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by shadowoflight 6y ago
Plummeting microSD card prices are astounding, and also exciting since I have some devices that can only use microSD for storage. For instance, I'm really hoping we get 1TB cards close to the $150 price point this Black Friday/Cyb
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by shadowoflight 6y ago
This looks fantastic! As a bit of a selfish question, have you considered also offering a downloadable epub of this book? I've been trying to keep my long-form digital reading to my eReader, for the sake of not looking at LCDs all da
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by shadowoflight 6y ago
Location: Albuquerque, NM Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Python, C/C++, Java, Docker, Ansible, *nix CLI Résumé/CV: https://resume.creddle.io/resume/7qiinizna78 Email: bskessel
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by shadowoflight 6y ago
I've never owned an IKEA desk, but can vouch for VIVO's frames - I'm typing this comment using a mechanical keyboard on an IKEA Karlby countertop mounted to a set of VIVO V120EB legs and am experiencing minimal wobble (minima
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by shadowoflight 6y ago
I pay $70 for 175/5, and I'm technically in the biggest city in my state.
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by shadowoflight 6y ago
> If I think Walmart is unethical, is it okay shoplift from their stores? You've made a false equivalence here, a more correct question would be: "If Walmart prices a gallon of milk at $0.25, either by mistake or for the purpo
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by shadowoflight 6y ago
> How can facebook turn a dumpster fire like reddit in a bot that response with more empathy than a human? Because people who say “Reddit is a dumpster fire” are usually just thinking of r/Politics, RedPill, TheDonald, LateStageCapi
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by shadowoflight 6y ago
> The problem is: how do you get everyone to cooperate at the same time when the incentive for cheating is that your website gets all the revenue? By cutting to the source and making targeted internet advertisements illegal, full stop, w
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by shadowoflight 6y ago
My wife bought a MacBook Air last year, and the row of function keys with Touch ID sensor at the end is perfect . I'm so jealous, and hope they add the option to get that keyboard layout on the next iteration of the MBP.
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by shadowoflight 6y ago
Have you considered publishing posts in both English and your native language? Since the software dev world tends to be rather English-centric, it could be a breath of fresh air for peers who share your language to be able to read posts no
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by shadowoflight 6y ago
Not knowing the coffee culture of your particular locale, I’ll just offer some generic suggestions: * Try out a few local coffee shops - and I mean local artisan coffee shops, that sell hipster shit like pour-overs and espresso con pano. Th
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by shadowoflight 6y ago
I managed to get myself hooked on some of our local small-batch roasters. I've specifically been buying Trifecta beans lately, and while the price of $10-15/lb isn't too bad, the need to purchase pastries and one of their uni
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by shadowoflight 6y ago
I actually spent a bit last week looking for online CAH and was a bit overwhelmed - I somehow never knew that Cards Against Humanity was released under a Creative Commons license. Makes me want to buy all of the expansions even more, someho
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by shadowoflight 6y ago
> I'd be less critical of them if they were submitting PRs instead of just bug reports. See, this is what's bizarre to me about this particular problem - the kind of people who (1) worry about these types of things and (2) are
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by shadowoflight 6y ago
> Your input is discounted at least in direct proportion to how little you sacrificed in order to provide it. If this were true, corporations would be completely ignored when they provided a measly few million dollars in campaign contrib
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by shadowoflight 6y ago
The FreeWrite Traveler[0] seems to be a significant improvement on their older models, and they are offering a pre-order sale price that makes it significantly cheaper than the FreeWrite 2 (I was actually on the verge of ordering one as a b
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by shadowoflight 7y ago
My mother-in-law's strategy for getting a slot with Wal-Mart grocery pickup has been to pre-fill her in-app cart in the evening, and set an alarm to wake up a few minutes before the window to place the order and get a pickup slot opens
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by shadowoflight 7y ago
Whatever man, compiz-fusion was the best productivity tool around when I was a kid.
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by shadowoflight 7y ago
One could easily argue that Apple is sunsetting the Android app for one of the same reasons we can't install MacOS on a non-Apple PC (without violating the EULA): Apple doesn't like supporting unpredictable platforms, and doesn&#x
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by shadowoflight 7y ago
Think of it as a crowdfunding campaign for your favorite local businesses - hopefully you'll be able to enjoy the benefits of the money you spent further down the line, but even if you don't, you know you supported someone or some
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by shadowoflight 7y ago
The +/- letter grading scale has existed for as long as I can remember. For the particular college I attended, A+ corresponded to a GPA of 4.33 or a % score of >100 and was only given out to exemplary students - I believe this case
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by shadowoflight 7y ago
>The registrar approved a grade change to "A", because the university does not give grades higher than "A". It’s hilarious to me that the bureaucracy of this university couldn’t allow even a single grade above an A in
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by shadowoflight 7y ago
This is the kind of content I’m pleasantly surprised by - it’s both technically impressive and adorable!
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by shadowoflight 7y ago
> paid €2k for a laptop Really skimped and got a peasant model there, eh? (Note that this is sarcasm directed at Apple’s pricing, not at rusk, who I assume is a very decent human being.)
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by shadowoflight 7y ago
I do occasionally, but it is awkward and attracts odd looks and/or eyerolls. What I really want is subvocalized commands via implant like in Orson Scott Card's Speaker for the Dead, but I don't see that happening for at least
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by shadowoflight 7y ago
I'm going to say something that I hate myself for even as I type it: maybe historic building status would actually be a good place to use crowdfunding. If enough people want a building to be protected, then they should put their mone
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by shadowoflight 7y ago
Stop me if this is too personal a question, but: As a fellow adult AD(H)D sufferer who is currently undiagnosed, how did you go about finding a diagnostic center that accepted your insurance? I've been trying to find one, but the list
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by shadowoflight 7y ago
I completely stopped taking the article seriously in any way at this point. Qi + credit cards sounds like a great way to have a wallet full of useless pieces of demagnetized plastic.
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by shadowoflight 7y ago
Ah, yes, I am an idiot. Oops.
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by shadowoflight 7y ago
Honestly, I'd say an even bigger problem is that we add sugar to everything . Ketchup? Sugar added. Some brands of milk? Sugar added. Lunch meat? Sugar added. Bread? Made with so much sugar that people from other countries complain th

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