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by whyenot 3y ago
My "car" is a 2012 Toyota Tacoma (2dr 4x4) with crank windows, no screens, no keyless entry. It was difficult to find in 2012, and nothing like it is being made anymore. For trucks, everything has to be larger with huge screens, i
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by whyenot 3y ago
Yes, and this is also why my "super senior" mother owns an iPhone. Sometimes a walled garden is a good thing. If you want a more open system, there are other options. Please don't destroy something that is actually useful to
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by whyenot 3y ago
The Z9 is an amazing camera. Before its release, Nikon was starting to look a little shaky going up against Canon and Sony. My one big complain is they did not open their lens mount spec the way Sony did and that has reduced the number of a
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by whyenot 3y ago
Hipmunk wasn’t doing well and Reddit had just chewed through two different CEOs. Maybe he needed somewhere to go, and was up for a challenge?
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by whyenot 3y ago
Reddit would finally have search that works!
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by whyenot 3y ago
I wonder what Reddit's owner (Advance Media / Condé Nast) think of all this. I assume there is a point where (from Advance's POV) the API changes hurt the IPO more than they help. There may also be a point where having (Reddi
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by whyenot 3y ago
Yes, but are those things going to get you grants, tenure, and the recognition that doing something more... "cutting edge" (blech) like GoF research?
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by whyenot 3y ago
In the mid 1960s, my mom worked in an infectious disease lab. One day, her and her colleagues were tasked with cleaning out a freezer full of samples. Shortly thereafter her and everyone else in the lab got a flu-like illness that did not c
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by whyenot 3y ago
I already was paying. As mentioned in my comment, $5.99 a month.
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by whyenot 3y ago
It’s not your data. It’s your user’s data.
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by whyenot 3y ago
I didn’t rent anything. Over 14 years, I provided Reddit with content and worked for free as a moderator. In more recent times, I even paid $5.99/mo for a premium membership. Users like me and the communities that we helped build, are
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by whyenot 3y ago
I’m telling you, the avatars that are also NFTs are absolutely the bees knees.
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by whyenot 3y ago
I doubt it. There are so many vehicles, especially historically, from Toyota Tacomas, Jeep Wranglers, Honda Civics, to yes, Porsche 911s that are available with both AT and MT. Considering the number of vehicles insured in the US, and the f
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by whyenot 3y ago
> There was some speculation that because they shift gears manually, they have to pay more attention to the road and can't do things like drink coffees while driving. I am highly skeptical of this. I am sure auto insurers in the US
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by whyenot 3y ago
I am astounded that Steve Huffman would do this. There was the incident ~7 years ago where he silently edited a post that criticized him, but I thought he would have learned from that, and this is so much worse.
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by whyenot 3y ago
> Third party apps hurt reddit's ad revenue. Not if you are a gold subscriber. Pay $5.99 a month, and viola! No ads.
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by whyenot 3y ago
Reddit is shooting itself in the foot by effectively banning the tools that moderators use to do their free labor. I'm surprised Reddit didn't take a slower and more gradual approach instead of a drastic change like this. I guess
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by whyenot 3y ago
If you are a physical anthropologist there are many questions you can not ask, and many findings that people do not want to hear. Tread carefully, because one wrong step can end your career.
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by whyenot 3y ago
I’ve been using Reddit for 14+ years and while the site has changed, mostly for the worse, in the past few years. “It’s already turned into an echo-chamber of nonsense, ruled by all-powerful mods to whom every user is a racist transphobe na
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by whyenot 3y ago
During SLAC’s construction, excavators uncovered a fossil of a very large 25 million year old hippo relative. I got to go on a tour of SLAC with my girl scout troop, and we saw the long corridor and lots of shiny metal things with tubes sti
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by whyenot 3y ago
This is pawsome! Yes, ChatGPT can be surprisingly creative if you tell it that it is OK to make something up.
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by whyenot 3y ago
No and no. It is possible to stop invasive species, but it requires catching them before they have spread widely, or that they are restricted to a small area (like rats on Midway Atoll). Once an invasive species has spread widely, there is
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by whyenot 3y ago
No, but her husband, Billy Evans, has some wealth.
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by whyenot 3y ago
> The cost of housing in the Bay Area is a closely related problem, but the bottom line is that we have to let fire move through the coastal redwoods every few decades, and that means we cannot build tinderbox houses right next to those
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by whyenot 3y ago
Around that time my dad bought a Z80 S-100 bus system (made by Thinkertoys) with 64k memory, two 8” disk drives, and a terminal for $14,726 in 2023 dollars. Hacking and tinkering with microcomputers could be a very expensive hobby, in the e
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by whyenot 3y ago
I still don’t understand what the function is of the sinusoidal dingle arm.
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by whyenot 3y ago
Don't you mean the lightbulb?
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by whyenot 3y ago
I take it Disney owns Fivey Fox? That's kind of a bummer.
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by whyenot 3y ago
That is not true, at least in the United States. Tobacco dust (Nicotine sulfate) may not be used on organic crops. see https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-7/subtitle-B/chapter-I/su...
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by whyenot 3y ago
> I wonder if people who eat organic food would be less likely to do so if they knew that fields were being flame-throwed multiple times a season in order to avoid using pesticides. It's much better for the soil and crop than cultiv

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