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dymax78

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About dymax78

InfoSec Engineer

An unyielding fascination with Architecture and Structural Engineering.

Recent public activity

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    The newly released blu-ray includes both the 85-minute and 60-minute cuts.

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    Comment #42784757

    ~10 years ago I had a renewed interested in perspective drawing, and was struggling with an 'exercise' that utilized curvilinear perspective & oblique angles. Anyways, I stumbled o…

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    Comment #41821219

    ~50% response rate for people with major depressive disorder isn't "barely working" -- for millions of people, SSRIs significantly improve their quality of life. Unfortunately, the…

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    Comment #41629064

    You may be interested in a Home Music Player/Streamer. They're typically quite expensive though - WiiM devices are the exception.

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    Comment #41550954

    Having been a young kid in the 80s, what I recently discovered was the primary concern with parents at the time (because, I genuinely don’t remember) was using those afternoon and …

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    Comment #39843652

    I've always thought it was weird that distros like Manjaro and EndeavourOS get lumped together as "arch derivatives" when the former doesn't even pull from the Arch repos.

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    Comment #39843274

    In addition to 7839284023's suggestions, if you're making regular backups and not performing partial updates, I think it's unlikely you'll tank your OS and if you do, you got the b…

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    Comment #39842447

    EndeavourOS has been my daily driver for about 4 years - I'm a huge fan. A breeze to install, excellent community, and I like the QoL features/packages they've added.

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    Comment #39827943

    >For mass gamers of that era, where the big thing was "arcade in your living room" it's a disapointement.... One exception to this is the shmup genre. The Saturn was inundated with…

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    Comment #39611503

    Odd position. Apache devs thanklessly busted their ass patching log4shell in 2021.

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    Comment #37261434

    and microtransactions in Ubik.... *shrug* I mentioned quintessential works rather than "origin stories" to avoid an inevitable "all work is derivative". edit: True Names surely sho…

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    Comment #37261227

    the bulk of tech foresight - Metaverse, Gargoyles, Earth (Google Earth)... I think it's foundational. the fact it lagged several years behind the sprawl trilogy, mirrorshades, or s…

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    Comment #35367824

    > Fines up to $1M and 20 years in prison. It also uses civil forfeiture and makes it illegal to properly run a VPN. I genuinely don't understand where this interpretation is coming…

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    Comment #35366744

    Big fan of ASR and former HeadFi member (back when they actually had a sub-forum dedicated to measurements, data, and science). My only 'criticism' (and it's primarily directed at …

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    Comment #35064536

    I haven't experienced chatgpt explicitly tell me "I don't know", but it has provided me with factually incorrect answers pertaining to the functionality of an appliance and associa…

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    Comment #34055960

    The First Law trilogy by Joe Abercrombie. Grim and gritty, with phenomenal character development that hones in on the fallibility of people. The narration by Steven Pacey is incred…

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    Comment #31819504

    Headfi wasn’t always that way. There was a mass exodus of their scientific-minded members, who dedicated themselves to posting objective, and double-blind tests. Naturally, this cr…

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    Comment #31819232

    > If you're into headphones, Crinacle's site/YT are on a completely different level than any other review site. Audio Science Review was posting deep-dive technical reviews of amps…

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    Comment #31629826

    There are plenty of children whose online behavior is oblivious to their parents, or they circumvent restrictions their parents placed.

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    Comment #31529088

    That's an interesting perspective. Certainly not saying you're wrong. I found the font on Windows (note: Windows 10) unbearable despite deploying a plethora of "tweaks" and "fixes"…

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    Comment #31385320

    Unfortunately, I’m one of those individuals illogically terrified of flying. A small dose of a benzo (in my case, Ativan), makes the flight bearable.

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    Comment #31385298

    And I’m not sure why propranolol would be continue to be prescribed, as it as been for 50+ years, for acute heart attacks if there was a substantial risk in the patients health det…

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    Comment #31050155

    Beautiful instruments. Personally, I still opt for a faber-castell clutch pencil, alvin lead, and a dahle or staedtler sharpener. In the event it's misplaced, it's not much of a lo…