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by xnyan 2y ago
I was once blindfolded for a team activity and led from a small hallway to an empty basketball gymnasium. With no training or prior awareness, I could instantly tell not only that I was in a gymnasium, but also (very) approximately how far
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by xnyan 2y ago
I'm having to deal with increasingly pushy ads from Apple. Banner notifications with ads for their tv, news, game and music services, as well as fake alerts in the settings app that say some bullshit like "Setup required - signup
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by xnyan 2y ago
From the article: > Over the next 25 years, Del Pizzo became an experienced combat pilot with more than 2,800 hours in the cockpit, 32 hours of which were in the F-35B. It's the other way around, he has relatively little experience
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by xnyan 2y ago
People using Windows generally are not actively choosing between windows and macos, it’s assigned to them or they have software that only runs on windows.
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by xnyan 2y ago
> all of our tax dollars to NATO Total US spending on all defense, not just NATO, is ~$900 billion or ~13-14% of federal spending. NATO has a total annual budget of less than $4 billion and we cover something like 15% of that budget, le
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by xnyan 2y ago
It's ok to downvote without comment if someone is not following the posted rules: Please "respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says" Your response included the statement: "The left wants to c
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by xnyan 2y ago
I have tons that solve small annoyances or paper over things I forget. As an example, I listen to an audiobook in audible many nights to sleep, but I often forget to set the sleep timer. Very annoying to have to scrub back hours to find the
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by xnyan 2y ago
Kicking the door in is surprisingly easy in the US where most doors are framed in soft pine, if that does not work an angle grinder and a sufficient supply of discs can (eventually) cut through anything.
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by xnyan 2y ago
I'm no longer a mormon, and yes looking back I do think the treatment was culty.
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by xnyan 2y ago
I was raised mormon and did my mormon mission 2007-2009 in Ukraine. We were not allowed to call anyone outside our family on christmas and mothers day, and we were limited to 1 hour a week for email, family only. We were allowed to write ha
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by xnyan 2y ago
> I still think there are better options for pub/sub and message queues, esp. if you need to failover on the consumer side. Sincerely, what are these options?
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by xnyan 2y ago
This seems like an extremely broad statement. You probably don't think all use of force is authoritarian, or not allowing any and all protocols to be used on the internet is force. Maybe, but not necessarily. Why specifically would ret
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by xnyan 2y ago
> The consumers are not expected to need a public address where they can be reached - having a public address is actually a security and privacy risk. 100% of consumer routers and OS level firewalls deny new inbound connections by defaul
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by xnyan 2y ago
>For an assignment completed at home, on a student's device using software of a student's choosing, there can essentially be no proof According to an undergraduate student who babysits for our child, some students are literally
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by xnyan 2y ago
Two hose is better but not perfect. The problem is the compressor body is still inside and shedding some of it's heat inside the cooling area. If your need is temporary, the inefficiency is acceptable - otherwise go with a mini split.
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by xnyan 2y ago
NA is (or at least was when I played) the most populated and visible regional zone, and attracts a lot of players attempting various kinds of rank manipulation. On the one hand you have smurfing, which is the practice of a relatively high s
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by xnyan 2y ago
Are the Israeli civilians killed October 7th also collateral damage?
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by xnyan 2y ago
>The Israelis blew up pagers belonging to members of a known terrorist organization. And the people who happened to be next to them when they went off?
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by xnyan 2y ago
>Any children who are old enough to be able to wash their teeth by themselves should be old enough to know what may be eaten and what must not be eaten. My experience has been the opposite, it’s very common for kids to try to eat everyt
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by xnyan 2y ago
The (biggest) problem that keeps airships from practical use is that they are huge sails. Big sails mean even small amounts of wind can be powerful forces acting on the airship. In the air a big push from the wind might be safely managed, b
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by xnyan 2y ago
Trade quotes include opportunity cost. Driving to your house and doing the 30 minute job could easily eat 1/4 or more of their daily billable hours depending on travel time and schedule inefficiency. Opportunity costs can vary widely d
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by xnyan 2y ago
Out of curiosity, does Dev Drive do anything for you? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-drive/
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by xnyan 2y ago
SAML is an unfortunate a necessity in most enterprise environments. There’s almost always something, usually more than one, where SAML is the only option. I do think in 2024, everyone should also offer SAML alternatives in parallel .
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by xnyan 2y ago
>It's completely normal even among working class to own a summer house by a lake. Just want to understand, by normal do you mean less than 1/5 Finnish households? Going by the source below, I don't know if I'm missing
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by xnyan 2y ago
I've never seen a single timeshare that makes sense in terms of cost to value ratio. There's always a more flexible/cheaper/profitable way to do whatever it is you're trying to do than a timeshare, unless of course
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by xnyan 2y ago
I think the prizes I've seen are generally in the range of $300-600 cash value. To get it you have to sit through the hardest and most annoying sales pitch imaginable. I did it once. I was never tempted even slightly to buy their scam,
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by xnyan 2y ago
CNC drill removal is safe and can be done consistently by a machine with consistent predictable results.
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by xnyan 2y ago
I recently implemented something for a use case similar to what they described. To make something like that work robustly is actually quite a bit more effort than playwright script with a bit of error checking. I have not tried the product
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by xnyan 2y ago
I think there's some misunderstanding? Sometimes parsing HTML is the best way to get what you need, however there are many situations where one must use something like playwright to get the HTML in the first place (for example, the htm
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by xnyan 2y ago
It's hard to explain in a comment, but I started off very skeptical of "skinned chromes" like vivaldi, brave, etc before trying and loving arc. In short, I love it's general UI paradigm and it's customizability. In

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