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by Bud 5y ago
As an aside, if anyone is looking for an absolutely insane pepper mill, get the Männkitchen Pepper Cannon. You will never need another one. It's a big solid hunk of aluminum, stainless steel burrs, and puts out 5-10x the amount that ot
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by Bud 5y ago
Even on a good 4K TV, 2GB rips (and definitely the 4-6GB rips you can often also find) are really quite adequate for a lot of movies if it's a modern codec and the rip has been done well. Some movies are a bit more challenging than oth
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by Bud 5y ago
Not true; you can disable uploading in various torrent clients.
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by Bud 5y ago
Could I have a cite on this, to satisfy my curiosity? What was changed? By whom? Where's the evidence that it was changed on purpose, for this specific reason?
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by Bud 5y ago
Not true. The setup techniques are not standard protocols. Far from it.
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by Bud 5y ago
I agree with you about this part. I do general IT support and have had to set up one of my clients with a large number of Sonos speakers in their office. It was a pain and the tech doesn't seem to be as good of a match for corporate ne
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by Bud 5y ago
On the contrary, we already know, and the details in the suit prove it. Sonos engineers used packet sniffing. Google copied the precise techniques Sonos uses to set up and control speakers.
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by Bud 5y ago
It's not obvious at all, for wireless speakers, especially in complex multi-room setups. If it were obvious and easy, then everyone's wireless audio products would handle this as well as Sonos does. But they don't. I bought t
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by Bud 5y ago
Might be good to read the patents before posting this comment. The patents in the suit are far, far more detailed than Inc's throwaway one-line description in this article. Sonos' tech here also involves seamless automatic wireles
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by Bud 5y ago
Except in this particular case there appears to be a near-zero risk of anyone being "complicit" in bad police outcomes, given that it's opt-in, can only be used on a case-by-case basis, and it's the citizen who searches
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by Bud 5y ago
To make matters worse, the article then exaggerates the problem while attempting to contextualize it: "“We worked out that at 100% efficiency from wall socket to battery, it would take about 73 coal power plants running for a day to ch
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by Bud 5y ago
One flaw I note in the article, which is supposed to be all about charging efficiency: Not once does the article cite a single figure on the actual charging efficiency achieved in any of its tests. Yes, it does say that "47% more power
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In a First, Man Receives a Heart from a Genetically Altered Pig(nytimes.com)
8 points by Bud 5y ago|0 comments
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by Bud 5y ago
We do have them throughout the US in elite restaurants. Shipped in, I assume. If you go to The French Laundry, there is a special guy who comes to your table with a gorgeous long hardwood box. He opens it with a flourish, and set into sever
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by Bud 5y ago
It'd be nice if it worked that way, but it doesn't...otherwise they'd have just started it that way from the beginning.
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by Bud 5y ago
Just a few notes on this comment: -No, we don't "have a military to safeguard against" this kind of attack—that's not what the military is supposed to be for, and of course in fact, as we know in great detail, the milita
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by Bud 5y ago
You don't even have to switch browsers! The option to change Safari's search engine is in Settings > Safari > Search Engine.
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by Bud 5y ago
Defaults do matter, I agree, and it's also ok to complain about any given default option if one thinks it's a bad option. That doesn't make it ok to lie and mislead people in the process of making that complaint, though. It&#
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One Single Day. That’s All It Took for the World to Look Away from Us(nytimes.com)
2 points by Bud 5y ago|0 comments
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by Bud 5y ago
"Eventually"? Yeah, except when it doesn't. You're right: not everything is racially motivated. Except for the things that so plainly and obviously are. Also: please do not implicitly label my concern as being not legiti
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by Bud 5y ago
Snow actually didn't use to happen in those places. Not in this way. That's why the word "change" is in "climate change". DC, btw, is not a state, and has no "state government".
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by Bud 5y ago
Chlorine trifluoride also sets fire to glass on contact. And asbestos. And tungsten. And titanium. And finally, people.
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by Bud 5y ago
I do have two refrigerator magnets from Webvan, which died in 2001. Was a pretty cool service while it lasted.
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Apple becomes the first company with a $3T market cap(appleinsider.com)
3 points by Bud 5y ago|0 comments
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by Bud 5y ago
It is in fact not related in any way to coffee or to Apple. Not even remotely. Apple sells products which are, in the main, at very similar price points to its competition, and it has won because it simply. makes. better. products. I'm
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by Bud 5y ago
Not to be unkind, but a local TV station as a primary source for such a sweeping conclusion on a very complex issue is, well, basically worthless.
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by Bud 5y ago
True, although it takes 5 seconds to access a simple IPA index and not much longer than that to look up a given sound. And once you do, you have a clear and (reasonably) exact specified sound, not an easily misinterpreted and inexact thing
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by Bud 5y ago
One of my antidotes to this: I perform large-scale musical works! The Bach St. Matthew Passion takes around three hours. Messiah is nearly that long. The flow state from performing or rehearsing these works is really quite wonderful. Readin
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by Bud 5y ago
These are all separate, except that Apple News+ does get you various things, and Apple News+ itself is part of Apple One, which is a very good deal for a lot of people if you're already paying for at least one or two Apple services sep
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by Bud 5y ago
This would work much better if you used the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).

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