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by sdrothrock 4y ago
> If you have a shell open and echo "test", then history | grep echo, it will return something like: 891 echo "test". > > However, if you issue 16 more unique commands, history | grep echo will no longer be able
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by sdrothrock 4y ago
Some anecdata... (two doses of Moderna, still haven't gotten the third shot available here and that's on me for not making time) Got covid in the spring, lost my sense of taste, but it started gradually coming back after about six
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by sdrothrock 4y ago
The first thing that came to mind was The Homer: https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/The_Homer
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by sdrothrock 4y ago
More information: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/20/tesla-megapack-battery-caugh...
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by sdrothrock 4y ago
I usually don't comment for this kind of thing, but I'm not so sure about the name... with a lowercase "L", it's easily confused with "iota/Iota" in many fonts. Even if it's clear that it's
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by sdrothrock 4y ago
Crystalis was my first brush with the aRPG genre as a kid; in fact, when I first played Diablo II, I thought "Wow, this game is like Crystalis, but with better graphics and more choices! In college, when I would tell people about the &
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by sdrothrock 4y ago
I have this issue with Amazon Japan; it's frequently related to clicking links from friends or Google that have the language setting encoded in the URL, which changes my personal settings.
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by sdrothrock 4y ago
> Finally, something that people might not think about: If he misses something someone said and asks you what it was, never say "it's nothing" or "it wasn't important" or "it was just a joke" no ma
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by sdrothrock 4y ago
Have you spoken with him about what he'd like? I think everyone has different tastes (both personal and also in relation to the types of hearing loss they have) and one of my buttons in particular is when people go out of their way to
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by sdrothrock 4y ago
> what baffles me is that even a lot of smaller companies do this Thoughtfully creating an interview process and the procedures/questions is a skill that has to be learned... and when people haven't or don't have the oppor
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by sdrothrock 4y ago
> I am also not sure of any good alternatives because someone will always object to any alternative which they cannot achieve for some reason. When I was on the market, a couple of companies actually gave me a variety of options, which I
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by sdrothrock 4y ago
I also have a cochlear implant; it doesn't allow me to hear ultrasonic frequencies -- in fact, my hearing range is still a subset of "normal."
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by sdrothrock 4y ago
For me, it's that emojis tend to be very high context since they're basically pictograms. They add communication overhead because you have to think about what they mean, and what the writer intends them to mean, and whether those
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by sdrothrock 4y ago
Japanese ceiling lights have standard functionalities for adjusting not only brightness, but also yellow-blue levels. Are simpler (e.g. not full RGB) LED lights like this not as common/affordable in other places? I just realized that I
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by sdrothrock 5y ago
Location: Tokyo, Japan (APAC, UTC+9) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Perhaps Technologies: Python, Django, PostgreSQL, AWS (ec2, Route 53, SES), Twilio Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document&
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by sdrothrock 5y ago
Location: Tokyo, Japan (APAC, UTC+9) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Perhaps Technologies: Python, Django, PostgreSQL, AWS (ec2, Route 53, SES), Twilio Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file&#x2
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by sdrothrock 5y ago
That's really interesting to hear; as a generalist, I've had a hard time finding positions that aren't super spiky!
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by sdrothrock 5y ago
Coincidentally, I just saw this and thought of your comment, which I'd read yesterday... https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/moviepass-track-eyes-phon...
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by sdrothrock 5y ago
I'm glad you enjoyed it. :)
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by sdrothrock 5y ago
It's pretty common for animal communities in captivity in Japan! For example, a lot of zoos or aquariums will have a large penguin community and they'll keep track of the family trees and relationships, friendships, enemies, all t
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by sdrothrock 5y ago
Interestingly enough, foxes are connected to shrines in Japanese folklore. I've heard some people claim Ghost of Tsushima uses foxes to lead to shrines in a homage to this behavior in Skyrim, but it's really just an older cultural
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by sdrothrock 5y ago
I see a lot of engineers here saying this is redundant and wonder if you might not be targeting the right audience. Parents with kids, students, people trying to form better habits, people with depression all seem like they could use this k
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by sdrothrock 5y ago
> Recruiters love phone calls and don’t like doing things over email or text. This has really hindered me as a person with a severe hearing impairment. It's annoying how pushy some people can be about it too, insisting that there ha
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by sdrothrock 5y ago
> It felt like reading a Brian novel - a bunch of weird stuff that didn't have any heart or feeling. The novels were largely written by Kevin J. Anderson, who also was in the credits for the movie as a "Creative Consultant,&quo
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by sdrothrock 5y ago
Recorded in February 1969, typed in February-April, 1970, so not that much of a gap. "Sent to Turkey in 1997" seems more like a publication date in Turkey than anything, given the site itself.
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What's the deal with fictional influencers?(vox.com)
22 points by sdrothrock 5y ago|21 comments
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Freshly Remember'd: Kirk Drift(strangehorizons.com)
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by sdrothrock 5y ago
> Ideally, you want to have a game where so much is going on, that you NEED to split up the tasks to multiple teammates. I don't know, maybe have each of the players doing an "Overcook'd" style minigame, trying to d
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by sdrothrock 5y ago
The other pronunciation diversion I think of is how "teat" is "tit" but is now pronounced "teet".
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by sdrothrock 5y ago
Sazae-san is such an institution here that there's slang describing the feeling when you watch it on Sunday night and know you have a full work week coming up: Sazae-san Syndrome.

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