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by shard 6y ago
I try to follow the 3-2-1 method: 3 copies, on 2 different media (HD and BD-R), 1 offsite (2nd BD-R set at parents' home).
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by shard 6y ago
Before the internet was so centralized, it was difficult to deplatform people. For example, you can't really ban anyone from IRC, or from Usenet, where I spent a large amount of my forum time until the early 2000s. We dealt with trolls
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by shard 6y ago
I really enjoyed that game. I found that I was moderately good at keeping a 3D map in my head irrespective of rotations, so it was often a case of having barely good enough recollection to fly out of there within the time limit, and that ma
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by shard 6y ago
It will be a hard sell for me to switch, that's for sure. I am already using Whatsapp for Western contacts, Kakaotalk for Korean contacts, and WeChat for China contacts. I don't have any Japan contacts currently, or else I'm
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by shard 6y ago
The ocellate spot skate, or 홍어, is a delicacy in Korea. It is a fish with high ammonia content and is rather expensive. The English Wikipedia article does not have much details about it, but the Korean version does: https://ko.wi
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by shard 6y ago
> if it takes you longer than 15 minutes a week to do this ... I have to wonder at your wardrobe Consider a large family with multiple children, a humid environment where towels have to be washed often or they smell, plus the safety prec
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by shard 6y ago
Looking at the die shot, the CPU, GPU, and NPU jumps out, if you've seen a bunch of other die shots before, and combine that with the core counts that Apple announced. For less obvious blocks, engineers with the right specialties might
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by shard 6y ago
So in other words this is the forefather of Yoda's "Do or do not, there is no try"?
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by shard 6y ago
I leave a book in the bathroom and never bring my phone with me into the bathroom. It's not a very fast way of reading but I do finish a book every few weeks. I prefer paper books because I underline important points which I then summa
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Parasocial interaction – Psychological relationship experienced by audience(en.wikipedia.org)
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by shard 6y ago
I guess what sets people off was that he was being super in-your-face and creepy. I did street photography for a while and a lot of it was about approaching people nicely and asking, or surreptitiously taking photos. I try to observe photog
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by shard 6y ago
Apparently that's the new style of space saving Christmas tree this year (something like https://www.lovethispic.com/uploaded_images/219573-Christmas... ), I've been seeing it in stores both on- and offline. A
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by shard 6y ago
> Of course Santa Monica is expensive, but the point is that it shouldn't be Not sure if your "should" is in the sense that logically it doesn't make sense to be, or that morally or ethically it had no right to be. Fo
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by shard 6y ago
Reminds me of the girl who said, "I would rather cry in a BMW than smile on a bicycle." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_would_rather_cry_in_a_BMW
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by shard 6y ago
This sounds like textbook "first world problem". Billions of people have been lifted out of poverty in the past few decades so that the items you listed are not the status quo, and there is a chance that some of the items might be
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by shard 6y ago
Santa Monica is not a good choice for affordable living in a good neighborhood with a good school district in Los Angeles. Look a bit further afield in cities like Torrance, or even North OC cities like Fullerton or Garden Grove. If you ins
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by shard 6y ago
Please share!
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by shard 6y ago
I have a mechanical doorbell. The only way it can be down is due to an external service is if it breaks in a way that I can't fix. For many cases of reliability, mechanical > wired > wireless > cloud.
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by shard 6y ago
Something like Anki becomes useful when you've gotten to the point where the new vocabulary you are encountering are so rare that you only see them once every few months. I've read somewhere that it takes about 10 exposures to lea
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by shard 6y ago
So it could be referring to the office of the president, not a specific president. Politicians lie, it's a commodity across the parties.
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by shard 6y ago
I made no comments regarding whether it is a landslide or not. I am pointing out that your correction of the GP comment that "the Republican party is making inroads into the working class" should be "to the white working clas
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by shard 6y ago
According to polls, Trump had been making inroads into black and Latino communities as well, with approval rising from 2016 to 2020 from 5% to 9% in black communities and rising from 28% to 44% in Latino communities.
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by shard 6y ago
I feel like I am one of the few who is actually loving the WFH, and am feeling better than ever. Most of my coworkers complain about feeling isolated and looking forward to returning to the office, and I don't feel like I can tell them
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by shard 6y ago
Don't forget that Apple is a multinational megacorp, and is user centric only when it suits them. Consider Tim Cook speaking at the conference used by the Chinese government to promote internet regulation, saying that the vision of the
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by shard 6y ago
The cuisine that comes to mind when I think of spicy food is Korean. Koreans basically eat something spicy every meal in the form of kimchi, and sometimes eat extremely spicy meals. I've heard that basically all Koreans have at least m
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by shard 6y ago
Ah then that would mitigate the issue a bit. It would obviously be better for pointe targeting purposes if the button edges are visible ahead of time so that users know where it's acceptable for their pointers to land, but having them
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by shard 6y ago
It is sometimes not easy for those of us who are used to technology to see the struggles of others who are not. I know that my parents have had a hard time identifying flat design buttons such as these, not realizing that there are buttons
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by shard 6y ago
Without edges on the buttons, you no longer know where you can click. The affordances thus have shrank to the edge of the images themselves, reducing usability, especially for people who have motor control issues.
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by shard 6y ago
Just for fun I've driven at 55 for a few weeks when I was trying to see how high I can get my mpg number. Every car was passing me, including semis. Even when driving purely in the right lane.
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by shard 6y ago
Even though the max speed is 70, I feel like 75 is the average traffic flow speed.

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