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by bashinator 3y ago
<3 B&H. Finding them was a breath of fresh air given how garbage Newegg has become.
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by bashinator 3y ago
The most amazing thing I experienced during the last annular eclipse was the thousands of crescent-shaped shadows from wherever a pinpoint of light shone through, say a pair of tree leaves. It was legit astonishing; literally every surface
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by bashinator 3y ago
Because the same movie doesn't flood the market with hundreds of different names. Similarly, the content of a movie doesn't change from year-to-year while the name stays the same.
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by bashinator 3y ago
I bought a 3060 Ti in late 2019 :-D. About as well-timed a purchase as I've ever made.
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by bashinator 3y ago
So true. Thank goodness for Microcenter and B&H. Especially the latter still has a hand-curated product selection.
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by bashinator 3y ago
I always thought both of those books would make excellent graphic novel or anime adaptations.
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by bashinator 3y ago
Yikes, talk about normalizing violence in political discourse.
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by bashinator 3y ago
It's also a bit different from learning to play music in that almost everyone appreciates music even without being able to create it themselves. There's a much more direct connection between the craft and its outcomes than with m
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by bashinator 3y ago
I don't think anyone is arguing that getting usage metrics from your tools in a professional setting is a big value add. The argument is that it requires internet connectivity, a heavyweight client, and third-party cloud services. If
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by bashinator 3y ago
Everyone knows that once you've addressed a problem it goes away forever and no further attention ever has to be paid to it. That's how we fixed racism in the United States back in the 1960s!
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by bashinator 3y ago
Don't look at Dyson Sphere Program.
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by bashinator 3y ago
I don't see what the feasibility of Hyperloop has to do with the article. It was never intended to succeed.
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by bashinator 3y ago
As a devops type person, I've been advocating for basic performance testing to be part of microservice unit tests. It'd be really wonderful to get rough numbers for peak and idle cpu/memory usage along with other test output
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by bashinator 3y ago
Why should government investigate whether their employees practice pseudo-biological bullshit?
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by bashinator 3y ago
> French republic and many other European nations dont collect on race. Which is a convenient way for them not to track patterns of racial discrimination in their social systems.
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by bashinator 3y ago
Have you ever felt pressured to do work for a corporation when you'd prefer not to? (E.g. take a job for the health care/other life needs).
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by bashinator 3y ago
I mean, if unions are cartels, then so are corporate boards.
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by bashinator 3y ago
I was lucky to be born into a middle-class family in the USA with access to good schools. I'm lucky to be a quick learner. I'm lucky that all the challenges I've faced in life have been manageable. I can't think of how I
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by bashinator 3y ago
Not a corporation, but I've certainly seen that reaction to any number of subreddits getting shut down.
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by bashinator 3y ago
Slow down to get into a lower orbit, where you will overtake your target. Then speed up to get back into the higher orbit where the target will catch up with you.
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by bashinator 3y ago
I'm just curious; should I be able to profit from selling high-quality prints of a living artist's paintings that I surreptitiously photographed in a gallery?
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by bashinator 3y ago
I have a new law: "Sufficiently large quantitative change always turns into qualitative change."
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by bashinator 3y ago
To extend your argument, nothing we perceive is _exactly_ how it exists in the universe. Everything that comes into our senses is an approximation, whether directly or via technological instrumentation. I don’t think any of that contradicts
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by bashinator 3y ago
Aren’t there sex offender public registries that are legal extensions of the conviction?
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by bashinator 3y ago
Says the guy who knows about neutrinos.
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by bashinator 3y ago
That would bring us back to parity with pre-Internet society, assuming said info could still be accessed through court and library archives.
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by bashinator 3y ago
> impossible to know anything about a universe that doesn’t include our perception of it The optimistic take for me is that this is a fundamental feature of the Universe.
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by bashinator 3y ago
AFAIK there are plenty of observations that can't be accounted for by any MOND theory either.
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by bashinator 3y ago
I like Occam's razor as much as anyone, but it really is starting to seem like there might be more than one cause of the phenomenon called dark matter. My understanding is that WIMPs (weakly-interacting massive particles) are in troub
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by bashinator 3y ago
Apologies, I was bringing problem-solving to an emotional support thread.

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