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by panopticon 2y ago
It was a journey! My wife got me a roaster for Christmas several years ago, and I had absolutely no idea how to use it. After tons of reading, YouTube, and trial-and-error I eventually got the hang of it. I still use the same roaster she bo
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by panopticon 2y ago
This is mainly what got me into roasting my own coffee. It was becoming a pain to find high quality dark roasts as all of the boutique roasters turned their efforts to light roasts.
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by panopticon 2y ago
He accidentally hit me with his sock in a Google gym back when he was VP of Apps. Very bad man indeed.
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by panopticon 2y ago
Oh wow, I had totally forgotten about server hunting. I kept a list of "good" servers (based on ping, map rotation, who played there, mods, etc), but when they were empty finding somewhere else was a complete pain. I miss the cama
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by panopticon 3y ago
Dogs have a few genes that are implicated in hyper-social tendencies of people with Williams Syndrome; they do not have Williams Syndrome. WS causes a lot of other mutations that dogs don't have. It's more likely that the social
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by panopticon 3y ago
> only half of US Catholics have heard about transubstantiation and only a third believe in it That's a startling figure, but I've been out of the church for a while. I recall that being taught during first communion and conf
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by panopticon 3y ago
SSL also protects against certain classes of third party snooping and injection. It's nice knowing that every piece of networking gear between me and the server doesn't know what I'm reading. Hell, I've seen ISPs inject
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by panopticon 3y ago
I swerved into another lane to avoid another car cutting me off during rush hour once. It all happened so fast, and I will always remember how incredibly lucky I was that no one was in the lane I moved into.
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by panopticon 3y ago
I paid for a month of FSD over the summer to try it out, and it was an extremely stressful experience. It was very twitchy and jarring at stop signs, there are several uncontrolled T-intersections around my house that FSD just flew through
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by panopticon 3y ago
Coincidentally the infotainment system in my new F150 has crashed more than my partner’s Tesla. But I really hate the lack of buttons in the Tesla. It feels so incredibly unsafe to have to look at the screen to turn heated seats on. And I t
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by panopticon 3y ago
Mostly remote monitoring capabilities. You don't get motion/detection/doorbell notifications, and the Protect app needs to VPN in to view cameras when you're not on the local network. We were using Nest before and these
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by panopticon 3y ago
You can, yes. The bigger problem is that I also bought into their Protect products at the same time. And you lose a ton of functionality if you turn off cloud access. I'm going to try to replicate notifications and stuff using Home Ass
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by panopticon 3y ago
My EdgeRouter finally bit the dust after over a decade of service, and I decided to "upgraded" to a Dream Machine. I was hesitant due to the security breaches and now I really regret my decision.
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by panopticon 3y ago
> It's also the only timekeeping device that will still work after three days away from an electric plug I get your point, but I can easily get >2 weeks out of my Garmin Fenix or over a month if I put it in battery saving mode.
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by panopticon 3y ago
Yeah, the median household receives ~$12k in inheritance (average is $46k). And that's lifetime inheritance, so it's spread over several years.
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by panopticon 3y ago
> if you perceive rain as sad (rather than peaceful, like me) it lives up to its rep as dreary as hell The rain isn't what gets me; it's the monotonous gray skies even when it's not raining.
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by panopticon 3y ago
> a spent battery weighs the same as a fully charged one A Tesla's battery pack weighs ~3.2 nanograms less when it's fully depleted. Think of the weight savings with a bigger battery pack for a plane! /s
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by panopticon 3y ago
Past success is a weird way to define "indie". The term is usually used to distinguish smaller teams from their bigger AA/AAA counterparts, and I think most people still consider Supergiant an indie studio.
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by panopticon 3y ago
It's interesting because Google has their own competing music streaming platform, but they still seem to give preferential treatment to Spotify. For example Spotify was the only service that worked with the Android clock app when the
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by panopticon 3y ago
The `rel="noreferrer"` attribute on the link instructs the browser to omit the Referer header on the request. So any browser that respects that option shouldn't be impacted by that code.
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by panopticon 3y ago
At the risk of sounding like a concern troll, I wish people were more thoughtful with tree planting campaigns. Rich ecosystems (peatlands, grasslands, savannas) have been damaged by attempts to introduce trees where they don't really b
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by panopticon 3y ago
Same. I live in a heavily wooded area and it basically rains needles in the fall. I'm up there every other week this time of year with the cordless blower clearing off the roof. Couldn't imagine doing that with a rake or broom or
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by panopticon 3y ago
Ohio State University trademarked the "THE" in certain contexts: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ohio-state-university-o...
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by panopticon 3y ago
> Well, never mind, I'm not going to invest the energy into it until it reaches its third birthday. Even that's not a guarantee of anything. Google Domains made it to 9 years before getting the axe.
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by panopticon 3y ago
> Quickfit is mostly concentrated on their larger/higher end watches, like Fenix and up. Their lower end watches (like the Forerunner 265) still have a quick release spring bar. Ah, yeah. I was mostly addressing the "rugged w
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by panopticon 3y ago
I think Garmin switched all of their watches to the QuickFit system at least 5 years ago.
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by panopticon 3y ago
> Probably the people who operate archive.is just purchased subscriptions for the most common newspaper sites. And then they can use something like https://pptr.dev/ to automate login and article retrieval. I would exp
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by panopticon 3y ago
I actually prefer the video for that kind of stuff. My gripe is when a 2 minute video is milked out to 15 minutes of background story, affiliate link plugs, and other useless noise.
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by panopticon 3y ago
> Epic is one of the good ones Maybe if your only comparison is Activision and EA. When you consider all the dark patterns Fortnite employs to encourage logging playtime and making purchases, they're only separated from those othe
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by panopticon 4y ago
GMail was pretty impressive in 2004 too. It probably sounds banal now, but not having to constantly delete emails was game changing at the time. I still have access to email going back to 2004 and I find myself looking up things I received

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