tomc1985

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by tomc1985 4y ago
Spectrograms are used in speech therapy to help with pronunciation. I remember using one such program to correct my own speech, at elementary school in the 90s. It was even a game: I moved a cursor through a maze and it would only move in t
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by tomc1985 4y ago
No, I am not saying this is a fact-free zone. What I am saying is that it is a zone for opinions, which may or may not be true (counterfactual may not be the best word choice here, but it is close enough), and is not to be held to the sam
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Growing up I do not remember political associations to be so strong in folks. Twenty years ago, when 9/11 hit, we put aside our differences in a remarkable display of national unity. (Granted, not all good came out of this; a number of
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by tomc1985 4y ago
The past as you see it here doesn't exist, by my own perception. There were a lot more extremeist groups in the shadows, but that contained them and isolated those that sought to join them. With so much of this extremeism out in the op
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Yeah, online communities reflexively "other" anyone who does not agree with their increasingly robust (aka fascist) political dogma, given that that sort of thing seems to be inescapably creeping into everything How many times h
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by tomc1985 4y ago
They don't start fresh every three months. Usually they have multiple leagues cooking up in the oven at any given time, so that if the league they want to release isn't ready in time, another, simpler idea will likely be within re
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Humorists all over the western world are finding that the newest members of their audience don't even speak their language any more. Kind of reminds me of the Funnybot episode of South Park. I for one think the prank that GOG pulled is
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by tomc1985 4y ago
I've gotten good enough at Linux to where I don't need to constantly look stuff up after long periods of use, but not FreeBSD. Which is why I love FreeBSD so much. It's consistent, clearly explained, thoroughly documented, po
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Haven't tried Mono, Node, or anything NoSQL, but Java, Ruby, and Postgres all run pretty well. It is runtime-compatibile with Linux executables and you can even install a linux distro in a jail https://forums.freebsd.org&#x2
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by tomc1985 4y ago
And supporting them is supporting a faceless corporation run by young, ageist technocrats, where all your rights are squashed under DRM
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by tomc1985 4y ago
On a high quality record with a high quality setup, you can have both. It's because the distortion is really subtle, and hits all the right harmonics. On bass-heavy music it makes the bass sound really nice. The other parts of "wa
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Yes, but it really isn't that far. As soon as you leave the edge of suburba-mega-town you're in wilderness again. Where I live it's much less than a half-hour of driving, from the most interior parts of the city, in most cond
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Maybe on the popular coasts, but most of inner USA is little pockets of development spread out among large wilderness Hell even the California countryside is like this, once you get far enough away from the big cities
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by tomc1985 4y ago
I wonder if it made the association from being shown images with various kinds of fights, a large portion of which may have been bloody.
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Stop anthropomorphisizing computers! They hate that!
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Maybe it's the prevailing trend among non-HN people that sucks.
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Would a confidant or ally obscure the reasons for problems behind a friendly face? Would they use subtlety and emotional manipulation to push you to use the things that they want you to use? Is my computer my ally/confidant, or is it
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by tomc1985 4y ago
touche
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by tomc1985 4y ago
The tonality of all the new copy in Windows 10 is just bad. It's like a bunch of nontechnicals got together and tried to cuteify the OS. I had totally forgotten about how obnoxious Cortana was (I always turned that shit off first thing
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by tomc1985 4y ago
I miss the bluescreens that didn't have emoticons
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Computers don't have feelings, they process data. I don't want servants, I have computers for that. So how I talk to them shouldn't matter. In fact, if you have a servant at all, YOU are an enormous asshole. Nobody should liv
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by tomc1985 4y ago
They're trying to come off as friendly and inviting, but I read it as half-assed. Perception is a bitch. If I had my way we'd dispense with all these stupid pleasantries. My computer is not my friend, Windows is not my friend, and
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Kind of like how Windows' first-time boot-up greets you with a flat (and totally inappropriate) "Hi" Like fucking seriously, not even "Hello"? "Hi" is how I greet the coworker I don't really even like
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by tomc1985 4y ago
I don't know what's so demonstrably false about it; there is credible evidence (cited in another comment) suggesting mineral/electrolyte loss from drinking demineralized water and GGP admits to purposefully consuming nutrient
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by tomc1985 4y ago
I'm thinking demineralized water, of which distillation is several ways to produce it. The rub seems to be that it leeches minerals from both the body and distribution mechanisms (like metal piping)
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by tomc1985 4y ago
> If you take a multivitamin and eat a varied diet, there is no "magic" nutritional value lost. So you're substituting in the lost minerals from other sources. I don't see how that detracts from my (rather weak) argu
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Why not google this yourself? Here are a few papers I was able to dig up: http://ecoewp.com/images/nutrientschap12.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4223198/ And FFS peopl
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by tomc1985 4y ago
I don't know, but 'distilled' water is typically sold as the most chemically pure form of water. I do know it needs to be remineralized or something, as pure distilled water is bad for you.
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by tomc1985 4y ago
But plenty to do with distillation, which is the mechanism this solar device uses
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by tomc1985 4y ago
One that shows a very plausible reality where FAANG comes out with a rating system, and how that might potentially go down.

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