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by leviathant 3y ago
This reminds me of the time I made counterstrike skins based on me and my friends. Seemed like a fun idea, and at first it looked great, but once we started killing each other in game, it quickly felt very ghoulish.
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by leviathant 3y ago
People have been posting about politics there for a very long time; it's only just starting to bubble up into your timeline, I suppose. Don't hesitate to mute accounts. For example, blocking Gary Vee almost single-handedly made my
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by leviathant 3y ago
What I've done is to tune a sine wave to match the frequency of the tinnitus, then notch that frequency in white noise, and blast the result for a few minutes. My tinnitus has not been permanent, it's just the rare occasion where
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by leviathant 3y ago
>Maybe in your circle, but that's certainly not the case generally. Great, now that's solved, let's agree on a definition of 'punk' next
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by leviathant 3y ago
Hey James - I appreciate your enthusiasm about this idea. I technically never stopped https://www.theninhotline.com , but after a few years, it was clear that social networks like Twitter and Facebook had taken over as our primar
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by leviathant 3y ago
This was a little bit later in the timeline, but I remember attending an event in Philadelphia about F#, and I walked out of it with a licensed copy of Visual Studio .NET and SQL Server. They were just handing them out. I had an earlier cop
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by leviathant 3y ago
> Rich Men North of Richmond just came out of nowhere and went organically viral. Are you being sarcastic, or do you really know nothing about music promotion? https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/16912123563
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by leviathant 3y ago
>Ah yes, so Firefox is faster than chrome, allows you more latitude for adblockers, and isn't pushing garbage hostile web standards, but clearly, mozilla just isn't doing enough >How many average users even KNOW about firefo
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by leviathant 3y ago
Theorizing is important, but it's also good to test your theory. Again, you can take my word for it, or you can ask my neighbors yourself. If you think I'm at all imposing enough that anyone would hesitate to speak truth to me, yo
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by leviathant 3y ago
>Are you sure of that? Pretty sure. I talk to my neighbors. I'm the secretary of the local RCO (registered community organization), we have monthly meetings with the neighborhood. I'm also an admin on the neighborhood Facebook
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by leviathant 3y ago
For the sake of clarity, even though it's not super important - we rent the entire second floor out. It's about 450sqft - an apartment, albeit a small one for sure. We live on the 3rd floor (1100sqft). We almost never even see our
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by leviathant 3y ago
I'm going to stick my neck out a bit and mention that I run an Airbnb in Philadelphia, it's the second floor of my building, and I'm a fan of all the regulation that's put into place. Our cleaning fee is $50, and before
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by leviathant 3y ago
My parents had a Waterpik in the 80s - it was okay, I guess, but my go-to are Plackers, have been for years. I can get to every little nook and cranny with those things. Ultimately, whatever you're using, I think the important part is
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by leviathant 3y ago
+1 My gums had been bleeding enough during brushing that I decided to break my 14 year run without a dentist visit and get things checked out, but felt shame about the state of things, so I gave myself a month or two of runway - and adopted
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by leviathant 3y ago
>The expansion of an in-city rail yard in an economically depressed area of the city is not a disaster, and could prove to be a catalyst (however small) to improvements, and in 20-30 years that land could be reclaimed fairly easily for u
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by leviathant 3y ago
My wife and I completely gutted and renovated a 2 bedroom home built in 1905 with a used 2007 Dodge Magnum and a roof rack. We initially bought it for a road trip around the US because it saved us thousands of dollars in fuel economy (it wa
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by leviathant 3y ago
Tobi announced an AI chat assistant for Shopify merchants today. The breathless video did little to mask that this was released in the wake of laying off thousands of talented people who have gone to work elsewhere in the ecommerce space. W
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by leviathant 3y ago
I think the local culture or lack thereof is an important factor to point out. It's got to be incredibly challenging to encourage creative young liberal artists to move to West Virginia for any period of time. "The real estate is
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by leviathant 3y ago
>I am genuinely curious to hear where in the day to day of the tech industry you'd draw parallels to puppetry. The line you're replying to is more general purpose (puppetry as a vehicle for storytelling in television, movies, t
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by leviathant 3y ago
Hacker News and puppetry, a relevant-to-me crossover I never thought I'd see, and here I am at the start of the business day with no time to really dig in, because of the day job. "Two years ago, the number of students hovered nea
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by leviathant 3y ago
I honestly can't tell if this is sarcasm. This... > Heck, puppets sound sooo boring. ...followed by... >Meanwhile our robotics senior project had a huge portion of the school watching because we were shooting projectiles. ...sure
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by leviathant 3y ago
I used to fill up in Camden on my way back from New York into Philadelphia, and never with my usual credit card - I had one specific for gas and automotive costs (which got me free Amtrak rides, basically), and about a decade ago, that card
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by leviathant 3y ago
When I lived in a, erm, more eventful part of Philadelphia, three kittens popped out of my neighbor's shed. We kept one, brought another into the office, and the third one was too wild for us to manage. We've since moved, but when
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by leviathant 3y ago
>Why does everyone have MacBook Pros these days? Prior to Apple Silicon, it certainly wasn't the hardware. Oh, I don't know about that. Admittedly there were some awful choices made between 2015 and the emergence of M1 architec
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by leviathant 3y ago
I've been pretty anti-Apple for a long time. Look me up, I've been using the same handle forever, and I'm sure I've talked shit about it publicly over the decades. I've always lamented their proprietary connectors a
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by leviathant 3y ago
There are fewer well-known paths for someone running a Threadless shop to pursue action against H&M than there are for the publishing trades. The author's remedy for this is: abandon expectation that you can capture value from your
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by leviathant 3y ago
> generally it's such common practice to sample others' work when making music that suing for copyright claims is extremely rare compared to the prevalence of possibly infringing cases. While it's true that there's al
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by leviathant 3y ago
>Most of the revenue due to copyright go to wealthy individuals and corporations. Meanwhile, most people who rely on their copyright for a living (writers, musicians, and so on) have low incomes. I think copyright is broken and overexten
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by leviathant 3y ago
I've spotted a few in Philadelphia, but they're the exception, not the rule. The only specific place that pops in my head are the lamps in front of the Fireman's Hall Museum in Old City.
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by leviathant 3y ago
Without government influence, auto manufacturers already have "black boxes" that record speed and other telemetry. I'm very conscious of the erosion of privacy, but I'm a 40-something computer nerd. People actively, deli

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