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by 13of40 3y ago
Considering a couple years ago, "Apple Hardware" was an intel CPU with an nvidia GPU I've always wondered why you couldn't just throw a million dollars at them so they could stick apple stickers on your rack and let you
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by 13of40 3y ago
You're correct. I poked around to see what they were like and found this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/134131981597 Adjusted for inflation this would cost almost $500. Probably explains why the ones in my bungalow s
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by 13of40 3y ago
The fact that my headphones, laptop, telephone, and even my electric shaver all use the same (usb-c) charger now is a complete game changer. I can't imagine what kind of hubris Apple has to not snap to that.
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by 13of40 3y ago
> Even lightbulbs aren't that disposable anymore thanks to LEDs. I'm staring at a pair of wifi enabled lightbulbs above the island in my kitchen that are stuck on the same hue I set them to three years ago when the app actually
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by 13of40 3y ago
Same here, but I want to say some bad things about old thermostats. My first house had propane heating, in a big tank that they would periodically come by and fill, so I had a visceral connection to how much fuel I was using. The previous
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by 13of40 3y ago
It's kind of the way of the world now, not just Google. I've accumulated a ton of stuff that just doesn't work anymore or works in a crippled local-only mode because the service doesn't exist anymore or drivers/sof
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by 13of40 3y ago
"forward looking" Old sensors worked like side-scanning sonar, where the image is built up one row at a time as your vehicle moves forward. Forward looking means you can just point it somewhere and take a 2D picture.
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by 13of40 3y ago
> regulation urogenital Eyeballed the entire list*. This is the most 2023 one I could find. (*no)
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by 13of40 3y ago
Yeah, but at least they won't be able to sell a list of your habits to your health insurance company.
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by 13of40 3y ago
There are some languages (e.g. Russian and English) where you can power through and just memorize a ton of vocabulary and a few conjugation forms. I was just reading an article the other day about Korean, for a counter example though where
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by 13of40 3y ago
I can read a little Hangul, so let me give it a shot: "All other countries have inferior potassium..."
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by 13of40 3y ago
Can you even get a car in the US these days that doesn't have a GPS and cellular connection? My 8-year-old BMW has both even though they're not exposed as features in the head unit. (I know because the thing malfunctioned last y
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by 13of40 3y ago
The technique used by the Oregon public school system in the 80s went something like "Hand the child a 10x10 grid of numbers, then tell them, absent of any other context, that they must be memorized." I like your way better.
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by 13of40 3y ago
Not sure if it's everywhere yet, but where I live, QFC and Fred Meyer have started scanning IDs for every alcohol purchase, which is a bit disturbing because that block of data on the back of your ID has a lot more than your birthday o
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by 13of40 3y ago
They just had a button for it. The SLA was 45 days, but they slipped that by another week or two. And based on what I got it actually took them about 50 nanoseconds.
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by 13of40 3y ago
A couple of months ago, I speculated on this very forum that there must be companies that actively hoover up all of you app and cookie data to build an on-demand profile of you. Someone pointed me to "acxiom", which grudgingly, o
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by 13of40 3y ago
The flip side of that was if you were writing a vanilla computer program that didn't take advantage of the special hardware, your perf was directly tied to what resolution mode the screen was on.
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by 13of40 3y ago
Plus one for this. It was easier to get people to mail me computer books from Europe than to buy them in 1990s rural Oregon.
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by 13of40 3y ago
Sure, but if you stay on topic I'm just saying there isn't a clean 1:1 correlation between political ideology and environmental harm.
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by 13of40 3y ago
Not saying you're wrong, but I'd like to share my own take, which is that one of the clearest, bluest skies I've ever seen was over North Korea. Because they sucked at doing "industry" compared to the South Koreans
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by 13of40 3y ago
I think you just unlocked a new fear of mine. I can't tell whether that's ChatGPT or not.
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by 13of40 3y ago
I don't know what it's like now, but back in the day devdiv (owners of Visual Studio, .Net, etc.) and Windows were highly siloed and it was hard to get them to align on a common way forward. Rust seems like the sort of thing devd
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by 13of40 3y ago
What are some examples?
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by 13of40 3y ago
Ah, OK. This works because you're using single quotes on your strings, meaning the escape sequence `[ is preserved until it reaches the globbing layer. This will not work, for example... gi "`[abc`]" ...because the `
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by 13of40 3y ago
Came here to mention []. For those who haven't looked it up, in addition to * and ? as wildcard characters, PowerShell supports "[xyz]" and "[a-z]", meaning "x y or z" and "anything from a to z"
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by 13of40 4y ago
When I did it, I got the guy in the office next to me to put his DVD drive on a file share so I could copy to modern media. That was probably at least four years ago, so not sure if I could do the same now.
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by 13of40 4y ago
For anyone wanting to relive that experience, you should know that (in the US at least) you can go to the imaging department at the hospital and get all of that data on a CD, and there's some good free software to render it. I've
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by 13of40 4y ago
I haven't spent too much time in New York, but I don't think there are a lot of commercial banana growing operations there that could be affected. The real reason is they can't be bothered to track who's going where, bu
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by 13of40 4y ago
I was walking between two planes in the US, one coming from a foreign country and the other leaving for one, without leaving the building. The only way I could have let the banana loose to destroy New York would have been to run outside an
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by 13of40 4y ago
Yeah, I know that, but the import restrictions for Canada should apply, and they're different from the ones in the US. (I'm not trying to imply collusion so much as overreach.)

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