to perform any archaeological studies before excavating - even along the Delaware River waterfront, where the
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by leviathant 2y ago
Sometimes it's old ears, sometimes it's the people in the room being oblivious to it from hearing it too much. I tell the story a lot about kind of the inverse of this - I was mixing my band's (terrible) recording, and during
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by leviathant 2y ago
I haven't had a respiratory illness since N95s were a little more normalized. I don't wear one when I'm walking around, but I keep them handy for flights and public transit. It's fucking great, I haven't had so much
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by leviathant 2y ago
I was surprised the link wasn't about this remarkable album, but glad to see it was the first thing mentioned in the comments. Brendan was very particular about the treatment of each track being true to specific sound chips, and it was
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by leviathant 3y ago
>What’s income have to do with how you treat a shopping cart? I’ve been to in places in Asia with very poor (poor compared to the poor people in the US) people and they treated their shopping carts better than wealthy people in the US. W
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by leviathant 3y ago
Horrible people is certainly one way of describing the population of an area with extreme income inequality.
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by leviathant 3y ago
This must be what it's like when someone overhears me and a colleague talking about enterprise ecommerce integration on our way to get lunch.
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by leviathant 3y ago
Ah, here in Philadelphia, we've gotten used to the police response of "there's nothing we can do" Officer, I have footage of the person committing assaults, we have several witnesses, including several victims, and oh lo
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by leviathant 3y ago
I think because I have Google Fi, I kept getting Google Home products. We've got a couple of the little speakers, and a couple of the little Nest hubs. I bought a pair of Nest Home Max speakers when they were blowing them out, because
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by leviathant 3y ago
I'm still operating a vBulletin that started out as a PhpBB 20+ years ago, and I think we still have regulars in the hundreds - though it used to be the thousands. Ostensibly, it's a community around Nine Inch Nails, but realistic
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by leviathant 3y ago
When I was in a band, someone in the group said "Practice is on Tuesday and on Saturday" and we all stuck to it for a few years. Sometimes we'd even get together on a weekday to play a show, where even more people would show
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by leviathant 3y ago
Whenever I revisit Threads, it feels like I'm in the tourist trap of social networks. Celebrities and brands are pushed into my feed, posting vacuous engagement traps. I felt like I had discoverability issues with Mastodon, and the cul
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by leviathant 3y ago
>So, what happens to someone who had a valid immigration status, but was not a lawful permanent resident? For example, someone on a student or a tourist visa? I brought my wife over on the 90 day fiancee visa well before there was a TV s
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by leviathant 3y ago
I was not expecting anyone to bring up the interview with Trent here, but that was kind of a dud to me... But I think maybe that's because I (still) run a NIN fan site. I was hoping to hear something new, but I'm the end, I realiz
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by leviathant 3y ago
Everything about Vampire Survivors made sense to me upon learning that it was developed by an Italian guy who used to work on slot machines. It also reinforced that I've been right to avoid casinos my whole life. I get that the art was
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by leviathant 3y ago
They went through a spectacular system-wide crash a few years ago with Jeffree Starr cosmetics - similar circumstances (despite knowing it was coming, the sale took down storefront and admin for merchants across the platform) and probably l

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