well_actulily

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by well_actulily 3y ago
AI assistants that are able to do routine phone calls are only going to get better, though.
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by well_actulily 3y ago
There are types of restaurants where reservations are essentially, if not literally—mandatory. And maybe this doesn't appeal to you, but I can't imagine you'll have many chances to dine at a three Michelin star restaurant wit
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by well_actulily 3y ago
At least for news, something like [PBS NewsHour]( https://www.pbs.org/newshour/ ) is available free for cord cutters. Sports, you're mostly looking at illicit streams from dodgy sites.
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by well_actulily 3y ago
A major confounding variable here is that there's probably a bit more of a motive for Google to get someone to move cross-manufacturer than to incentivize an upgrade from someone who already has a Google phone—depreciation aside.
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by well_actulily 3y ago
I assume you mean Tasmania here. From the linked paper: > In the case of Tasmania, which may have been completely isolated from mainland Australia between the flooding of the Bass Strait, 9,000–12,000 years ago, and the European coloniza
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by well_actulily 3y ago
I overfed Paul :( 111about[weightlifter][dead paul][worm][worm][weightlifter]VIIamlovednovemberen4n41E2111shellV[weightlifter][weightlifter][worm][worm][worm][worm][worm][worm][worm][worm][worm][worm][worm][worm][worm]
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by well_actulily 3y ago
That gets us to ~5.392 * 10ˆ15 years after the Big Bang, which doesn't nearly get you to the heat death of the universe ~1.7 * 10ˆ106 years from now, but is probably good enough.
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by well_actulily 3y ago
There are still pathways into these trackers, which usually require luck or some amount of work on feeder trackers before you get an invite. I got in through the unofficial Reddit tracker BaconBits (RIP) back in the day—YMMV, but it doesn&#
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by well_actulily 3y ago
Private ones that are invite only, like PTP, BTN, RED, Bib, etc.—the public tracker community really pales in comparison.
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by well_actulily 3y ago
On a finite planet, how is perpetual growth supposed to work indefinitely?
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by well_actulily 3y ago
I encountered this with "Mexican" food in Germany, which—anecdotally speaking, uniformly tasted of Maggi-brand chicken bouillon.
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by well_actulily 3y ago
Perhaps you meant to reply to a different comment. I was responding to the previous commenter's apparent attempt to explain-away antisemitic slurs as mere "be[ing] edgy" rather than being indicative of antisemitic belief, not
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by well_actulily 3y ago
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family Anatidae on our hands.
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by well_actulily 4y ago
I strongly disagree with the notion that Elon Musk's labeling of NPR as 'state-affiliated' was an innocent mistake. In my opinion, Musk was well aware of the implications of lumping NPR together with propaganda outlets like R
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by well_actulily 4y ago
This is great, but I wish I could filter out all the plush animals.
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by well_actulily 4y ago
I bought a couple of these from the Kickstarter, and really enjoyed them. All this with the caveat that the founder, Max Temkin of Cards Against Humanity fame, is a bit of a shit: https://www.polygon.com/2020/6/23&
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by well_actulily 4y ago
(Sauce) https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/j7yfqb/oc_...
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by well_actulily 4y ago
Or at least he was a contributor to Boing Boing. https://www.metafilter.com/186302/In-the-blog-world-this-is-...
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by well_actulily 4y ago
If you don't have the private keys, they're not your coins.
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by well_actulily 4y ago
Just keep it away from your dog. Xylitol is a notorious pet killer.
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by well_actulily 4y ago
I was an Army combat medic and I know the NATO alphabet, despite never having been in an airplane cockpit.
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by well_actulily 4y ago
It's kinda wild how alien the Linotype layout looks compared to a standard QWERTY keyboard, despite them being relatively contemporary with one another.
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by well_actulily 4y ago
The version on Vimeo has vertical scratches running through most frames, which I find a bit distracting. So I prefer the Archive.org version despite it being less sharp and with the hue shift, but "diff'rent strokes" and all.
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Farewell Etaoin Shrdlu (1978) [video](archive.org)
205 points by well_actulily 4y ago|49 comments
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by well_actulily 6y ago
This is potentially really lovely for some workflows in fantasy mapmaking where GIS data is extremely unlikely to exist.