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by wilsonnb 8y ago
There's no reason a kid without tech parents can't find out about the raspberry pi themselves and ask their parents for one. Or purchase it themselves. Just like a poor kid without tech parents in the 80s could find out about the
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Ad hominem attacks are sometimes good. It's reasonable to evaluate a source before you trust what comes out of that source. For example, I have ample experience being lied to by Donald Trump and therefore I feel comfortable ignoring mo
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I'm not the parent commenter, but I decided to read the one about science compelling me to purchase an assault rifle. It's mostly fear mongering under the pretext of "science" by using a medium article that attempts to e
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by wilsonnb 8y ago
That's cool, I didnt know they made this style tuner for guitars. They're pretty standard on basses and I've always preferred them to standard guitar tuners.
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by wilsonnb 8y ago
Back when I was in high school we just logged into a Windows account and stored our stuff in a private folder on the network that could be accessed from any computer.
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I am a huge fan of G&L basses. I recently sold a fretless L1000 that was one of the best basses I have ever played because I stopped playing bass and started focusing on guitar. Haven't gotten a chance to play a G&L guitar yet.
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That seems like a good reason for relocation. I would probably relocate any that lived in my yard (if I had a yard at the moment) simply because I wouldn't want my two 60 pound dogs to try and "play" with it.
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by wilsonnb 8y ago
A self lubricating nut has a lower friction than other nut materials (usually plastic or bone). It'd be more accurate to call it a no-lubrication-needed nut but I guess that doesn't roll off the tongue as easily. It's my expe
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That is true. They do encrypt it all at rest, though. Plus they are audited regularly by third parties. I actually use OneDrive for all of my Microsoft Office files even though I'm using the desktop suite, so keeping the document data
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by wilsonnb 8y ago
I wish they would, it's the first thing I do to new guitars along with installing strap locks and a slightly thicker set of strings. I usually use the Fender branded ones because I'm usually putting them in Fender guitars. I'
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by wilsonnb 8y ago
This is true. I usually stretch my strings after putting new ones on to try to minimize the effect of stretching, though. Helps stay in tune when you bend a lot. Remove old strings, put new strings on, tune new strings up to pitch, stretch
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by wilsonnb 8y ago
I think the important part is community, not habit or ritual. Rituals are clearly one way to build community, but they often come attached to other baggage and I don't think they are necessarily the best way to build community.
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by wilsonnb 8y ago
I don't think many of the supposed benefits of fasting have been conclusively proven (as much as once can conclusively prove something in science, I mean) but there are some indications that it has a good effect on health. However, eve
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by wilsonnb 8y ago
I personally think that managing Chromebooks is at least a little easier than other computers, but I see your point that Windows isn't that much worse. There's something to be said for Chromebook specs, though. I still have a Sams
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I think it really depends on the type of side project. Trying to start a small business in your free time? Probably a lot of hours. I wouldn't be surprised to see people spending 20+ on the weekend for this. Trying to beef up your resu
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I don't really see how making them buy or use Chromebooks is more dystopian than compelling them to purchase or use anything else. That's just how standardization works, whether it's on the Office suite, a certain textbook, o
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by wilsonnb 8y ago
The second best selling video game of all time is Minecraft, which was hugely popular among children and probably still is. That game is basically a blank and boring canvas to paint on. Children with an interest in technology can purchase a
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We're going to need a lot of opossums then! I'd be curious to know how long the average life span of each tick is. I wonder exactly how many opossums I would need per square foot to ensure that my yard is 99.99% tick free.
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This is really cool. If your main focus is to teach people how to tune a guitar, you should consider mentioning that you always want to tune a sharp guitar string to slightly below the correct pitch and then tune it up. Any slack present in
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by wilsonnb 8y ago
I don't think LibreOffice has an equivalent to OneNote, and I use the desktop client for that a lot. Also, this might sound shallow to some, but the latest version of Office just looks a lot better than LibreOffice and I enjoy that.
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OS/2 warp was around as well. I never used it so I can't comment on how it compared to the other OS's. There just happens to be a boxed copy on a bunch of floppies staring at me from a shelf at work.
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by wilsonnb 8y ago
They're not all the way dead yet. Sublime text seems to be very transparent, in a 90's software sense. Pay some money, get some software, keep it forever. I'm sure there are other examples out there too. It does seem unlikely
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by wilsonnb 8y ago
I kind of agree with you on this, but I don't think Spotify is a good example. It's not like the 1995 equivalent of Spotify was free unless you were pirating all of your music. Uber and Netflix are similar in that they replace tax
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I agree that hypocrisy doesn't refute their argument but it does demonstrate that the author themselves either doesn't believe what they're writing or they have some other unknown reason for being hypocritical. Seeing as no
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by wilsonnb 8y ago
I did read the entire article. Most of it more than once as I went looking for quotes to include in my comment. I get that you weren't trying to say that we should switch from a modern OS to one from the 90's. You make that clear.
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by wilsonnb 8y ago
Encouraging a local opossum population, if they live in your area, would help. They eat a lot of ticks. Allegedly they eat 90% of the ticks that they encounter, which can be up to 5000 per opossum in a season.
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Make sure to not kill any opossums that you see too. Many people see them as pests but they eat a whole lot of ticks and while they can get lyme disease, their immune systems are pretty good at fighting it so it's not that common. They
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by wilsonnb 8y ago
>Windows 10 will be our best enterprise platform ever and will enable our enterprise customers to be more productive than ever before, simplifying management and deployment for IT and working seamlessly with existing enterprise apps. Quo
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I got the sense that the comment I was responding to was saying that we might accidentally discover or invent useful things as a byproduct of space travel research. For example, I believe memory foam was originally invented by NASA (or at l
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This is a ridiculous generalization. There are good designers and bad designers in the world. The fact that I have 20 apps pinned to my task bar in Windows that I find enjoyable to use on a daily basis is proof that some designers are capab

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