austinprete

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by austinprete 2y ago
Seconded! Also, Adventure Time and its spin-offs are fantastic and deeply weird at times. Over the Garden Wall is another one.
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by austinprete 2y ago
Well, presumably he isn’t drunk after polishing off a few cartridges in a sitting.
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TikTok says it is restoring service in US(reuters.com)
16 points by austinprete 2y ago|7 comments
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by austinprete 2y ago
Hmm, which one do more doctors use?
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by austinprete 2y ago
The documentary “Jodorowsky’s Dune” presents a fairly strong argument that the “Dune bible” that was assembled for that movie and shopped around to production studios strongly influenced many of the great sci-fi films (or at least iconic sc
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by austinprete 3y ago
> Says the person with 120k fake points on a social media site. Wouldn’t that make GP even better qualified to comment on the harms of social media use? :p I certainly wouldn’t say that a pack-a-day smoker with lung cancer isn’t qualifie
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by austinprete 3y ago
Huh, surprised by this because the Hue app runs great for me, don’t think I’ve ever seen it lag as a daily user for a couple years. Honestly kind of blown away but how well it (and the Hue platform as a whole) works coming from a company th
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by austinprete 3y ago
If we’re all automatons, there’s no _point_ in prison, but it also doesn’t matter. It’s just something we (automatically) place certain people in so they don’t (automatically) perform actions that society as a whole (automatically) disagree
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by austinprete 3y ago
The author disagrees (and used “au revoir” accordingly): > Free-floating e-scooters have been around all of five years. Nothing has replaced them. Unlike the horses, I can't help feeling that at some point they'll be back.
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by austinprete 3y ago
Since I haven't seen mention of it yet, let me recommend one of his (seemingly) lesser known works: The Sunset Limited. It's a play of 2 characters and 1 setting, and has an (IMO very good) HBO adaption starring Samuel L. Jackson
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by austinprete 3y ago
Not really sure what this means. There certainly aren’t 4K assets included in Switch games, which run at max 1080p resolution normally. I know many games do drop frame rate at 1080p docked vs the 720p built-in display… so is this just getti
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Hollywood Writers Approve of Strike as Shutdown Looms(nytimes.com)
2 points by austinprete 3y ago|0 comments
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by austinprete 3y ago
There’s also the concept of anesthesia awareness [1], which does apply to general anesthesia. [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anesthesia_awareness
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by austinprete 4y ago
The press-release [1] title that this mostly just rehashes is “Lockheed Martin Achieves First Light In Latest Laser Lab Demonstration”. After reading the linked article I couldn’t for the life of me figure out how “first _flight_” was an ac
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by austinprete 4y ago
I’ve been curious about this as well, turns out these ads are classified by the FDA as “reminder ads” and aren’t legally required to list any risks since they don’t list uses [0]. Presumably great for reinforcing positive associations aroun
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by austinprete 4y ago
Did the same search about a year ago, ended up ordering the CLP-775 after testing Kawai and Yamaha in stores. It _finally_ arrived last month, completely love it so far. On the somewhat cheaper side the 745 also felt great in store. I don’t
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by austinprete 4y ago
1080p is 1920x1080 ~= 2.1m pixels versus 1280x720 = 921,600 . So a little less than half but definitely not a quarter. And neither dimension is actually halved.
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by austinprete 4y ago
I’m confused about your edit. Taking the numbers from @gduffy you end up with (4.5 to 7.0) * 10lb = 45 to 70 Calories. So more like a half mile run for most people. Unless I’m missing something?
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by austinprete 4y ago
From the article: > While fragile and brittle, they are also sharp. As tiny pieces of glass, they can become lodged in human skin and much worse, eyes. Caution around the fibers is necessary to avoid injury from the slivers.
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by austinprete 4y ago
Damn. Consider myself pretty into sound but have never heard COTS and Googling was less than successful :(
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by austinprete 4y ago
Highly recommend the episode about him from Mike Judge’s Tales from the Tour Bus. A lot of overlap with the Rolling Stone article but a little more dynamic!
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by austinprete 4y ago
Tidal Cycles! https://tidalcycles.org/ As layer8 mentioned, it is technically Haskell but more specifically a DSL and environment for live coding music. Pretty fun to play around with!
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by austinprete 4y ago
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make things cheap —- Leonard Cohen
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by austinprete 4y ago
20th Century is actually owned by Disney now though (as of 2019), so the link back to Murdoch ends there.
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by austinprete 4y ago
Interestingly enough the president of Nintendo of America is Doug Bowser. So this case is basically Bowser v. Bowser
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by austinprete 4y ago
Probably implied, but I’m assuming this requires relocating to Baltimore?
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by austinprete 5y ago
Wait where did that “original bet was from 2003” fact come from? Atwood’s post doesn’t mention 2003 at all, and looking at Carmack’s twitter thread didn’t bring anything up for me either.
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by austinprete 5y ago
From Peloton’s point of view (bottom line yadda yadda), you’d have to think that dropping to this price would 20X their subscriber count. Which is not to say that $40 is the correct profit maxima, but it almost certainly isn’t $2. Just beca
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The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience(unrealengine.com)
3 points by austinprete 5y ago|0 comments
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Surgeon General Warns of Youth Mental Health Crisis(nytimes.com)
19 points by austinprete 5y ago|5 comments

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