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by slacka 6y ago
Relevant Onion article, "‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens": https://www.theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-na... The Onion has published the article 17 times:(
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by slacka 6y ago
I should have left out any details because they are a distraction. My point was I could not have a friendly conversation with my neighbor, because he was all wound up over a culture war issue fed by Facebook. But for the record, here was w
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by slacka 6y ago
Worse yet, it's destroying the fabric of our society. I've know my neighbor since I was a kid, always having a friendly relationship. Just yesterday we were talking about my uncle and somehow he jumped how angry he was at "Co
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by slacka 6y ago
> Dogs will wait. Often, wait to starve to death. "Your faithful golden retriever might sit next to your dead body for days, starving, but the tabby won’t,” she writes. “Your pet cat will eat you right away, with no qualms at all.
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by slacka 6y ago
As someone who grew up in a family of pet owners, the joke is anytime there is a story with "study" and "dog", that any dog owner could have told them that. This study is what we refer to as the "invisible leash&qu
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by slacka 6y ago
There is a pond in my neighborhood that's not treated. The years I've used Mosquito Bits and Dunks, the mosquito population has crashed to tolerable levels. Bti is proven to work and totally safe for then environment. It's a
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by slacka 6y ago
Beginning with FreeBSD on exotic devices like these is going to ensure a poor first impression. Had she started on a standard x86_64 PC desktop or supported laptop like the thinkpads, she would have had much better results.
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by slacka 6y ago
Discounting the fact check, accusing the journalist as being biased because of who they worked for is intellectually lazy and a fallacious argument. If you had read the content, you'd see that the fact checks are accurate and well sour
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by slacka 6y ago
Is this comment missing a /s? The Daily Wire is actual fake news, with a long track record of misinformation and poor quality content[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]... While not perfect, NYT has a long track record of quality journalism that
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by slacka 6y ago
> Chickens are very good reactors for turning carbohydrates into protein. The remnant wiring from my chemistry and biology classes tells me this is impossible. Did a little digging and no animal seems capable of this feat.[1] Chickens
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by slacka 6y ago
> searches like news articles and published research. Google does not censor real news articles. Nor legit research AFAICT. A quick Bing and DDG search along with browsing of the Wikipedia article on this topic[1] yielded nothing major.
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by slacka 6y ago
Are you sure? Modern clang and gcc both have auto-vectorizers. clang's is enabled by default.[1] gcc requires '-ftree-vectorize'[2]. For my use case, I've seen the most improvements with clang + openmp + polly, requiring
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by slacka 6y ago
Here is a better article: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a33435923/toyota-solid-sta... This tech is still heavily in R&D. It's all hype until they work out how to mass produce it, a good 5+ years off.
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by slacka 6y ago
> the creepy neighbor kid to do something on my guest network that will get me a visit from the cops Think about it. Honestly, what are the odds of that? I'm sure the last time I got in my car (to get a coffee) it was 100x more risk
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by slacka 6y ago
> I have a sign at my front door with the QR code Why not just have an open WiFi network? I stubbornly have kept my network open since my very first Linksys WRT54G router. Am I some kind of internet hippy for feeling like networks shoul
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by slacka 6y ago
Since quarantine life, I've been cooking multiple times a day. My oven's self-clean makes my pans look exactly like new. Takes all of the black off leaving them with a shiny, silvery shine. I then have to season them to regain a n
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by slacka 6y ago
Yeah, I encountered this. Repurposed my Netgear WNR1000 v2 with OpenWrt to act as a bridge to connect wired devices to my network. While it has served this role flawlessly for 5+ years, it's frozen in time running an old kernel. The wr
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by slacka 6y ago
Nice false equivalence. Judges have ruled that Trump's side has failed to show any evidence of fraud in Court, losing 50/51 court cases, with the "win" having nothing to do with fraud[1]. On the other hand, there are lit
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MAME 0.227 Release Delayed to December 2020: The Technical Background(mamedev.org)
1 points by slacka 6y ago|0 comments
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by slacka 6y ago
> purebred or "designer breed" dogs, and they've all lead shorter lives with more diseases Absolutely, this is also true. But in my case, I’ve never owned and now avoid AKC purebreds like the plague. Currently I have a lo
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by slacka 6y ago
From my grandparent to me, there has always been German Shepherds in our family. Starting the 80's all of our dogs started dying much earlier, ~6-7 of cancer. In the early 2000's, we switched to raw diet from premium store bought
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by slacka 6y ago
Your source, Bill Binney, is not credible. For example he claims he can "prove" Russia did not hack the DNC in 2016.[1] His claims are easily debunked by anyone with basic networking experience.[2] [1] https://turcopoli
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by slacka 6y ago
I HATE thin bezels. I actually returned my Galaxy S10 because palm-misclicks dove me crazy. After 19 days of practice and different grips, random clicks didn't get any better.
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Microsoft Seeks to Defend U.S. Election in Botnet Takedown(bloomberg.com)
2 points by slacka 6y ago|0 comments
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by slacka 6y ago
Thanks for the explanations. Very interesting. Please add it to the README.md or the GitHub Wiki if you want to go into much more detail. Thanks!
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by slacka 6y ago
This may be true, but /u/Judgmentality just described to a T the one self-described audiophile that I am friends with.
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by slacka 6y ago
T9 was amazing. Any upcoming human interface industrial engineer ought to study it. When driving or in class, I used to regularly send SMS messages without looking at my phone’s screen. It was THE biggest thing I missed when I got my first
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by slacka 6y ago
Below are the top stories. No consensus, let alone overwhelming. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21757097 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19954673 https://news.ycombinator.com/item
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by slacka 6y ago
Off-the-Record (OTR) Messaging for Pidgin[1] provides this and hides the complexity from the user. Sadly, all of my Google Talk, AIM, QQ, and MSN contacts have moved to proprietary platforms like whatsapp, skype, and facebook. I miss the da
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by slacka 7y ago
PFAS are found in the blood of every human on this planet. Google "sources of PFAS" and you'll learn Teflon products are a primary source. For example[1] > the main route of PFAS exposure for most Americans: > Teflon an

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