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by washadjeffmad 7mo ago
>Movie theaters have to upgrade the experience Or cheapen it. We've got two draft house style theaters that are social experiences that show older reels, things from the public domain, and local and independent film. Door policies v
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by washadjeffmad 7mo ago
I like to go to the theater, but I've also got several grand in AV at home, largely because of what I find dissatisfying about the modern movie experience. My grandfather told me until the 1960s, tickets were for all-day entry. Show up
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by washadjeffmad 7mo ago
I still like to pretend that everyone played flash games growing up
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by washadjeffmad 7mo ago
I recently dated a DMA in her 30s, and while incredibly talented and respected within her field, she had no experience sharing a life with someone else. As selfish and unfair as she said she felt, she wasn't wasn't ever willing to
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by washadjeffmad 7mo ago
>A PhD is supposed to signify that you contributed new scientific value You forgot about the humanities, but it's hard to blame you. So do most grant offices.
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by washadjeffmad 7mo ago
I was in PT, but the real results came after getting a HM Embody without a headrest. It was uncomfortable for the first six months while my entire body adjusted, but my posture is pretty excellent now, I no longer have sciatica, and my neck
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by washadjeffmad 7mo ago
>taking "lots of text" as a signal of quality Or of authority, when they're not equipped to evaluate the data first-hand. The Gish gallop technique in debate overwhelms opponents with so many arguments that they're un
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by washadjeffmad 7mo ago
Succinct, or at least rightly organized. To me, books aren't meant simply to be read, they're to be used, and I often treat them like references. Many would benefit from concept indexes, or at least being broken into more discrete
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by washadjeffmad 7mo ago
Since switching to a smartphone, I can't count the number of times an app or notification has engaged and prevented the proximity sensor from blocking screen input, causing my ear to tap something, disrupting the call. I also can'
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by washadjeffmad 7mo ago
At scale, yes. Because human males have significantly longer fertility periods than females, the specific adaptations of men who are healthier into later life can be passed onto offspring. The same applies to women who reach menopause while
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by washadjeffmad 7mo ago
Humans have selective adaptations to reduce resource competition between older and younger members of populations - examples are menopause and testosterone levels. Part of the reason it benefited us that some but not all people become old i
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by washadjeffmad 7mo ago
A friend recently related the life of Robert E. Howard in a really fascinating way, and one of the points he made about how he got into writing Conan really stuck with me. Howard started out writing historical fiction, but the research was
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by washadjeffmad 7mo ago
Age of account was sufficient for Google and third-party services for verification until recently. My gmail account is almost 22 years old, in continuous use. I have a credit card on file with Google Pay. Why would I need to submit a photo
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by washadjeffmad 7mo ago
We use drones with RGB cameras for photogrammetry to reconstruct 3D environments with gaussian splatting, which is a manual process and often requires making multiple trips for additional capture to fill in gaps. Because it's for perc
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by washadjeffmad 8mo ago
I blame mobile, always, but it seems like software makers have become resistant (if not adversarial) to designing for PC, and also for users. While adding tooltips or references to about:config could be a community project, I anticipate fri
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by washadjeffmad 8mo ago
Fingers crossed spit shake
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by washadjeffmad 8mo ago
>simply add "not for use in california" to all OSs I was wondering if a boilerplate like that would be legally binding if the language were more generic. eg- "This software may not be used by any individual or in any local
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by washadjeffmad 8mo ago
Extending that, we don't know whether this prevented costlier or more time consuming methods of investigation, led to closing of cases by arrest or not pursuing someone found to be innocent, or otherwise helped increase efficiency by n
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by washadjeffmad 8mo ago
There was a variation of this in a midcentury science book for a children that I'd check out from the library as a kid. It was used to demonstrate how to make your own 'plastic' action figures.
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by washadjeffmad 8mo ago
I still think about it relatively often. It took me almost a year to finish it between breaks to recover.
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by washadjeffmad 8mo ago
I still enjoy those, because they're very true to the era. How many of us learned html by viewing source and copying bits from the sites we liked with no clearer vision than "I want that on my site, too!"? To me, _any_ non-co
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by washadjeffmad 8mo ago
PRC asked them to curtail DDR4 production so they didn't bottom out the market a year or two ago, and to focus on latest gen development, like HBM. They were the world leader in cost efficient DDR4 production at the time.
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by washadjeffmad 8mo ago
There's more to it, but on the heels of the egg crisis and poultry instability following years of consolidation of small and independent producers into large, corporate farms following the 2008 and 2014 Farm Bills, the perspectives of
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by washadjeffmad 8mo ago
Because you don't find them visually interesting or because of their content? There's a whole world of modern unindexed handcoded html + light js sites that really hearken back to the mid-90s web, and they're often part of we
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by washadjeffmad 8mo ago
Whatever it is, it's bad on GBoard, too, if you possess better than a 6th grade vocabulary.
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by washadjeffmad 8mo ago
I took a day off texting to sleep and recover from an injury, and the woman I was seeing (in her 30s) threatened to delete our chat because she assume I was mad and ignoring her. She's part of a certain digital generation, and expectat
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by washadjeffmad 8mo ago
I recently dated someone in her 30s with a DMA, and she she told me how proud she was to know me because I was the first non-musician friend she's ever had. It's a very deep and insular world. Pablo Casals famously replied when as
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by washadjeffmad 8mo ago
You jest, but that's what I suggested to protect my ex's mother twenty years ago. She was a stay at home mom raising four children after an early divorce without alimony or child care, then long term caretaker for her parents unti
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by washadjeffmad 9mo ago
I work with a lot of artists, and selling them on (not totally rejecting) AI has largely been unsuccessful until they both understand the analogies and the specifics of what different tools do. AI makes you the manager. The models are like
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by washadjeffmad 9mo ago
That's a method in the manual - "roll-and-go". The fact that it's still there years later is actually proof that the patch was effective, if maybe not well applied.

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