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by mrexroad 9mo ago
My library is large too (roughly a third larger). After years of far more complicated storage/backup solutions, I settled w/ a second Photos library on an external hdd w/ optimize storage disabled. I plug the drive in and ope
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by mrexroad 9mo ago
I personally look for the 1,000x overpriced space marine spec so I can get it in white.
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by mrexroad 10mo ago
I consider myself a fairly slow reader (see other comment) and nothing on this list took very long to read, other than LotR and The Count of Monte Cristo. One of my goals for 2025 was to replace parades of endless distractions (social media
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by mrexroad 10mo ago
Similar to other commenter, after the first third, I felt it devolved into a long, overly drawn out and predictable slog. Glad to have finished it, but it’s probably not on my re-read list.
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by mrexroad 10mo ago
FWIW, I’m mildly dyslexic and likely read slower than most. This year I’ve made it a goal to un-do many of the coping strategies I’d developed over the years to keep pace, and instead really focus on stopping and looking up phonetics for wo
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by mrexroad 10mo ago
To each their own… but what’s the point? Just to know the plot / sequence of events?
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by mrexroad 10mo ago
Someone recommend H.M. To me a few weeks back. Started w/ Kafka by the Shore and then finished Norwegian Wood a few days after that. Couldn’t put them down, both were terrific.
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by mrexroad 10mo ago
Read Diaspora last year w/o knowing anything about it. Easily one of my favorite sci-do books to date—I can’t believe it was there waiting for me the entire time. Permutation City is one of my next 3 reads.
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by mrexroad 10mo ago
Been a year of re-reads and some classics I never started b/c of thickness. Standouts for me were “A Tale of Two Cities” and “Norwegian Wood.” “Kafka on The Shore”, “Norwegian Wood” - Haruki Murakami “A Tale of Two Cities” - Dickens “C
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by mrexroad 10mo ago
> It clearly wasn’t ’that bad’ for most human history given how prevalent it was. But in the modern world we are trauma merchants. What in the actual fuck kind of logic brought you here to that conclusion? I worry for you and whatever co
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by mrexroad 10mo ago
That’s what I’ve always heard, and said.
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by mrexroad 10mo ago
My daughter asked for a record player for Christmas. My wife and I picked a few albums to gift her… knowing that she’ll be captive to them for a short while. Starting her off with Nirvana’s mtv unplugged, Miles Davis kind of blue, and abbey
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by mrexroad 10mo ago
I was recently surprised to sell an old portable MiniDisc player on fb for close to $100. (FWIW, it was mint). I’m still nostalgic for them, and have another portable player and recording deck, but I’m left scratching my head at how much fo
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by mrexroad 10mo ago
+1 for the Tesla service manuals. My wife’s was making a clunk from front suspension. Before my assistant (my kid) had finished taking off the wheel, I found the up-to-date official torque specs on service site. Usually it takes me a while
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by mrexroad 10mo ago
> As of 2025, The Medog Dam, currently under construction on the Yarlung Tsangpo river in Mêdog County, China, expected to be completed by 2033, is planned to have a capacity of 60 GW, three times that of the Three Gorges Dam.[3] Meanwhi
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by mrexroad 11mo ago
> “Rest assured, though, the image is almost exactly what the phone looks like, except with a bit more 8 and a bit less 3.” :)
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by mrexroad 11mo ago
Thanks, I’m a little embarrassed I somehow I missed that!
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by mrexroad 11mo ago
Personally, it’s highlighted the value of physical books and helped me spend less time getting sucked into rabbit holes on devices. I’ve been much more deliberate about what text I choose to read. Been burning through classics that have bee
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by mrexroad 11mo ago
If only Sherlock didn’t get sherlocked…
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by mrexroad 11mo ago
I applaud their intent to be repairable, but would really like to see a commitment to open sourcing the software under specific conditions (time, EoL, acquisition, closing down, etc). > “Is Knokke open, repairable, and long-term supporte
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by mrexroad 11mo ago
As a UX designer that always gives guidance on URL design/strategy, I’ll say it’s not always well received. I’ve run into more than a few engineering or PM teams who feel that’s not w/in scope of design.
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by mrexroad 1y ago
Thank you.
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by mrexroad 1y ago
Not having to expose data to mega corps is one part of the solution, but more so there should be a solution where government can’t so trivially circumvent 4th amendment by purchasing the data from corps they’re not allowed to collect w&#x
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by mrexroad 1y ago
Bullshit. It’s always been a constituency-driven jobs program, but that doesn’t meant it still doesn’t do important work. Apollo was incredibly useful to the citizenry and it still wasn’t widely supported.
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by mrexroad 1y ago
Moon landing, probably. /s I normally leave flippant remarks like this to Reddit, but this make-nasa-space-again b/c earth-science-is-lies narrative is so fucking stupid it deserves a stupid response.
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by mrexroad 1y ago
> how do you write a 5 why's that explains how you'd typo'd a flag Seriously? Even without knowing any context, there’s a handful of universal best practices that had to Swiss cheese fail for this to even get handed off to
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by mrexroad 1y ago
I love 5+ why's. I find it to be a fantastic tool in many situations. Unfortunately, when leadership does not reward a culture of learning, Five Why's can become conflated with root cause analysis and just become a directed inquir
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by mrexroad 1y ago
> quick back-of-the-envelope calculation suggests that if your body were doing that much work, your core temperature would reach fatal levels in a matter of seconds. Disappointed they didn’t factor in other inputs to the propulsion (e.g.
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by mrexroad 1y ago
> “But based on the researchers’ analyses of the interstellar object’s vertical motion in the galaxy (its path is known to weave up and down in the galactic disk), they concluded that it likely originated from the Milky Way’s thin disk,
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by mrexroad 1y ago
Tangentially, I enjoy reminding my kids how long it takes our star to complete a rotation around the Milky Way, and then also point out that we can go to a museum and see fossils of what life looked like one galactic rotation ago. It gives

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