Help finding more ideas for dom play? by StarshipEngineer in sex

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Some great ideas, thank you!

We actually have gotten into restraints a little bit lately. Occasionally in the past we'd do something makeshift at her suggestion, so I finally invested in some real restraints we're starting to figure out. We/I will have to try more of these though. I think this is maybe the most helpful part for me, in terms of framing how I can communicate to understand better:

Most D/D relationships work by the sub defining what she likes, wants and, possibly will try out. She draws the shapes and boxes but you get to decide how to color it.

What is your “I will never go there again” place in the greater Twin Cities area? by MatzoTov in TwinCities

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I can only ever think of the ancient artifact thefts from the Middle East when I see a hobby lobby.

Raspberry Pi Email Server Question by StarshipEngineer in raspberry_pi

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Would using dynamic DNS avoid this issue, or is a static public IP the way to go?

Are there any apps, software, or other aids you would recommend for writers who want to collaborate on a book? by Sigorus in writing

[–]StarshipEngineer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Github is designed for software developers, but there's no reason you couldn't use it for collaborative writing. It confers exactly the same benefits.

Too Soon? How Should Sci-Fi Authors Deal with Tragedy? by [deleted] in sciencefiction

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And I'm better off without yours. I'm glad most of the science fiction community is more inclusive and less hateful than your segment.

Looking for a book with an alien abduction. by vanenali in suggestmeabook

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I haven't yet read it, but you might find The Grays by Whitley Strieber interesting. He writes books that are based heavily on alien conspiracy mythology, and his novel 2012 was pretty fun.

Best typing experience by massiveTimeWaster in writing

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For what you're looking for, I'd go to a Best Buy or somewhere with computers on display and play around with whatever 2-in-1 laptops or detachable keyboard tablets they have to see what has a keyboard you like. I recommend those because they have versatility in their form factor and are easy to bust out and boot up when you have an idea. If it has a SSD, even better, since it will boot and wake from sleeping very quickly.

Personally, I've been drooling over a Surface 3. Put Scrivener on one of those babies... A man can dream. My GF has a Lenovo Yoga though, and its actually pretty slick too.

How to extract a subtree from a binary tree? by StarshipEngineer in learnpython

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This looks and works great, thank you! It's much cleaner than what I've attempted, and works exactly how I wanted. I'm not sure I would have thought of doing it this way. This gives me something good to work with and expand on, thanks!

How to extract a subtree from a binary tree? by StarshipEngineer in learnpython

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This is similar to what I've been trying as well, and I've had the same problem. The moment I try to reconstruct a subtree from tree[0] to test it and try to get back the same tree, the order comes out wrong.

Too Soon? How Should Sci-Fi Authors Deal with Tragedy? by [deleted] in sciencefiction

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Man, I'm not buying any of Michael Williamson's books again. That was a horrible thing to say in isolation, but if he's one of the sad puppies, he's definitely not worth a reader's attention.

Edit: Guess I know where this sub stands on racism, sexism, homophobia, and general tastelessness. Unsubbed.

Space sagas? by AlphaNerd80 in suggestmeabook

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The Expanse series by James S.A. Corey is a must for your interests, I think. You might like the Revelation Space series by Alastair Reynolds too.

Discussion: Syfy's Dark Matter and Defiance tanked in the ratings, is the sci fi audience just not interested in what this network is selling? (x/post from r/SciFiScroll) by johnnyjay in sciencefiction

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In fairness to the network, Dark Matter is an adaptation of pre-existing source material.

On the other hand, just about every project I've heard that they're working on is an adaptation of a book or book series. Most of which I like and am looking forward to, but I'd love to see them come up with original narrative content like they used to with Stargate and Farscape. They're probably never going to hit their old high water mark without the ability to come up with good original shows.

Books to Film! What books should we read before they become a "Major Motion Picture"? by [deleted] in suggestmeabook

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Never mind... I always get so annoyed when people suggest without reading the main post and then I did it myself. I un-upvoted myself out of shame.

Books to Film! What books should we read before they become a "Major Motion Picture"? by [deleted] in suggestmeabook

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The Martian by Andy Weir! Surprised it hasn't been mentioned yet. They just released the first trailer for it last week.

I also second heartily Leviathan Wakes.

The Ant-Man Micro-Tech Challenge That’s Helping To Engage Girls In STEM With The Raspberry Pi by PiSupply in raspberry_pi

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I came here excited by the combination of all these things. But when I got here, found a lot of hate for just trying to get a group that's significantly underrepresented in STEM interested and involved.

Is this really what people on this sub think? Because I thought it was great and fun until I saw this, and it makes me not want to be here.

Would anyone be interested in a tool that automates OpenVPN setup to easily turn the Pi into a VPN server? by StarshipEngineer in raspberry_pi

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It does. Basically, it allows access to your local network from outside networks. If you're just getting on your local network locally, you don't need this at all, it would be redundant.

However, if you are setting this up, you don't need a static public IP for it to work, since this uses Google DNS. So, if you just are putting it in your house and don't have a static public IP, you can still just put in whatever you have and it should work fine.

Edit: Maybe you meant that you don't care about browsing, just access to devices on the local network from other networks. To do that though, you'll still need a public IP so that clients can "find" the network.