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by uep 6y ago
Annual blood tests are standard for all patients with my current GP in the US. He is a younger doctor, so that might be a factor. I'm a bad patient in that I don't go every year.
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by uep 6y ago
> What they do not do is guarantee you a platform. I think this is a really important point. How I have framed this to others is: "the 6 o'clock news isn't required to give you airtime." In the past, you could write a
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by uep 6y ago
I think one could randomly choose a Betheseda or Ubisoft release, and have a similar level of bugs. I also played it through Stadia, because Google was having really good deals on Stadia. The first month was free (through a Google Music pro
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by uep 6y ago
Is it considered a no-no to use it with a password manager for other accounts that I consider less critical? I was thinking that for most accounts, I would use the password manager, but use 2FA for the password manager. My primary email acc
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by uep 6y ago
I've been meaning to buy a Yubikey. What is the best practice for using a security key? Is there a mechanism for backing my keys up somewhere safe so that a loss of key doesn't mean a loss of my accounts?
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by uep 6y ago
Are you primarily engaged in illegal actions for your source of income? Your other comments in this thread seem to imply that is the case. No judgement, but if so, I think this is a pertinent piece of information. It is not difficult for mo
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by uep 6y ago
Your statements do not seem to be consistent with those in the article. > Ray Mentzer, a chemical engineer at Purdue University, spent his career working on LNG projects for Exxon Mobil. He says the specially designed containers that tra
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by uep 6y ago
I knew someone who was retired FBI, who offered his services to me. He had said he could get phone records or bank account information on anyone, anywhere in the world. I don't know if he was blowing smoke, but this was apparently how
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by uep 6y ago
Do you know something I don't? A few years back, Debian changed their LTS policy to 5 years in response to Ubuntu. > Debian Long Term Support (LTS) is a project to extend the lifetime of all Debian stable releases to (at least) 5 ye
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by uep 6y ago
Your Nexus 5x failure was likely what the sibling comment indicated, the infamous 5x boot loop. If you had rooted your phone previously, it was possible to work around it by modifying the device-tree and limiting it to only using some cores
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by uep 6y ago
It sounds like you go through a lot of phones. Any particular reason for that? Do you just like to upgrade to the latest, or is it due to the dissatisfaction you're referring to?
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by uep 6y ago
If you have a GPU that supports Vulkan these days, and you play games on Steam, it is very likely that you will be able to play games even without native Linux support. I check before I purchase any games, but it has become very unusual whe
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by uep 6y ago
I think you misinterpreted my comment. The poster I was responding to was talking about how it would not be the same consciousness, but a clone of that consciousness. I am not making any unprovable claims about a spirit/soul, though I
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by uep 6y ago
I did see this benchmark. For a consumer CPU, it looks pretty good. Looks like 46.3 minutes. https://youtu.be/72AHENDeTEI?t=892 I guess it's actually pretty good for any CPU class.
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by uep 6y ago
I think the Ship of Theseus is a related philosophical thought experiment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus Even without your previous experience, you are literally not the same cells that you were a few y
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by uep 6y ago
And if you're working in userspace, use the SDK! bitbake -c populate_sdk <image-name> This will output a self-extracting archive in your deploy directory. You can install this mostly self-contained SDK to a directory of your choo
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by uep 6y ago
> Plus for me, Nvidia is simply DOA on Linux Same. The best this announcement does for me is force AMD to reduce the price of their GPUs. Which is appreciated, because I am due to upgrade.
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by uep 6y ago
That's the point. He gave up royalties for a lump sum, when the game seems to currently be the 23rd best-selling game of all time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_gam...
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by uep 6y ago
I've had kind of a crazy idea of building an entire Linux-based embedded system using Bazel. Based on your previous comment, I briefly thought they might have had some detection of foreign build systems now. Some part of me still finds
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by uep 6y ago
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. It sounds like you're saying that I'm somehow framing my opinion in a dishonest way, but I'm not sure in what way you're claiming it is dishonest. Is it because my c
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by uep 6y ago
> you can get your third-party sources from HTTP, Git Can you elaborate? I assume those projects have to be brought into the Bazel configuration format, or does it have some support for foreign build systems?
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by uep 6y ago
This is not at all what the article is about? I do not think the Chinese are as unified as they are made out to be. I think it's a joke to pretend that China is some ideal to aspire to, but sadly, I think the West will have to use simi
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by uep 6y ago
That's anecdotal evidence. My anecdotal evidence is that I lived in a suburb of a major city on the east coast, and no one I knew had a cellphone until probably the mid-90s.
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by uep 6y ago
When I hear someone say it, I often respond that "I could care less, but only a little bit" to make the point about that phrase.
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by uep 6y ago
Phone barometers can be used to get a pretty good idea which floor of a building you're on. https://www.popsci.com/gadgets/article/2011-10/so-um-why-doe... https://www.engadget.com/2012-0
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by uep 6y ago
I greatly enjoyed this game because of its relationship to the thought experiment. Last time I tried playing it, it had a terrible memory leak on Firefox though. Eventually consuming over 15GB, when I decided I had to kill it.
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by uep 6y ago
I think this is about to change. The Chinese shipping will go up. A couple weeks ago, there was an article posted here about why shipping from China is so cheap, epacket[1]. Because of epacket, it was cheaper to ship from China than it was
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by uep 6y ago
You know, as much as I think the whataboutism is trying to draw equivalencies that don't exist and make excuses for other nation states doing bad things, I'm more accepting of it now. As long as it's called out for being th
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by uep 6y ago
> Is this some kind of limitation with Linux itself? Definitely not. I don't know the details of the grandparent's hardware, it's possible that there are some limitations with specific NVIDIA hardware, given the fact that
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by uep 6y ago
Lies of omission are still lies. To use an extreme example, if a reporting organization writes a story about one nation launching missile strikes against another, and leaves out that they were retaliatory strikes from a previous attack, tha

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