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  • The good parts of Reddit came from Aaron Swartz. Everything since then has been these guys trying to squeeze as much money out as possible (remember Reddit Coins?).

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  • I owe much of my career to trying to set up Linux From Scratch two decades ago. While it's a much better experience installing Linux nowadays, there's a lot to be said for the experience spending your weekend debugging a system will give you.

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    Near-Future file type concept "Digital Memory"
  • What you think of as important may change over time, as well - with the solution as written, you'd need to decide what the "subject" is at compress time, but what if you later realise that's the last ever photo of grandma, or the AI decides that you were wearing different shoes than you actually were. Worst case, you need to rely on some detail in a photo later, like to absolve you of a crime.

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    Please, not again.
  • I'd swap out Roosevelt for Nixon - Teddy's interventionism set us on a bad path, but at least we got national parks and antitrust laws out of it. Nixon was just pure shit show start to finish.

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    Science says teens need more sleep. So why is it so hard to start school later?
  • We once got a $250 lumber budget for building sets rejected (with the rationale that we could just reuse the sets from last year, even though that was a totally different play from a different time period, nevermind completely disassembled). Meanwhile, the cheerleading squad was issued matching tracksuits with their names embroidered, including on the duffle bag it came in. Sports sucks up huge amounts of money from school budgets, and everyone else is left to fight over the rest.

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  • Seen the video - it looks like he has a panic attack (probably because his boss is standing over him saying how dangerous it is), but they said he overdosed from touching it / potentially inhaling it and "nearly died".

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    What are your favourite things under 50$ that make your life a bit easier or more pleasant?
  • Normal rekeying is pretty easy, if you're careful - push out the core (the "follower" will hold your spring pins in place), dump out the old key pins, swap to the new key, and put in the new key pins, replace the core. Even when I've completely screwed it up (pushed the follower too far so the springs came out, mixed all the key pins together so I had to work out which was which, and more) it's not been more than a 10-minute job.

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    Lighthearted, upbeat shows for adults?
  • "Miracle Workers" hasn't been mentioned yet, it has a similar vibe, romantic comedy, some mild philosophy, very upbeat. Each season is a different storyline with (almost) the same cast, so if the first season doesn't grab you try the next. The creator had an earlier show "Man Seeking Woman" as well, that's fun too.

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    Republicans Have Absolutely Had It With Tommy Tuberville: “Xi Jinping Is Loving This”
  • He's mad that female service members stationed where abortion is illegal, are able to apply for leave / reimbursement for travel to another state to get an abortion.

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    Very clever...
  • yy to copy, dd to cut, p to paste. Need to move 5 lines at once? No problem, move to the first line and use d5d, and p to paste it. Vim gets a bad rap for being confusing, but it's so fast to move text around once you get the hang of it.

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    What's your favourite podcast at the moment?
  • Having just finished up 6 episodes on G. Gordon Liddy, knowing nothing about him beforehand, I second the recommendation of Behind the Bastards.

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    JK Rowling prefers two years in jail over using correct pronouns
  • That monologue (from one of the unambiguously "good" characters) about how it would be cruel to set the elves free, because of the joy they get from servitude? Even as a teenager, I recognised that as a messed-up sentiment, but my peers just said I was being too sensitive. Glad that you couldn't let something like that slide nowadays.

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    What are in your opinion "essential" android apps that aren't as popular/talked about?
  • A Strobe Tuner is fantastic if you play music. I've been using the open source one by Adam Foster for years, but heard the A4Labs version is good too.

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    Anon makes a decision
  • Something that took me a while to realise is that you don't necessarily need to be eating rubbish food to gain weight, just too much. I think there's this stereotype of the guy chugging down sugary drinks all day with his greasy burgers in between handfuls of sweets, but that's not the case for most people.

    What was a big help for me was getting a food scale, and working out what size portions I should be eating - particularly for carby things like rice and pasta I found I was way off on my estimates of what a decent serving should be.

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    Makes sense.
  • If they hadn't tried to claim the history as their own I don't think it would have been nearly as controversial. Calling themselves "The Dons" and referencing 1889 as the founding date was just insulting.

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    just wait, it could get worse....
  • Iirc, the rough delineation is if you remember the challenger disaster = gen x, 9/11 = millennial, covid = gen z, after that = gen alpha.

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