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by samplatt 5y ago
....I'm really going to have to read that again. I don't remember that at ALL.
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by samplatt 5y ago
Something we can keep out by shutting a door, at the very least. But of course that's not the way it's going to go... If something is possible, someone's gonna do it.
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by samplatt 5y ago
Because in a very literal sense every large Chinese company is not only "in bed with", but a direct extension of the Chinese government, which uses its other tentacles to attack foreign companies it does not control via market man
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by samplatt 5y ago
Because in lessonable stories it aids understanding to have only one lesson to assist in reducing confusion. But it's hardly a hard-rule and is often broken.
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by samplatt 5y ago
>sometimes be seen in the blind community. HAH! Love it. Side note: I constantly make fun of the English phrase "I see what you're saying", meaning "I understand", often swapping it out with "I hear what you
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by samplatt 5y ago
An acquaintance of mine was a team manager for a government-welfare phone-support entity. The other two managers' names were D'eath and Bludd. My friend married a man named Paine. So the phone-support teams were managed by Blood,
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by samplatt 5y ago
From the comments above, I thought it was the other way around? More energy efficient metabolism resulting in greater range of biomes to permanently settle?
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by samplatt 5y ago
>“I ended up losing three months of my life, spending every waking minute at Atari, coming home at 1 a.m., going in at 6 a.m. The game got done.” This seems to be a one-sentence summary of nearly every Atari story I've ever heard (o
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by samplatt 5y ago
.....Ah. The possibility of someone being on HN born AFTER Portal 2 didn't even occur :-(
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by samplatt 5y ago
I'm from Australia and free AOL CD's were everywhere by the late 90's, but I knew absolutely zero people that had ever used it. Likewise, everyone was familiar with the 'Prodigy' and 'CompuServe' icons on
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by samplatt 5y ago
It's also a very American-centric view. The rest of the world is going back to forums and single-platform chatrooms and avoiding reddit/twitter/facebook, but never had an AOL/ProdigyCompuServe phase to go through. If we
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by samplatt 5y ago
Quick link to XKCD 386, for others - https://xkcd.com/386/
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by samplatt 5y ago
Unless you're talking about The Young Ones, what "spaaaaace" reference is claimed for 40yo ?
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by samplatt 5y ago
It's not (necessarily) about sea-level rise drowning us out. It's about proximity to the sea-level being an indicator of severe damage done to property and infrastructure done by sea-level-rise and other climate-change factors lik
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by samplatt 5y ago
Late 30's entering the dating scene for the first time was a shock. A couple 20-something's outright stating that they won't date "broke-ass" Android users. Bitch, this flagship costs MORE than your piece of fruit.
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by samplatt 5y ago
Australia is definitely NOT doing fine; our populist demagogues have us by the balls possibly even more so than the US. Ours just make slightly less noise about it.
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by samplatt 5y ago
The market would be ALL android phones. Apple would never allow seamless interop. It's not in their interest, let alone opening themselves up for more exploit possibilities.
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by samplatt 5y ago
For a completely unknowable reason, WordArt effects are popular in hyper-edgy memes, these days.
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by samplatt 5y ago
I read the author's Homecoming series in the 90's. That doesn't outright show his bigotry but my lord, it hints heavily towards it.
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by samplatt 5y ago
It's getting dangerously reddit in this thread.
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by samplatt 5y ago
A $3B warship costs less than what (I imagine) has been spent on Google Maps development. I'm currently working on ship-alerting software, and all the usual "haha programmers suck at their job" memes apply... But then, so doe
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by samplatt 5y ago
Op must have an iron rod for a spine. I naturally slouch lying down . Cats are less fluid than my posture at 4pm-second-wind, two-screens-of-code-and-one-of-data full-crunch-engaged mode.
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by samplatt 5y ago
I just installed 2.95 last night after uninstalling 5.x. 5.x doesn't have [Q] to enqueue within a playlist. I have no idea why anyone would remove such a basic feature... maybe the advent of the "media library" management (at
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by samplatt 5y ago
Just one of the more minor ways the military-industrial complex is able to waste stupefying amounts of money.
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by samplatt 5y ago
No. Reef sharks have been observed resting on the sea floor, pumping water over their gills periodically by opening and closing their mouths.
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by samplatt 5y ago
Lowering the density of surface co2 could result in a reduction of the cognitive impairment caused by the already-increased co2 levels. It would also mean combustible fuels of all sorts would burn more efficiently. /s, mostly
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by samplatt 5y ago
People in here seem to be using "most" to mean "people I know personally". To add another data point, every teacher I know uses at least a third of their "break" for lesson planning. Usually more.
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by samplatt 5y ago
"Asimov's Vision". The guy himself has said in interviews that it was entirely inspired by gas/fluid dynamics theory, where you could predict the motion of the whole but individual molecules would be random, and then &qu
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by samplatt 5y ago
That's what I get for not properly investigating the sources. Thanks!
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by samplatt 5y ago
Wikipedia says the previous world record[1] for an MRI magnet was 11.75 Teslas. This article says this one uses 11.7 Teslas. Anyone more knowledgeable care to comment on the difference? They say a record for this volume (large enough to pas

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