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by nimbius 4y ago
I was a soldier in the Iraq war. What's not being discussed is the utter failure of Australian police. Random noise and keywords should never be enough to send a full dynamic team...at best its suicide and you don't have any pict
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by nimbius 4y ago
you could make the argument that late-stage capitalism and the emergence of neufeudalism has reduced the state from an arbiter and partner in creating a thriving and successful society for its people, to a paul blart mall cop. well thought
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by nimbius 4y ago
I hate crypto because it had all the hallmarks of the fantasy futurism we read about in so many countless spellbound novels of sci-fi and wonder, but turned out to be an exhausting dichotomy of ponzi-scheme money laundering or regulatory sh
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by nimbius 4y ago
why not just embed an ultrasonic tone sequence that invalidates the Alexa invocation?
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by nimbius 4y ago
what ive always wanted is a competent API for weather.gov, but theres just no impetus to get NOAA to drop their convoluted pseudo-XML gobbledygook.
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by nimbius 4y ago
well clearly it was open for business.
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by nimbius 4y ago
one could make a cogent argument that the point of 'work life balance' and the cult of mindfulness mandates from HR was not to serve as a poultice for a wounded working class, but rather to distance and externalize the risk corpor
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by nimbius 4y ago
the most tangible leech-vichy of the capitalist ranks cost capitalists three trillion a year you say? surely theyve some organ meats that could be salvaged!
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by nimbius 4y ago
i am drunk posting this from an android 12 i dropped in a toilet over new years. ours are a mystic people, cloaked in paradoxes of the ages like 'where did android save that file i downloaded' and 'what the hell is quick dev
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by nimbius 4y ago
bruce has clearly never driven down californias potholed highways, admired its last-in-the-nation literacy rate from public education, or pontificated on its unaffordable gilded ponzi schemes posing as higher education. the unchecked farm
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by nimbius 4y ago
the 2000s were a lawless hellscape of chumba wumba, shrek and apple stores where you had to have core strength to consume the product. the average apple employee had to be resilient enough to withstand half a dozen yoga balls per shift fir
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by nimbius 4y ago
christ this whole article reads like a hot wet handjob for the west coast. am i somehow supposed to golf clap the libertarian gig economy that leaves office workers living out of cars in san jose and uber drivers pissing in soda bottles fo
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by nimbius 4y ago
on the other end of the spectrum, did you know concrete can be used to demolish concrete? dexpan is a special demolition concrete mix that, when poured into holes, expands at 18kpsi. it gets used when jackhammers and explosives cant be use
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by nimbius 4y ago
hi, tradesworker here (IMU union diesel mechanic.) i learn and practice python and pretend i understand ai/ml on hn. your brother in law sounds stout, and at risk of getting into a bar fight i gotta say it: it just doesnt sound like h
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by nimbius 4y ago
its been my experience that aliexpress usually offers a similar product with about 90% of the functionality and often times more features, with no rent-seeking required. so ill wait for my mega-walker pro's to come out instead i guess.
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by nimbius 4y ago
it would be a fascinating twist if players like NordVPN had deliberately lobbied for this legislation.
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by nimbius 4y ago
this is surprisingly simple to countermeasure, just pull the SMA antennae leads from the board, and cap the connectors with a few drops of metallic fingernail polish. for surface-mount antennae (which cant be used for 5g or 5ghz wifi) you w
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by nimbius 4y ago
this assessment is reasonable, but not productive. - Read your terms of service, contractual responsibility and liability for all services. as a leader, youre authoritative and liable for shareholder and corporate risk. - What you do after
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by nimbius 4y ago
a lot of this, at least in the united states, is due to a deep-seated dichotomy of heteronormative gender roles in suburban life. new mums groups have learned to be welcoming, but not inclusive to newcomers and that may largely be due to p
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by nimbius 4y ago
as a large truck mechanic i can say theyre okay and degrade roads casually because operators suck at learning how to use them.. in real winters like Alberta the drivewheel is either frozen to the motorized arm all the time, or glides like
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by nimbius 4y ago
in my opinion as a blue collar fly on the wall at this site, we dont "mars" because it. is. hard. i dont mean math hard or physics or biology i mean human species, everything hard. its interdisciplinary hard on a level that requi
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by nimbius 4y ago
there is a tangible disinterest in prosecuting this --as well as most-- sex crimes in the united states. In many US states, rape kits used as pivotal evidence during trial are backlogged and processed at a near glacial rate or lost entirel
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by nimbius 4y ago
German economic sociologist Wolfgang Streeck has written on the issue numerous times and considers the EU is an untenable house of cards that subsidizes poorly performing states and in doing so strong-arms them into capitulation with neolib
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by nimbius 4y ago
this projects goals are far more sustainable than i assumed, so as an old man im a bit embarrassed at my post. imo its likely an inevitability in scope given climate change that this robot becomes a regular part of harvest. at this scale
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by nimbius 4y ago
this is an upbeat assessment but as someone whos repaired farm equipment and worked on a 40 acre farm, hard no. taylor needs immediate hands on and real world farm work experience to try and not only solve a problem but figure out what farm
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by nimbius 4y ago
general reminder that facebook is a psycbologically damaging online presence with demonstrably predatory operational functions that ultimately serve to divide and conquer society solely at the benefit of late stage surveillance capitalism.
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by nimbius 4y ago
Like most agencies the FCC's emphasis is "Federal." I used to have a ton of respect and even admiration for the FCC when I was first getting an amateur radio license, but ever since the net neutrality fiasco and Ajit Pai&#x27
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by nimbius 4y ago
speaking as a professional diesel engine mechanic --and in the midst of this midwest snowstorm-- winter is hard on everything. -electrics with proper planning work well, but there is a nasty wives tale in the service industry that batteries
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by nimbius 4y ago
> Many liberals blame Ronald Reagan for the government’s abandonment of mentally ill Americans. Thats a fascinating stretch of the truth. Most sociologists, public health professionals, and public policy researchers can directly link &q
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by nimbius 4y ago
“In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.” ― Diogenes of Sinope

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