trogdor

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by trogdor 11d ago
> The gamble is the long term side effects won't bring up their expiration date sooner. That is not true. People routinely do things that are likely to shorten their life because they decide the upside is worth it.
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by trogdor 2mo ago
> after a nasty paragliding accident I’m fairly new to paragliding. What happened? Have you returned to flying?
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by trogdor 2mo ago
Anyone can request their residence be blurred on Street View. I did it myself about six years ago.
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by trogdor 2mo ago
>Even Fable hallucinates It’s in the name :)
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by trogdor 3mo ago
In this case it was a warrant, and the Supreme Court’s ruling does not hold that the warrant violated the fourth amendment. Edit: looks like I misunderstood what you were referring to by “this case”
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by trogdor 3mo ago
There also isn’t a spa yet.
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by trogdor 3mo ago
Minor note: when discussing electricity, abbreviating datacenter as “DC” is confusing
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by trogdor 4mo ago
What I’ve done: All of my passwords and passkeys are in Bitwarden. My brother has emergency access, and I’ve documented in Bitwarden Secure Notes my device credentials, recovery codes, estate information, and instructions for accessing my a
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Ask HN: What are your digital end-of-life plans?
6 points by trogdor 4mo ago|4 comments
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by trogdor 5mo ago
If a company has a specific knowledge advantage regarding the design or manufacture of turbine blades, wouldn’t they patent it?
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by trogdor 5mo ago
> it's currently difficult to get them prescribed by a legitimate doctor unless your obesity-related health problems are really severe I think it’s more accurate to say that it’s difficult to get them covered by insurance unless you
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by trogdor 6mo ago
> The threat of a Chinese moon landing Maybe I’m naive, but what is the threat here? > If it was canceled outright it would be much harder to react to any Chinese success I feel like the appropriate reaction would be to congratulate C
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by trogdor 6mo ago
> The entire point of a dating site is to find somebody to leave that site with. Many people on dating apps are not looking for exclusive or long-term relationships.
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by trogdor 6mo ago
> In fact, you'll probably not find a billionaire with kids at any daycare I grew up with the children of a multi-billionaire. His kids went to the same daycare as I did, and it wasn’t particularly fancy. Some ultra-wealthy people l
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by trogdor 6mo ago
> if you want to see a rain forest or a thousand year old Buddhist temple or a pyramid, there's not really a substitute in the continental US Minor nitpick, but there are temperate rain forests in the continental United States. What
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by trogdor 7mo ago
Because it makes for a more eye-catching headline.
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by trogdor 7mo ago
I’m sure there are countless examples to the contrary, but I recently submitted feedback regarding an issue that I was experiencing in Final Cut Pro. Within a week, a member of the Final Cut Pro team contacted me and asked for a copy of my
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by trogdor 7mo ago
> 2 years ago, a much (much) smaller stunt got me nearly fired at $FAANG, and all I could think was "where has the culture gone?" Okay, I’ll ask. Details?
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by trogdor 8mo ago
> it became clear that the journal's editor was too embarrassed How sad. Admitting and correcting a mistake may feel difficult, but it makes you credible. As a reader, I would have much greater trust in a journal that solicited crit
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by trogdor 10mo ago
> I think Charli crossed that line with the success of her album Brat last year. In Hollywood, that line gets crossed at a surprisingly low level. I am friends with Josh Sussman, who played Jacob Ben Israel on Glee. I occasionally visit
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by trogdor 10mo ago
> European countries are notable for using commercial hulls standards for these ships Is that a problem? Why would navy ships need a different hull construction?
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by trogdor 10mo ago
Followup: there is a very noticeable change in my written conversations with ChatGPT. It seems that there is no change in voice mode.
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by trogdor 10mo ago
I just changed my ChatGPT personality setting to “Efficient.” It still starts every response with “Yeah, definitely! Let’s talk about that!” — or something similarly inefficient. So annoying.
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by trogdor 10mo ago
I used to be a full-time YouTuber, and I was very successful. For my channels, the revenue estimates on Socialblade were accurate. Reality for me tended toward their high estimate.
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by trogdor 10mo ago
Have you tried therapy? For many people, it works.
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by trogdor 11mo ago
The Plaid can only output its maximum power at 100% state-of-charge (or close to it). As state-of-charge decreases, so does the overall battery pack voltage. Since the motors can only pull some peak number of amps, doing so at lower pack vo
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by trogdor 11mo ago
I suggest you practice writing more concisely. The comment you replied to said that “…there's a lot here, and I think the product needs a much clearer story. The copy on the site is long and rambling and needs a lot of tightening up.”
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by trogdor 11mo ago
>I am yet to see a single guy from the right correctly define what "patriarchy" means to the left What does patriarchy mean to the left?
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by trogdor 1y ago
That’s really interesting. Thanks for explaining.
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by trogdor 1y ago
> Current enterprise SSDs have something like a 10000 TBW rating, which we'd exceed in the first month Wow. What’s your use case?

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