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by code_duck 4y ago
Phantasy Star for the Sega Master System was $70 - in 1988. Adjusted for inflation that’s about $180.
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by code_duck 4y ago
I assume you were tested for Celiac disease? Many doctors don't do the testing correctly, though - mainly that someone has to be eating gluten for weeks prior to the blood tests to avoid high risk of a false negative.
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What I wonder is how it's affected by almost every commentator, analyst and corporation in the world saying "we're expecting very poor economic conditions". Id' theorize that hearing that makes people less likely to
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by code_duck 4y ago
Google is the Netflix of something. Like Netflix is now known for cancelling series prematurely, for me Stadia was "that sounds cool, I should check that out" and then it was cancelled by the time I was seriously considering it.
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by code_duck 4y ago
Yeah, there are rarely headlines like “this tech company didn’t layoff 15% of their staff“.
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It seems like just about every tech company is doing 15% layoffs. > They include the development of technology for Dexcom’s G6 and G7 continuous glucose monitors (CGM), the smallest CGMs of their kind. That’s very cool! I have worn a Dex
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by code_duck 4y ago
OP’s meme site lists where each image comes from. Looking through it I mainly see ifunny and 9gag.
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by code_duck 4y ago
Earlier in this discussion someone posted a link to Musk’s post on Nitter (which seems to be notabird.site), which is one of many Twitter alternate UIs/proxy/mirror sites. Anyway here it is: https://notabird.site/e
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First I heard of it, my friend’s mother got a prescription and found herself waking up with bags of flour and empty jars of mayonnaise in bed with her. More recently I had a colleague who grew extremely habituated/addicted to it, which
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by code_duck 4y ago
People in countries with very low incomes tend to have more children. One reason is that children can start helping out the family very young and be working to contribute by their teenage years. Another goal is to gain retirement security.
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by code_duck 4y ago
In 2006? Why not? YouTube existed in 2006 as a website, so I’d think Spotify could have.
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by code_duck 4y ago
Slightly different, but my friend's daughter Isis hasn't been too happy about what's happened since she was born.
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by code_duck 4y ago
is there a market for "eagle catching a goat, throwing it off a cliff, and then feasting on it"?
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The reaction you describe to raw but not cooked vegetables is probably something called “oral allergy syndrome”.
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This reminds me of the auto-correction feature on my insulin pump. Insulin dosage can be seen like braking: a certain brake pressure/duration decreases velocity over a period of time, and a specific amount of insulin decreases blood gl
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by code_duck 4y ago
Twitter acquired Vine before Vine launched. Okay, a citation: I didn’t realize this either, but there are many articles about it from 2012, such as: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-twitter-bought-vine-befor... “Why
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by code_duck 4y ago
Also, like Musk's Tesla holdings, he couldn't sell a significant portion of those without reducing the value of what he retained.
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by code_duck 4y ago
I go back and forth between boiling the eggs the whole time, and bringing them to a boil and letting them sit. I can't determine which works better.
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The device seems absurd to me, too. Why would I need anything like that just to time some pasta?
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Gold is quite useful as a corrosion-resistant conductor. If it wasn’t, cheaper metals would be used in its place in electronics.
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I spent 2-3 years a whole back not reading any sort of world, national or political news. It had absolutely no impact on my life other than that I was less stressed out.
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The problem is some languages are more verbose than others. Considering boilerplate (which is often automated these days) it extra has nothing to do with productivity. More lines doesn't mean more action - I mean, we're on a Lisp-
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by code_duck 4y ago
As in, the fewer pages, the more concise they are? What about clarity, and which languages are we talking about? Bonus points for Java? I think it’s been fairly well determined that LoC isn’t a good metric for judging productivity.
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by code_duck 4y ago
I guess, but how does the camera know whether you have consent or not?
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Oh, that makes sense. The intended final output is not on a monitor.
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by code_duck 4y ago
But how does the chemical ink mixture and angle viewing translate into colors on a monitor?
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To throw in my anecdote: very frequently. I've been using it since I first saw it as an option in 2013. Only on my phone, never on my laptop.
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I recall running into glass cloth tape, and it having some savvy use in glassblowing… but I can’t remember what.
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I would think anyone doing something like that would make contractors sign an NDA.
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Apple's own products do this often. For instance, an instrument in one of my tracks in iOS GarageBand is listed as "Kind...ass". It's supposed to be "Kindergarten Bass". https://i.redd.it/0ncp6h

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