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Let's hear your tips: What are some less common autistic accommodations you've made for yourself?
I wouldn't rely on a strategy that requires cops to read.
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Let's hear your tips: What are some less common autistic accommodations you've made for yourself?
I wouldn't rely on a strategy that requires cops to read.
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Vincent Delorenzo, an ex-priest in Michigan, pleads guilty to sexually assaulting 5-year-old after funeral
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One year in jail for raping a 5 year old.
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[LIVE THREAD] Donald Trump's arraignment in Miami; his supporters expected to protest outside of courthouse
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I'm torn on the mugshot. On the one hand, I agree with your general point. On the other hand, he'll just use a mugshot to bilk money out of his marks. But on the gripping hand, last time they just photoshopped a mugshot, so does it really matter if he has a real one?
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EU votes to mandate removable batteries in smartphones in a landslide; no more glued together junk!
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USB-C is standard for Android devices, but Apple devices still use lightning.
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The blackout is starting to have a financial impact on Reddit, but we must stay dark!
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Libel of this nature must not stand. They're blood emeralds.
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Disconcerting responses on Reddit over blackout
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Not even "are poor", just "aren't rich." Immigrating is expensive, both in actual costs and in loss of stability.
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Elon Musk Says Twitter Is Going To Get Rid Of The Block Feature, Enabling Greater Harassment
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There's no stock to tank. You could argue that he's trying to tank the company, but there are easier ways to do that.
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Instant Pot maker seeks bankruptcy protection - NPR
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Really depends what you use it for. Being able to make a good beef chili on a weeknight is fantastic, but people certainly try to use them for things that aren't meant for pressure cooking.
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Update from Lemmy (devs) after the Reddit blackout
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Microsoft says the 2-3 year development cycles of big-budget games are over
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The problem with procgen for variety is that it's almost always a few procedural changes layered onto a finite, typically small, set of "types". You can see this in games like No Man's Sky, where there are technically billions of different animals that you might encounter on a planet, but a lot of them are pretty similar. Even in DRG with their terrain gen, they're building on room templates that you'll start to recognize the more you play.
It's kind of like those ad campaigns about how many millions of ways you can make a burger. Sure, a 1/4 lb cheeseburger with lettuce, tomato, onions, and ketchup on a sesame seed bun is technically different from a 1/4 lb cheeseburger with lettuce, tomato, onions, and mustard on a sesame seed bun, but they're both still burgers. You might hit onto some unique combinations (e.g. meat, cheese, and toast on the bottom, with no top bun -> patty melt) but you're ultimately still just seeing burgers everywhere, and the system that generated the burger isn't ever going to generate aloo gobi.
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Season 4 Critical Corruption
No new missions since Industrial Sabotage, although s3 added lithophage decontamination as an objective that can appear in existing mission types.
S4 seems to be pretty light on significant new content, but on the other hand, jetboots will only serve to increase the number of warcrimes the driller can commit per minute.
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The best [citation needed] ever
Reminds me of this classic
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How is a company like Reddit “not profitable” yet?
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This could have been something that reddit pitched successfully to the site at the time - they could have acknowledged that folks don’t like ads and made a point of framing advertisers as entities choosing to support reddit and keep it free & functional - Reddit likes supporting “it’s own”. They could have facilitated and supported connections between advertisers and targeted communities in ways that bypass Reddit’s hostility towards ads and appeals to advertisers. Instead they just started serving ads.
And they didn't just start serving ads, they started serving ads like the HeGetsUs campaign that were so poorly targeted that the community they'd built absolutely hated them.
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Elon Musk Says Twitter Is Going To Get Rid Of The Block Feature, Enabling Greater Harassment
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There's no stock or similar security, so the SEC doesn't care at all. Could be a plausible deniability thing, I just think it's more likely that he really is that dumb, given the stories about Tesla/SpaceX having teams that basically existed just to control him.
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Evaporative Humidifier
Vornado Evap40 and the zigbee/zwave outlet controller of your choice. It's classic dumb tech; if you have it switched on but the power is off, it'll start just fine when you turn the power back on. The top of the central unit just lifts right off for cleaning. And it's a pure evaporative unit, so if something happens and it fails on, it's still self regulating.
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Hacker News: Reddit experiments on users, forcing them to install app or else not use Reddit
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LLMs are definitely a big part of it, but there's no reason they couldn't have different pricing for different use cases.
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I thought the point was distribution not centralization?
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You might be right about human nature, but I don't think that the current state of lemmy is a good argument in that direction. Since there isn't a way to aggregate multiple communities together, network effects drive users towards centrilization. It'd be interesting to see what happens if cross-instance community aggregation becomes possible.
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[Support request] Hi everyone! i have a problem with the runout sensor
Make sure both ends of the cable are seated firmly.
Open the sensor up and check for any debris that may interfere with the microswitch.
If both of those are ok, you'll want to check continuity of the cable with a multimeter, to make sure the cable hasn't broken internally somewhere. Once that's confirmed good, tape the switch closed and test continuity through the switch. Typically those sensors are made with really cheap microswitches, so you may need to just swap it out with a more reliable switch.
Good news is they're extremely simple, and so pretty easy to test.
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[Support request] Hi everyone! i have a problem with the runout sensor
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Yeah, if the filament is loose that should be your first step, it may not be able to keep the switch closed consistently.
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Reddit's CEO really wants you to know that he doesn't care about your feedback
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Apple 100% supports subscriptions for apps.