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by astronads 1mo ago
Informative article about how padding bras positively impacts aerodynamics for cyclists. The relentless pursuit for optimization and the evolving rules for the sport is an interesting dynamic.
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Is 'bra doping' a thing at the Tour de France Femmes?(cyclingmagazine.ca)
1 points by astronads 1mo ago|1 comments
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by astronads 3mo ago
It’s a shame because the mediocre hardware specs lend itself to a cheaper companion device for people who already have a vast steam library and a powerful gaming PC. I would have impulse bought this for $750 to play my backlog of indie game
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by astronads 9mo ago
Yeah, the machine elves rabbit hole is interesting for sure. I hope a lot more rigorous science delves into both mushrooms and DMT
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by astronads 9mo ago
It is interesting how the hallucinations consistently represent tiny people/elves to the mushroom consumer, even across geography/culture. I wonder what the brain is doing…
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Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations(nhmu.utah.edu)
494 points by astronads 9mo ago|320 comments
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by astronads 10mo ago
The solution is home assistant [0] it lets you manage and control all kinds of smart devices with a lot of customizable, hackable things. And it runs locally, so if you buy the right types of devices that don’t phone home to the cloud (or y
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by astronads 11mo ago
This guy is a little annoying in the intro but this is a genuinely informative and in depth look at how different sound quality was in this earlier computing era based on your sound card hardware. You’ll likely learn something, I know I did
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How Old DOS games actually sounded (if you had money)(youtube.com)
1 points by astronads 11mo ago|1 comments
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by astronads 1y ago
No paywall: https://archive.is/xrhez
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The Airship Club That Might Never Have Existed (2013)(theatlantic.com)
4 points by astronads 1y ago|1 comments
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by astronads 1y ago
Anyone out there still playing MUDs? Any good ones to recommend?
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The Two Towers MUD(t2tmud.org)
156 points by astronads 1y ago|111 comments
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by astronads 1y ago
Plenty of people would greatly appreciate charging times much quicker than 20 mins. People without large families taking long breaks, apartment dwellers, etc. would
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Super Nintendo Architecture – A Practical Analysis(copetti.org)
6 points by astronads 1y ago|0 comments
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by astronads 2y ago
You’re making some assumptions here and I suggest you broaden your mindset a bit. First of all, at least according to testimony under oath, they are not avoiding detection and there is a plethora of high resolution imagery and sensor data,
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by astronads 2y ago
A ton of people live in flats, apartments, condos and other shared housing that do not provide home charging capabilities. Just because it’s not a big deal for you and your situation doesn’t mean it’s the same for everyone else.
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by astronads 2y ago
Please share more about this!
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by astronads 3y ago
The downside, other than the obvious maintenance/reliability concerns of an aging vehicle is safety. Modern cars are much safer in crashes than 20+ year old cars. [0] What sucks though is that basically every modern vehicle egregiously
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by astronads 3y ago
This is good and realistic advice. Companies exist to make profit and returns for their investors/shareholders and ultimately they will do what this necessary to make that happen. Layoffs are just another (unfortunate) business transac
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by astronads 3y ago
Of note, they have streamlined and consolidated their policies around this to make it easier for streamers to know what’s allowed and disallowed. Streams marked with certain labels will not show up on the home page, but with the new policy
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Twitch has updated their policy to loosen their stance on sexual content(safety.twitch.tv)
15 points by astronads 3y ago|3 comments
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by astronads 3y ago
There’s evidence that constant unwanted noise can negatively impact our health: https://archive.ph/5mvYQ (nytimes) I don’t mind visiting cities, but I certainly would never live in one.
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by astronads 3y ago
They don’t have an inherent right to exist or be profitable. If the EU agrees this violates GDPR then they will have to adapt or die.
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by astronads 3y ago
And it costs more than the amount of revenue my viewing of ads generate them.
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by astronads 3y ago
I don’t believe anything one way or the other, but the whistleblower who testified under oath to congress and prompted this legislation (among other whistleblowers still anonymous) he mentions non human intelligence and bodies. His name is
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by astronads 3y ago
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/senators-move-require-relea... https://thedebrief.org/the-uap-disclosure-act-of-2023-what-w... There will be a public congressional hearing on this aired within th
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by astronads 3y ago
Apparently from inspecting the Reddit app APK, they are planning to allow rewarding contributors monetarily (probably with crypto) https://www.androidauthority.com/reddit-contributor-program-... This will likely turn Reddit
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by astronads 3y ago
I found it interesting to see how (mis)translation and biased researchers were able to put forth a false narrative, and for decades thereafter many took it at face value and continued to share the faulty information. It wasn’t a topic I was
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Ancient astronaut theorists faked a Hindu nuclear explosion (2013)(jasoncolavito.com)
90 points by astronads 3y ago|25 comments

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