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by mpsprd 3y ago
In hindsight, this is most probably a joke, but I still looked it up. Earliest humans, Homo Habilis, appeared 2.4-1.4 Mi years ago.
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by mpsprd 3y ago
You should point to the firebombing of Tokyo [0] Arguably more destructive than Hiroshima. 0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo
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by mpsprd 3y ago
My kid is barely 2yrs, so my plans for English immersion are still vague, but here goes: - consuming all media in the original language instead of dubs - kindergarten already does some bilingual exploration, she's a native English spea
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by mpsprd 3y ago
I'm curious about how french immersion works in English speaking Canada. It's something seen as "higher class"? I live the mirror situation: french speaking young parent intending to make my child bilingual at a young ag
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by mpsprd 3y ago
GDPR kept tracking going on while putting the internet back in the age of pop up windows.
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by mpsprd 3y ago
>a Pentagon release ahead of the christening noted that Saturday’s “side-launch” would be the last at the Wisconsin shipyard, with follow-on ships being launched using a shiplift system. Too bad. I always found side ship launches awe ins
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by mpsprd 3y ago
Maybe it depends on your location? I see celcius here.
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by mpsprd 3y ago
Not necessarily. Usually when micro-transactions are present everything is validated server side, Leading to always online games like diablo 3+. From my understanding kernel level anticheat is to detect things like aimbot, wallhack etc.
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by mpsprd 3y ago
When hear about hardware products turning into bricks after the manufacturer pulled the plug on cloud services, I wonder how long it will still be legal. Legislation should be put in place so that features not requiring a connection shall w
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by mpsprd 3y ago
The lines in front of my house were shorted by a tree, melted and fell, blocking my driveway. In about 20 hours the power was back, 2 trucks came and fixed the lines. I live in the countryside, so YMMV
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by mpsprd 3y ago
I wonder what happened to K'nex. It was amazing as a kid, and wasn't really IP friendly, more focused on contraptions.
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by mpsprd 3y ago
I'm incredibly lucky to live in Quebec, Canada: 100% green hydro power at low rates. Tarif D has the first 40kwh at 6.509 Canadian cent/kWh, then 10.041 [0] It's also state owned. From what I've seen it's the best c
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by mpsprd 4y ago
Webcam/mic permissions were more painful iirc, but I mainly didn't want to have 2 full browsers open simultaneously.
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by mpsprd 4y ago
For work, I use Ubuntu+i3wm. Imo, when working with corporate environment with mostly windows, .deb distros are hard to beat for general availability of packages. It also just works (even if Firefox snap sucks) Also Ubuntu is generally the
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by mpsprd 4y ago
The issue for me is how marketing keeps selling the opposite. The way homogeneous things are constantly sold as a unique way to express your difference (go watch any car ad or any new condo poster) creates that dystopian feel. Its real life
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by mpsprd 4y ago
>“[Which] areas of the economy can deal with 99% correct solutions? My answer is: ones that don’t create/capture most of the value.” The entertainment industry disagrees with this. These systems are transformative for any creative w
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by mpsprd 4y ago
HN is de facto the fastest secondary source for any current event related to tech.
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by mpsprd 4y ago
I've eaten deer, moose and even beaver from hunting and trapping. They will taste amazing if handled well and given early to a butcher. Old bucks don't taste as good, but younger deer have amazingly tender meat.
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by mpsprd 4y ago
Canadian hunter here. From my understanding this is mostly to avoid poaching. At least here in QC hunting laws are extremely strict to protect the populations. I believe other provinces have similar laws (it's a provincial jurisdiction
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by mpsprd 4y ago
This makes me remember CrystalDiskInfo. You can download versions with cute anime girls, with little thumbnails looking concerned or panicked when the SMART looks too bad.
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by mpsprd 4y ago
If you check the video on maps they made everything brighter and made aesthetic changes to improve acquisition, so it was covered.
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by mpsprd 4y ago
Tobacco in Canada is a complex subject. While I agree the infamously high prices of cigarettes in Canada go into play, I would argue that tax exempt cigarettes quotas in reserves[0] and the overall lack of oversight in Reserves creates a pe
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by mpsprd 4y ago
A friend of mine, PhD in early childhood education, told me the contrary: Toddlers instinctively know their limits and will not "bite more than they can chew", at least with gross motor skills. My personal experience confirms this
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by mpsprd 4y ago
Storage per dollar increases are usually correlated with storage density increases. Seeing news like this makes me confident we aren't hitting the limit of Moore's law for storage for a while.
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by mpsprd 4y ago
As a FDM printer owner, it does use quite a bit of energy. My ender 3 uses 0.125kWh[0] with 200C extrusion (PLA) and 60C bed, but making a durable children spork can take hours. my personnal guess: by plastic mass, FDM is probably way less
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by mpsprd 4y ago
This headset is going for the crowd already owning a kit, but wanting better visuals. -Many Vive headsets are compatible with valve base stations, so there are many lighthouse kits around [0] -This headsets supports both versions, 1.0 and 2
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by mpsprd 4y ago
I have a lot of respect for products taking bold decisions to excel in 1 axis, in this case weight. Going for fixed IPD and producing 15 different size displays this commitment. Compare this 127g to Valve index's 809g, anybody owning a
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by mpsprd 4y ago
I struggle to interpret the charts included in the article. It seems the author too, as they annotated them with the conclusions we are supposed to see.
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by mpsprd 4y ago
The table of contents is a great addition! Whitespace/minimalist styling is of little importance as it will change with design fashions, while the table will stay a net positive.
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by mpsprd 4y ago
2C here: my wife has a small business selling exotic plants and the reverse path was always seamless with UPS. She did use a middleman (e-shipper), but 24h pickups at our (remote) home were mostly seamless. Most of the issues were internal

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