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by mrexroad 7mo ago
ST:TAS had some surprisingly good scripts for something that was somewhat a 70’s kids cartoon. Very much enjoyed how animation allowed them to run wild where practical effects wouldn’t have been possible (for better or worse at times, lol).
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by mrexroad 7mo ago
I’ve leaned heavily on em-dashes over the years to help reduce my lisp-worthy overuse of parentheses. My add brain loves adding tangents, (likely unnecessary) context, and excessive completeness. I like both em-dashes and parenthesis b&#x2F
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by mrexroad 7mo ago
So it goes.
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by mrexroad 7mo ago
Tbh, feels like the market is pushing for that and Apple is responding.
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by mrexroad 7mo ago
Been thinking of doing the same. My 12 is showing its cycles, but it’s either I have a phone that lives in my front pocket, or I can go phone-less. I refuse to have a phone I have to constantly carry, hold, or move from back pocket when I s
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by mrexroad 7mo ago
I showed my Costco membership QR code to the cashier the other day, and they suddenly exclaimed, “oh my! What a cute little phone!!” It took me a second to even process why someone might say such a thing about my case-less generic 12 mini.
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by mrexroad 7mo ago
One of my early mentors worked on it. They mentioned the pulsation for the sleep indicator was modeled not just on the human respiratory rate, but specifically that of a sleeping adult. It came up when we were playing around with on/
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by mrexroad 7mo ago
That’s quite the Scheme…
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by mrexroad 8mo ago
it's pretty cool how the paper faces effectively provide all the strength by creating a torsion box w/ the gypsum in the middle.
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by mrexroad 8mo ago
new? that was literally two decades ago.
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by mrexroad 8mo ago
pretty sure it's an established rule now that drywall cannot be discussed w/o linking to vancouver carpenter. but, yeah, his videos are great. i've done more than my share of everything from sound abatement channels/glue
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by mrexroad 8mo ago
re: finding studs. unless it's balloon framing, you'll hit the bottom plate in normal stick home construction (and if not, you probably should air seal that gap...). The most consistent and easiest way to find studs is hovering a
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Simulation, Consciousness, Existence (1998)(organism.earth)
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by mrexroad 8mo ago
IIRC BMW used to have a form of this in their cars about 25-30 years back so that the hvac would be able to blow heat before the engine coolant was up to temp after sitting overnight.
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by mrexroad 8mo ago
> the social media of today don't seem all that much different from the internet forums of back in the day I’m not trying to be a jerk, but did you actually participate in “Internet forums back in the day?” I couldn’t think of anyth
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by mrexroad 8mo ago
I have a disdain for what online advertising has become and the data industrial complex that it empowers. Tbh, I think advertising should be regulated like porn and prohibited for those under age of 18. With that said, what in the actual fu
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by mrexroad 8mo ago
That’s pretty cool. I’d assumed there would be something similar to the run-away truck ramps you see on steep grades — basically a deep gravel pit. However, actually thinking about it, something along the lines of a gravel pit would likely
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by mrexroad 9mo ago
> perhaps they will now form pleasant relationships and have joyful interactions You do understand what’s happening in Iran, right? Hard to take your comment seriously.
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by mrexroad 9mo ago
> This "waste heat" system is a closed loop of efficiency. The 60+ kilowatts of heat energy produced by a storage cluster is not a byproduct to be eliminated but a resource to be harvested. Are there any other data centers ha
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by mrexroad 9mo ago
I don’t disagree. With thy said, I’ve had a few enthusiast friends the years, and for most of them the amount of ammo was more staggering than the number of firearms. Most also had a fairly well throughout strategy around what the shtf rela
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by mrexroad 9mo ago
Not to diminish the accomplishment of rolling out the Covid vaccine in such a rapid timeframe, but… there was something like 40+ years of research into creating mRNA vaccines that laid the ground work.
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by mrexroad 9mo ago
Those folks tend to have a confounding number of firearms, rather than just one. Not that it necessarily shifts the eventual outcome to your scenario.
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by mrexroad 9mo ago
Funny enough, I use HN as a gentler flashlight when I enter my bedroom after my spouse is asleep as it’s one of the few sites/apps that doesn’t have a dark mode.
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by mrexroad 9mo ago
> An electric space heater running continuously is enough in an emergency. Yeah, massive battery and massive solar install might let it run continuously… even in a small well insulated house that’s gonna be using a lot of power to hea
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by mrexroad 9mo ago
> Maybe go without headphones and pay attention to your surroundings instead. This. Even when you are seemingly quiet on a trail, 90% of wildlife are hiding from you. It’s amazing what happens when you stop and sit in complete silence fo
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by mrexroad 9mo ago
Huh? I’ve never met anyone in the backcountry that played music to keep predators away. Even when forced to hike at dusk, the primary risk is quietly stumbling on a predator out stalking, or worse, a predator’s offspring. At most you clap e
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by mrexroad 9mo ago
You touched a nerve for me — folks hiking with Bluetooth speakers. My god that grinds my gears. I can see an argument for playing music (at reasonable volume) while relaxing at a camp site, but on the trail it’s as aggravating as a dirt bik
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by mrexroad 9mo ago
These two concerns do not need to be mutually exclusive. Either one can be recognized as a threat to our liberties without diminishing the severity of the other. The more relevant discussion is the lack of policy/legislation to prohibi
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by mrexroad 9mo ago
I reread Neuromancer last month and there was a line about how the AI had to recruit a human for its plan b/c the final step had a mechanical lock that needed to be picked by feel. I’m glad to see this is a brute force approach and tha
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by mrexroad 9mo ago
Bingo. Sprinter vans, utility vans, or even minivans are far, far more useful for trades than modern pickups. Heck, my minivan was the goat for home renovations—it’d easily fit a dozen full 4x8 sheets of drywall/osb/ply/mdf&#

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