tinier_subsets

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by tinier_subsets 6mo ago
The “wife giving birth” exception for speeding is always so amusing to me. In the U.S., the average distance from a hospital is 10 miles (in a rural area). Assuming 55 mph speed limits, that means most people are 11 minutes from a hospital.
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by tinier_subsets 1y ago
>On AI's struggles with hands: do humans have four or five fingers? Why not both!? https://offline.kids/activity/diy-jigsaw-puzzle/ You missed the puzzle itself, where it’s actually three fingers. Kind of
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by tinier_subsets 1y ago
I never fully believed the “em-dashes are an AI giveaway” meme — until I saw that front page.
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by tinier_subsets 1y ago
This advice assumes you’re in the U.S., so apologies if it isn’t all applicable: Buying in person is the best option. Since it’s your first typewriter, your concerns should be availability and price, not more subjective things like “feel,”
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by tinier_subsets 1y ago
> I think they were bought by Corel Serif (makers of Affinity suite) were bought by Canva last year. So far, they’ve honored their perpetual licenses and still offer them, but it seems like a perilous proposition given Canva’s audience a
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by tinier_subsets 1y ago
>I'd say at least 70% of reddit "hobby" spaces are people buying something with little research, then posting the picture of the thing they bought. A really great (awful) example of this that I saw was on the typewriters s
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by tinier_subsets 1y ago
It never ceases to amaze me that LUE is still active (especially by modern GameFAQs standards) so many years after the quarantine.
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by tinier_subsets 2y ago
> Ivy schools have options - lower prestige to increase enrollment, or lean on prestige and endowments to raise prices. Ivies aren’t dependent on tuition at all. All have need-blind admissions and most offer full rides to anyone accepted