Jedd

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by Jedd 6mo ago
Do you mean the way that Microsoft hijacked open-parenthesis, and you can't choose a different character to trigger an emoji call?
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by Jedd 6mo ago
> Please go to the equivalent of hell. > Disabled people are allowed to call ourselves by the correct labels without apologising that our suffering is less severe or less obvious than someone else sharing the same label. I think you g
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by Jedd 6mo ago
It's a source of minor, but persistent, annoyance that security people have tried to abscond with the prefix cyber, morphing it into a synonym for security. Having grown up reading cyberpunk novels about life in cyberspace, a passing i
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by Jedd 6mo ago
Haven't people 'done' something about the original wording about 27 times now?
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by Jedd 6mo ago
It was the fact you started using units the world knows - albeit misspelling metre - but in the next sentence, comparing that same dimension, you used an apostrophe to allude to a unit that only 5% of the planet uses.
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by Jedd 6mo ago
"Justice must be seen to be done." Without consequences for illegal behaviour, there's no incentive for bad actors to not continue acting bad. This, in no small part, explains why we are where we are today - a misplaced attem
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by Jedd 6mo ago
This sounds like something criminals would say / want.
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by Jedd 6mo ago
> The solar energy you can collect is about 750W/sq meter. > A car roof is about 5’x5’, and if we are generous and include a trunk and hood area, maybe you are getting 60 sqft? We must think metric, every inch of the way! Anyway,
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by Jedd 7mo ago
Yes, absolutely. I move between two sites, and also run some gear at my sibling's home, so I have the 3 separate sites thing sorted. ECC + RAID1 + borg at each site gives archival capability on top of standard backup. Syncthing has the
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by Jedd 8mo ago
> solar only runs during the day and when it is not cloudy Solar PVC output directly and immediately correlates to sun landing on the panels. Solar thermal runs well into the evening, and its output is not impacted by the occasional
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by Jedd 8mo ago
> but are awful at UX This is such a weird trope. For those of us who've used microsoft teams, jira, servicenow, salesforce, or basically any insanely popular (in the commercial if not upvote sense) products, it's unclear what
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by Jedd 8mo ago
FWIW, starting a sentence with "Honestly ..." always makes me think the rest of what this person has to say is dishonest. Your BIO on HN is: > I HAVEN'T SHOWERED AT ALL! THAT'S WHY I REEK! WORKING IN FINTECH! AIN&#x27
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by Jedd 9mo ago
Oh, I got the implication, but I think it was such a common mistake back then , that I don't think it's age-related now - it's a bit of a trope, to assume baud and bps mean the same thing, and people tend to prefer to use
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by Jedd 9mo ago
As someone that started with 300/300 and went via 1200/75 to 9600 etc - I don't believe conflating signalling changes with bps is an indication of physical or temporal proximity.
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by Jedd 9mo ago
> several 56k baud modems These were almost definitely 8k baud.
46.
by Jedd 9mo ago
> ... is growing really exponentially. Or geometrically?
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by Jedd 10mo ago
> It is a kind of cheat on the fair market ... I am very curious on your definition and usage of 'fair' there, and whether you would call the LLM etc sector as it stands now, but hypothetically absent deepseek say, a 'fair
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by Jedd 11mo ago
> So I'm either not literate, not engaged, or not people? Technically you're one or more of those things. Either would indicate one of two options. (Common usage proponents, keen to reduce nuance in communications, notwithsta
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by Jedd 11mo ago
Reminds me of a) the breathtaking vox pop done by the BBC [0] in 1978 as metric adoption nipped at their imperial heels, and some spectacularly bewildered misunderstandings manifested -- the first citizen here inventing the word kilomileome
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by Jedd 11mo ago
Actual report appears to be this one, from January / February 2025: https://www.trl.co.uk/Uploads/TRL/Documents/PPR2072---Glare-... Finding participant / sample sizes for this is difficult, as it se
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by Jedd 11mo ago
Yup - I recall when this feature was released, maybe a dozen years ago, with KDEConnect. Real QoL improvement. Glad to hear some other OS's are catching up.
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by Jedd 11mo ago
I'd not heard of this model, and amusingly my first hit (4th in an incognito) for `Boox Palma` is a lengthy reddit-user rant from 2y ago about build quality, sluggish performance, and woeful battery life. That aside, totally agree on t
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by Jedd 11mo ago
That wasn't my take - it was more broadly a 'given past statements and accompanying behaviour, we can't trust future statements to align with future behaviour'. Can you more explicitly describe what the X and Y points yo
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by Jedd 11mo ago
> I argue that they should go back to where they were found. Yes, again you're conflating where with who , and that was the crux of my questions to you in the previous post. Unknown source locations - are a bit of a (minor) edge
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by Jedd 11mo ago
> Are there any real world situations where it’s confusing as to who they would be returned to? Yes, many. Artifacts whose creation predates the current dominant culture in a region (assuming nation state borders and names have morphed o
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by Jedd 11mo ago
> We never fail to find someone to defend colonization! I think you are misrepresenting GP & parent's comments. Yes, absolutely, totally, Brits have a well-deserved reputation of colonisation. But as a hypothetical conundrum, w
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by Jedd 11mo ago
I note TFA mentions 'normal' people 8 times, but never uses the word 'average'. Whereas I think they are in fact describing 'average' people. I suspect most HNers self-assess as normal, but are also self-aware
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by Jedd 11mo ago
> ... uncompromised open source (Stallmanist ... Of course, Stallman strongly eschews the ambiguity and misdirection inherent in the phrase open source , and in this particular instance the considered use of 'free' or 'fr
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by Jedd 1y ago
Yes, that phrase stuck out to me also. Apologists for language attrition will assert that converging language into a handful of very simple words is doubleplusgood, and we should embrace the dumbification because that's 'just how
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by Jedd 1y ago
If safety is a concern, why not flow storage? I see enough reports of Li battery related unpleasantness to be slightly concerned on this front, and for fixed location storage I'm less concerned with density and more so with maintenance

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