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by ofalkaed 3y ago
Anyways is in the OED with its first recorded usage being in 1560, but it does have this use as any ways, we have to wait until 1784 for it to become a the single word anyways. This use is different than the common modern use and is mor
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by ofalkaed 3y ago
It is really great and always where you need it. The shutter on these things is amazing and solves all problems with leaf shutters, filth has little effect on it and even if it gets dirty enough to inhibit function you can just open the bac
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by ofalkaed 3y ago
I love rangefinder cameras and have owned and used quite a few over the years including the C44. My favorite will remain the odd little Mercury II [0] with its movie camera style shutter and half frame format, it just took amazing photos a
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by ofalkaed 3y ago
That is a fairly amazing tongue. Had a flicker in the yard the other day but did not get to see that tongue, will have to watch for it in the future.
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by ofalkaed 3y ago
No, it is just the 5,953 time that same discussion has happened so it was kicked off the front page, keeps the site from going stagnant and devolving into having the same threads over and over.
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by ofalkaed 3y ago
So where did the creator come from? Why does the creator of our universe have to be bound by our universe? Being creator suggests there is more which materialism does not rule out, just says that the more is not supernatural and that we com
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by ofalkaed 3y ago
Materialism allows for a creator and spirits and ghosts and fairies, it just says that if they exist they are not supernatural, just natural.
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by ofalkaed 3y ago
I would expect most transport emissions (and costs to the individual) are local, within their city not within their country? Does this actually accomplish much beyond bragging rights and a slight bump for tourism within the country? Edit: N
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by ofalkaed 3y ago
Because when they do an open house everyone will know who the agent is?
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by ofalkaed 3y ago
So the agent who lists the property can not attach their identity to the sale? What about independent agents? should they be banned from using their name as their company name? You have yet to demonstrate these signs are actually targeting
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by ofalkaed 3y ago
No. Do you think agents should be race free (what ever that would be) or something? Why would having another language on an ad be racist? that is just increasing the perspective buyers and language is not race.
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by ofalkaed 3y ago
I want to like e-readers but they all are lacking for me, at least on my last look. Is there one that will allow me to double space a book and annotate it between the lines and switch the double spacing/annotations on/off? From wh
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by ofalkaed 3y ago
The full version of the essay might be better but this version seems to be exploiting Calvino and relying on a great many short out of context quotes to lend credence to the authors essay. At least from what I remember of Cybernetics and G
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by ofalkaed 3y ago
This is the first AI project to actually give me pause and envision a world spiraling out of control. This is asking AI how we should think and if it were to catch on gives a rather terrifying amount of power to the AI and the people behind
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by ofalkaed 3y ago
Academics do not dictate what is and is not a word, usage does and it is generally difficult to find historical usage for recent words. Edit: mistook what you meant by "academically desperate" most likely but I am not 100% sure ab
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by ofalkaed 3y ago
tldr: Nothing is changed by the bill but it will make a fine feather to stick in their election day hats.
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by ofalkaed 4y ago
Those digits are fairly important to EEs. Common switch mode power supplies are not picky about input voltages and generally have a wide range of operating voltages, having the switch on 230 likely just knocked 20 volts or so off the input
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by ofalkaed 4y ago
I keep seeing this and reports of decreased sexual drive and I always notice one environmental factor lacking from the studies, population. I go out to more rural areas and can't help but notice that people don't seem to have issu
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by ofalkaed 4y ago
I agree with him that worrying about it is not going to help but I think the issue is more about the way most wake up, most interrupt their sleep with an alarm. Threw away my alarm clock 20 odd years ago when I finished highschool and start
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by ofalkaed 4y ago
That is an odd layout*, is the schematic online somewhere? Since this is older gear, it is probably a 6.3V transformer, 6.3 and 12.6 volt transformers were some of the most common and cheapest voltages before the rise of cheap switcher supp
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by ofalkaed 4y ago
I found Never Let Me Go to be rather blunt and somewhat heavy handed, the overall premise was just a bit to black and white and it raised no conflict in me. He does use it well and is quite good on the emotional aspects but the lack of that
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by ofalkaed 4y ago
Could also be simple pragmatics or the economy of scale. If your business makes both 5V and 6.2V devices it could be a decent cost saving to make them both use 6.2V adapters, unless production number are low burning off that extra 1.2V in t
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by ofalkaed 4y ago
That is probably because I did not make an argument, as I plainly stated, I am conflicted. If you had to pull an argument out of this it would be that in a capitalist system there are times when it is better for the consumer to meet the sys
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by ofalkaed 4y ago
I am conflicted on disclosure of such things. I developed a soy allergy back when some soy products did not have to be listed in food or could be listed in various creative ways, result was that I ate a whole lot better because I stopped bu
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by ofalkaed 4y ago
It could also be that some of the circuit needs a higher voltage, just because some parts are 5V does not mean they all are.
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by ofalkaed 4y ago
What happens if AI unlocks communication with plants?
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by ofalkaed 4y ago
Anti-glare coatings are not very robust, would not hold up well and they are even worse than glare when they get damaged. I have a vague memory that the UV protection in glasses is either a quirk of the plastics used or something done to th
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by ofalkaed 4y ago
So other than not being plastered with ads how is it any different from most "news" sources?
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by ofalkaed 4y ago
>PhD graduates don't have magic in-depth knowledge about programming languages. No magic involved, they generally have a good understanding of how a computer functions which means they can relate a language directly 1:1 to what the
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by ofalkaed 4y ago
>it doesn't seem to help them at all in day to day communications with people in other languages. Humanities sorts are terrible at communicating with those who are not humanities sorts, just as most doctors and lawyers are terrible

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