hedgehogging_the_bed

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

How do you get home internet service without a subscription? I'm down to try it.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

Support your local thrift stores!

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

Just a reminder that even if the core work of the transcribing is done automatically now, being a media accessibility specialist who ensures the transcribing works and it is attached correctly, performs advocacy work for accessibility, and manages these systems, is a worthwhile job and will stay so for a long time.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I take it you've never been involved in such an endeavor? What you propose would take a decade a minimum due to the sheer number of nested advisory committees that would be required for those groups to interface. Better a non-profit group begins the work and then solicits these group's input at the design stage.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (9 children)

Is there a Browser where I don't have to turn off these type of sponsored links? I've done it in Chrome, Firefox and Opera at minimum.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Drupal...damn it's been years since someone mentioned Drupal. I remember it being the next big thing....

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I was coming here to say this. Before NewEgg, the best way to buy computer parts was to show up at a conventions center or fairgrounds, firehall or community college for the next Computer Show. Buy some parts in cash from people who speak barely any English and then either take it all home and start assembling or hand it off to the ancient guy chain-smoking at the back door and pay him to zip-tie it together in 5 minutes for you.

Years and years of doing this and we only had one situation when we cracked the case later and found out the guy has swapped the parts we bought for used Dell components when we were at lunch. Always took them home after that.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He was living in the UK studying on a football scholarship. I can't imagine the cultural shock of moving from rural Thailand to the UK much less doing it with the tough after effects of such a traumatic experience.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago

First rule of parenting: Give in right away or not at all. If it's been long enough to type this post, you're going to have to ignore the screaming for dessert until they fall asleep from exhaustion because if you give in now, all you've done is encourage tantrums.

Distract the kid, take em for a walk, talk to them in whispers until they quiet down enough to hear your and then tell them knock knock jokes.

Literally anything that's not giving them dessert.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Oh wow. No one ever asks about my undergrad grades anymore. It was a study-abroad in London, UK at Goldsmith's college. I got whatever a UK "D" was at the time, a 55 or something. Thankfully I came with a study-abroad program guide who gave us a "US Grade Equivalent" sheet at the start which said that was a passing grade and I didn't worry about it. For the course "Animals In Medieval Art and Literature" which became 3 credits of Anthropology at my local state university in the United States toward a Bachelor's in Science the following year. I entered grad school 4 months after that in an unrelated field and never used this knowledge for anything but trivia since.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Ha! I wrote a paper about the meaning of dragons for a undergrad anthropology college course in 2003 and I cited the heck out of this book. Also Mythical Beasts edited by John Cherry.

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