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by Fwirt 5y ago
Cable channels were also subsidized by advertising. You pay a decent amount of money per month to get access to exclusive content, but that cost still doesn't cover the costs of producing the media. If cable bills were double or triple
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by Fwirt 5y ago
It gets added to pretty much every prepared food here whether you like it or not. Even "staples" like bread have sugar added even to the "healthy" brands. It's easy to get addicted when it's difficult to avoid
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by Fwirt 5y ago
Also it sounds like he ran both the low voltage network cable and the high voltage line-level power wiring inside of the same conduit which is a big no-no for various code and safety related reasons. From what I understand messing with elec
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by Fwirt 5y ago
I went through this recently and ended up with a Logitech G604, which I would endorse. It ticks all of the author's boxes (ergonomic, scroll click toggle, extra buttons, long battery life on one AA, works on glass, included USB dongle
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by Fwirt 5y ago
Thanks for the name drop! Luculent looks like a nice font that checks all the boxes. I'd like to see it added to this project as well.
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by Fwirt 5y ago
I've been using https://mailfence.com/ for a couple years, only one outage I can remember and the one time I had to contact support they resolved my issue very quickly.
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by Fwirt 5y ago
This comes back to "picking the right tool for the job". If you're ingesting csvs/tsvs, you're expecting a given format anyway. If you expect the wrong delimiter, the worst thing that happens is you detect that the
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by Fwirt 5y ago
The other advantage not being discussed here is that once you have a csv parser, it can be trivially generalized to use any character as a delimiter, and you can usually find a character that isn't found in the data you're worki
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by Fwirt 5y ago
Interesting detail, thank you. I never did a dive into how well Zoom optimized for power consumption. Good things to keep in mind.
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by Fwirt 5y ago
I use AlDente to keep my battery between 80% and 20%. Zoom probably gets 30-60 min of usage during the day. If I start at 9 I usually have to plug in (hit 20%) around 2, so that's 60% in 5 hours. So probably 8-9 hours if I let it run a
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by Fwirt 5y ago
I feel like one thing that seldom gets mentioned is that there is a difference in battery life between the Pro and the Air. I have an M1 MBA and while the battery life is very impressive I still go through about 10% of my battery per hour o
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by Fwirt 5y ago
Does anybody else experience a similar phenomenon but with their auditory system? Whenever I'm falling asleep in a room with white noise (usually a fan) I swear I hear people talking, songs, animal noises... But it's just the fan.
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by Fwirt 5y ago
The difference is that with a smartphone you can choose which service provider you want (even if they're more or less the same, at least there's "competition")... or don't if you just want to use your smartphone as
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by Fwirt 5y ago
What's beyond me is why they can't find a minimal effort solution that still nets them a minimal profit or at least costs them less than disposal. I'm sure they're paying to dispose of this stuff. Around the US, Goodwill
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by Fwirt 5y ago
The calculators sold pretty well, but the boxed software is pretty heavy and only appeals to a very specific audience. I think I found a few examples of auctions that ended without a single bid and figured it wasn't worth the trouble.
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by Fwirt 5y ago
Fun story: My wife's grandfather was a salesman for WordPerfect back in the 1980s. He passed away roughly 15 years ago, but her grandmother still had a bunch of his stuff above her garage. When we were cleaning it out a couple years ag
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by Fwirt 5y ago
All this, and only 16MB of RAM and 11MB of disk space required! I'm sure today this would be an Electron app that used at least an order of magnitude more resources. We certainly live in interesting times.
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by Fwirt 5y ago
Since we've already left the rails of the editor wars, here's another cool editor that's not vim/emacs/ed/nano: https://orbitalquark.github.io/textadept/
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by Fwirt 5y ago
Another in the "still online since the '90s" list is of course the original "Space Jam" promotional website. When the new movie started being promoted they reused the domain, but obviously somebody at WB cares about
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by Fwirt 6y ago
I wonder if OK is a linguistic example of William Gibson's "steam-engine-time". Given the multiple plausible etymologies, is it possible that OK emerged simultaneously in many places at once, and the crossover between the dif
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by Fwirt 6y ago
For those looking for an alternative, Silhouette machines are affordable and can be driven completely offline using an open-source Inkscape plugin. (So you can cut any file type that Inkscape can convert to a path, which is pretty much anyt
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by Fwirt 6y ago
There are two different layers: The app has to have OS permission to install APKs, and then the app has to have user permission to install each individual APK. Android will prompt you each time. The only apps exempt from this are "syst
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by Fwirt 6y ago
Here's an idea that would never work: how about a financial incentive straight from Amazon for leaving negative reviews? Let's imagine a universe where Amazon does away with the star rating system and replaces it with a pro&#x2F
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by Fwirt 6y ago
There's also a thing called a "Platypreserve" that is a reusable flexible bag you can pour an entire bottle of wine into and them squeeze the excess air out of before you twist the cap on. (Instead of displacing it or sucking
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by Fwirt 6y ago
I recently started learning Tcl for the heck of it and am surprised by what a nice little language it is and that it doesn't get more publicity. It's true that it's not great for working with numbers or complex data structure
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by Fwirt 6y ago
The easiest way I've found to get MicroG working properly is through Nanodroid: https://gitlab.com/Nanolx/NanoDroid It takes an existing ROM, patches it for signature spoofing, and bakes in a bunch of FOSS apps. (
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by Fwirt 6y ago
Are there any engineers here who can comment on the safety of this? I've always wanted to tackle something like this, but I'd be afraid of creating a radiation leak. I know it's realtively mundane, but I'd like to avoid
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by Fwirt 6y ago
Whenever this comes up I always find it interesting that nobody comments on the now 60-year ongoing program that eradicated the screwworm fly from the US by doing pretty much the same thing: releasing millions of genetically altered (steril
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by Fwirt 6y ago
For everybody bashing on eBay here... I'm just legitimately curious, can you recommend a service of similar visibility and quality in the US where you can sell used junk (old game consoles, appliances, collectibles) without being a b
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by Fwirt 6y ago
Having an EFI shell binary on a USB stick can be incredibly useful when you're troubleshooting boot issues. I went down this rabbit hole because the Thinkpad X1 Tablet doesn't play nice with GRUB when there's no keyboard atta

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