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by because_789 1y ago
Thank you! I didn’t realize those were expandable until I read your comment. The black triangle bullets are expandable, folks, and worth expanding.
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by because_789 1y ago
Anyone else use mosquito fish? I got some from the pet store, put them in our small koi pond, and the mosquitoes really died off dramatically.
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by because_789 2y ago
Heh, I loved it within seconds. So relaxing while also so darkly funny. Everyone is a bit different I guess. I sent it to some of my art-biz friends.
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by because_789 2y ago
As a guy I found this article oddly riveting — the author seems super cool for being so candid. But the “pee slowly” thing had me coming to the comments to learn more: is this something ladies can typically do?
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by because_789 2y ago
Really interesting to read. So IIUC ambergris is _sometimes_ formed in the 4th (last) sperm whale stomach, is basically a constipatory plug of indigestible squid parts (beaks, quills, and eye lenses) which either eventually passes thru the
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by because_789 2y ago
Interestingly, basketballs are designed to be as standardized and replaceable as possible (so there’s no question about whether they affected the game.) Whereas musicians do not think of instruments that way. Nor photographers and their cam
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by because_789 2y ago
Any citations for it being rare?
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by because_789 2y ago
Can we as a society ease up on the use of the word ‘bespoke’ thank you so much.
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by because_789 2y ago
I wouldn’t wish a forced-read of that guy’s bio on my worst enemy. (But I did just send it to all my close friends.)
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by because_789 3y ago
I believe they just mean any random Apple device (iPhone, iPad, iMac, etc)
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by because_789 3y ago
I was happy to see the word “bolus” in this essay.
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by because_789 3y ago
Is he 45, or has he been an engineer for 45 years? Either way, I wish I had this guy’s sauna.
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by because_789 3y ago
If it is destroyed without anyone seeing it, how does the IRS verify that it was indeed a loss? Couldn’t a studio lie about making a film, then simply say they destroyed it?
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by because_789 3y ago
“The actor was even an early user of CoSa After Effects, the post-production program used for green screen and other effects work, which was eventually sold to Adobe.” As a longtime After Effects user this blew my mind. Very cool, thanks fo
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by because_789 3y ago
“Drunken words are sober thoughts.”
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by because_789 3y ago
Holy cow, thank you! I read this once, a year or two back, and have been trying to find it again but without luck. What a cool text.
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by because_789 3y ago
Thank you so much. I don’t always mind long form articles when they justify their length, but this one would have been better if it started with your summary, followed by the some nitty gritty details, followed by meta analysis interleaved
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by because_789 3y ago
> About one-fifth of mammalian (including human) sperm are typically abnormal, containing no heads, two heads, two or more tails, oddly misshapen or malfunctioning tails, and so forth. TIL
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To Boldly Go: William Shatner, Celebrity Artist(spikeartmagazine.com)
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by because_789 3y ago
I had the same reaction. Whether or not it’s worse, tho, it does seem at least different. The regurgitation loop used to be all human, but now there is a machine in the loop. A complex & multifaceted machine, ha.
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by because_789 4y ago
I worked at Citrix from 1996 thru 2000. In the early days, Citrix was licensing Windows NT (source code) from Microsoft and selling a modified version of it such that (a) one could remotely control/display Windows apps, and (b) multipl
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by because_789 4y ago
It is really cool to be able to open a browser in your desktop and visit your website, recursively. How many levels deep have you tested this?
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by because_789 5y ago
From a young age I tended to assign gender to the lower numbers, no idea why. It’s roughly an even / odd thing, but not always. For example, 1 is male, 2 is female. 3 male, 4 female, 5m, 6f, 7m, 8f, 9f, 10m, 11m, 12f, …
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by because_789 5y ago
When I became a dad a few years back I ended up watching a lot of PBS content for kids. I actually really enjoyed Arthur a lot. The art has a nice style, the characters are swell, and it tends to irritate me much less than other kid shows.