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by zomg 2y ago
just like people like to talk about themselves, i think people want the satisfaction of knowing that someone acted on their advice. one time i gave a friend some advice and he did the exact opposite. oh, the satisfaction! xD
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by zomg 2y ago
one of the purported justifications for the shot spotter system is that, in cities where gun violence is prevalent, people don't call the police when shots are heard.
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by zomg 2y ago
my absolute favorite irc client. screen+irssi ftw. bitchx was also very popular, too. ah, memories.
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by zomg 2y ago
the robotic surgical space is an extremely difficult market to break into. for laparoscopic procedures, intuitive surgical is generations ahead of their nearest competitor. they maintain market leadership by possessing massive amounts of in
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by zomg 2y ago
jfc with all these issues with boeing. it's fine. everything is fine. :x
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by zomg 2y ago
i remember when we used to call this malware... :x
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by zomg 2y ago
source?
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by zomg 2y ago
i'm an executive for a large medical device commercialization consultancy. we do it all from pure r&d, development/engineering, software/firmware (including SaMD), quality/regulatory, commercial strategy, preclinical
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by zomg 3y ago
i know how it feels! have you ever tried to get rusty caliper carriers off of an old volkswagen?! ;) but seriously, they don't provide much detail on these "fasteners", but it sounds like they reinvented the wheel to seal thi
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by zomg 3y ago
i can't wrap my mind around how this was legitimately considered normal in their society. so fascinating.
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by zomg 3y ago
i'm not a huge fast food eater, however my biggest complaint is what these "modernized" stores now look like. the mcdonald's near my home was recently "modernized". it went from a traditional, fun-looking red&#
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by zomg 3y ago
total bummer. i had contributed a bunch of great convos over the years. is there a mirror?
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by zomg 3y ago
Thanks for posting this. I was wondering why my garage door stopped working with Home Assistant. Infuriating!
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by zomg 3y ago
@fieldcny -- i <3 this comment. wish i could upvote it a million times! ;D
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by zomg 3y ago
interestingly, we have a pair of gray rescue littermates who were bonded for ~4 years until we got a third cat (make purebred maine coon) who seemingly broke that bond. to this day, they get along, but everyone needs to keep their space or
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by zomg 3y ago
i've been using sonicare toothbrushes for 10+ years and the only difference i have noticed with the "smart" version is horrific battery life. amazing innovation! :\
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by zomg 3y ago
a very nice, open source, app that provides similar functionality but also shows open files is Sloth ( https://sveinbjorn.org/sloth ).
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by zomg 3y ago
whenever I see AI generated videos it feel like i'm watching a dream but i'm awake. it's a very bizarre sensation. anyone else?
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by zomg 3y ago
> Good jobs are difficult to come by if you don't have a college degree. what awful logic. this is exactly what's wrong with america. we've been taught this exact sentiment and it will be our demise. so, what if every coll
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by zomg 3y ago
I literally busted out laughing! We've been waiting all these years and... we missed it?!? xD
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by zomg 4y ago
I also found it entirely implausible that this was a "training exercise", conducted at a civilian-occupied hotel in a major city. The real question is: What were the FBI really doing/looking for in that hotel? And, so what&
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The Dogs of Chernobyl(science.org)
166 points by zomg 4y ago|49 comments
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by zomg 4y ago
you can run pi-hole in a docker container on truenas.
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by zomg 4y ago
whenever i see articles related to the high cost of tuition, i always take a moment to point out that this phenomena is largely government-driven, with the rest of the blame being societal. only until the government stops lending tuition mo
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by zomg 4y ago
it's too bad a once great company like rackspace had such a sad, dramatic fall from grace. i was a customer of webmail.us, which was bought by rackspace in 2007 or so. i waited for things to go downhill, but the integration was seamles
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by zomg 4y ago
i work in the medical device industry and am very familiar with preclinical (animal) research. my problem with this article is the inference that the animals COULD have survived if the studies were not rushed. the reality is that these anim
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by zomg 4y ago
if i had the technical chops, i'd create a parody site called LinkedOut. LI is so pathetic. :x
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by zomg 4y ago
i jumped out of TSLA earlier this year because i was tired of the volatility cause by nothing more than public comments elon would make. it was very frustrating.
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by zomg 4y ago
we had an easter egg in a web app i was the PM for. you could access the "pirate" translation by going to oursite.com/pirate/login, versus oursite.com/en/login (or any other language). the easter egg is over a
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by zomg 4y ago
you're the real hero, thank you!

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