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by jvm___ 16d ago
I write this message on thrift store kids doodle tablets regularly.
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by jvm___ 1mo ago
Some poor parakeet is forced to do a half marathon on a treadmill.
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by jvm___ 2mo ago
Or a book goes from zlib to my Kobo and I don't leave the toilet.
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by jvm___ 2mo ago
Do you own a USB c to micro-USB to get the file off my phone?
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by jvm___ 2mo ago
I the zlib app on my phone. No clean way from my phone to on my Kobo.
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by jvm___ 2mo ago
Sideload without cables is challenging. I download epubs from zlib but then they're on my phone and transferring them to my Kobo is arduous. This makes it easy.
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by jvm___ 2mo ago
https://send.djazz.se/ This is key for getting epubs to your Kobo.
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by jvm___ 3mo ago
-Phone notification- Your chinchilla had finished the wash cycle.
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by jvm___ 3mo ago
You only get about 10 of each day. Obviously not true. But... Children don't make memories before 4 or 5 and start being teenagers around 15-16. So about 10 years. Sounds like a long time. But what is today, the solstice, June 21. You
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by jvm___ 4mo ago
Will programming languages evolve into less human oriented written code and more just calls to a trusted AI. Or will human readable code be less and less of a thing as AI learns it's own, more terse language to talk to other AI's.
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by jvm___ 5mo ago
Don't read the original, find a more abridged copy. The original gives too many examples for each point.
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by jvm___ 5mo ago
If we launched a second New Horizons when the last one passed Pluto, the second one would already have passed Pluto as well. Crazy to think how much time has passed since that flyby. Also, one of the program managers was on The Moth podcast
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by jvm___ 5mo ago
Buzz Aldrin (?) was quoted as recalling holding a pencil inside the capsule as they were out in space and thinking "that wall isn't very thick or strong, I could probably jam a pencil through it pretty easily..." Death being
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by jvm___ 6mo ago
Since we're talking trees. Only trees that grow in an area with distinct warm/cold cycles have rings, tropical trees don't and the only way to tell the age of most tropical trees is to have planted it yourself
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by jvm___ 7mo ago
It's fun to be on vacation and go visit one of these. They're usually not in tourist areas and are likely to be in well established neighborhoods that a a different vibe than home. Also fun to read and come home with some random b
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by jvm___ 7mo ago
Maybe it was a Canadian rumor? I posted another link. https://www.fodors.com/community/canada/colorful-qu-bec-mai-... Jumping Jehoshaphat! The stained glass window up front is a memorial to George Jehosephat Mount
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by jvm___ 7mo ago
A kids field trip to a heritage village in Ontario Canada. So, basically some random volunteer. This page seems to back me up. https://www.heritage-matters.ca/articles/adventures-in-light... The earliest ecclesiastical
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by jvm___ 7mo ago
Darknet diaries
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by jvm___ 7mo ago
They talk about a K shaped recovery in economics. It just depends on if you're on the up portion of the K or the down stick. The larger picture might show an increase but if you split the data apart one leg is actually declining while
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by jvm___ 7mo ago
Molasses was cheap because it was the packing material for plate glass - which was only made in England. Place your plate glass in a barrel, fill it with molasses and you can ship it to North America. Just wash off the glass and you're
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by jvm___ 8mo ago
The plays belong to the individual teams, which is, I heard, why they don't broadcast full field views. No idea if it's true or not
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by jvm___ 8mo ago
If you strum an electric guitar and let the hertz of the string fall through the range of AM radio the amp will briefly pickup AM radio stations. Not that you can decipher anything but you recognize voices as it travels past the station.
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by jvm___ 8mo ago
Mostly yes, the group stays together. We run road or trail not track. No one is really serious about pace and time, or if you are you treat group runs as social time and do your own thing later. One group just meets at the start, people go
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by jvm___ 8mo ago
Ritual, purpose and community are what's required to build a group. I cured my own loneliness episode by joining a local running group. It provides the same kind of thing as church. Ritual, we meet every week and there's a few dif
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by jvm___ 8mo ago
"I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question." - Harun Yahya
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by jvm___ 9mo ago
"microdose cocaine"
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by jvm___ 10mo ago
I like doing this with my local paper but from a hundred+ years ago. It's funny to read that the electric street car opening day was delayed because they built the tracks at the wrong gauge for the street cars. Beaurocratic mismanageme
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by jvm___ 1y ago
We can't see software. You can see if a motherboard has twice the necessary components, or if a robot arm just looks wrong, but if your algorithm to process 1000 records takes a thousand times longer than it should (but still finishes
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by jvm___ 1y ago
I just got back from backwoods camping, each site has a wooden chest/thunderbox/toilet out in the open woods near the site. I'm not sure if the thunder is the heavy wooden lid closing or the noises that come from it. Some are
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by jvm___ 1y ago
Wikipedia says gutta-percha was a household word as it was a popular material to make items out of. Interesting to see the word distribution in Google books, it was super popular but seems to have died off quickly. https://books.

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