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chevill
1y ago
There are lots of ways it can help. Finding out you wake up an abnormal amount of times could be a sign of sleep apnea or something else. One could take that information and get a sleep study. These apps can detect that you are moving aroun
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chevill
4y ago
I might not understand your question. I'm not saying the payment processors were wrong to blacklist them. PH was being genuinely scummy. Its a forced position because PH very much wanted to continue to accept credit cards, which I susp
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chevill
4y ago
They stopped being able to process credit cards because Mastercard and VISA cut them off when there was a public outcry about PH doing such a shitty job of moderating illegal content that everyone got the impression they were supporting it.
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chevill
4y ago
IIRC development hell. I think they had to scrap basically the whole movie and start over at one point.
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chevill
4y ago
In some ways it does but my fellow keyboard hobbyists seem to have an infinite appetite for artificial scarcity. 99% of aluminum keyboard cases are barely distinguishable from one another but some of them cost a few thousand dollars while o
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chevill
4y ago
Having access to multiple keys per thumb really is a huge improvement over standard keyboards. They are pretty expensive, but you can get a custom Dactyl Manuform made for about $400-500. I think there are some cheaper ways to get one. I ma
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chevill
4y ago
>That's a frame, that Chomsky knowingly pushes forward, and it sweeps a number of significant issues under the rug (trusting the Russians, freedom, future deportations, threats to other countries, all of which are addressed in the o
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chevill
4y ago
Me too, the problem is that for such a thing to exist at scale we have to make the simply awful protoypes that people keep coming up with financially successful. Which means paying as much or more as you would for a cutting edge flagship fo
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chevill
4y ago
If you read this letter I encourage you to read the Chomsky interviews they linked. These interviews were my first experience reading things he wrote or said. After reading those it seems like the authors of this letter didn't really u
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chevill
4y ago
How complete is this? I loved Caesar II. Didn't have a chance to play the third.
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chevill
4y ago
I'm not sure why its confusing. Conservatives have historically proclaimed themselves to be (in their words even if the actions don't always match) in favor of small government, reduced government spending, and the minimal taxatio
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chevill
4y ago
> I don't know how much more explicit I can be with a phrase like "regulate into the dirt." "regulate it into the dirt" is commonly understood to mean the very real practice of placing so many restrictions/c
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chevill
4y ago
DCS has some very advanced sims but some of the cheaper modules (planes) are intentionally less realistic/labor intensive. If you download DCS World directly from the site instead of getting it through steam, you can get a 2 week trial
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chevill
4y ago
>In this scenario it really isn't Microsoft who are demonstrating a bleeding ego. My bad that part of the comment wasn't directed at Microsoft, its just something that everyone in general has to face when apologizing. I do agre
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chevill
4y ago
>Suggest something better for your definition of "good" I already mentioned two things that would make it a "good" apology: - Directly mentioning whom you are apologizing too. In some cases addressing a group might be
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4y ago
>This is a good exhibit of an almost perfect apology. If you've been okay hearing "sorry" your entire life then I am afraid you've been lied to more often than not. If you specifically focus insults on an individual a
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chevill
4y ago
I was in the top 2.1% and I used all non-technical words. The most obscure words I used were trimmed off (it only uses 7) and the ones it counted seemed to be words I expect all people of average intelligence to know. It honestly seems like
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4y ago
>And only a very small percentage of those are gold diggers or mail order brides. The vast majority are just normal people with normal dreams of having a modest family. I wasn't saying that all women are gold diggers or mail order b
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chevill
4y ago
>The article doesn't mention Moleskine once, yet it seems several comments are about that brand. What's going on there? The reason the comments mention Moleskine is that its the first "fancy" brand of paper that the m
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chevill
4y ago
There are pens that write well on Moleskine but with good paper you can write with nearly any pen and it won't bleed/feather. Moleskine notebooks look and feel like they are high quality but the paper itself is very poor in qualit
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chevill
4y ago
I'm a short guy (5'6") married for nearly 2 decades to an even shorter woman (4'11"). Perhaps its easy for me to say it because I've beaten the odds, but it seems to me it would be better to die alone than to b
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4y ago
>anyone who has used a modern forum with all the trimmings would do the "yes, Grandpa, everything was better in the old days" polite smiling and nodding. HN could have indeed been written in many languages, but IMO the simplici
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chevill
4y ago
>They are starting to solve unique problems that couldn't be addressed on currently prevalent platforms. Got any examples?
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4y ago
It makes Carmack out to have some sociopathic characteristics and it makes Romero seem like he became lazy due to being famous (A lesson from which he has learned some hard lessons), but why the intense dislike of American McGee, Tom Hall,
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chevill
4y ago
Does this mean you don’t want to buy a foam trapezoid with a strap for nearly $200?
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chevill
4y ago
Do you use a CPAP machine? It’s a simple device that blows air through your nose hard enough to keep the airway open. It doesn’t take an intelligent person to operate or adjust one. One would have to be one of them dumbest people in human h
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4y ago
>I suppose for those who consciously or subconsciously know they're guilty of sin, the idea of annihilation is far preferable to facing judgment for their sins in the past, so I can see how atheism would be an attractive option, ult
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chevill
4y ago
>but rather an evidence based approach that uses the Bible to interpret itself as it was designed to do. Can you elaborate on this? I'd be interested to hear more about your approach.
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4y ago
>it's not that much sillier than stuff like "Owning a pet lobster in Maine is illegal when that lobster is pregnant" kind of laws. (true law btw) I agree about the old testament, but this is only silly when taken out of co
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chevill
5y ago
Its a fairly accurate clone of the Model F77. I think the smaller one's a clone of an F62. There were at least 6 different versions of the Model F of different sizes, including a standalone numpad/macro pad. Its admittedly confusi
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