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by prirun 3y ago
An easy method to learn new music (I saw this on a YouTube video by Jazer Lee): Practice very short sections, like 2 measures. Play the left hand perfectly 7 times, the right hand perfectly 7 times, and then together perfectly 7 times. If
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by prirun 3y ago
For people in Louisville, KY it wasn't their best ISP experience.
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by prirun 3y ago
I love how a salaried job requires at least N hours a week by the company, yet if a problem comes up, salaried employees are expected to work extra hours without pay.
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by prirun 3y ago
Everyone has the choice to kill themselves with a gun, knife, car, or whatever. IMO it isn'toutlandish to help them do it in a less messy, less painful way. We treat old animals better than old people, by letting animals die humane de
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by prirun 3y ago
Everything and Nothing: the Amazing Science of Empty Space: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2071460/ The Corporation: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379225/
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by prirun 3y ago
Don't forget about the back though: I had a driver slam into me while stopped at a light. She wrecked 4 cars including her own and sent me to the hospital with a $25K ER bill. Took 2 years to resolve that. I get so sick of hearing pe
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by prirun 3y ago
It's a model of the coronavirus.
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by prirun 3y ago
> Never give out your primary bank account information to any merchant. This is pretty ridiculous advice, since every time you write a check, the recipient receives your bank account information. It's printed right at the bottom of
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by prirun 3y ago
Spectrum upgraded my connection recently to 100/10 (Louisville, KY area). I had an SB6183 and the download speed was around 65 Mb/s. They sent me a new modem and the speed went to right at 100 Mb/s. If a SB6183 couldn'
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by prirun 3y ago
Hans is probably high on the psychopath scale, and if you do any reading about psychopaths, the main takeaway is that you can never believe what they are saying. From Google: What is a psychopathic person? Psychopathy is a severe personali
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by prirun 3y ago
I'm guessing this is at the request of Google, Amazon, OpenAI, and Microsoft. The goal IMO is for only their AIs to be sanctioned; everything else is criminal. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-r
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by prirun 3y ago
I got shingles in my eye when I was 57. At the time, the advice was to get vaccinated at 60, and that's when insurance covered it. Now insurance will cover it for people in their 50's because so many cases have occurred. I was u
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by prirun 3y ago
The ads were supposed to start at the end of January, but yesterday I was watching a PBS Masterpiece show in 2 parts, and when it went from part 1 to part 2, it showed an ad for a sporting event on Prime. I could pause the ad but couldn&#x
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by prirun 3y ago
If you're making the assertion, it's up to you to prove you are right, not for us to prove you are wrong. It could be that unvaccinated people don't get long covid because they died instead.
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by prirun 3y ago
No comments, few comments, irrelevant and/or unhelpful comments, confusing comments.
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by prirun 3y ago
As I read it, he believed that we must have an afterlife (the soul survives death) because otherwise, all of the knowledge we accumulated in our lifetime would be lost and that would be a waste and irrational. I don't agree. Knowledge
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by prirun 3y ago
The Dept of Homeland Security, established after 9/11, has been involved in copyright violations of all things. When I read an article about that I was kinda shocked. https://www.dhs.gov/intellectual-property-rights
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by prirun 3y ago
> Where do regular people buy servers without insane markup if you need say 10-20? IMO, for a small number of servers, the insane markup isn't a huge cost of business so doesn't matter that much.
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by prirun 3y ago
I have never been very physically active (sat in front of a computer terminal my whole life), but I engaged a personal trainer in 2020, and it was one of the best things I've ever done. I only wish I had done it in my early 20's!
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by prirun 3y ago
I am all for requiring, say, 3 professional counseling sessions to discuss the reasons a person wants to end their life. But if after that, the person is still committed to ending their life, I don't believe anyone should be able to s
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by prirun 3y ago
> people having the option to end their lives in some cases People nearly always have the option to end their life, unless they are physically incapacitated. It's just a question of how big of a mess it makes.
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by prirun 3y ago
IMO, hallucinations make it basically unusable for things it should be very good at. For example, I have asked two different AIs what the option is for changing the block size with HashBackup (I'm the author). This is clearly documen
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by prirun 3y ago
I quit reading after "fusillade of Coachellic micro social aggressions" in the 3rd paragraph.
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by prirun 3y ago
Anyone who knows the history of cable TV (or today's streaming services for that matter) will know that paying to turn off ads is great, until Google gets entrenched enough that they can put ads back in for paying subscribers.
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by prirun 3y ago
> The researchers found that individuals who met their spouses online were generally younger and had more dating experience prior to marriage than those who met offline. Interestingly, online-origin marriages were found to be more recent
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by prirun 3y ago
> So yeah, Google got AT&T to get off their butts, but it took Google 8 years to get to my address. Meanwhile, AT&T is still $70/mo, includes HBO (er, Max), and is reliable, so I don't really have any reason to switch.
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by prirun 3y ago
Drugs can be expensive on Medicare because of the "doughnut hole". Ie, anyone on expensive drugs ends up paying around $7K-8K a year for drugs, on top of their Medicare premium and supplemental insurance premium, which together a
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by prirun 3y ago
Summary: the government is covering up that they just don't know much rather than hiding facts about UFOs.
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by prirun 3y ago
If AMD has a performance issue and doesn't fix it, AMD should pay the negative publicity costs rather than kernel and library authors adding exceptions. IMHO.
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by prirun 3y ago
Interesting points to me: > Late last year, a series of crises at the world’s biggest iPhone factory — a Foxconn facility in Zhengzhou, central China — underscored Apple’s need to diversify its manufacturing partners. According to one es

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