not_your_mentat

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   by not_your_mentat 2y ago

   I grew up in Ontario and did French immersion schooling with two of my siblings. One year our family drove across Quebec to summer with grandparents in Maine. Along the way we stopped at a McDonalds for lunch. My siblings and I excitedly or
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   by not_your_mentat 2y ago

   It seems like running a government's public infrastructure on private infrastructure owned in another company is a bad idea.
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   by not_your_mentat 2y ago

   I'm not too keen on another Google dependency. You gentlefolk have a tendency toward customer screwery and killing the things I rely on. It simplifies Google products right out of my decision making.
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   by not_your_mentat 2y ago

   Update: I shared this link with my family and my story is being latently corrected. The whale was a fin wale. There are other corrections as well, but they diminish the tale. I prefer my childhood understanding to my corrected adult underst
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   by not_your_mentat 2y ago

   The great blue whale bones that hung from the ceiling was found beached in the maritimes, transported to Maple, and buried behind my dad's OFRI lab in an attempt to decompose the flesh and extract the bones (eventual success!). Our fam
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   by not_your_mentat 2y ago

   OMG, they do. This article just upped my dice snobbery game.
7. 37.▲
   by not_your_mentat 2y ago

   Do opposite sides of the D6 they found add to 7, the way God intended?
8. 38.▲
   by not_your_mentat 2y ago

   AutoCAD for Mac lacks feature parity and has been known to break functionality in dwgs in my clients' workflows. Tool pallets get jacked up. IIRC, also problems with dynamic blocks. Your os is still a gatekeeper. I get the appeal of Ap
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   by not_your_mentat 2y ago

   Zing!
10. 40.▲
    by not_your_mentat 2y ago

    I hope you find love.
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    by not_your_mentat 2y ago

    My dude, take a breath. Two wrongs don't make a right. Let's grow together, not at the expense of each other. Find someone and ask for a hug. Your hurt is showing.
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    by not_your_mentat 2y ago

    Hey. Man here. I grew up with 4 sisters. They're remarkable, smart, capable, and accomplished. I was sold a line that I thoroughly believed well into my 20s that because women can do everything a man can do plus childbirth that my exis
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    by not_your_mentat 2y ago

    I'm still waiting for an open-source self hostable alternative to Basecamp. Simple lists and hill charts. Has anyone run across something like this?
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    by not_your_mentat 2y ago

    My wife and I drove I-80 east to New York from the western states in 2010. When we arrived in Iowa there was a sign for a Welcome Center (typical when crossing state lines on interstate highways in the US). The signs promised free wifi. How
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    by not_your_mentat 2y ago

    I'm curious. Why store this in voxels? Why not use data structures that that represent the network and that lend themselves to computation?
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    by not_your_mentat 2y ago

    I get sky burials. I'm still waiting for someone to explain sky births to me.
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    by not_your_mentat 2y ago

    I was thinking, "That's a rude way to describe manta rays having reproductive problems."
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    by not_your_mentat 3y ago

    I only ever played the shareware version of Terminal Velocity. +1 to fond memories of the soundtrack. Time to find a playthrough on YouTube.
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    by not_your_mentat 3y ago

    My clients are firms in the architecture and engineering space. Windows is the only viable platform for AutoCAD (yes, I know there is a Mac version, and yes it is shall we say "feature incomplete") or Revit (yes, I know that Archi
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    by not_your_mentat 3y ago

    This is strange conflicted space for me. Were this the case, Disney would have had to produce nothing but original work, which would probably benefit us today but would leave us without the eventual cultural heritage that they produced (if
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    by not_your_mentat 3y ago

    I think we just found KJU's Hacker News account. XD
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    by not_your_mentat 3y ago

    That's a lovely ideal. As a former lifelong Mormon living in Utah, I can attest first hand that the average doesn't resemble the ideal. It's a nice ideal though and it's good to have ideals, as long as you're consis
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    by not_your_mentat 3y ago

    Squeeze those papers!
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    by not_your_mentat 3y ago

    I thought I was about to read a very different article.
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    by not_your_mentat 3y ago

    Hey Thought Police! Are we allowed to say positive things about Unity again?
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    by not_your_mentat 3y ago

    Thanks to the comments we now know who not to do business with.
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    by not_your_mentat 3y ago

    Have we thought about impact on plant life? Like wheat? Seems like a bit of a problem for a solution like this. One might say that plant life literally evolved for the solar conditions we currently have.
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    by not_your_mentat 3y ago

    I must be a genius.
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    by not_your_mentat 3y ago

    Gorillaz called. They want their Plastic Beach floating artificial island back.
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    by not_your_mentat 3y ago

    Who is this for? I'm a middle aged software developer living in the US. It's not for me.