JKCalhoun

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by JKCalhoun 1mo ago
"…but there were all of these very suspicious posts from accounts that were clearly Apple marketing bots…" You could make your case easily if you had some links to these. (I understand though it's not likely something one rem
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by JKCalhoun 1mo ago
As an USAmerican I am laughing as well. (Laughing and crying.)
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by JKCalhoun 1mo ago
Simple policy (Apple, Google, etc, can adopt): Changes to major landmarks require a 5-year grace period (wait 5 years).
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by JKCalhoun 1mo ago
"Too soon to tell if it'll lead to "fulfilling careers" but both my kids learnt Scratch very early on…" And indeed, who cares if Scratch leads to a fulfilling career? "Computer literacy" is even more impor
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by JKCalhoun 1mo ago
For cat lovers, I recommend the film Kedi about the cats of Istanbul. https://www.kedifilm.com
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by JKCalhoun 1mo ago
Me, programmer by trade (well, before I retired). But now I use LLMs to help me with electronic (hardware) projects. As a hobbyist (and a somewhat dim bulb when it comes to electronics) it's been a pretty good match. I've been enj
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by JKCalhoun 1mo ago
No, I feel the same—my mind has gone down the same paths as yours and found no substantive answers. Instead, I have tried to relax and to enjoy the company I am going down the slide with. To quote Vonnegut, “There's only one rule that
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by JKCalhoun 1mo ago
"…they're all suspectable (sic) to the same gentrification problem…" That means they were on to something. Congratulations, success! (Oh well.)
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by JKCalhoun 1mo ago
History can be so weird (and funny). Was there also an Oppenheimer-Bohr outdoor grill?
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by JKCalhoun 1mo ago
Inception, Schminception. Itʼs so tantalizingly close to looking like youʼre in a giant, cylindrical space station habitat… Do that instead!
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by JKCalhoun 1mo ago
I'd love to have a plotter. (But for the pen lifting as another pointed out) the plotter seems to be being used as a modern day harmonograph ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonograph ). The analog versions have b
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by JKCalhoun 1mo ago
After watching the public flaying of Flock, they're certainly welcome to step into the spotlight next and convince the public that they're different.
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by JKCalhoun 1mo ago
Old guy here. Perhaps escape (escapism) is something I look for in games. To that end, the GTA series just leaves me scratching my head. What a bleak world they deliver.
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by JKCalhoun 1mo ago
And now I think we're going to see a surge of vegetarianism in the U.S. Good show!
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by JKCalhoun 1mo ago
Good point. They seem to be getting nervous about us voters voting.
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by JKCalhoun 1mo ago
"So meta won." Unless we make sure in print to specify "Meta, the company found to have harmed children, …".
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by JKCalhoun 1mo ago
Does that excuse Facebook?
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by JKCalhoun 1mo ago
"The ending is quite abrupt" As was the ending of the young man's life. It works perfectly as is. Often in life there is no denouement.
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by JKCalhoun 1mo ago
God damn, this world needs more Cliff Stolls.
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by JKCalhoun 1mo ago
Already got my Klein bottle last year! (I recommend everyone do it—the personal notes from Cliff are priceless.)
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by JKCalhoun 1mo ago
I've not detected a stigma around semaglutide. Is it from these Valley Bros I read about experimenting with designer semaglutide on themselves? Or is there another stigma?
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by JKCalhoun 1mo ago
I originally had no idea Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You" was a Dolly Parton cover.
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by JKCalhoun 1mo ago
"… displaced art that is beautiful." Photography did that. I didn't used to like pop-art, op-art, etc. I do now. I suspect most things new take a while to sink in.
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by JKCalhoun 1mo ago
In Germany I saw they charged extra for using my credit card. A U.S. retailer told me the credit card companies won't allow that in the U.S.?
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by JKCalhoun 1mo ago
M6 Mac mini maxes out at 32GB—if you want 64GB you have to go with the M5 Pro (just priced it out on Apple's store page).
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by JKCalhoun 2mo ago
'Vette was a racing game from the 90's (I think?) that covered San Francisco. "Released on 3 floppy disks", ha ha. Obviously without the rich dataset we have now. (Clicking on the following link ignores the trailing ex
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by JKCalhoun 2mo ago
Well, $500 isn't what it was in 2020 (the first thread). Those making $645/month…
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by JKCalhoun 2mo ago
Oh, love the energy and pace of The Fifth Element , Brion James was the wrong kind of distraction. :-/
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by JKCalhoun 2mo ago
You're probably right, but it doesn't excuse Ford's hackneyed performance.
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by JKCalhoun 2mo ago
And bothered my engineer-mind because the "enhancements" revealed photographic details that were literally obscured by physical walls in the original photo.

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