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by rconti 3y ago
Yep that was the first one i slapped my forehead at missing, because I actually knew what it was but figured it must ALSO be a tolkien character since I was sure it wasn't an antidepressant.
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by rconti 3y ago
10/24. Wow. You'd think it would be hard to do worse than a coin flip. On the other hand, I guess many coin flip sets are going to end up "worse than a coin flip" :D
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by rconti 3y ago
The internet and globalization of markets and cheap shipping has taken a lot of the wonder away. It used to be a friend would go to Japan and come back with this absolutely futuristic walkman that simply wasn't available in the US ma
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by rconti 3y ago
Wow. Absolutely stunning. I had forgotten all about DAK, but I must have spent hours poring over each catalog (the earliest I remember is the 1985 one), and could spend days re-reading now. The funny thing is -- and I don't see it ment
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by rconti 3y ago
A car cutting in front of me and me not panicking and slamming on the brakes is actually a mark of knowing how to drive. The one example of me driving aggressively had nothing to do with forward collision warning, and was actually about bra
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by rconti 3y ago
This is a bad take if you haven't driven every single car on the market in order to inform yourself. I agree most of them are surprisingly good -- the forward collision warning system on my Golf R only made a few mistakes in the 3 year
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by rconti 3y ago
Nothing against the site, I just hate this usage of "stays".
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by rconti 3y ago
> the preferred smartphone for creative pros and filmmakers. Upon reading that, I immediately looked at the domain of the source. I know, I should be in this habit BEFORE reading anything, but still.
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by rconti 3y ago
I mean, it's a law blog describing the current state of the world, not new or proposed legislation or employer policy.
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by rconti 3y ago
We all compare ourselves upwards. Related, you might wonder why a strong cyclist bothers buying a $10k bike. After all, they'd be faster than most people on even the cheapest bike! But they start riding with others, and their peers are
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by rconti 3y ago
Fascinating. How do you know these details? :)
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by rconti 3y ago
There are two handles. One over the shoulder of the captain, and one over the shoulder of the first officer.
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by rconti 3y ago
Facebook seems to be of two minds with regard to "social" media. On the one hand, they're forcing awful reels/stories type anti-social content that's largely meant for passive consumption and zero engagement, while
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by rconti 3y ago
There's probably no real mechanism, it's just that the circles they all run in agree "yes, yes, office life is important", the same way you're more likely to support some social issue if your friends do.
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by rconti 3y ago
What's the advantage of having the workstation at a datacenter in this context?
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by rconti 3y ago
Fascinating. First I've heard of this. I can see the obvious advantages, though I'm sure there are disadvantages I'm missing.
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by rconti 3y ago
I had an empeg in my '95 M3 from around 2001-2004 (?) It was a 20GB version, if memory serves, which was the largest available at the time without going to a 2 hard disk version (2.5" HDDs). It retailed for $2000 but I bought it f
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by rconti 3y ago
Actually, the empeg had features that still don't exist on other players to this day. I could shuffle my entire music library, then if I heard a song I liked, i could hit a single button to "unshuffle" around that artist (pla
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by rconti 3y ago
I wish I could just buy an annual subscription to the national parks. Last time I checked, it was $85 a year. I'd happily 'donate' that on years I don't visit the parks at all. Just set up recurring billing! But, nope. G
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by rconti 3y ago
Man, I moved from Seattle to the Bay Area and in the intervening 20 years it sure seems like summers in the PNW have gotten hotter than they are down here.
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by rconti 3y ago
The burden of proof is on the prosecution. If they can't prove that you did something wrong, you are more likely to get off. Your lawyers can poke holes in the prosecution's case ("cast doubt" on it). Make it look like a
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by rconti 3y ago
Everything about the Workday UX is an absolute freaking dumpster fire. Just as an example, but one that trips me up a lot, every action seems to be controlled by an orange button (Submit?) way down in the lower right corner of your browser,
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by rconti 3y ago
which works EASILY 90% of the time
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by rconti 3y ago
10 years (?) later, when an alarm goes off in iOS, and I tap/swipe/shove it away, i still never have any fucking idea if it got snoozed or cancelled/stopped, or what I was supposed to do, or what I'll do next time. I mea
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by rconti 3y ago
I've never heard "hack" in this context either. "On my mark!" is what I think of.
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by rconti 3y ago
Just talking out my ass here, but can't it be combined with, say, treated wastewater? We're taking the salt out of the water in order to "drink" it, but the reality is that most of it gets used for irrigation or toilets
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by rconti 3y ago
I find both comments pretty insightful and have a hard time disagreeing with either. It's nice that the poster you're replying to has deep knowledge about these glasses, but it doesn't actually change the way you feel about
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by rconti 3y ago
I used to live near friends, and commuted by car 20-30 minutes each way to work. I actually enjoy driving and enjoyed the commute, generally, but recognized it was a chunk of time out of my day. (Granted, once I lived closer to work, I bike
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by rconti 3y ago
I upvoted this as I left the article after reading and nodding along with it... and noticed the author's history which definitely leaves me feeling he's coming at it from an angle. That doesn't invalidate what he's sayin
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by rconti 3y ago
I think parent is saying they DON'T see the rain shadow. I think it's perhaps a problem of opacity when you use the "mean annual depth" background layer. It's visible, but subtle.

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