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by emptybits 3y ago
In Vancouver we have a mural festival and walking tours of murals with backgrounds on the works and artists. This happens in several neighbourhoods. https://vanmuralfest.ca/mural-tours
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by emptybits 3y ago
> "Now an officer was at her house, waiting to take her son to school." How or why would police be deployed? Is it a crime (for child or parent) if the child skips a lot of school?
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by emptybits 3y ago
Chessbase and the Stockfish developers came to an agreement after that public court hearing.[1] I don't think it changes the landscape at all and it doesn't help MacOS or Linux users, so I agree with all you said. X is to Chessbas
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by emptybits 3y ago
The Ineos Grenadier (available now in Australia and Europe and apparently within the year in North America) has a buttonful dash and also cockpit-style switches above. With additional knockouts above to add your own. Fully gloved operation
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by emptybits 3y ago
Canadian perspective here. The median wage of an electrician in Canada is CAD$30/hr (approx €20/hr or USD$22/hr).[1] Not great. That requires a four to five year apprenticeship and the prospects for electricians in the near f
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by emptybits 3y ago
The author laments a long walk, passing so many neighbours and potentially unmet friends along the way. Looking for close friends who aren't around anymore. We probably chanced across our close friends one day because we were living or
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How the relentless drive for optimization made baseball impossible to watch(vox.com)
62 points by emptybits 3y ago|88 comments
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by emptybits 3y ago
LittleFreeLibrary.org applied for trademark control of “wooden boxes with a storage area for books”. Additionally, LittleFreeLibrary.org now stakes claim to word variations beyond their trademarked name “Little Free Library”, such as “litt
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by emptybits 3y ago
I'm barely a skier but I really enjoyed this! The style. The backstory. The person . Happy thoughts. Then (inevitably?) ... "I wonder what the right AI model and prompt could generate in Niehues' style..." Maybe a soli
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America Doesn’t Know Tofu(asteriskmag.com)
1 points by emptybits 3y ago|1 comments
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by emptybits 3y ago
I worry that industry solutions involving more proprietary layers and/or encryption on buses will make our vehicles and appliances even less modifiable, diagnosable, and serviceable by anyone except factory authorized techs. In keeping
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by emptybits 3y ago
Another vote for GrapheneOS here. I moved away from a great iOS experience to a great GrapheneOS experience nearly two years ago. Pixel 5. Works fantastic. Bonus: I get nearly two full days of battery life between charges, even with heavy u
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by emptybits 3y ago
You're catching a lot of flak and downvotes for your comment. I'm Canadian yet your general sentiment, made famous by Thomas Jefferson, seems pretty reasonable to me: "When the people fear their government, there is tyranny;
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FCC Fines 15 Year-Old Pirate Radio Station in NYC $2M(vice.com)
1 points by emptybits 3y ago|0 comments
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by emptybits 3y ago
> "it's not the tool's job to regulate my creativity. the law exists to regulate the use of my art, not the act of creating the art. I can draw hello kitty all I want and leave it in my drawer, if it floats my boat" T
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by emptybits 4y ago
> "if we can figure out how to successfully stop organ rejection then we will most likely have cured cancer on the way" Genuinely ignorant and layperson curious here ... how are these two things connected? There are so many ty
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Do Masks Work? It’s a Question of Physics, Biology, and Behavior(undark.org)
2 points by emptybits 4y ago|3 comments
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by emptybits 4y ago
Ha brutal. Yes, the CRA has effectively given access to My Account to all SIN holders so the burden is on us all to know about these T&C! Lolsigh.
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by emptybits 4y ago
I'll go out on a limb here ... tell me if you disagree ... that if you file your taxes on paper, all that personal information will be quickly scanned and available in a database. The database of the site in question. I say this becaus
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by emptybits 4y ago
Canadian here. Thank you for sharing your Terms of Service. I don't agree to them. Thus, I wish to opt out of your Tax Revenue Collection Service. M'kay?
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All You Touch and All You See: ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ at 50(theringer.com)
2 points by emptybits 4y ago|0 comments
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by emptybits 4y ago
https://www.nei.org/resources/statistics/us-nuclear-plant-ow...
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Life after food? A diabetes drug has become an off-label appetite suppressant(thecut.com)
2 points by emptybits 4y ago|1 comments
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by emptybits 4y ago
And, yet, unknowable. So we play.
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by emptybits 4y ago
I like his art and his definition of art.
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by emptybits 4y ago
> "Art is not what I think when I'm painting. It's what you feel when you're looking." I love this definition of art and it's why some of the recent knee-jerk rejection of AI-generated artwork (sometimes cit
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by emptybits 4y ago
> lost touch with their humanity Humanity. Hm. Maybe. But is it possible that some who seek to limit what "humanity" means are also gatekeeping a safe place for themselves while other humans want to move forward and explore? Hu
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“iPhones are made in hell”: 3 months inside China’s iPhone city(restofworld.org)
38 points by emptybits 4y ago|6 comments
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by emptybits 4y ago
Most parents won't drastically change the financial resources or personal time they commit to their kids' development. They probably can't. But this aspect seems immediately achievable and costs little: "It is just a way
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by emptybits 4y ago
OP here. I submitted this with what I felt was a good headline and it lived with this for a while (less than an hour, I reckon): "99 phones in handcart make Google Maps traffic jam, turn green street red (2020)" Then someon

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