OmIsMyShield

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by OmIsMyShield 8y ago
South Africa is another antipodean country where pencil means Staedtler in black & red
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by OmIsMyShield 8y ago
Not the parent - but I think it's because it can be seen as too subjective and too open for debate. Like: Oh, so one person opines that x, y, and z are not for them, let's debate it (or outright dismiss it). And the resultant de
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by OmIsMyShield 8y ago
I too struggle very often with the pause and the recognition of emotion before acting on it. Something that has been somewhat helpful to me is a meditation method called mental noting. Please note no method will work for everyone but in c
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by OmIsMyShield 8y ago
I read it as how culturally distinctive her evaluation of a romantic partner is: a) She actually had a list of the desired / required traits of romantic partners on hand. b) Desired traits include morning prayer. c) Said traits also se
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by OmIsMyShield 8y ago
Not minimizing the horror - but the _What if it was your city_ maps drew circles that were somehow quite a bit smaller than I imagined. Maybe it's precisely because it's so horrific that it loomed larger than life in my head, who
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by OmIsMyShield 8y ago
Protecting underage members of society from potentially harmful substances that they are unlikely to consume in moderation is hardly dystopian; it is in fact a key responsibility of a well-functioning state. Alcohol is also banned at school
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by OmIsMyShield 8y ago
Yup my PC was... what's the polite phrasing? Let's say "not envied by my peers". A hunk o' junk, in other words.
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by OmIsMyShield 8y ago
Ha! Likewise. I borrowed money from my grandmother to buy a soundblaster II if I remember correctly. I also remember that I got home, it didn't work, turns out I had insufficient RAM, had to upgrade to 1MB, and fiddle with EMM386 in so
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by OmIsMyShield 8y ago
I fiddled with your version and changed the colours to a heatmap-like colour scheme adapted from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12875486/what-is-the-alg... This shows the pattern again: https://imgu
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by OmIsMyShield 8y ago
Wow - not the sense I got from the series. I'll attempt the books, thanks :)
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by OmIsMyShield 8y ago
I really like Inspector Morse, too :) Did you watch Lewis? I enjoyed that. Babylon Berlin is also one of those things that are particularly relevant at the moment as there are lots of parallels between the collapse of the Weimar Republic an
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by OmIsMyShield 8y ago
It just wasn't for me. Space Sci-fi TV: I think the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica was great. Non sci-fi: I think Babylon Berlin is good. I only watched the first series of The Expanse. It's very subjective - if you enjoyed it t
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by OmIsMyShield 8y ago
Sorry I replied to the wrong parent - my comment is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17059310
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by OmIsMyShield 8y ago
Sure, I'll try. I can obviously only speak from my own perspective, though one or two things were echoed in discussions with friends. Disclaimer: I only watched the first series, and I know most people actually like the show. Subjectiv
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by OmIsMyShield 8y ago
I would argue quite the opposite, based on anecdata, so take it with a good measure of salt, but: I know quite a few non-tech types who used The Expanse as an example of "why I don't watch space crap". The quality (from a nar
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by OmIsMyShield 8y ago
I would love to get into this, and I'm sure I'm not alone. Any specific beginner-friendly resources that you would recommend? I thought of starting with something small and defined, like upgrading my TV's sound but even tha
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by OmIsMyShield 9y ago
> Even the best manager can't help somebody who is unwilling to help themselves. I just want to point out that that is a lot of assumption based on the limited (probably paraphrased) context we have here.
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by OmIsMyShield 9y ago
In the comments of the article the author mentions that the process took him 4 to 5 weeks... don't know if the time frame will change your perspective, it did for me (thought it was much longer from the tone of the article).
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by OmIsMyShield 9y ago
Not directly on topic - but I was a hobbyist silversmith as a teenager. I learnt many of my skills from a stern old German bloke at the silversmithing club. He liked to say "Gutes Werkzeug ist die halbe Arbeit" (or sometimes: &quo
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by OmIsMyShield 9y ago
South Africa is fascinating - contrasting bad news and great innovation. Although there have been setbacks from recent government shenanigans the wheels of law are turning (albeit slowly) and the ruling Zuma faction is daily facing more a
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by OmIsMyShield 10y ago
Yes - UN member countries generally use ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organisation) standards. There are some country-specific weird things, though. You can read the ICAO Radiotelephony Guide[1], should you be interested. Searching for
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by OmIsMyShield 10y ago
When I did my PPL one of the instructors gave us a CD full of recordings that we could listen to to train our ear for it. Matching that to transcripts helped - and it also helps once you know the lingo, since it's mostly a limited set
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by OmIsMyShield 12y ago
Part of the reason might be that (here in South Africa, at least) IUDs are generally not advised for use on nulligravid women. The reason quoted to my partner - there might be other reasons - was that the physical changes of the cervix that
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by OmIsMyShield 13y ago
I applaud this - but it feels a bit like treating the symptom, a cause being regulation that helped create an oligopoly.
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by OmIsMyShield 13y ago
Guess the old "change the system from within"-mantra doesn't fly too well with everyone.
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by OmIsMyShield 13y ago
Slightly more subtle - TL;DR: news does nothing to cure you of ignorance, so avoid the aggravation of news
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by OmIsMyShield 14y ago
I think part of what the author sees as problematic is the loose definition of what "natural" means - to use your herbalism example, some people consider herbs to be automatically better than {mainstream_treatment_x} just because it is "nat
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Apple's smallest mistake(alanknottcraig.co.za)
5 points by OmIsMyShield 14y ago|5 comments
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by OmIsMyShield 14y ago
> Most of the rejections were due to problems with your app Agree, and the article seems to acknowledge this. Seems that the feedback wasn't detailed enough, though. I'd be interested to know if you found the feedback to be better, and
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by OmIsMyShield 14y ago
The documentation point is important - it's been used in so many projects that a lot of weird fringe cases occurring in only the most bizarre setups have been documented. There is a lot of value in that, and it takes time to build a similar

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