EricE

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by EricE 3y ago
Yeah, but then they couldn't have wrote a multi-page flowery article about how smart they were interspersed with social justice. What fun would that be?
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by EricE 3y ago
Only for half of the company, according to their CEO
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by EricE 3y ago
seconded - high quality and friendly service. Hard to ask for more.
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by EricE 3y ago
I sent my 2005 MacBook Pro in to get the GPU repaired and it came back with a new case - top and bottom - no charge! I was pleasantly surprised.
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by EricE 3y ago
Recyclers will pay good money for books since they tend to be high quality/clean paper. If they are outdated tech books in particular, I have zero guilt recycling those.
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by EricE 3y ago
Just use something like Calibre to back them up and break the DRM on them (for the ones you can). I've had Amazon remove a few titles that I couldn't down load later because of publisher disputes, and there have been many instanc
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by EricE 3y ago
Especially when archive.org has been caught deleting stuff from family members of the board. Lost a lot of respect for them that they were willing to delete any content when that's the supposed exact opposite of their stated goals.
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by EricE 3y ago
Look into diabetic shoes; they tend to have wide toeboxes. Luckily here in Las Vegas we still have an old fashioned, competent shoe store where they actually measure your foot (pressure pad and all), understand foot anatomy and how differen
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by EricE 3y ago
OMG - thank you for posting this! I have sensitive feet and need a wide toe box with shoes. I'm rarely comfortable with socks on, let alone shoes. We have gloves for our hands; why not for our feet too? It's so obvious - at le
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by EricE 3y ago
BeOS was designed for multimedia and audio from the start - I had many friends excited about it's approaches to I/O.
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by EricE 3y ago
https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2022/05/population-sh... Cities are down or flat - and flat is down since the population in general is still growing. Also not all cities are the same - no way wou
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by EricE 3y ago
"Boy do I miss the good old days, where devices were programmable by their owners instead of just e-waste consumption slabs." Boy I miss the good old days when you had to build the board in your computer before these interlopers c
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by EricE 3y ago
They could if they wanted to; they don't want to. And there are a bunch of people who agree with them. So let it fail - it might already be too late, especially with the dominance of remote work for cities like SF to pull out of thei
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by EricE 3y ago
Sadly SF will literally have to burn down at this point before it gets better. The amount of people making excuses for the idiotic policies that caused this whole mess is just mind blowing. So glad I last saw SF in the late 90's befo
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by EricE 3y ago
I wish people would just also always publish GMT - timezones are the freaking worst.
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by EricE 3y ago
lol - heatwaves are NOT a new phenomenon - and current ones are no where near past record setters https://realclimatescience.com/1500-years-of-heatwaves/
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by EricE 3y ago
yeah, that's a bunch of crap. If you have something that needs lots of RAM (say audio uses where samples and such must be in RAM for latency reasons) swapping to SSD is NOT a solution. And swapping to SSD is pretty stupid - SSDs have
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by EricE 3y ago
If you need your machine for $DayJob, you're not going to trust that to a hobbiest solution. And now that the transition to Apple Silicon is complete, don't expect future version of macOS to have an Intel version for much longer.
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by EricE 3y ago
We must have government to save us from the evil capitalists!
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by EricE 3y ago
Yes, replacing coal boilers with nuclear boilers seems like a total no-brainer. Which is why it probably will never happen.
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by EricE 3y ago
So we'll solve it with more laws. Brilliant! Just outlaw murder while you are at it too!
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by EricE 3y ago
Good for them. Navigation relying solely on GPS always struck me as extremely stupid for the very reasons mentioned in the article.
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by EricE 3y ago
My first use of spreadsheets was to track IRQ, IO Port and memory address conflicts :p
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by EricE 3y ago
I seriously thought about bidding on that ebay auction when it came up - I'm glad it went to a far better place! Good luck to him indeed - growing up in that time Computer Shopper was the logical progression from the Sears Wishbook.
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by EricE 3y ago
Audio, Video and networking I/O cards - exactly as they outlined in the keynote. Massive bandwidth - that's what the Pro tower unlocks.
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by EricE 3y ago
Don't tell IBM they are doing it wrong: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/301863-ibm-our-mac-usi...
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by EricE 3y ago
broken windows theory
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by EricE 3y ago
If that was actually true we would need to talk about it. It’s not, so here we are. Solar and wind do nothing for base load generation - except distract people from talking rationally about energy. I don’t know where people think all the p
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by EricE 3y ago
Backups are more than just a good idea!
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by EricE 3y ago
I'm kind of surprised they haven't been more proactively policing this before now.

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