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by stordoff 5y ago
> there aren't any -good- film editing alternatives that are free I've only used it for fairly basic work, but DaVinci Resolve[1] seems pretty good. Not open source, but the free version is licenced for commercial use and AFAIC
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by stordoff 5y ago
> In AOL one prank was to flood someone with emails because it was difficult to remove them, IIRC and needed to be done almost one by one. An email service one of my friends used around 2005/6 (I can't remember if it was Lycos
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by stordoff 5y ago
> Engineer's solution rather than psychiatrist's - simply rig something that lets you check over the internet and close the door (but not open it!) if necessary. Wouldn't necessarily work for OCD, as the obsession can easi
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by stordoff 5y ago
Also having OCD, I can see how this would be helpful though. You can fall into a stable position where you're doing enough to keep the OCD at bay (taking the hairdryer with you) without it being something that interferes with your life
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by stordoff 5y ago
I was rather ill at the end of February 2020 (UK). Bad cough, full body aches, fatigue, high fever yet feeling chilled at the same time, and I twice woke up and was shaking enough to throw my phone across the room when I tried to check the
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by stordoff 5y ago
This is going to sound harsh, but the fact that other people (government/tax payers) are paying for it makes this even less defensible - wasting your own money on treatments that is likely to not work is one thing, but this risks diver
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by stordoff 5y ago
Almost certainly[1], my grandad caught it in hospital, then infected most of the rest of the family (6/7 people) when he was discharged. He was admitted with suspected sepsis, and tested negative on admission. He had a new cough when h
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by stordoff 5y ago
> often with many spelling errors that led many commenters to be pretty sure that it was working just fine "i'm not high, i can do perfecly things functionally" pretty much sums that up - https://www.reddit.com&
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by stordoff 5y ago
> i have a morbid fascination with the 'frontier non-medical drug use' communities I share this interest. I've very little interest in using drugs recreationally myself, but find reading about it oddly fascinating, particu
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by stordoff 5y ago
I suspect you're thinking of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc8epam4NyY
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by stordoff 5y ago
I got that, then a 'Fastly unknown domain' error (on Reddit), then the 503s on multiple sites (I also had an API I use return a 502 then a 500 error, but I don't know what the full response was as it was just a quickly thrown
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by stordoff 5y ago
You're not wrong, but I get a different feeling from "dark and stormy" than just "[i]t was a stormy night". The former is almost foreboding, and maybe suggests a particularly long night - perhaps winter? I don'
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by stordoff 5y ago
> Just because you only need low res versions, doesn't mean you're exempt from copyright. That's not what I was trying to say. What I meant that the claimant's argument is simply "You did not have a licence to us
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by stordoff 5y ago
They do, which is why I'd love to see a full copy of the book/CD - the complaint doesn't quote the invitation to contact for licences, and in various online previews I can't see any express wording to that effect (though
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by stordoff 5y ago
If the legal department cleared it, they've made a poor decision, but I can see this slipping through the cracks - for instance, a legal layperson making an assumption based on the "can be used" text, or the images getting us
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by stordoff 5y ago
From the "Look Inside" preview, I'm not convinced the book makes it as clear as it could. The "About the CD-ROM" section includes "the CD images can be used be artists and designers in developing concepts, prep
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by stordoff 5y ago
We had a vaguely similar lab at Cambridge. We were given a mostly-implemented MIPS machine in Verilog (IIRC we just had to write the code that visualised the memory on screen), and had to implement GoL to run on the MIPS core. https:/
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by stordoff 5y ago
I'm not sure if it was necessary or they just hadn't needed to change it, but one of the undergrad physics practicals at Cambridge used a Windows 9x machine (I think it was 98, at least as of 2008). Seeing "It is now safe to
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by stordoff 5y ago
I went for a tower server for those exact reasons - sensible idle power draw and quiet even under full load (I've got an x265 encode running at the moment, and it's not quite silent but there's just a very gentle hum) without
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by stordoff 5y ago
On Pro, I have no auto-reboot, OneDrive is disabled, no ads, and the Store is useful at times and can easily be ignored when I'm not using it. I'm not sure how LTSC would be an improvement.
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by stordoff 5y ago
I've watched a fair amount of live cricket and swimming, and it's _very_ rare for me to find the interviews interesting. I might leave them on as background noise or if I'm waiting to see something after them, but I'm no
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by stordoff 5y ago
I know I'm a bit late to respond, but I think you're thinking of Crisis Command (2004). There's a copy floating around on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjkSeuD-8yA
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by stordoff 5y ago
It's one of the reasons I was glad for the Union Society at my university. You had to be a member of the university, and then pay to join, so not exactly a public place, but it was great for this sort of thing. There were many occasion
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by stordoff 5y ago
I very briefly looked into this when I was refurbishing a house[1], and didn't see anything that wasn't ludicrously expensive, a scam, or both. Is there even a practical way of doing this? We've actually got a wire mesh in mo
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by stordoff 5y ago
Not American (British), and it's never felt aggressive/threatening, but smiling in a way that shows my teeth has always felt exceptionally forced. It doesn't stand out as strange when other people do it, but it just doesn&#x2
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by stordoff 5y ago
You aren't shorting the battery in this case. There's still a significant resistance (your body, particularly the skin contact resistance) between the terminals.
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by stordoff 5y ago
6/6 on poor laptop speakers, but based on a side-channel - the one that takes a second to load is the WAV. Actually listening, it's tough to make out 128kbps MP3 vs WAV on this setup - there's a slight difference, but only wh
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by stordoff 5y ago
Google Cache currently has a copy: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp...
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by stordoff 5y ago
I'm not sure that's the regional split. I'm in the UK, and hear it being using in both senses: "You should deal with it / I'll deal with it" - do something to solve the problem "Yeah, deal with it!&qu
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by stordoff 5y ago
You can run it on WSL, so in a sense, yes - https://reddragdiva.dreamwidth.org/607714.html

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