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781.
by serf 2y ago
there are a lot of magnetic-particle FDM materials out there, I guess a project like this is waiting for a filament house that wants to start experimenting with magnetic powders + TPU.
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by serf 2y ago
given the 'mutual servers' feature of Discord one could argue that Discord encourages users to idle in many servers even more aggressively than IRC did given the social networking implications. in reality on IRC almost every clien
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by serf 2y ago
the method of action is an important variable as well. the wildlife of a wetlands that undergoes a drought has a chance to spring back once reintroduced to water. the wildlife of a wetlands that is chemically poisoned will not spring back t
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by serf 2y ago
>There weren't 8 billion people to feed 3 million years ago, and back then they lived right alongside their food. sorta. there was more fauna/megafauna biomass then than now. the nutrient requirements were likely even greater.
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by serf 2y ago
first off : terrible advertising. second : how many times do mechanical-contact 18650s need to be attempted before it's settled universally that it's a bad idea for vehicles (like e-bikes that your advertisement mentions)? I hated
786.
by serf 2y ago
that's too bad. I enjoyed his commentary, even if often it seemed that he didn't enjoy mine -- I'll miss the perspectives.
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by serf 2y ago
nice screed, but it's hard for me to make sense of it as a paying and satisfied user. similarly it's hard for me to make sense of "this paid service failed, so it's a proof of a failing concept.", given the sheer am
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by serf 2y ago
makes me miss my game boy camera/printer.
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by serf 2y ago
I live with a fan of Taco Bell. 'good, inexpensive tacos' isn't what they sell. they sell Taco Bell (TM). I could give this housemate an around-the-globe tour of pan-Latin cuisine and they would come back from their tour hung
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by serf 2y ago
>On that train of thought, what prevents a new lottery from coming in and offering a _generous_ -50% lottery, offering ~5x as much money as before? federal-level gambling syndicate isn't something that a private party can easily jum
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by serf 2y ago
absolutely right. my mother was a mostly-deaf lip-reader. She needed conversational context in order to keep up 'legibly'; and it created a lot of fun between the two of us when she would come up with an oddball question or commen
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by serf 2y ago
I think that's mostly from mild work-hardening, I haven't experienced that with a brand new key.
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by serf 2y ago
every single Apple feature or change creates this kind of weird negative-metric-reinforcement no matter the product whenever the number slides backwards or keeps parity Battery doesn't last long? Well, let's forget that the entire
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by serf 2y ago
"Hey, what about Major Kong?" a great movie with absolutely wholly innocent characters unknowingly contributing their own parts to the apocalypse -- I think about that a lot conceptually. Even the motivations of Gen. Ripper are &#
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by serf 2y ago
some people just don't watch youtube. someone that's a quarter-of-the-way proficient at speed reading can read a short article like this in seconds -- without the time investment or the need to buffer video data to read the transc
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by serf 2y ago
Most ultramicrotomes have an advancing method that is dependent on thermal expansion, easiest way to get a linear progression without mechanical backlash becoming a nuisance without some huge clunky gearbox design.
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by serf 2y ago
olympics considered harmful. when will the world realize that these 'olympic sprints' to meet goofy expectations for the IOC are ridiculous and damaging on the long term? seriously. almost every visited city is worse-off for years
798.
by serf 2y ago
>Recording data on and around you especially without their consent is not something I'm okay with. fulfilling that request would make nearly all 'connected' devices untenable. I absolutely agree with you , but from this po
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by serf 2y ago
>The problem with making hard things sound accessible for wider audiences, is that people who understand the hard stuff natively then cannot separate the layman’s explanation from the technical capabilities of the person making those exp
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by serf 2y ago
>The vast majority of people still running Windows 10 won't even know what an EOL date is or why they should care Microsoft has been doing a lot in recent years to make people care, including (but not limited to) pop-ups near EOL
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by serf 2y ago
>Windows will go on undoubtedly >...and get better well that would buck the entire constant downward UX trend that has happened ever since data exfiltration became the actual revenue stream for Microsoft. I get the "I hate new wi
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by serf 2y ago
yeah but the prompt itself generally adds sufficient randomness to avoid the same verbatim answer each time. as an example just go ask it to write any sufficiently average function. use different names and phrases for what the function shou
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by serf 2y ago
serious question: why would there be? I can understand the curiosity -- I think it's fascinating -- but to me it strikes me as the same kind of question as "Yeah, I know James Bond is a secret agent, but is there any way I can get
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by serf 2y ago
>I don't understand why you would not want them to clean your room as it's included in the price. answering for myself, having been in too many hotel rooms in my lifetime: it's easier to ask for towels and toiletries than
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by serf 2y ago
with the money and power that's floating around the general US political sphere one would think they'd spend a few bucks more to distance themselves from one of the largest sociopolitical scandals of all modern history.
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by serf 2y ago
>Battery breakthroughs have been happening bi-weekly for decades and our batteries now compared to then (ten years ago, twenty years ago, thirty years ago) are amazing. It's one of the few technologies where we actually have seen le
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by serf 2y ago
on the other hand, I know people who met their life-long spouse in EverQuest and made their fortunes (real USD) in MMORPGs. I think it's fair to say that internet gaming is a poor metric for predicting success, even when there are horr
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by serf 2y ago
it's not just access to healthcare, it's time, convenience, effort, whatever. an impoverished single-parent 4 member family will not have time to exploit whatever medical care options are made available to them. this time deficit
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by serf 2y ago
it's an indicator of a death within the community; an 'in memorial' feature.
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by serf 2y ago
>Their work has been significant enough to be published in Lancet which is a pretty good signal to this layman (though with a bachelor's of science in an unrelated scientific field, so no stranger to reading primary literature). i&#

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