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The first British person in space(bbc.com)
107 points by xoxxala 4mo ago|59 comments
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by xoxxala 5mo ago
When I say something inappropriate on the phone or over Discord, I always tell the NSA guy listening it was a joke.
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by xoxxala 5mo ago
That was an excellent read for explaining why space isn’t just hard, but expensive.
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by xoxxala 5mo ago
I've seen Magic the Gathering fakes that are higher quality than the real cards.
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by xoxxala 5mo ago
The Jaguar catalog was mostly meh, but there were a few gems that I really enjoyed (Aliens vs Predator, Doom, Wolf 3d, Iron Soldier, and Tempest 2000). AvP alone was worth the price of the system. I was a proud Turbo DUO owner. It had some
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by xoxxala 5mo ago
I design boardgames and it's easy to write a lot of rules. It's more difficult to write concise rules. Most of my time is spent editing rules to their absolute minimum. "I have made this letter longer than usual, only because
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Over 200 Japanese firms have paid ransomware attackers; 60% fail to recover data(japantoday.com)
1 points by xoxxala 5mo ago|0 comments
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by xoxxala 5mo ago
The website has some more info on the biometric vs. password debate and legal situation: https://paniclock.github.io/
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by xoxxala 6mo ago
> Also Bambu the company mostly is fine, but there's some worry that they'll eventually lock people into using only their filament, but doesn't seem to have happened yet. So buyer beware. I'm not sure how Bambu could
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by xoxxala 6mo ago
I'm reading this article and Weird Al's Don't Download this Song pops up on random play. Did Microsoft add Copilot to Media Player or something? "Don't download this song (Don't do it, no, no) Even Lars Ulric
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by xoxxala 6mo ago
I don't need anything more than a simple text editor. Notepad worked fine for a long time, but the bloat is real. I tried a bunch of replacement editors, but none really scratched that Notepad itch. Surprisingly, I'm now a fan of
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by xoxxala 6mo ago
There's a saying in poker that if you sit down at the table and can't immediately find the donkey(1), you are the donkey. At some point, anyone playing around in a prediction without insider info will be the donkey. 1: https:&#
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by xoxxala 6mo ago
I had no idea such a thing existed until this post a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47631515
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by xoxxala 6mo ago
Very neat project and an extremely enjoyable read.
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by xoxxala 6mo ago
Or they were removed for other reasons than security. In Star Trek: 25th Anniversary , we had a hidden animation of Captain Kirk's toupee jumping off his head and running out of the room. It was caught before release and they made us
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by xoxxala 6mo ago
https://www.firefox.com/
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by xoxxala 6mo ago
Yeah, my wife and I saw it earlier this week. I thought it was an excellent adaptation of a very good book. My wife, who hasn’t read the book, didn’t like it and took a nap. (I think that’s a pretty minority position for most people who hav
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by xoxxala 6mo ago
My very first hard drive was for an Apple //gs. It was the size of a shoebox and was a whopping 5 megabytes. I was an Egghead employee at the time and after my employee discount, it was something like $600-$700.
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by xoxxala 6mo ago
They are very short range RFID tags that contain no personal information, just an ID number. They don’t make good tracking devices. Some owners do use GPS trackers or AirTag like devices.
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by xoxxala 6mo ago
“It’s not the dog, it’s the owner.” There is a self-selecting bias with pit bulls. People who buy and raise pit bulls often want a “mean” “tough” dog, so that’s what they get. You get a loving sweet pit bull if you raise them in a loving sw
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by xoxxala 6mo ago
Technology Connections did this with an EV battery charger: https://youtu.be/INZybkX8tLI
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by xoxxala 6mo ago
Nope, an AI probably would have written a better comment. I misunderstood the link. Tinnitus has been getting worse, so this subject has literally been on my mind lately.
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by xoxxala 6mo ago
Oh, thank you for posting this. Just ran the Terminal command and it’s a vast improvement.
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by xoxxala 6mo ago
Playing music while sleeping helps my tinnitus, which helps me sleep, which helps my brain garbage collect. So, in my case at least, the answer is yes.
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by xoxxala 6mo ago
I cannot recommend Transmetropolitan enough. It should be required reading.
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by xoxxala 6mo ago
Dogs can see some colors, but not as many as humans. They have dichromatic vision, and see shades of gray, brown, yellow and blue. Red and green are particularly bad colors for them. We get blue tennis balls for our pups instead of green; b
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Sony is testing dynamic pricing in the PlayStation Store(psprices.com)
3 points by xoxxala 7mo ago|0 comments
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Gamers furious as Brit studio Cloud Imperium admits to data breach(theregister.com)
3 points by xoxxala 7mo ago|0 comments
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by xoxxala 7mo ago
Tape?! Tape is sooo 2016. I 3d printed a flap for my webcam.
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by xoxxala 7mo ago
When my mom was a firefighter, and a car was blocking a hydrant, she happily broke windows and pushed the hose right through the car. Didn't happen a lot, but did happen more than once.

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