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Don Edwards
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2 hours ago, mlooney said:I just read the side effects and interaction of Topamx and there is no way my doctor would prescribe it. I hit most of the warnings and am already on anti seizures. Plus, I think at least one of my psychoactive drugs is a no-go for it. Which sucks.
Talk to Doc about it anyway. Point out that you don't consider yourself a candidate for that drug, but maybe there's something similar with less problematic side effects?
If you don't ask, they can't say yes.
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17 hours ago, ChronosCat said:I've always been skeptical about "cloud" storage and try to avoid it; I prefer to not to have my files on the machines of other people/organizations (except for those I'm sharing online, of course).
Me too.
If your data is in the cloud, you don't know who has it or what they are doing with it. And while YOU are a tiny target for hackers, the cloud providers are big targets.
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Well, keep trying. You'll get it someday.
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Just wait until a subset of the re-enactment/fantasy community crosses over with a subset of the furry community.
Wren Faires.
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Note though: "...experienced to date..."
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11 minutes ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:Beats Flowers In The Attic.
Yes. I don't recommend reading even the synopsis of that book.
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Well, they're letting you know they haven't forgotten about you... you know you don't need to hold back on spending in preparation for a late-arriving electric bill...
My mail-forwarding service does the equivalent thing: they email a notice when they're scheduled to send my physical mail, telling me whether or not there's anything to actually send. (If there is, the notice includes the postage cost and how much money I have left in the account.)
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Well, one of the few things I actually liked about Trump - the appearance that the Republican leadership hated him nearly as much as the Democrat leadership did - I consider no longer plausibly true. (I still think it WAS true. But the party of big central government controlling everything since about 1856 seems to have somehow achieved some sort of acceptance of his presence, while the party of big central government controlling everything since 1933 has not.)
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2 hours ago, mlooney said:The best government is a benevolent monarch. The trick is keeping them benevolent, which seems to be tricky.
But not as tricky as keeping their heirs benevolent.
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3 hours ago, ChronosCat said:There are some Trump-fanatics who are willing to resort to violence on his behalf; I suspect enough of them to be a problem.
I must point out, though, that there have been two attempts to assassinate a candidate in this election cycle, and both targeted Trump. Making it implausible that the criminals were Trump-fanatics, but plausible that they may have been Harris-fanatics.
(There are fanatics, and other forms of nut-case, on both sides. Not necessarily in similar proportions.)
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Yeah, and in 1854 there was a poem published wherein Russian artillery played a major part.
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Somebody needs to remind the Russian leadership that while it's ok to eat steak when there's a chicken in every pot, keep eating steak while your people have nothing and pretty soon you start to look like a chicken.
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mlooney, have you considered moving somewhere warmer & drier?
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1 hour ago, ijuin said:Ah yes, Write-Only Memory.
Useful for post-mortem dumps in bombs.
Prof, a couple of things:
1) Backing up large amounts of stuff to SSDs: they tend to get hot and slow down. If you're backing up to an external SSD, dangle it over the edge of a table (so it has air on all sides) and point a fan at it (more air to cool it more). This helps.
2) AFAIK you can't do this with a true image backup, but a file backup you can and a lot of modern backup software does: use hard links to do incremental backups, but make them look like full backups. ("Hard link" is what we call it in Linux-land. I know NTFS can do it too but it's probably called something different because, you know, Microsoft. What it is, is a single file sitting there occupying disk space and having multiple directory entries pointing at it and saying "that's my contents, right there!" The file remains as long as at least one surviving directory entry points at it.) Every backup run (except the first, which has to copy everything in scope and therefore takes a comparatively long time) compares the subject data against the previous backup, and copies only the new and changed files - but also copies the complete directories (minus any files that no longer exist on your "live" disk) from the older backup.
Full image every 12 hours? A small selective backup job does all my writing and a bunch of related stuff every 15 minutes. (Granted, the relevant files that get changed are a lot smaller than your music files, and the editing process is rather less sensitive to twentieth-of-a-second delays..)
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2 hours ago, mlooney said:Both of them have hug/touch issues. I suspect they are gonna have to work their way carefully past them.
There are similar issues...
(Hopefully all this works. For some reason when I try to edit one of my posts, the existing content doesn't show up on my screen.)
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I consume very little mainstream media, but today on the way home from shopping I turned on the radio.
Supporters of a certain candidate (details omitted because they don't matter) compared an opposing candidate to a wolf
I must protest.
A wolf never tells the rabbit that the wolf is chasing them for the rabbit's own good.
A wolf never tells the rabbit that the rabbit is better off for having been eaten.
A wolf never tells the rabbit how much better it is to be eaten by a wolf rather than a mountain lion.
Clearly, a wolf is morally superior to the typical politician.
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Badgers are not known for waiting patiently before eating.
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Could be more embarrassing. If I recall correctly, it was the school system in the English city of Scunthorpe that installed a filter to block profanity and vulgarity - after which the school's computers for student use couldn't access the school's computer systems. Or the city's.
When they figured out why, it went down in history as "the Scunthorpe problem." It has cropped up in quite a few other contexts too.
(In the case of Scunthorpe, the problem was the second through fifth letters of the name.)
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For Tedd, I'd add his mother leaving.
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6 hours ago, mlooney said:Which does bring up the point, who puts a well at the top of a hill? The water table would be closer at the base of the hill and require less digging.
We make a lot of northwestern-Europe-based assumptions. If the well in question is in the Middle East, it's entirely possible that it was there first and the hill grew around it. This sort of structure is called a "tel" and is why a great many villages in that area are called "Tel something-or-other." (In Hebrew or Arabic, of course.)
(But not the city of Tel Aviv. That city was founded in 1909 as a suburb of an existing large city - the two have since merged.)
The process runs something like this. A well gets dug. As sources of water are less than commonplace, a village grows up around it. The main building material is clay bricks, because they have a lot more dirt than any other building material. Shit happens, as it tends to when local rulers think killing their neighbors is a good tactic (a regretfully common view pretty much everywhere), and the village is destroyed - the remains adding some small amount to the height of the soil around the well. But the well is still there, and sources of water are still less than commonplace, a village grows up around it. Shit happens... rinse and repeat a few dozen times...
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Yeah. "Which general survives the civil war" is also a basis for government. Some bases are less horrific than others.
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My opinion: anyone who seeks elective government office is either corrupt, insane, or power-hungry, or some combination thereof, and therefore presumably unfit for office. And wanting the voters to think of them as a member of either major US political party is, um, not exactly evidence to the contrary.
(My father said his great-uncle told him that anyone who gets elected twice is a crook. During said relative's fifth term in the state legislature.)
The catch is, government is a necessary evil. So we gotta get somone in there running it.
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So this person you've muted can respond to you with a few dozen abusive garbage posts, and everyone who reads your stuff will see these replies - but you won't?
Yeah, that sounds like a good reason to mute Twitter.\
(But I don't have to - I never set up an account in the first place.)
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9 hours ago, mlooney said:Pepper mint tea isn't supposed to be good for going to sleep, but it seems to have that effect on me.
<google> Well, some fringe people seem to think it might.If you can't sleep because of gas cramps, peppermint tea would probably help.
Comic for Wednesday, Nov 20, 2024
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Hm... (Note: it's been many years since I've played MtG, so I may not get all of the terminology right.)
Distracting Squirrel. Mana cost, 2 green.
0 damage, 1 health.
Tap (interrupt): 1 spell fails to affect this Squirrel.
Tap (interrupt): tap one other creature. If that creature is in combat, remove it from combat.
2 green: this Squirrel gains +1 health (edit:) until end of turn