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by aasasd 4y ago
Turns out the gym and leather photos are simply not there on Aphyr's twitter anymore—there were a lot of them a while ago, but apparently run-ins with Twitter moderation didn't work out in their favor, and all that's left are
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by aasasd 4y ago
Ah! Somehow I completely missed that they're supposed to be fashion designers. Thanks. > top performing drag artists Well I guess then that to understand the appeal of ‘Drag Race’ I'll have to finally watch ‘Drag Race’.
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by aasasd 4y ago
Okay... thanks for the effort, at least. I've been meaning to get somewhat into early-ish burlesque, Brecht, that kind of thing. Maybe then I'll be able to watch drag shows with vague understanding.
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by aasasd 4y ago
Well apparently I need an AI to tell me what's ‘trolling’ on HN, because gym and leather don't mean ‘dumb flamewar’ to me. If mentions of gym and leather trigger HN's crowd, I don't see how that's my fault.
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by aasasd 4y ago
ŽIžek is a walking meme farm. I don't think you need an AI until you exhausted what the actual man says. “Slavoj Zizek Coca-Cola commercial (2014)” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiTy5-RC1-4 “Slavoj Zizek on the horro
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by aasasd 4y ago
There's this clip showing some experiments for the benefit of schoolchildren: https://reddit.com/comments/y2kjmi I'm guessing this is an ongoing thing, and since the clip popped up on Reddit it seems at least
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by aasasd 4y ago
Yep, I could see myself using PM just as a replacement for Gmail, since they have a semblance of a brand and reputation in this space—plus at least somewhat privacy-oriented attitude, which is more than many others got.
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by aasasd 4y ago
I'm pretty sure Proton didn't invent IMAP, and from the protocol log it seems like IMAP insists on the incrementing ids. Probably thanks to it having been designed in the late eighties and early nineties.
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by aasasd 4y ago
Presumably with a version using two languages.
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by aasasd 4y ago
Seems to be almost exactly what happened in one race, except the dude behind actually rode the wall: https://racingnews.co/2021/09/06/kyle-larson-attempts-nascar... (from another comment in this thread).
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by aasasd 4y ago
Wall riders are a perpetual bane in multiplayer races. Perhaps Forza and GT finally added measures against that, but among e.g. videos on the ‘Super GT’ simmer channel, you can see plenty of riders, especially in Forza Horizon.
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by aasasd 4y ago
A comment elsewhere in the thread explains the mechanism of why light background results in better eye focus: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33403128 Probably relevant with astigmatism, since tighter focus should at l
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by aasasd 4y ago
This site has a weird cookie consent dialog: > Match and combine offline data sources: always active > Link different devices: always active
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by aasasd 4y ago
I heard that astigmatism is the reason some people find reading white-on-black intolerable: the edges shift from their proper places, look doubled, this kind of stuff. Idk if astigmatism-correcting glasses fix the problem, as I'm not t
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by aasasd 4y ago
That's what I'm saying, in part. Mr. Moolenaar's reports on his own on-the-grounds activities are quite clear (from what I remember now, a bunch of years later), and the goal of ‘build some schools’ doesn't make me wonde
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by aasasd 4y ago
Gotta say, when I read about how Bram Moolenaar, the author and maintainer of Vim, works sometimes to build schools in remote areas of Uganda and encourages users to donate to that cause—not once did I question how that is helpful or what h
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by aasasd 4y ago
I don't think that after seventy years Pantone needs any help with being the standard in the industry.
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by aasasd 4y ago
I nearly fainted reading about how the dude whacked the disk to make the head unstick and then jiggled the head over the platter. One thing I learned in my tech initiation years is that head on the platter = death and woe. Also, judging fro
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by aasasd 4y ago
> It wouldn't even be legal to own or distribute anymore in the post-DMCA world. Meanwhile it would be explicitly legal in some European states, where people are allowed to make backup copies of software they buy, against anything
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by aasasd 4y ago
By the way: I semi-randomly landed again on the dontkillmyapp site, and it notes that killing background apps works differently on different phones—presumably first of all between various manufacturers, since they tend to modify Android som
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by aasasd 4y ago
I vaguely remember that `source` appeared in Bash at some version—presumably because it's clearer than the rather random `.`, and doesn't stand out among other built-ins for no good reason.
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by aasasd 4y ago
(I only now noticed the “as of year 2000” next to the ‘1114’—while the number 2161 is from 2019. So presumably the number of un-representable colors grew in the meanwhile, and might be about 650 now if the proportion is the same.) Also, per
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by aasasd 4y ago
Bummer that it's only on Windows. It's a casual game, while I spent plenty of time on my Macbook on rather more dedicated games. DirectX 11 is probably in the requirements simply because no one bothered to check with previous vers
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by aasasd 4y ago
Some version of the game was on Android—dunno about now. This was at the time when PS4 was vaguely new-ish.
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by aasasd 4y ago
The post on bite marks had plenty of comments ripping apart various other methods.
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by aasasd 4y ago
> converting from Pantone to regular RGB/CMYK is a lot more lossy than one would think From what I briefly read, a large chunk of Pantone doesn't even fit in CMYK: > About 30% of the Pantone system's 1114 spot colors
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by aasasd 4y ago
> even when it's only about surface style There's such thing as respect for the viewer. Idk about Curtis, but the grossly manipulative style of popular political documentaries doesn't show that respect. I also don't
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by aasasd 4y ago
> The release of Pandora's Box (1992) marked the introduction of Curtis's distinctive presentation that uses collage to explore aspects of sociology, psychology, philosophy and political history. His style has been described a
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by aasasd 4y ago
I would finally be able to download all the Assetto Corsa and rFactor mods I want, and seed those things where there's just me and a couple other dudes so bailing feels bad—with still some storage left for peace of the mind.
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by aasasd 4y ago
For some reason the make and model of those disks is absent from your comment, must've been lost in the wires.

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