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by mpsprd 3y ago
Companies fighting against right to repair is an ecological disaster. I take pride in repairing everything at home, and god I hate how hard they try to stop me. The hypocrisy of our societies that want us to consume "ecology products
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by mpsprd 3y ago
Mu guesses: * A lot of engineering in low skill labor infrastructure is already designed around humans * More marketable to the mainstream * Less intimidating than a giant steel arm for other workers
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by mpsprd 3y ago
if I remember well, the documentary High Score produced by Netflix had a great section on how he got the part. He also voices the documentary.
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by mpsprd 3y ago
Summary: classic high fantasy avoids gunpowder
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by mpsprd 3y ago
Ok I see. Its $EDITOR for people that dislike modal editors.
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by mpsprd 3y ago
>accelerating it via radiation pressure to 0.2𝑐 within a few minutes [7]. That probe must be made in unobtainium to handle that acceleration. For 0.2c in 5 minutes it's 20394G!
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by mpsprd 3y ago
I wonder, who is this for? I feel this kind of editor is for the sophisticated minimalist, used alongside a 60% fancy keyboard with ceramic key caps. I see comments about this being good for "beginners", and I wonder what definiti
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by mpsprd 3y ago
Wait, aren't patents on gameplay inapplicable? I thought this is why game clones are commonplace, so much that the term "x clone" entered the vernacular for video games.
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by mpsprd 3y ago
Tangentially, I always found the discussion flow on image boards interesting because of the "anonymous chorus" of replies. It creates special patterns: cryptic references to spot non-initiates, people role-playing a straw man and
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by mpsprd 3y ago
"treat" in the sense of it being a high sugar, high dopamine thing I want to avoid my children getting too used to. Not in the sense of giving something for good deeds. Thinking about it, the concept of treat is more fitting for t
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by mpsprd 3y ago
Heh, I am reading this with a nasty neck pain. I spent a lot of time managing ergonomics on my work station (ergodox custom keyboard, single screen, raising desk, etc), but here I am looking down on my phone.
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by mpsprd 3y ago
That's really helpful, thank you. Focusing on the actual behavioural problems instead of "having x hours a week" does make sense. Maybe I focus on this more because younger me was denied video games for many years, until I bo
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Ask HN: How do you handle tech use with your kids?
69 points by mpsprd 3y ago|76 comments
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by mpsprd 3y ago
The single thing I am most envious in this setup is the little box giving symmetrical 1Gbps from the ISP. I wish fiber could grow in remote areas...
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by mpsprd 3y ago
This is why when I occasionally smoke, I prefer smoking small cigars. Its dried wrapped leaves. It will decompose fast and (to my knowledge) is not doped with combustion regulators; they will extinguish pretty fast if left alone, whereas a
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by mpsprd 3y ago
I love these kind of short sci-fi stories. In the same vein, it makes me remember the "love deaths robots" episode (V1E2) where robot tourists take a sightseeing tour in the human apocalypse.
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by mpsprd 3y ago
Doctors are technicians. Technicians with a large toolkit, but technicians nonetheless. When you compare their behaviors to IT it all starts making sense.
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by mpsprd 3y ago
Something exciting is happening, of course people want be informed as it evolves. A similar example are election nights. People already voted, the result is in the box, we could simply wait and announce the result. But seeing the numbers ri
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by mpsprd 3y ago
Any pessimistic/cautious take on a subject bringing excitement and hope for the future is going to be criticized because people want it to be true. This is just confirmation bias at play. Considering the hype, I actually find HN comm
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by mpsprd 3y ago
Spirited away: One of the best and has all all the flavours of Ghibli, I recommend starting with it. Shorter: Totoro, great for kids with a short attention span, my toddler enjoyed it.
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by mpsprd 3y ago
In Canada, the leading cause of death for deer is actually hunger/hardness of the winter. source: My hunting license class 5 years ago
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by mpsprd 3y ago
I used to hate Comic Sans until a primary school teacher explained to me it was used because the "a" is exactly the way they teach how to write it.
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by mpsprd 3y ago
It works well for content focused platforms. Booru type websites come to mind, they are famous for their excellent community tagging. Danbooru even has community sourced translations overlaid to pictures.
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by mpsprd 3y ago
It depends on your preferences. For a l4d style horde shooter, vermintide 1&2 For a boomer shooter, the recent 40k boltgun is allegedly excellent For tactical in the 40k realm the dawn of war 2 is great. Space marine was a nice linear a
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by mpsprd 3y ago
As a by-product of my mixology hobby, I thought for a second this post was about Absinthe, the drink. I was really curious about what Large elixirs meant in this context.
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by mpsprd 3y ago
It's interesting how vasectomy is normalized or shunned depending on culture. In France, its taboo and doctors take this very seriously, they will try to protect the patient "against themselves"[0]. In Quebec, its extremely n
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by mpsprd 3y ago
I believe rarbg had many "official" torrents that they seeded. This must be part of their costs.
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Microsoft could start trading ad views for “timed slices of games”(arstechnica.com)
1 points by mpsprd 3y ago|0 comments
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by mpsprd 3y ago
This book got me into making my own bread, thank you hendricius! Toughts I didn't take the time to put in an mr: -The text is dense like a fruitcake. A bit of air would go a long way to make it more digestible. Sometimes long explanat
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by mpsprd 3y ago
This is really interesting, but I have trouble enjoying it because the earth keeps spinning while I try to look at a specific part.

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