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TIL Mark Twain outlived his wife and all but one of his four children
Outlived, or sadly experienced the loss of his wife and 3 out of 4 children?
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TIL Mark Twain outlived his wife and all but one of his four children
Outlived, or sadly experienced the loss of his wife and 3 out of 4 children?
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What's your uncanny special talent, or what comes absolutely natural to you that makes others look at you in intrigue/disbelief?
I'm naturally good at making disparate connections and taking in a whole area of a business/tech etc and understanding it. But any ideas I then have are seen as too hairbrained or rediculous or out of the box or impossible and put down by others instead of being seen as clever and interesting and useful.
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Child medicine
Wait what? That works??
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Google to start permanently deleting users’ location history
I can't find any email from Google or any info on my account settings that this will be happening? Can anyone point to official Google comms about this? As my settings say "keep everything".
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So, where do we go now?
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Agreed, but many 3rd party Reddit apps are making Lemmy versions, so all that refinement is already done, and comes with the user base of "masses" that you're describing.
E.g. I'm here because the Boost for Reddit app creator is going here.
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New World Record: Mitsubishi Robot Solves Rubik’s Cube in Just 0.305 Seconds
I feel like the world record should be set against solving a standard store-bought rubik's cube. If you break it, you did it wrong.
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A devious plan [Last Place Comics]
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Does the last bit mean "earlier that morning" or "morning, the next day" I wonder.
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A Game Of Snake On A LEGO Mechanical Computer
This reminds me of Minecraft redstone computers. Its great to see that does translate to the real world too with a GUI. (I'm aware that the very first computers themselves were mechanical calculations machines)
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Musk is undeniably just trying to run twitter into the ground at this point.
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But also, hasn't that boat left already for several AI companies? They've already trained it up, no need to scrape again, they just use what they got last time for their core training, it's only the last couple of years/months they're missing.
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The daily grind
Riiiight. Tread-mill. Makes total sense now why we call it that.
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A bit meta...
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Same!
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PandaBuy pays ransom to hacker only to get extorted again
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It's what they can do with all of it together. Particularly about calling you and pretending to be a real company, phishing you, because if they called your phone and confirmed your email, name, and home address and order details with you, then it's likely many people would believe them.
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Cat meets Dog
Looking forward to next episode 😀
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Reddit slowly became filled with hate
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Oh? I don't know about the "fairness doctorine".
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What DID Apple innovate?
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I had never thought of wiping an old mac and putting Linux on it to give it a new life. That's a great idea! Thank you.
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Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims
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Snap! Double irony
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Kids who use ChatGPT as a study assistant do worse on tests
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I read that comment, and use it similarly, as more a super-dictionary/encyclopedia in the same way I'd watch supplementary YouTube videos to enhance my understanding. Rather than automating the understanding process.
More like having a tutor who you ask all the too-stupid and too-hard questions to, who never gets tired or fed up with you.
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As an autistic person how do you stay motivated (more specifically doing long tasks)?
I've started using a stopwatch, and my aim is not to complete the task, but just to spend time on that task and nothing else. This does 2 things: 1) just the fact I'm on the tasks moved me forward more than not being on the task. 2) as its counts up, not down, I am just interested in increasing the number, so every 30 seconds or minute or 10 extra that I do makes the number bigger and the dopamine higher.
I combine this with a habit tracker (literally called habits on android store) so I can try and beat my last high score etc.
I don't set myself any targets etc that would cause me to feel shame (and then procrastinate due to that shame), so it lowers the barrier of startinf sufficiently low so that I can get on. And then the flow starts to kick in and we're off...
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Solar modules deployed in France in 1992 still provide 75.9% of original output power
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That is a very neat bow 😄
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Day 42 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots (No Man's Sky)
I thgouth it was a variant of rocket league's ball