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by mrexroad 1y ago
Clinically ADHD and suspected APD here. I also have excellent hearing in both ears (20k+ hz), but I’m shit at understanding conversations in noisy environments… especially if my wife is speaking. Her voice is markedly harder for me to proce
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by mrexroad 1y ago
Article footnote mentions this with the caveat that it requires some dexterity that young children may find challenging. That aside, I think the two games make a great complementary pair and switching between provides a nice contrast for ki
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by mrexroad 1y ago
“He {something}, only to die anyway.” Sure, this is true for all of humanity. What’s your point?
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by mrexroad 1y ago
Because… what does god need with a starship?
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by mrexroad 1y ago
I’m not crying, you’re crying!
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by mrexroad 1y ago
Unfortunately, private sector has a say in this as well UA lobbying. Intuit and H&R Block spend millions a year [1] in lobbying to protect their business, at the expense of the American people. [1] https://substack.perfectuni
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by mrexroad 1y ago
Ga Tech used to teach Scheme as an intro to CS course. I vividly remember sitting in lecture and being struck w/ the implications of functional programming as the professor said you could pass functions into functions and modify them.
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Yeah, especially cheaper if we get rid those EPA ones. /s Ffs, take a look at how many superfund sites Silicon Valley has, from back when we manufactured semiconductors.
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by mrexroad 1y ago
Eh, the whole em dash thing is a low accuracy tell. Most of my writing uses em dashes; iOS/macOS replaces "--" (dash dash) with an em dash. Fwiw, in your example, an em dash is the correct choice, not a dash.
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by mrexroad 1y ago
I can already picture the Reddit post of an inverted aeropress brew fail while using trackpad as scale.
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by mrexroad 1y ago
> Leon was granted political asylum in 1987 after surviving torture at the hands of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet’s regime, according to his granddaughter, Nataly, who asked that her surname not be used because she fears U.S. governm
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by mrexroad 1y ago
For fucks sake, an irrelevant partisan jab is all you can comment? Save that drivel for Reddit and please put a little more thought into your contributions here. Point is, an Executive Order issued by the President did this to natural born
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Actual, Current, Real-World Cuts to NASA Planetary R&A(research.ssl.berkeley.edu)
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… and 2/19/1942. Two thirds of those required to report to camps for internment, per the Executive Order, were US citizens.
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by mrexroad 1y ago
Never realized they were that short lived. I loved playing with those at CompUSA. Always wanted one.
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<!—- Insert joke about subscribing to the New Yorker and never finding time to read it —->
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by mrexroad 1y ago
And a Q is an omnipotent being/continuum because in the 80’s it actually was cool to have a letter for a name.
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by mrexroad 1y ago
I remember having to do this with the 2006 MBP, the first Intel books, when they were new.
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by mrexroad 1y ago
ST:Voyager had a similar episode. The Commander gets captured and subjected to brainwashing to hate a specific group in effort to make him a foot soldier in a war. After being rescued and treated, the Commander still felt immense hatred at
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by mrexroad 1y ago
Exactly. That’s where the other comment about a “noise tax”, or enact fines for exceeding limits, are probably necessary to shift the calculus. Japan is a good case study [1]. If nothing else, it’s fun to look at the charts showing noise re
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by mrexroad 1y ago
Same! I think last time I was there was to buy a iMac — back when they first released the different colors. Bought lots of parts back in that era too. Glad to hear it’s still there.
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by mrexroad 1y ago
> He imagines that the remote-imaging system could have several applications, including monitoring insect populations across agricultural land. “Insect populations” is a funny way to spell secrets. Jokes aside, it does seem like this cou
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by mrexroad 1y ago
Depends on how the coffee was processed and the roast profile. I have several beans at the moment that didn’t really open up until 4-6 weeks rest.
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by mrexroad 1y ago
Thank you. I’ve long held that calculus, formal logic, combinatorics, etc. should be started in elementary school, separate from arithmetic. Even after stripping away the numbers and procedural knowledge, there is tremendous real world valu
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by mrexroad 1y ago
Yeah, majority of my comments never get submitted. I’ll type a reply, edit, challenge/research my assumptions, and then ask myself this it’s adding material value to the conversation that doesn’t need to be further explained/elabo
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by mrexroad 1y ago
Hi, what are your hobbies?
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by mrexroad 1y ago
Try zsh instead!
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by mrexroad 2y ago
> my life feels like I am a drone > Not being female is a huge disadvantage these days. > All things males can only dream of. Are you saying that the same dynamic do not occur when gender roles are reversed (pops stayed home while
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by mrexroad 2y ago
Can you cite the offshore wind farm induced fish desert? I’d be interested to understand the dynamics.
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> radicalized youth Two of my teenage sons play sports and at times it feels like all content consumption roads eventually lead to “manfluencers”[0]. If they’re watching content on lifting techniques, sports discussions, or gaming—not un

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