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by bittermang 8y ago
I think the worst thing about gym is that I didn't learn anything there. I didn't learn about calories, or healthy eating. I didn't learn about basic cardio, why it's good for you, or how often to do it. I didn't le
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by bittermang 8y ago
So you're telling me I can't make my old Pentium immune to bullets? Well that's disappointing.
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by bittermang 8y ago
The ONE good thing about Bank of America, and it was only available on their credit cards but not debit cards, and I don't even know if they still offer it: You could generate new credit card numbers on demand, and set a hard spending
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by bittermang 8y ago
The chat networks do. As well as several of the methods outlined for protecting/locating the dead drops. WiFi hotspots, bluetooth beacons, etc.
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by bittermang 8y ago
The elephant in the room that this article highlights, but never addresses. A mobile phone has become a de facto a requirement for illegal commerce, as described, and to me presents a pretty huge single point of failure. And yes, I know, EV
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by bittermang 8y ago
Sometimes it is. Listen. I'm from the Midwest, so for all you #WestCoast refugees seeking asylum here. Sometimes you gotta drive a half an hour, and you'll find a really shiny gem sleeping just outside your 'burb. All I ask i
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by bittermang 8y ago
Yeah, the article goes on to explain why the premise of the headline is wrong. But it is a fascinating unintended consequence of the algorithm none the less.
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by bittermang 8y ago
A few months after seeking help for my mental illness, I had this moment of clarity. All the relationships that laid broken, all the opportunities that were missed. I could suddenly see and understand how my illness had contributed to these
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by bittermang 8y ago
Just as a counter to your anecdote. I'm 35. My mother wouldn't let me so much as cross the street. I live in a small rural town with little to no crime.
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by bittermang 8y ago
Well that explains it. I wanted exciting new news in the world of squashed rocks, dammit.
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by bittermang 8y ago
That sure was a lot of words to once again raise the question, "Why hasn't the LHC found what we thought it would?" And I never did get to the point, if there even was any, that the headline about squished rocks led me to cli
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by bittermang 8y ago
I've known this since I was a young boy and Tetris was new. Knocking out 200 lines is faster acting and more effective for me than Hydroxozine, and I think that pill has done wonders for me for as needed anxiety. There's a lot of
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by bittermang 8y ago
Comedy Central is doing a similar but different thing. They're adding more commercials to a commercial break, so now a 30 minute block is like 34 minutes, creating a weird stagger in the schedule. MTV does this too, but they play catch
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by bittermang 8y ago
TBS has been doing this for YEARS. They use every trick in the book, but messing with the timing of episodes is the most jarring. And frankly, ruins a lot of shows, comedy is all about timing after all.
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by bittermang 8y ago
Despite RSS' cult status among Hacker News readers, I'm sorry to be the one to tell you that RSS is already dead. It's been dead. I would even go so far as to say it was dead on arrival, because the average user was never abl
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by bittermang 8y ago
RSS always made more sense to me in a mail client than a browser. Live bookmarks were useless to me.
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by bittermang 8y ago
"Launch all the nukes"
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by bittermang 8y ago
Switching to Arch was revelatory, and I've been using some form of Linux at work or home since 2001. It's hard for me to describe, or quantify. But it's almost like, with a distro that embraces the Linux-ness of Linux, one th
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by bittermang 8y ago
Because where I come from, a crime has a victim. Even traffic and moving violations have a kind of victim, in that they help maintain safety on the roads. A thought can never be a crime. When ideas are criminal, the entire advancement of th
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by bittermang 9y ago
I once saw a very drunk woman drive her car at full throttle into the corner of a hotel. It's like he describes it, snapshots. My brain throttled hard, and locked up at the amount of information there was to process all at once. That c
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by bittermang 9y ago
Oh, look at them rush to White Knight their own bubble. "Not OUR echo chamber, no! We're different, you see, because reasons."
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by bittermang 9y ago
That's an interesting point I hadn't heard before. Exactly. Because why would they? Why would we even need speed limits, if the computer it in control and proven safe at X speed, because it has a Y reaction time vs a human'
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by bittermang 9y ago
We haven't even begun. Gearheads will refuse to let go of their cars. They love driving and maintaining their vehicle. They'll argue that no robot can drive better than they can, no matter how wrong they are. Imagine a world where
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by bittermang 9y ago
Very excellent write up, Jasper. Thank you. Your closing paragraphs are spot on. I remember a magazine review of Metroid Prime 3 said "Wii games aren't supposed to look this good." Supposed to? Said who? Nintendo's techn
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by bittermang 9y ago
Pryor was an all time master. Period.
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by bittermang 9y ago
Anecdotally, if I've learned anything from watching comedians like John Stewart: self deprecation is the keystone of their entire act. Every comedian seems to have some level of it, because not taking yourself too seriously is like a v
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by bittermang 9y ago
Would it be inappropriate to ask for the black banner, in recognition of Mosfet? Just reading the article, you can tell what a pillar of love he was for everyone at Adafruit. I'm sitting here crying for a cat I never met, because I can
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by bittermang 9y ago
I feel like pets are an indispensable friend for a young kid to have. An animal can teach a child about unconditional love, in a way nothing else really can. And about loss. And really, life itself.
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by bittermang 9y ago
Last time I was in Detroit the roads were the worst I'd ever seen. You couldn't even call them pot holes, they were just scars in the earth. For a place nicknamed The Motor City, it was a sad state of affairs. And that's the
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by bittermang 9y ago
There still persists this idea that all you have to do is "built it, and they will come", a la Field of Dreams (1989). First off, that's not the right quote. It's "If you build it, HE will come." He being &quot

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