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4y ago
ban all the things! think of the children!
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4y ago
even if it does, all they have to do is just keep swimming
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4y ago
his point is that the skill does not lie in the manual process of making the art, but in the process of _creating_ the art. copying something (even with a high degree of precision) is less difficult than imagining the thing in the first pla
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4y ago
>…5 people… i must be really unique ._.
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4y ago
for a neat visualization of this, https://www.htwins.net/scale2/ — it’s a bit old now, so to view it on mobile the app is pretty much required. i can’t remember exactly what i paid for it on the app store, but i know i
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4y ago
it doesn’t need to be rebooted every month because it automatically downloads and installs updates and forces a network reboot without a notification, warning, or the ability to schedule, defer, or opt out. more than once now, i’ve been up
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5y ago
according to wikipedia, coffee contains MAOIs, which i imagine are not the kind of drug you can just stop talking suddenly. it’d be interesting if a pharmacist could chime in with their thoughts on this https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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5y ago
yeah, i can understand that. i should have mentioned that i’m using an m1 mac, and as far as i understand it, there’s no extra overhead on the developer side for enabling an ios app to be downloaded from the app store and used by someone wi
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5y ago
i use an ios chinese dictionary called pleco that, for some reason, the developers don’t allow to be installed on macos. i primarly use my macbook to study, and before this update, i just checked definitions using the app on my phone. now,
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5y ago
while i was replying to you, i meant “you” in general. his point is a valid one: that most people simply take the information that’s presented to them, and, despite knowing what the source of that information is, choose to believe it at fac
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5y ago
his point is, have _you_ translated these things for yourself or just relied on someone else to do so?
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5y ago
gaming isn’t terrible on mac. i’ve recently played factorio, ai war 2, this war of mine, sayonara, the pathless, and some other random apple arcade and steam games without any issue on my 13” m1 mbp. i also played sniper elite 3 on it via s
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5y ago
*invade finland again i think it’s unlikely, too, but if the past few weeks have taught us anything, it’s that russia likes to repeat its past conquests
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5y ago
i use the caps lock key to swap keyboard languages. it’s a default option in the keys’ advanced settings, and it works wonderfully well (you can still invoke caps lock by long-pressing the key, too).
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5y ago
that really makes me curious.. so can you retract landing gear if you’re not airborne? is there not a sensor to prevent this?
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5y ago
you might enjoy this comment thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29399051
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5y ago
maybe you wouldn’t mind me asking: but how’s your setup work exactly? also, for everyone: i have been looking for an easy way to allow my parents to browse torrents (via an app on their phones or tv or something), then select what they want
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5y ago
https://youtu.be/Y-bDgsJKTqc?t=45s
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5y ago
are you a vat-grown ninja assassin by any chance?
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5y ago
de beers?
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5y ago
https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=22m04s&v=exM1uajp--A&feature=y... https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/10/introducing-m1-pro-an...
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5y ago
curious question: can navigational computers (on planes, though maybe this can be asked about other systems as well) not take an initial position-reading from gps or radio and then compute their location then-on based on internal gyros, com
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5y ago
sorry, non-native english speaker asking: what’s “a hack on elisp to cancel threads” mean here?
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5y ago
oh thank god. i had ben looking for this extension for ios. just bought it, and it works great — thank you
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5y ago
you can use “what if” to create literally any scenario you want, and this is the best you could come up with? cmon, how am i supposed to be entertained by HN comments that don’t push the boundaries of creative writing :(
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5y ago
about a year and a half ago i had the exact same thought, only i was watching a live stream on my phone of the iss crew doing an eva to repair a component. i was genuinely awestruck at the fact that i could see humans servicing a space stat
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5y ago
you’re welcome. i’m a bit low on sleep so i missed part of your question, and don’t think the video addresses it — that is, are two [cotton] masks more effective than one. i honestly think that this is an interesting question. for most pe
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5y ago
https://youtu.be/Y47t9qLc9I4 this minutephysics video might answer your question
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5y ago
yeah, agreed. that was the point i was trying to make to the parent comment — that this behavior isn’t exclusive to the “right” or “left.” it’s a people problem. or, more exactly, it’s a religion problem (not in the sense of spiritual faith
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5y ago
while i don’t disagree with you at all, it’s not just from the right. the whole anti-vaccination movement started on the opposite side of the political rainbow.
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