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  • Introverts of our era spend their time on their computers, but what did introverts do before? Like when literacy rates were lower (pre-1950s)? Or before the printing press?

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  • In 2003 I worked for a small company that was attempting to be an early ebook publisher, before the days of ereaders and smartphones. It was too ahead of its time and closed after our first two publications. One of the books was on an old mining town, and part of my job was doing research and collecting photos and reference materials for the book.

    I had the chance to read the diary of a miner from the 1860s. Keeping a diary was one popular hobby, but one thing that stood out to me was how he described a day off he had, it was a Sunday I believe and he spent 6 hours watching a bird and writing down all that it did.

    What I gathered is that in the absence of entertainment or chores, humans will find things to fill the void. What seems extremely boring to you or me was very fulfilling to those with no other options.

  • Doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results is not the definition of insanity. It's the definition of practice.

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  • Actions are absolutely repeatable to a level of precision enough to achieve a desired goal. Hence your ability to type this comment, for musicians to perform music, for athletes to win games, so on and so forth. Repeatable actions are at the center of humanities ability to function.

    All actions have variance, but the level of accuracy is only relevant to the prescribed goal. In the example of a basketball, the ball only needs to enter the top of the hoop from a given range of angles, at a range of speeds. As long as you are within this tolerance you will achieve the goal of making a basket. The whole concept of the game relies on this repeatability.

    When a person learns to write they must draw a series of shapes. At first the letters are often difficult to read and will make the words they attempt to write unintelligible. As they practice, they refine their motor skills to within a tolerance of legibility. Each letter doesn't have to be truly identical. Just within the tolerance of the goal.

    So the key points here are; tolerance of repeatability is defined by the goal, repeatable actions are ingrained in nearly everything we do, and finally if you think that repeating your position through a series of pedantic semantics, goal post shifting or false premises is going to change the outcome of this argument, that might just be the definition of insanity.

  • The Open Printer Is a Raspberry Pi Zero W-Powered, Fully-Open, Highly-Flexible Inkjet Printer

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  • I believe the idea is you would refill the original cartridge. You can get refill ink and a type of syringe to put ink back into the original cartridge. Those have been available for a while.

  • Doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results is not the definition of insanity. It's the definition of practice.

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  • Imagine you are practicing basketball free throws. The goal of the practice is to get the ball through the hoop.

    To be clear the key word is goal, which can be defined as an achievable end result. In this example the ball goes through the hoop or it doesn’t.

    If you throw the ball away from the hoop in such a way that it doesn’t even come close to going through the hoop, a reasonable person would say you need to change your actions to get a different result.

    However, if you do not change your actions yet you expect the ball to go through the hoop, this is unreasonable and could broadly be seen as “insanity” as a sort of pejorative for a person who may be suffering from mental illness or is simply being unreasonable.

    Practice by definition is synonymous with iteration, which is repeating an activity while making changes to affect the result or outcome of that activity.

    The statement is about the individual goal not the general activity you’re practicing.

  • If autism is a spectrum, does that mean everyone is on the spectrum?

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  • This is a pretty decent comparison. Not everyone can have ASD because then it can’t be classified as a disorder. There is a threshold for being diagnosed just as with vision impairment. Those who are diagnosed are on a spectrum from least debilitating to most.

  • Trump Spotted After Widespread And Giddy Speculation He Is Secretly Dead Or Dying

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  • Trump Spotted After Widespread And Giddy Speculation He Is Secretly Dead Or Dying

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  • Imagine if you will a scenario in which a photographer, taking more than one picture of an event in time. And then stretch that imagination a little further that said photographer could release some photos in 2019 and then other photos from the same event 6 years later. Then imagine, just for shits and giggles, that a president has a team of people who are managing public perception.

    Just so we’re clear my point is it’s weird, not proof of anything, just really fuckin weird considering this guy’s history.

  • Trump Spotted After Widespread And Giddy Speculation He Is Secretly Dead Or Dying

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  • Such a confusing take. You start by saying they used old photo, which is my point, as they are claiming this photo is proof of life, since he hadn’t been seen in three days.

    Then you insinuate I am saying it’s not possible for him to wear the same clothes or ride in the same car as 6 years ago.

    Sure it’s possible that this is all coincidence and yep he’s got the same SUV and the same clothes and the photographer had to stand at the same location.

    I just think the probability is lower that this is proof that Trump is prancing around golf courses kicking balls closer to holes. Just seems a little odd.

    Like the probability that someone gets grazed by a bullet and the wound magically disappeared or that politicians create fake files planting the presidents name in them for 30 years. Sure, could happen…

    My point is something’s fucky with this whole thing.

  • Trump Spotted After Widespread And Giddy Speculation He Is Secretly Dead Or Dying

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  • looks like the one 1% can't be everywhere.

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  • Tourism has definitely slowed, but it’s not like in this video. You can confirm this by looking at the live cameras of the strip.

    Same is true for the airport videos. Yes travel has slowed pretty significantly but people are exaggerating to get clicks.

  • Lorde’s new CD is so transparent that stereos can’t even read it

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  • While obviously a fail on the part of the publisher, this can be fixed. The back side needs to be made opaque, which can be done numerous way… sharpie, enamel paint, or for something less permanent you can still buy CD labels which are vinyl or paper sheets die cut to the size of a CD and coated with an adhesive.

    Probably the best way to fix this is to just download the file and play it from a device like a civilized person.

  • Getting super bored of most online/phone content, what do you do when you have a few minutes?

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  • This is a great recommendation. To add another you can also get the Medito App for either Android or iOS which is also free.

  • Communism in theory vs in practice

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  • Any Female Linux Youtubers?

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  • The intersection of female Linux user and female YouTuber is very small, however there are female Linux user groups, which are much larger, who often meet at conferences. Might be something to look into.

  • Any Female Linux Youtubers?

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  • Any Female Linux Youtubers?

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  • Hyper-Normalization

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  • This is due to the way Reddit handles video. The video and the audio are two separate files that are combined by Reddit embedded media player. There are tools to combine them however I usually just go to the source to get the original instead or trying to pull it from Reddit.

  • Cybertruck gets rekt

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  • Cybertruck gets rekt

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