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by mbrd 3mo ago
And also a board game that I'm looking forward to coming in Fall 2026 by Liz Davidson and David Thompson (art by Ian O'Toole): https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/388558/night-witches
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by mbrd 1y ago
My fish had a highlight. It looked like rays of light emanating from the fish
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by mbrd 1y ago
It's definitely not the hobby of choice for young boys any more, but it feels like it is having a golden age of kit quality aiming at an older audience with disposal income. Manufacturers like Tamiya, and also Eduard or Meng (those are
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by mbrd 1y ago
I’ve found scale modeling to be a very rewarding (and screen-free) hobby since Covid times, and I’ve built more Tamiya kits than any other manufacturer. I’ve heard that Mr Tamiya was very hands-on in choosing their topics for kits so it wil
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Tamiya chairman Shunsaku Tamiya dies at 90(dailyexpress.com.my)
36 points by mbrd 1y ago|13 comments
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by mbrd 1y ago
If I'm feeling grumpy I don't respond, but if I have some patience left in the tank I'll use, "Hi, what's up?" which usually short-circuits the salutations.
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by mbrd 3y ago
I bought version 10 recently enough that I was emailed this week with a free upgrade to version 11 which I appreciated! I mainly only use it for text expansion, but it has served me well for years.
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by mbrd 4y ago
I'd start with gastroenterologists. I've started having some GI issues recently so I've been seeing one, but there was a 4+ week wait time to see anyone in my area.
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by mbrd 4y ago
I started an exercise habit on the Concept2 rower (which I already had but wasn’t using). The big factors for me were: - accountability/competitiveness with a friend where we texted after each row - a plan to follow. Namely https:&#x2
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by mbrd 4y ago
I grew up in the UK so never had anything other than fire drills, but I’m in the US now it’s pretty sad when your kindergartner tells you they had to pretend there was a lion in the corridor and the teacher locked the door and asked them to
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by mbrd 5y ago
I really like doing this kind of search on Twitter and seeing what comes up. One of my favs is searching “stunning x” to see the sad responses to attractive people posting selfies (NSFW if you choose to do it)
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by mbrd 5y ago
I searched for “SIP” as RFC3261 is my favorite, but there were hundreds of results in reverse numerical order, so RFC3261 which defines SIP was right at the bottom. Maybe just reversing the result order would give more useful results?
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by mbrd 6y ago
I just saw last night that one of the plastic modeling/hobby shop owners I follow on YouTube had a container on board: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAR7UZ_6L3o
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by mbrd 6y ago
His comments about Matthew Yglesias ("Yglesias, turn off the TV! Write more books instead! Heck, write more tweets, if you prefer!") made me think of Neil Gaiman's blog post [1] about George RR Martin: > George R.R. Martin
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by mbrd 6y ago
The article has multiple pages. You can find the conclusion here: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16252/mac-mini-apple-m1-teste...
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by mbrd 6y ago
They are separate items in the horizontal list: https://wiki.js.org/img/linux.3297c180.svg https://wiki.js.org/img/macos.96f6d85a.svg
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by mbrd 6y ago
O'Reilly-published books often have an animal on the cover. I don't think they are picked for relevance to the topic (even most of the Python books don't have pythons!) https://www.oreilly.com/content/a-s
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by mbrd 6y ago
I've just got back from doing an HEB shop about 10 minutes ago, our first shop since the crisis full hit the USA. It was surprisingly pleasant! There was a short queue to get in (~5 people stood 6 feet apart), but once inside there wer
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by mbrd 7y ago
I first heard about this on the Omnibus Project podcast (Ken Jennings & John Roderick). Here's the link if anyone would like to listen to some light-hearted discussion on the topic: https://www.omnibusproject.com/po
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by mbrd 7y ago
I recently heard a segment on the radio which discussed suicide, and it ended with the host giving the common "If you are in crisis, then resources are available..." statement. The contact details were a 10-digit phone number whic
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by mbrd 7y ago
Same here, it was the only way we could get my daughter (now 3 years old) to go to sleep. I spent many a long evening lying on the floor (so she couldn't see me over the edge), rocking it with my foot. Ours had mesh sides which I think
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by mbrd 8y ago
I have a 3yo and it definitely does feel like a shame on Christmas and birthdays to make her put down something exciting she's just received to open another present. Part of the problem is that my extended family are all overseas, and
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by mbrd 8y ago
Too late to edit my original comment but this may work better: https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Apple+Inc%2E
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by mbrd 8y ago
Not quite: https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Apple+Inc .
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by mbrd 8y ago
Real money for cosmetic items that give no advantage in-game is the only IAP/freemium model that I will support. I’ve bought Fortnite skins, and likewise on Starcraft II. Other than being a little pricey, I don’t see any problem with
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by mbrd 9y ago
Relevant Numberphile on generating prime pictures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQQ8IiTWHhg
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by mbrd 9y ago
Yes, custom games between friends are already free with the Starter Edition. This latest announcement will add the first campaign, multiplayer ladder, and much of the co-op mode to the selection of free modes. SC2 does not support LAN games
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by mbrd 9y ago
I've set it up to monitor an "out-of-stock" string on a product I'd like to buy, but is going to be hard to get in the run up to Christmas, so I guess that's one. If I was very keen, I guess I might pay a little to
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by mbrd 9y ago
This Reddit thread also has an interesting analysis of slow PS4 downloads: https://www.reddit.com/r/PS4/comments/522ttn/ps4_downloads_a...
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by mbrd 9y ago
Nice to see another St Andrews person on HN - I took that course too! I only wrote two essays during my four year degree, one for this class! (I wrote about Alexander Aitken, a gifted mental arithmetician)

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