oceanghost

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by oceanghost 3y ago
I was shocked to see a 2L bottle of Dr Pepper that cost $3. I'm not going to be drinking it anymore out of principle. The really insulting thing about McDonald's is the service is bad and the food is worse than it ever was. The la
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by oceanghost 3y ago
I have never heard of this with regards to PTSD, I will investigate. Thank you!
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by oceanghost 3y ago
I hesitate to write this, but PTSD is a bit more complex than that. In some cases there's damage to the hippocampus, which doesn't get better. I've had 40 years to make peace with the crappy accident I was in. But the things
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by oceanghost 3y ago
I admit my memory on the subject is imperfect. :-)
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by oceanghost 3y ago
I bought half a dozen of these from Radioshack they were more or less giving them away after the fall. There were lots of library apps that sprung up where you could scan your DVDs barcodes, or CDs etc. I can't remember what hair brain
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by oceanghost 3y ago
So the folks who own all the stocks want the government to bid up their assets?
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by oceanghost 3y ago
Yup. Use one every day for Fusion360 and Blender.
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by oceanghost 3y ago
Despite the rosey memories, it encoded the audio in ATRAC. I don't want a lossy audio format in my life.
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by oceanghost 3y ago
I might be able to dig up pictures but they'd be of the iPhone 3G variety.
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by oceanghost 3y ago
I've been to the Keck (back 15 years or so ago). It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience seeing that telescope which was in so many PBS specials (the astronomers comes to mind)… but I couldn't help but feel we took our lives in our
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by oceanghost 3y ago
I had a similar experience in the 5th grade. We had a creative writing assignment (write x many pages), and I wrote a short story about "space spiders" that spun giant webs between planets and moons to catch something. I can'
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by oceanghost 3y ago
I don't speak Armenian, but I dated an Armenian woman once, and she told me they have words for familial relationships that we didn't really have concepts for in English.
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by oceanghost 3y ago
I worked for a lab that did IR research 20 years ago, so I don't know if this is still the case. But at the time, the IR sensors were made with a rare mineral only available in a remote region of Russia. At the time (late 90s) I bought
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by oceanghost 3y ago
Precisely. I got a new land-line-number in the early 2000s. One day, I got a collection call for someone with a Mexican surname. I explained I had just gotten the number and I didn't know who that person was. So naturally, they called
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by oceanghost 3y ago
It came from here... correct or incorrect. https://byjus.com/jee/diamagnetic-materials/
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by oceanghost 3y ago
A diamagnetic material. "In simple terms, diamagnetic materials are substances that are usually repelled by a magnetic field. Electrons in an atom revolve around the nucleus, and thus possess orbital angular momentum. The resultant mag
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by oceanghost 3y ago
Thank you, I will look into this.
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by oceanghost 3y ago
I am just confronting this now. My daughter is 6, and I'm trying to teach her math and reading. She's excelling at reading. The thing about math is, I have to teach her math the way the standards specify. The problem is… The commo
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by oceanghost 4y ago
> So either you’re being an unreliable narrator or Grubhub in particular has gone off a cliff. This is one of the dumbest comments I've ever read. You're taking a premise you have no evidence for (UBER and GH have good customer
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by oceanghost 4y ago
I have a story I'm fond of telling-- I ordered a pizza from GitHub for pickup. The restaurant was literally closed when I arrived. GitHub customer service instantly "resolved" the issue by ruling in their own favor (I even sh
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by oceanghost 4y ago
Disney uses all this data to "optimize" the park-- for profitability. They're not interested in you, exactly. They've gamified the park, which is what sucks about it now. I was very blessed to have the means to live near
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by oceanghost 4y ago
I worked for a university here in So Cal. Our lab fell on hard times and we were scrapping equipment. We had a Crimson series (if memory serves) server that had originally cost like 40k. My boss was screaming at me to sell it for something
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by oceanghost 4y ago
So, I'm 42 at the time this took place. I had just gotten a divorce... I met a nice, 24 year old, and we began dating. She was a great person, but very much a SJW. She had no compunction about making outrageous demands about my persona
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by oceanghost 4y ago
This is my favorite book. I have a signed first edition. I'm super happy to see someone else appreciates it :-)
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by oceanghost 4y ago
I ask for a truth table for AND or OR. You won't believe how many programmers can't answer this question.
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by oceanghost 4y ago
What about food is not "qualitative"? :-) Where on the spectrum are you?
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by oceanghost 4y ago
She's got someone doing good PR for her. I've been a subscriber for years and never seen her on HN except for the last few months. I'm probably an order of magnitude less intelligent than her, but her arguments seem extremely
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by oceanghost 4y ago
There's this concept in economics that regulations last about as long as human memory-- that we create a law to stabilize a problem we saw, then the memory of why we did that is lost, and someone comes in and says "this has always
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by oceanghost 4y ago
I had a very similar experience while EXTREMELY high. The realization came as follows: "I" am a story I'm telling myself about about a conversation between different drives in my head, and I am free to dis-invite those drives
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by oceanghost 4y ago
Yep. I was once advised by HR to "try not to offend anyone." I asked the HR woman, "How do I know what offends any particular person?" She looked genuinely stumped.

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