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Wizards of the Coast shutters Sigil virtual tabletop project(rascal.news)
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by guyzero 2y ago
54% of [US] adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level - https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/post/literacy-s... Not surprising that books like this succeed.
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by guyzero 2y ago
Poverty in America is a moral failure and why would you give money to people who are immoral?
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by guyzero 2y ago
Is this grid tied? Are people tying these to batteries and then running their appliances off of them? Seems like too little power to properly backfeed the grid.
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by guyzero 2y ago
It's certainly too early to see if this class of drugs extends lifespan, but it does improve numerous biomarkers that are associated with longer lifespan. And a longer functional lifespan as well.
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by guyzero 2y ago
Sony built Crackle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crackle_(service) but it's failed at this point.
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by guyzero 2y ago
likely end-to-end drm
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by guyzero 2y ago
"Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World" by Malcolm Harris is a really, really fantastic book that shows how far back this line of thought goes in the region. https://www.hachettebookgroup.com&#x2
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by guyzero 2y ago
Impressive that it was fixable in the end! Quite brave to keep taking it apart, although I suppose the monitor couldn't get any worse at that point.
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by guyzero 2y ago
I've never cut a wafer, but I assume cutting is hard and single straight lines are the easiest.
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by guyzero 2y ago
I completely admit I have a limited, second-hand account of the situation. It's quite possible that the circumstances were such that this was planned in advance of the wife's passing.
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by guyzero 2y ago
I believe they had a funeral together. That was part of the reason for the short waiting time.
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by guyzero 2y ago
I remember Jesus explaining to one of his bodhisattvas about how you can relieve suffering through the cessation of desire.
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by guyzero 2y ago
Very innovative but it seems to require a level of precision that I don't think I've achieved on a phone keyboard.
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by guyzero 2y ago
Yes, I know very little other than that he was a cancer "survivor" - he wasn't about to die of cancer imminently but I think he had some sort of long-term ongoing health issues. But he was apparently well enough to drive a ca
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by guyzero 2y ago
I'm sorry for your loss.
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by guyzero 2y ago
He had apparently expressed his intention before she passed. I do not know all the details and this is second hand, but he apparently had a plan.
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by guyzero 2y ago
My Canadian parents are in their 80's so naturally a lot of their friends of the same age are dying. And two of them have been via MAID. In one case, which was surprising to me, a man who had survived cancer - he was not terminal but c
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by guyzero 2y ago
A much improved successor to Tomatan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOJaDDO38kk
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by guyzero 2y ago
I think you're overestimating your knowledge of what causes obesity.
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by guyzero 2y ago
We have a retractable on our south-facing patio door/window near San Jose and it's made a huge difference in terms of heat rejection after we installed it. On hot summer days it makes a noticeable difference. And since it's r
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by guyzero 2y ago
This advice goes back to previous generations of web entrepreneurs, way back to 2015 or earlier: https://www.roughtype.com/?p=634 " It’s a sharecropping system, but the sharecroppers are generally happy because their i
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by guyzero 2y ago
https://x.com/fulligin/status/1841022534848036949
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by guyzero 2y ago
"Driving (at times) should be about 45 minutes" Most people aren't commuting to work in the city at 2 AM on a Sunday. It can be considerably slower at peak times.
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by guyzero 2y ago
It's not the Canadian fave that is the Bloody Caesar (where you add clam juice, of all things)
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by guyzero 2y ago
In terms of camera performance? You will not.
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by guyzero 2y ago
The Cultural Exchange building at Hakone Gardens on Saratoga CA (near San Jose) was constructed in a similar manner - the building was designed and built in Japan, disassembled, shipped over and then reassembled on-site. Done in 1990 though
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by guyzero 2y ago
From the first paper: "Conclusions Two vaccine doses provided high protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 hospitalization with the Alpha and Delta variants with protection, notably against infection, waning over time. Two
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by guyzero 2y ago
"during 2019-2020, the last flu season prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, flu vaccination prevented an estimated 7 million influenza illnesses, 3 million influenza-associated medical visits, 100,000 influenza-associated hospitalizations,
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by guyzero 2y ago
This is basically the new flu shot and we'll get the usual litany of anecdotal reports that someone still got the flu/covid, but statistically these shots reduce the number of infections and the severity of infections with few sid

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