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wafflemaker
8d ago
Like porn with midgets and donkeys? You can have a lot of midgets on a yacht, but where would you keep the donkey?
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8d ago
It's like your own villa that can sit in any party place you like. Ibiza, French Riviera, Crete, Barcelona. And when you get bored with Europe, you pay someone to sail it to Caribbean and can fly there to party again. And if you'r
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wafflemaker
9d ago
Solution to that problem would deserve a real Noble, not just an iG-one.
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wafflemaker
9d ago
It's actually not really that bad. If you have to split your job likev you said, then you have to do it when she's using Windows too. Linux has made a lot of progress since 2010. If low tech ppl in family get phones, I want them t
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wafflemaker
10d ago
Termux lets you run on your phone things you'd normally need a Linux (apple) pc or a vps. Maybe selfhost on an old phone? Just guessing what the OP meant.
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wafflemaker
11d ago
Never worked professionally in programming and I was told that home projects is like child's play. Especially the humility it requires - remember being mad when my younger brother joined my Factorio game and changed smelters setup. To
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wafflemaker
11d ago
Wow, thanks so much for . gitignore_global. Finally can have Emacs files ignored automatically in all projects. <3
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11d ago
I usually have *secret in .gitignore and append .secret to any files with secrets.
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12d ago
Out of context, but to address "AI will replace engineers". Recently discussed something about economy/investing with a friend while at work at a slaughterhouse. I really didn't want him to get scammed buying crypto. So,
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wafflemaker
12d ago
>Well a lot of things prevent harm that we don't all take it upon ourselves to do voluntarily. Should everyone do all safety-related work for free? Thanks for putting it like that, it changed my opinion on the subject. If it's
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14d ago
Thinking that there's a major continental war about to begin is exactly what Russia wants people to think and what they push through their propaganda machine. It's also good for some governments, because then nobody questions mili
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wafflemaker
15d ago
Seconded here. So far only used ready made sets, especially the fantastic CCNA one from Jeremy's IT Labs. But I guess that if I fix few more errors, I'll break into creating my own cards.
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19d ago
I didn't want to write in this thread. Complaining is just not good for the person complaining. But this: >My phone is always VPNed into my home network which has DNS-level ad and tracker blocking. This doesn't cover all the b
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wafflemaker
19d ago
Following that logic, A server containing a replica of Darth Vader and Millennium Falcon should be reason enough to ban Minecraft everywhere.
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wafflemaker
19d ago
For those who didn't know (like me 5 min ago): Hyperscroll - special mode turned on with a button next to scroll that turns off scroll friction and let's you scroll into infinity (wheel keeps turning after you lift your finger).
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wafflemaker
20d ago
>K-12 K-12 means the public school system in USA & canada. It consists of kindergarten, elementary , middle and high schools, encompassing 12 grades/classes, each taking one year to complete.
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20d ago
Might be also that kids generally still can dream, adults lose that ability if untrained. I believe that most of subjects that are touched on in "The Little Prince" are factual. The other day my wife got into a playground toy car
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20d ago
My single 3080 runs so hot I don't need to warm my room in winter, and have to play games in my underwear in summer.
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wafflemaker
20d ago
It's not hard, it just takes a lot of energy. Enough cheap energy (that doesn't produce CO2) and some incentive and you could have CO2 slowly removed. Like in Critical Mass by Daniel Suarez.
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wafflemaker
21d ago
Moreover, even if there was a reason, it was there "in the model" at the moment of generation. The new model can only guess/hallucinate when ordered to give reasons. It's like having an actor play a role while wearing a
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22d ago
I would be more likely to believe the results if they tested these adults and not asked them. There's a big ego hit in admitting you don't know something. And many people are brought up thinking that it's a shame not to know
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wafflemaker
23d ago
Best thing to do with Gmail spam is to make an auto filter to mark all spam as not spam. Took me only one missed dentist appointment several years ago to get that idea. Now I'm just getting profits. No other spam since I'm using e
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24d ago
I've read the article (except skimming \ fast forwarding 3rd and 2nd paragraph from the end) and it wasn't there. No detailed info explaining why author's criticizing Khan Academy for not doing something it in my experience d
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wafflemaker
24d ago
Is the article about something else than how math on Khan Academy was thaught? I remember minimal videos (3-13 min, usually 5-8), and then exercises drilling the techniques until you understand it and don't make mistakes. If you got a
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24d ago
OTOH creating neural connections takes time. It's a real distance. Small for us, but great for the cells. That's why explaining difficult concepts too fast, while cool for people getting things instantly, is not good for general p
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wafflemaker
24d ago
It's more like, don't eat ice cream cos they taste stale or wrong. You are not forced to eat or read things you don't like/enjoy. And that's why most of us reads the articles or eat ice cream. Especially when you c
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29d ago
>ofc long gone are the times where you could walk into a shop and talk to someone who actually had a clue about what they were selling and most likely was even an expert on the matter. that isn't coming back but that happened long b
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wafflemaker
1mo ago
No idea, only played in low sec. There you shoot everyone. So it's kinda "safe" - no surprises, you expect everyone to try to kill you. Maybe except your own militia, and that's not always. But the rule is good. Can'
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1mo ago
Just follow the old Eve online adage - don't fly what you can't afford to lose. If there's lot of theft and you can't store bike at a secure place - have a cheap bike.
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1mo ago
You have me a good idea. My granny can barely walk. She recently started getting constant alarms on her apple watch about Atrial fibrillation - poor cardiovascular shape. Excruciating exercising with resistance bands is something she could
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