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by vcg3rd 3y ago
> ilaksh 11 minutes ago | next [–] > "Near-death" experiences. Obviously, they didn't actually die when their heart stopped. At least, it should be obvious. It's obvious framed that way because it's a tauto
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
Lexicographers can be frustrated all they want. People do indeed "like playing with language." Sometimes one may want to be accurate but not really need to be precise. Sometimes one needs to be both accurate and precise. One shoul
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
American. I only use couple for 2. Few(er) is countable (v some, less or more). Several is an ambiguous countable small number greater than 2 but probably no more than 5 (v bunch, which is also ambiguous and countable but more than several
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
Maybe set them up at NeoCities, depending on age, but could also move into CGI and RSS with this. I may be way off, but I feel like CGI could be a bridge between markup and programming. My sparse knowledge of CGI dates to the 90s, and IANAP
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
You're dating yourself with the LeBrock analogy! But it dates me too. I was too old to care about "Wierd Science" (was it?) but "Woman in Red"??? Good times!
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
It feels like most of that frustration is (or should be) directed at other commentors. I tried to frame my questions in a way that someone who does not read sheet music and is also unfamiliar with tabs might frame them. I saw the develope
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
I can play piano, trumpet, and trombone, but hardly ever do anymore. I have been able to read sheet music since I was 8. If the whole concept of this confuses me, and it does, it may confuse people who are eager to learn and get playing (wi
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
Straight white man. Diagnosed myself with sleep apnea. Kept telling drs it wasn't anxiety. After 10 years got one to order a sleep study by demanding one. Celiacs. Told it was IBS and mental. Told to eat more grain for fiber. Finally d
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
I still use plaintext email without images so every so often I get one of those emails (required by regulation, I think) telling me they are going to stop unless I click a link. If I want to keep getting it, I reply and tell them if my repl
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
I want all my apps in one place, right where they are, on my desktop computer. I don't have an i9 with 64gb of ram, 2 2gb ssds, and a 16gb graphics card so I can cloud compute.
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
I use both with Org-mode, except my R=refile and is my org-roam directory. Some notes have a known place in a system from the start. Some need to wait for connections.
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
Right? What's the closest English word to gif? Gift. Gifts, gifting. No other words beginning gif. And even words like girl aren't jirl just because giraffe is. Giraffe came from Arabic through Italian. Inventers don't get to
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
Why? Easy. We're a few months from an election year.
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
"This guide is meant as a loose inspiration for a poweruser looking to switch to Linux." It's your guide, but as a non-technical Linux power user of over 2 decades, I don't think I would recommend Windows or Mac power us
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
Einstein wasn't (not is) more intelligent than a toddler in the same way he was stronger than a toddler, or maybe at all. He certainly knew more. He was actually less intelligent than he, himself, was as a toddler if one is measuring a
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
The first right enumerated in the Declaration of Independence (not declaration of liberty or equality or rights) is the first sentence: the right to dissolve political bonds. And the US actually did it again after the Revolution when th
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
Life. The missing ingredient of AI. Funded by the military. What could possibly go wrong? Never bet against humanity's ability to destroy ourselves trying to "become as gods".
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
Not only that, but the history professor is gearing the goals towards particular professional goals and using the students to further them. I.e: "What do you want your humanities students to know about computers? How to help me profess
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
I used federated services like Mastadon before its own "Eternal September" and it feels to me, subjectively obviously, as someone who was on the Internet when Gopher, Telnet, MUDs, and USENET were basically it (except email) that
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
Like having access to HN via some form of Internet access? Envy doesn't create rights for oneself nor does it impute privilege to others, and people who read and write on the internet about privilege seem blinkered, to me, about how th
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
Might be a better tactic to help people realize envying check marks and emoji isn't healthy. I'm curious if the author realizes how much potential envy having access to the internet and a blog and the ability to read and write mig
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
Another First Things reader on HN. Nice!
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
Is the risk of being called a Boomer, or any other pejorative by faceless teenagers, or anyone else, a concern to 1) anyone over 20 or 2) anyone who has been on the Internet longer than a month? I text like I type/write, and even did w
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
It took Robert Pirsig a trip into insanity but he did it. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is just that: an iteration on quality.
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by vcg3rd 4y ago
Metabolism, homeostasis, growth, the ability to reproduce (not replicate), response to environmental stimuli, evolution, some sort of compositional organization (not determined by a builder). You know? Life. Too many people think intelligen
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by vcg3rd 4y ago
"people still behave differently in different environments." Mostly I don't. Nearing my 7th decade, I have spent most of my adult life seeking convergence of my private and public self. It's one reason that since the ea
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by vcg3rd 4y ago
President Barack Obama on January 9th, 2017, through a directive released by his Office of Science and Technology Policy, resumed U.S. government funding for research projects that could “produce a potential pandemic pathogen”
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by vcg3rd 4y ago
Your site doesn't get a hit, but it's referenced enough to find it. One hit was https://www.seoaudit365.com/domain/daverupert.com It says your IP doesn't direct to your site. I wonder if that's the
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by vcg3rd 4y ago
30 years ago it was radon. Everyone was running out to get detectors lest the ground beneath their houses killed them in their sleep. And who can forget Alar on apples or fat=bad or a thousand others. So far I have yet to read a comment add
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by vcg3rd 5y ago
You apparently don't let people sign-up who are willing to pay out of pocket. Shame.

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