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by InitialLastName 1mo ago
My watch (Garmin VivoActive 4) lasts ~1 week. The charger is one less thing I have to: - keep on my nightstand - take with me if I go away for a few days It wouldn't be the worst thing to build charging it into my daily routine, but i
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by InitialLastName 1mo ago
Not just ethnic groups. Schools mostly can't say "we only want rich people" but they definitely want to prefer students who will contribute to the donation revenue stream either themselves or through their parents. Signals l
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by InitialLastName 1mo ago
> Drug users don't seem to be overly preoccupied with what drug they use. What? In the case of opiates (which is the most significant drug problem we have at the moment), users are often physically addicted to a specific substance a
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by InitialLastName 1mo ago
In the US, we usually refer to "paying someone to borrow a car" as a car "rental" and "borrowing money to finance a car purchase" as a car "loan".
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by InitialLastName 1mo ago
Since TFA can't be bothered, here's the text of the actual bill: https://my.ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus/FullText?GAID=18&...
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by InitialLastName 1mo ago
Lettuce has a shelf-life of ~4 weeks from harvest, the parasite can incubate for ~2 weeks from consumption, and it may take a week or two for the infected person to see a doctor, get positive test results, and have those results reported to
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by InitialLastName 2mo ago
This [0] was a pretty big deal in the audio electronics industry. [0] https://www.audioholics.com/news/fire-destroys-akm-audio-chi...
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by InitialLastName 2mo ago
In addition to the direct interview, there are other advantages of authorization that often allow the author a much deeper access to research the subject: - Access to records, correspondence, and journals in the subject's possession -
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by InitialLastName 2mo ago
> David will always, in the long run, win against Goliath. Every Goliath may, in the long run, meet a David that beats it, but this premise ignores all the thousands of Davids that don't win.
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by InitialLastName 2mo ago
That would be hell on everybody's box-cutters (and fingers). I already cut myself too often on shipping boxes.
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by InitialLastName 3mo ago
I did that for a long time. It works, but it's very difficult to match the ease of using a console: - Steam's Big Picture mode works, but there are lots of sharp edges (launcher support being the biggest). - PC versions of games
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by InitialLastName 3mo ago
Young people often have low expenses, few external demands on their time, and poor living conditions. If they are smart, motivated and lucky they can sometimes take advantage of that situation to do extraordinary work. Note that a growing
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by InitialLastName 3mo ago
I wonder how much of that is selection bias? In my (admittedly limited) experiences around the labor and delivery process, c-sections were (apart from when requested) advised for high-risk pregnancies and as a recourse for something having
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by InitialLastName 3mo ago
Note that the power estimate for the build above is only 325W. The power supply is beefier than that for headroom and economics. It wouldn't be surprising if Valve's efforts at integrating the unit (putting the relevant chips on
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by InitialLastName 3mo ago
I just did one [0], mostly with regards only to specs and price (rather than quality). It comes out to $150 more, roughly 4X the volume, and about 3 hours more of my time in effort, all to get something that won't be as well-supported
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by InitialLastName 3mo ago
To be fair, GP said that FIFA is corrupt, not that FIFA is either profit-maximizing nor out to light the goose that lays the golden egg on fire. I know it's hard to imagine in the US, what with our quarterly-profit-maximizing corruptio
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by InitialLastName 3mo ago
What I don't understand is why search is so broken. If I do a search of my inbox with a lot of results, it gets lazy-loaded. Fair enough. But why, when I scroll to the bottom and it loads the new batch of email, does the view need to
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by InitialLastName 3mo ago
That and a way to recursively commit/push (i.e. make a change within a submodule, commit in one step with the same message in the parent submodule). Right now, if you want to push a change to a file in a submodule such that it propagat
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by InitialLastName 3mo ago
He's had more than 2 decades to reject that opportunity.
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by InitialLastName 3mo ago
I buy the argument that a functioning democracy requires the populace to believe that the government is honest, competent, and working in their interests. Watergate, Iran-Contra, and the Vietnam war (respectively) undermined those notions.
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by InitialLastName 3mo ago
No more of a horrible liability than a human writing public-facing copy.
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by InitialLastName 4mo ago
> Seveneves Seveneves had a conclusion, and then an extra book...
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by InitialLastName 4mo ago
> And now let's talk about the epidemic of cancer in the Trump administration.... Two out of a large administration, from a cohort especially prone to cancer diagnosis: - Older (the baseline incidence rate for cancer in people over
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by InitialLastName 4mo ago
If you only care about the sound, according to a single youtuber. Other things one might care about: - Ergonomics: weight, balance, shape of the neck & body, finishes all affect the feel of playing the guitar - Build quality: Reliabilit
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by InitialLastName 4mo ago
To expand, the various governments running Paris had a big issue in the early and mid- 19th century with urban insurrections being able to hamper military movement by setting up barricades across streets. There are multiple revolutions and
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by InitialLastName 4mo ago
Side benefit: Your kids grow up seeing you build habits that keep you healthy long-term. Eventually, they get involved and that helps them learn self-care skills. Plus, going for a walk/run in the stroller with Dad has to be developm
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by InitialLastName 4mo ago
Non-related? The article is about institutional actions under authoritarianism and the holocaust is the bureaucratic apex of the most studied authoritarian regime in history. TFA mentions Hannah Arendt in the introduction and discusses the
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by InitialLastName 4mo ago
In lots of places that get very cold, even if the heat source is combustion, electricity is still used for ignition, control and distribution through the house.
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by InitialLastName 4mo ago
Do you know if there has been any progress on conical-bore brass? From what I recall (I did some graduate work in instrument modeling in the late 2000s) reed instruments could be modeled convincingly, but the feedback oscillator with the l
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by InitialLastName 5mo ago
I work in hardware manufacturing. Our PCBs have QR codes both on the silkscreen and on stickers, but they don't encode websites. Rather, they are part numbers and serial/lot numbers for traceability and to assist manufacturing&#

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