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The Catholic Church does not hold Young Earth Creationism as dogma nor does it hold that the seven days in Genesis were literal days.

I have tried multiple times to make notebooks work for me for note taking or tracking tasks but it always falls apart eventually. First it was bullet journals, then I tried something a little less structured but in the end I couldn’t get it to stick. Now I use Apple Notes which is good enough.

I love this stuff, this is what the internet was made for.

When I was a kid I beat this game 100% and got the secret ending where Jeff Goldblum tells you to stop playing video games and go outside.

I was really hyped for Shenmue when it came out on the Dreamcast, but I wasn't crazy about it once I finally played it. It was a glorified point and click adventure game, and it ultimately had no ending or purpose. It was an interesting and ambitious idea for a game though, they threw the kitchen sink in there.

My favorite part of the game was playing space harrier in the arcade.

Shout out for stilling calling it PSX

I agree with the interface. It only does one thing and it does it really well: it tells you how to drive somewhere.

I also never considered the fact that the UI won't change randomly to be a feature lol.

In the latest model you can hook it up to the internet so when you get home it auto updates itself. You can also hook it up to your phone so text messages and Slack notifications pop up on the side of the screen. I would imagine these are features you would not want to use.

That's true, I was considering mentioning that but I wasn't sure if that feature is still enabled in the latest version. It is also not really dependable because you need to be in the right place in order to get the data, or at least that was my perception when using older GPS models.

I have a soft spot in my heart for Garmin.

I am one of the few people left that still use Garmin's car GPS. I currently use the latest model, the Drive Smart 66. It is my daily driver (lol?).

I recently went on a cross country road trip and this thing worked perfectly even when I was in the middle of the desert or driving through a canyon. It was nice to not rely on cell phone service for navigation on this trip.

Although the question often comes up: why not just use your phone? There are pros and cons for sure.

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Pros:

- You don't need a cellular connection for map data. -- Counter Point: You can download map data on google maps. True, but it is something extra that you need to remember to do.

- You don't need to waste your cellular data -- Counter Point: Don't most people have unlimited plans these days?

- A corporation isn't tracking your every move -- Counter Point: Most people don't seem to care about this.

- Modern Garmin GPSs can get traffic data -- Counter Point: It requires a cellphone and it is not going to be as good as google maps

- Modern GPS screens look just as good as a phone and you can get one that is as large as a tablet -- Counter Point: you could probably use a tablet and google maps

- Garmin makes GPS units for specific vehicles like motorcycles and RVs and they take their vehicles quirks into account when routing trips. Google maps is one size fits all

- A Garmin GPS unit from 20 years ago will still work today as long as you can update the maps.

- Because of the previous point, it is very nice to keep one of these in the trunk of your car as a back up

- Garmin GPSes can handle sitting in the hot sun without overheating, which some cell phones are prone to do.

- I really like having the GPS on my dashboard so I don't have to look down and to the right to look at my car's infotainment screen -- Counter Point: You can mount a phone on your dashboard or windshield. They even sell stand alone monitors for your car where you can view apple car play as it was a stand alone gps.

Neutral

- The routing can make weird mistakes, but this is true for all GPSes including apple maps and google maps

Cons

- And this is the biggest: it is nowhere near as good at finding businesses as google maps. To me that is google map's killer feature

SiriusXM is sweating right now

The Thunderbirds board game is an excellent co-op game and it is worth playing if you can find it. It was made by the same guy who created Pandemic and Forbidden Island/Desert.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/160610/thunderbirds

This is pretty funny. I usually hear this kind of language when a religious person is so devastated when their priest or pastor does something wrong that it causes them to leave their religion altogether. Are you going to do the same thing for scientism?

People doing bad things, including Christians, is completely in line with the Christian teachings of original sin, the fall and concupiscence. It is human nature to do bad things and it is very difficult to over come this behavior.

I worked at a company that did this.

Here is the formula for viewability:

Percent In View = Area of the Intersection of the Ad and the Viewport / Area of the Ad

You would get the area of the ad using getBoundingClientRect, and the area of the viewport using window.innerWidth and window.innerHeight.

It was not possible to do this if the ad was within a hostile iframe (cross origin iframe) so you needed to use a third party source for this information like SafeFrame.

All of this was greatly simplified when Intersection Observer was officially supported by modern browsers.

What is the upside of using an infinite canvas? I tried playing around with them in the past but I think my brain's mental model of how to parse data is incompatible with "clutter" (for lack of a better term) of an infinite canvas.

Secrets of the Javascript Ninja is my favorite JS book by far.

I came here to say the same thing.

Here is a question for all you Mac experts:

I purchased an M1 Mac Mini and I regret it, I should have gotten a laptop because I often find myself wanting to use my computer outside of my office. I am not doing anything crazy with this thing, just photo editing and light coding.

Is there any reason why I should choose a Pro over an Air at this point?

Are "TPS Reports" a real thing?!

I thought they were just a jokey gag name that they created in the Office Space movie to represent pointless busy work. This is like all the times as an adult I finally understood a joke I heard in The Simpsons back when I was a kid!

Does this work with modern day MacOS?

I have often heard people say things like "I don't believe the universe or our lives have any meaning, so I choose to make my own meaning."

If the universe is meaningless, and all the things in it are equally meaningless (ourselves included). How is it possible to create meaning? How can a meaningless thing or action within a meaningless system have any meaning? I guess we could just declare that this thing has meaning, but isn't this just a delusion? Like thinking 0 + 0 = 1?

From the article:

'The Pill, Humanae Vitae declared, "... Man, growing used to contraceptive practices, may lose respect for the woman and come to the point of considering her as a mere instrument of selfish enjoyment, and no longer as his respected and beloved companion."'

This statement seems pretty prophetic when you take a look at the dating scene today.

I was not a fan of Foundation, however the Cleon story line was awesome, everything was really bad.

If your lawn isn't too large you can use a manual reel mower instead. They produce very little noise so you can mow your lawn, listen to your podcasts, and not annoy your neighbors.

I came here to mention Krebstar as well.

I personally prefer to take pictures of people, preferably people that I know. I almost never revisit photos I take of random things like landscapes or buildings. In the hands of a more skilled photographer those pictures might be valuable, but for me taking pictures of random things seems like a waste. Especially since I primarily shoot film, and every single picture I take costs money.

In twenty years which picture am I going to want to look at? A picture of a family member or a picture of a gas station?

Here is a youtube video explaining why electric cars negatively affect AM radios and why companies like Tesla are phasing them out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVHwQn9PRUw

In a previous thread the author mentioned that it is homeschooling without a set curriculum.

> the Catholic Schools are shit

Could you elaborate on this?

I bought a Seki Edge Grooming kit through Mass Drop a few years ago. Out of all the junk that I bought from Mass Drop, these nail clippers are the only things I still use. It is easily the best thing I have gotten through them. I bought a second pair in case the first one breaks.

https://drop.com/buy/seki-edge-grooming-kit

This is very cool, thank you.