jurassicfoxy

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by jurassicfoxy 2y ago
"Island of the Blue Dolphins" (I was definitely younger than a teenager) stuck with me forever: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_the_Blue_Dolphins
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by jurassicfoxy 2y ago
I worked for a woman who had the Microsoft helper (like Clippy) but chose the cat avatar, and it would meow ALL day. It was funny for about 2 hours and unbearable beyond that!
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by jurassicfoxy 2y ago
My girlfriend has long, vampy, very pointy, totally annoying nails by her own admission, and loves them.
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by jurassicfoxy 2y ago
Exactly. Keyboard and mouse? Desk? Software updates? Heaven forbid: Windows? PS5 on the couch is by far the better experience.
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by jurassicfoxy 2y ago
I previously memorized pi to 100 decimals. Was fun, and now I'll never forget 3.1415926535897932384626433 ... how many is that? 25? There are a several little triplet "patterns" in this first batch that make it easy to this p
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by jurassicfoxy 2y ago
I just want to say, I love emojis. I wish there were thousands more. I love the artistry, the stylistic differences between platforms. I love the way their meaning changes with the times. I love it all.
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by jurassicfoxy 2y ago
HN guidelines should ban "x.com" links entirely.
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by jurassicfoxy 2y ago
The Children's Hospital https://store.mcsweeneys.net/products/the-childrens-hospital A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
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by jurassicfoxy 2y ago
> We drove down an increasingly narrow and desolate road. The tarmac disappeared, replaced by lose stones. It got steeper. The track turned into potholed grass and dirt. Huge rocks reared out of the earth. ... > And it was all Google
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by jurassicfoxy 2y ago
From my mother, a very emphatic "Don't sleep with women unless you love them!"
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by jurassicfoxy 2y ago
That being said, when Super GMs play a bad move against a lower rated GM, they quite often gets a pass. They don't capitalize, simply because they assume the move is excellent.
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by jurassicfoxy 2y ago
I use pyenv, seems to work very well.
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by jurassicfoxy 2y ago
This article was not written for the reader, but written because the writer loves to hear himself write.
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by jurassicfoxy 2y ago
My recent visit to a BMW dealership (for parts for an old car) was so awful. Every aspect of the dealership feels scummy. The coffee machine "lounge", the shiny cars, the branded "merch", the sales staff, the "servi
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by jurassicfoxy 2y ago
Phoenix "city planners" (do any cities actually do any intelligent planning?) must be the most pointless job in the world. "How can we design something so awful that it is nearly uninhabitable?" must be their design phil
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by jurassicfoxy 2y ago
I've driven to the wrong location twice because the top search result was an ad. e.g. I searched for "Home Depot" and immediately clicked on the top link (there's only one Home Depot nearby) and after a few mins realized
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by jurassicfoxy 2y ago
Your minimalist shoes aren't going to be faster in a race, but they are still good for you. I think the way to go is to run in many pairs of shoes. Super shoes for some fast workouts and races, normal shoes for long runs and tempo work
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by jurassicfoxy 2y ago
I can assure you that many super shoes will make you noticeably faster. Try them on in the store, you'll know right away. That being said, some of them (Nike's especially) are really hard to run in. Almost zero heel support, and s
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by jurassicfoxy 2y ago
Isn't it about establishing a framework that people can trust, and closing loopholes? Just because the specifics are about sesame seeds, isn't that how the law works? Some stupid specific case forms the groundwork for the entire s
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by jurassicfoxy 2y ago
Recyling plastic has died for me. I read an article (probably posted on HN) that convinced me the act of "recyling" dumps enough microplastics into the water stream that it's all better off in a landfill. Finally that was it
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by jurassicfoxy 2y ago
I don't know what I'm reading, but it's hilarious.
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by jurassicfoxy 2y ago
Does anyone here suffer from double vision? Do exercises help with that?
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by jurassicfoxy 2y ago
The software industry (I include myself here) is so incredibly crappy that it's easier to change the basics of English than write decent programs.
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by jurassicfoxy 2y ago
Can anyone else simply not even comprehend the existence of trillions of giant floating balls of gas that are just in a constant state of explosion, floating through space!? Like... how???
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by jurassicfoxy 2y ago
Interesting read. Programming is so cool! I didn't really love the game, but watching YouTube videos of what people have done is incredible.
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by jurassicfoxy 2y ago
They are suggesting the blade retracted, broke the saw, in a situation in which there was no risk to the finger. Maybe there was a literally hotdog in the wood. > If you're ripping a wet piece of wood, no thumb risk at all
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by jurassicfoxy 2y ago
You made a good point I hadn't thought of: it's precisely the people with bad credit scores that most often need to take out loans for those things that people with great credit scores probably don't worry about.
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by jurassicfoxy 2y ago
Many many people are never going to buy houses. I've never owned a house. Probably never will. I've never owned a new car, either, and I'm older than dirt. Some commenters had good counter examples, but those seemed to me lik
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by jurassicfoxy 2y ago
In 2024 anyone who can use Google knows full well that they shouldn't be staring into the sun.
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by jurassicfoxy 2y ago
Being blind must. It's evolution pressure, not evolutionary dead-end.

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