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by II2II 1mo ago
Given Apple's reputation as of late, I was mildly shocked to learn that I could connect a SATA optical drive to my Mac with a USB-SATA bridge, right click on an image in the Finder, and tell it to burn the image to DVD. This is under t
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by II2II 1mo ago
Making it even harder to say: the 8080 was based on the 8008. Even though the 8080 was based on the same instruction set as the 8008, it wasn't binary compatible. I assume that means the instruction encoding was different, which means
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by II2II 1mo ago
I think it is a bit more complex than that, since how Asian those goods were varied a lot across time. Early on, it may have included semiconductors designed in the US, with manufacturing outsourced to Asia. That outsourcing may have been t
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by II2II 1mo ago
That should read, Trump betrays Americans. The reality is that he is destroying American credibility on the international stage, which is going to have long term effects on their ability to make agreements with other countries in the future
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by II2II 1mo ago
Canada doesn't have domestic auto companies, yet we manufacture auto parts and assemble automobiles destined for the US. From my understanding, this was negotiated as part of the trade deals. There is no good reason for them to desire
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by II2II 1mo ago
> Of course they'll take their own cut, but that's fine. We accept (sometimes grudgingly) that credit card issuers and networks get their own cut, so there's easy precedent here. In that case, I fail to understand the bene
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by II2II 1mo ago
Google was not the first search engine, and it certainly isn't the first search engine to fall from grace.
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by II2II 1mo ago
Probably true. That said, I spend most of my time querying LLMs for more objective and less financially motivated information. The only time I ask for recommendations is for new routes to explore by bike, and even then it will adapt if you
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by II2II 1mo ago
I have a Libra 2 and a Libra Colour. I generally don't notice a difference in crispness, though the effective resolution of the colour's screen is lower. There is a huge difference in the contrast, and you will probably want to us
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by II2II 1mo ago
The only way that will work is if each publisher has their own token system, otherwise you have created a new middleman who will want to take their own cut. That middleman will also have to deal with similar problems as payment processors,
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by II2II 1mo ago
> On the other hand, the only reason I need AI to search the web is that the web is now a impenetrable forest of near unreadable, SEO-stuffed, spammy articles. Unfortunately, that is nothing new. A big part of the reason why Google gaine
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by II2II 2mo ago
> The other approach is to expand what land is available to build on. I understand that in the UK, farmers consider it a lottery win if they get planning permission for some of their farmland to become housing. I've seen that mental
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by II2II 2mo ago
I got tired of that sort of argument when I realized that a great many of the people who argued that they have the right to tear down the side streets of walkable downtown neighbourhoods lived in unwalkable suburban neighbourhoods. Those un
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by II2II 2mo ago
I understand why you are opposed to the arguments and I like the idea of anti-trust action, but ... The anti-trust cases I am familiar with spanned decades. Perhaps it's not a representative sample, yet it also makes sense. Anti-trust
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by II2II 2mo ago
Among many teachers it is, "those who can't teach become education consultants/researchers."
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by II2II 2mo ago
The sad thing removing the reference to housewives with respect to makeup would actually strengthen their point, since makeup is used in professional photography to restore more natural tones for both women and men.
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by II2II 2mo ago
I was going to say that curring hours just offloads the problem onto their employees, but the reality is it does that and creates new problems for the bbusiness.If the employee cannot afford to keep the job, they will be forced to search
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by II2II 2mo ago
> There were Apple II clones with varyingly clever schemes around copying the original ROMs, and it provided slots so many manufacturers could provide hardware for the machines. It looks like the vast majority of clones used a (near bit-
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by II2II 2mo ago
I'm dreading the day I need/want to look for another job! That said, there may be contexts where their advice would help. It's likely useless in all organizations that have a human resources department, since they will be dic
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by II2II 2mo ago
Given the context, most people would consider a machine as something designed and built by people. With respect to babies: we cannot do the former (yet) and I think most people would consider the latter to be a bit of a stretch (growth and
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by II2II 2mo ago
When you are comparing online job boards to employment centres and classifieds, they are more accessible and available. Employment centres always involved making a dedicated trip. Newspapers cost money and may involve a dedicated trip to fe
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by II2II 2mo ago
> You could count on less competition by knowing where to look, how to present yourself, and what to say. Someone very talented but stuck in a situation where they didn't know how to find these jobs and apply properly was hard. I&#x
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by II2II 2mo ago
I encountered one corporation where you walked up to security, told them you were there to look for work, and they directed you to an office that contained posting of currently available positions. As far as I know, they didn't adverti
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by II2II 2mo ago
Another tidbit, based upon finding out which company the phone number belonged to: you could go to the library and access business directories. Think the yellow pages, only they were geared towards businesses rather than towards consumers.
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by II2II 2mo ago
It's hard to say. From a vintage computing perspective, possibly. The only question is whether they will work. Oddly, I have found USB sticks to be less reliable than floppy disks. (Odd because I would think that semi-conductor memory
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by II2II 2mo ago
Because the C standard is notorious for saying things like the minimum size of an `int` is 16 bits. Changes in the size of data types would create issues when calling the Windows API or saving data to disk. Heck, the program is from the v
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by II2II 2mo ago
My favourite, while being stranded on a trail with a broken bike: teleport across a lake, drive fifteen minutes, then hop on a bus. Apparently you are SOL if you don't have a car. There are definitely better apps out there, unfortunate
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by II2II 2mo ago
Maybe they're right, albeit for all the wrong reasons. Perhaps the problem is our desire to have everything, no matter what the compromises are. Perhaps the problem is our inability to say, I'm going to go with product X even thou
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by II2II 2mo ago
No for Whispersync. Kobo only offers synchronization for books purchased through them. On the other hand, KOReader does offer synchronization.
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by II2II 2mo ago
Odd. The Libra 2 (the successor to the Libra H2O) had a uSD card with a conformance coating over it. Of course, the Libra Colour uses eMMC. I wonder why then went back and forth then back again. (All three are advertised as water resistant.

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