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by nsguy 2y ago
Myself (and a few others) fought to get rid of bottled water from our office. A location with great tap water quality. Filtered water dispensers. But still people wanted to have their (worse quality) bottled water. Eventually we won...
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by nsguy 2y ago
Anecdotally we used to see them all the time around here (Vancouver, BC area) in ponds and sloughs but I haven't seen one in a while.
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by nsguy 2y ago
In pre-historic times I (EDIT: designed and) built a battery powered heart rate data logger for livestock. I used an instrumentation amplifier IC and some very simple electrodes and was able to use auto-correlation to detect the heart rate
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by nsguy 2y ago
I clicked to say something about Instrumentation Amplifiers or interfacing with chest straps ;) You might want to use a different service for monitoring your stack just to make sure you have some redundancy there. Seems like you got an answ
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by nsguy 2y ago
Gaza was definitely not a colony of Israel by any stretch of that word. The West bank is frozen in the midst of a peace process that fell apart but the word colony is not an accurate description either. Open air prison is also not a thing.
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by nsguy 2y ago
I agree they are victimized by Hamas. That's fair. I think putting the blame on Israel is a trickier point. What exactly did you want Israel to do? Re-occupy Gaza after Hamas took over? Not let any money into Gaza? I don't see any
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by nsguy 2y ago
I'm not sure what specifically you're objecting to. I've also made other arguments and corrections. Also what are you wanting me to say? That we can't tell the result of elections we haven't had? Or are you pointing
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by nsguy 2y ago
The slaughter and takeover in Gaza came after Hamas won the elections. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gaza_(2007) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Palestinian_legislative_e... We have
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by nsguy 2y ago
I don't think the alternative definitions are any more supportive or contradict what I've said. This is still a fabricated story. Israel does not "segregate" inside territories it controls. Israel is taking security meas
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by nsguy 2y ago
I agree that radical Islamists are on the extreme right. I'm not sure I agree with your analysis of the left. You see protests against the Israeli government in Israel a lot more than you see them out of Israel. It's basically got
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by nsguy 2y ago
Gaza's lock-in after Sharon's withdrawal has more to do with the Palestinians than it does with the Israel. Many Israelis had hopes that the Palestinians would take that as an opportunity to get somewhere better. I think the blame
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by nsguy 2y ago
I built my first electric guitar with wood from a construction site junk pile and hand tools. I've built my work bench from wood that came from heavy-weight pallets (some random hardish wood from China) that were given away by someone
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by nsguy 2y ago
Jews, Blacks, LGBT, and other minorities should naturally align together to protect values of freedom. I agree we see anti-Palestinian-ism from the right wing that is coupled with other toxic behaviour. What I see in the anti-Israeli left-w
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by nsguy 2y ago
There are plenty of fabricated stories around this time. Blood libels, like conspiracy theories, need to have some element that can resonate. If they are obvious complete fabrications then they're not going to work. Around the times wh
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by nsguy 2y ago
Not me personally but I have had to change my behaviour because I feel less safe and people and businesses have been attacked based on their Jewishness. This is real, it's not just in my head. I have valid reasons to feel threatened be
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by nsguy 2y ago
It is more nuanced than this. Netanyahu did take a divide and conquer strategy with Hamas and the PA. That much is true. But the Palestinians have agency here and we shouldn't take that away from them. I don't think saying "a
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by nsguy 2y ago
We're going to agree to disagree. I see the usage of the term Apartheid is potentially antisemitic. This is because I consider it to be not true and therefore I consider it equivalent to other blood libels spread against Jews. To me th
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by nsguy 2y ago
It's a fine line. I support the right of people to express their opinion. But taking over public spaces and making threats is not that. Also hateful speech is not that. I can't control what people think but when that thinking is e
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by nsguy 2y ago
I would have no problem with protests that clearly decouple themselves from the militant groups and clearly call for peace for everyone (ideally with some idea of how we actually get there). I would join those. My problem is I'm not se
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by nsguy 2y ago
I briefly scanned through the links but they conflate "damaged", "crater near hospital close enough for fragments to hit hospital" and other unknowns. the WHO link which we can maybe take as authoritative does not refer
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by nsguy 2y ago
The intensity of the war in Gaza has declined. There is no real urgency. There is also no real solution the protesters are presenting about how we can get a ceasefire (which requires two sides to cease their fire), get the hostage situation
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by nsguy 2y ago
The reason the Palestinians don't have elections is that Hamas would get voted for again. It enjoys popular support. This 18 year ago and half the population thing is bullshit. Half the population doesn't get to vote anyways when
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by nsguy 2y ago
Hamas today is exactly the same Hamas that was voted in. If elections were to happen again, Hamas would still get voted in, that's why they haven't happened. That's the reality which anti-Israelis are determined to ignore. %
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by nsguy 2y ago
As someone else who is ethnically Jewish I feel there is definitely an element of antisemitism in these protests. Antisemitism isn't limited to physical attacks on Jewish people (which have been on the rise and are definitely correlate
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by nsguy 2y ago
UN officials don't say it's genocide and anyways they're not the arbiters of that claim. Changing the subject to Hamas is not bad faith. Hamas is the ruler of Gaza, was voted into power, and enjoys support of most Palestinian
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by nsguy 2y ago
Just one example: "Eby’s remarks on the encampment came after he and other politicians denounced an earlier demonstration in Vancouver where protesters chanted “long live Oct. 7,” praising that day’s attacks by Hamas on Israel."
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by nsguy 2y ago
They were general purpose computers. You could do BASIC or machine language and run other software on them. Lots of software developers grew up on those.
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Sure. Until the flood of Taiwanese clones brought the price down the cost of a "proper" IBM-PC was high. I thought we were talking "personal computers" more broadly here though. The IBM-PC was released mid 1981...
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DOS had nothing to do with graphics and sound. All that was at the application level. DOS provided the command line (your shell), the filesystem, and a few basic abstractions. Generally speaking applications didn't boot the OS out sinc
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by nsguy 2y ago
Sinclair ZX-80 was $625 in today's prices when it was released in 1980. Not too crazy. EDIT: You could get an assembler/dis-assembler for the ZX-81 for $20 (1982). Also at the time a lot of software was "shared" between

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