robscallsign

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by robscallsign 5y ago
> As I'm typing this I wonder what we would use for shock absorbant things like phone cases or water proof seals like cv boots on car suspensions. Respectfully, CV boots on car suspensions have a lifespan of several years, same wit
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by robscallsign 5y ago
I've found the shows on HGTV to be so universally shallow that I think their role is to entirely anchor artificially inflated costs in the citizenry minds so that any simple bathroom reno reflexively needs a $25k budget at minimum.
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by robscallsign 5y ago
I take it you haven't read her fictional work. Exploring this dualism is one of the main plot and emotional devices for several trilogies.
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by robscallsign 5y ago
> The animal separation part is confusing to me. Have you read her fiction, particularly the Farseer and Tawny Man trilogies? Her fantasy universe, and the main characters, involve bonding with an animal so completely that you are essen
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by robscallsign 5y ago
yes, but it means that everything around us - the sun, the solar system, the Galaxy are also "hypervelocity" relative to any such object, thus making our own "hypervelocity" label not that special.
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by robscallsign 6y ago
I went about once a week for about 4 months
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by robscallsign 6y ago
Just through a quick google search and chose one that happened to be near the route I drove between work and my sons daycare. Her website was pretty generic and minimal, so I didn't have high hopes going in, but feel I lucked out as s
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by robscallsign 6y ago
I've got nearly identical symptoms, and while it does come back now and then, I feel like I'm finally on top of it. I spent about a year trying various things, including exercise ( which actually only seemed to aggravate the symp
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by robscallsign 6y ago
I live in Canada, and live a 5 minute drive from a municipality of 160,000 people. I got Starlink a month ago and even with a few disconnects and occasional lag Starlink is a quantum leap improvement of internet connection. Going from 0.5
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by robscallsign 6y ago
Your comment resonates with me. From our rural house in Ontario there are no other APs visible. None, but our own. I've even started disabling encryption just because I can. But we struggle to get even basic internet connectivity.
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by robscallsign 6y ago
The average human has one breast and one testicle.
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by robscallsign 6y ago
> but there is no reason debian packages could not be subject to the same supply chain "evil maid" or upstream "evil new maintainer" I'm always suspicious of the number of blogspam generic linux help advice sites
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by robscallsign 6y ago
speedtest.net consistently shows pings in the 38-45 ms range for me with starlink, with 150 Mbps down, 20 Mbps up. I've been able to video chat and game without any issues. My previous satellite connection was nearly the same price a
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by robscallsign 6y ago
No, likely an inert steel round used in training
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by robscallsign 6y ago
Wait... whats this?
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by robscallsign 6y ago
That's because I use round(age) when referring to their floating point age in conversation like any sane person.
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by robscallsign 6y ago
> And for those claiming the world is 1-based, they're full of it. I just did an N=1 experiment with my two children, aged 4 and 6. I held up a single apple in my hand, and asked them how many apples I was holding. They said 1.
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by robscallsign 6y ago
I live in a rural area in North America, a stones throw away from a municipality of 160,000 people, and our internet is marginal. The constant push for https everywhere is making the web almost unusable for us. Https is being used to deliv
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by robscallsign 6y ago
Keep in mind that most of the details you mentioned are for the developer of the library, not the end user/consumer of the library. Ultimately most consumers of the library care if they can call std::sort(YourSpecialContainer.begin(),
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by robscallsign 6y ago
I live in a rural area with bad internet, and the trend to load all of these external fonts, images and javascript externally over https basically makes the web unusable for us. The overhead of the handshakes required by the https connecti
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by robscallsign 6y ago
So, in the context of the discussion, you're arguing that instead of deploying drones (Turkish TB2 ~$5 million USD flyaway) as they did, Azerbajan should have purchased a squadron of Apache Helicopters (~$40 million USD flyaway) along
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by robscallsign 6y ago
There is a series on youtube by VoidRealms that walks you through using the basics of C++ Qt/QWidgets that I found helpful when I was learning Qt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KtOzh0StTc&list=PL2D1942A46... I w
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by robscallsign 6y ago
It's non-unique - there are an infinite number of configurations of mass that could have cause that single object to move in exactly the way it was measured.
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by robscallsign 6y ago
Try deploying python apps in corporate environments with fairly locked down machines to non-programmers and get them to perform simple operations, and then compare that with just emailing someone an excel spreadsheet.
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by robscallsign 6y ago
I'm an avid flight simulator enthusiast with marginal internet and I think this is a great gesture by Microsoft. I live in "rural" Canada, approximately 10 kilometers (6 miles) from a municipality of 160,000 people, and inter